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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 29, 2013 - 07:49pm PT
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I'll tell you about crazy, Horse.
It's women in such good shape they can get out in 100+ weather ON THE TARMAC and not break sweat when they do their work-out!
Is Mark Hurocks ready to get out and try this with these terrors?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 29, 2013 - 08:28pm PT
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The happening at the Courthouse on Thursday, attended by so many of my old friends who were connected BITSOL and before, was a real kick-butt event.
For about an hour people crowded the exhibit on Merced's music past, and then we adjourned [courthouse joke] to the streets, and heard Roddy Jackson tell how it was in the fifties forming the Merced Blue Notes and more anecdotes and observations.
Then the ladies of the Gateway Harmony Chorus sang "On the Banks of the Old Merced" for us.
And that was followed by the Crystal Syphon playing their songs from their record they made forty-something years back.
The woman in the second photograph is Pat Hunter, also Dahlstrom, and a fine act on her own or with friends like Julio Guerra, but I knew her when she was a competitive swimmer, with her sister, here in High School. She once married a climber named Jim Dahlstrom. A photo of Jim, who had some success in FAs in Colorado much earlier than yesterday, for sure, shows him with a young lady whom I do not know, but is a pro climber now.
Some random shots from the other night...my lithium camera battery needed to be charged, or there would be more, certainly.
This was a real pleasant night and it's a shame we can't do this more often was heard from most people.
Note: There were no groups called the Smealettes that I can find, zBrown.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 29, 2013 - 08:47pm PT
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jun 29, 2013 - 11:39pm PT
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I must admit that I'm impressed with all the historical photography de Merced that I'm seeing.
“But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”
-K. Kesey
Casting a wide net back into the fifties I do not recall any mixed up black and white groups in Chula Vista, National City or San Diego.
Can't remember any on the pickup games basketball courts either.
My favorite name amongst some of those I played with is Vernus Ragsdale. He was actually a better sprinter than baller tying for third statewide in 1962.
1 Forrest Beaty Glendale Hoover S # 09.5 100Y 1962
2 Richard Stebbins Fremont LA 09.6 100Y 1962
3 Manuel Diaz Keppel S 09.7 100Y 1962
4 Herman Harville Jefferson LA 09.7 100Y 1962
5 Vernus Ragsdale Lincoln SD 09.7 100Y 1962
And yes he could do 3/5 of a mile in 10 seconds if you asked him nicely.
Muni Gym, San Diego
Some famous players played here, me not one of them. Teams seems to sort out on color line.
Sticking with Ken and a pseudo-literary vein. (Got any rhmes for pseudo handy?)
“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
Sure glad I didn't lose my laugh.
OK, one more.
“He Who Marches Out Of Step Hears Another Drum”
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
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Jun 29, 2013 - 11:56pm PT
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Can you guys ship me whatever your smoking so I can follow along with this thread?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 30, 2013 - 03:02am PT
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Ratz, Toad. We've been busted!
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Time for some climbing content. The natives are not restful.Haven't been back to K-2 myself since the dogs learned to bow to the wows across the river, I mean the cows across the canal.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jun 30, 2013 - 10:01am PT
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judo
kudo
Mark Twain said that.
Has anyone searched on "moist Smealette"? - just a thought
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 30, 2013 - 11:16am PT
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Follow me on Twitter!
Swallow me!
Allow me, sir, to welcome you to our little ranch on the hill.
These, too, will one day be chipotle-flavored Corn Nuts.
And the critters and the tractors are all bedded down for the night.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 30, 2013 - 11:39am PT
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[Click to View YouTube Video]Heinz, you won't believe what I saw down on the street today.
A tiny storm on der Schnozz yesterday.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jun 30, 2013 - 02:21pm PT
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I used to drive thru Elysian Park a lot
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That's Susan and The Surftones backing up the parade.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jun 30, 2013 - 05:51pm PT
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What kinda flames are we talking about?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jun 30, 2013 - 05:59pm PT
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Everybuddy knows Chevies beat Fords, but Fords look so much better.
Carry on in my absence.
-Tennessee Ernie Ford
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jun 30, 2013 - 09:32pm PT
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Had the airbrush out...here's some mouseart
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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They say that there is nothing in Plainsburg any longer, and they are right about that. It was a center of farming activity nearly as busy as Merced, in pioneer days.
It looks this way now.
This is because of the railroads: they got a railroad in Le Grand, the Santa Fe, so Le Grand is the central town in that part of the county.
But south of the intersection lies this fenced-off domain of steel and rubber, belonging to Bright's Nursery.
Jimbo's dad saw me parked taking photos over the fence from across the road. The place is secure, believe me. But Mr. B sent Jimbo down with the invitation to come inside the fence and look around the museum.
Deja vu! Of course they know Charlie Parrish, the man who owns the Ag Museum over between Planada and Merced, where I visited earlier this week.
"Ours is a lot bigger! And we have a full machine shop taken from the old B & L location in Merced. It's set up like the original and runs off overhead belts."
I spent about as long as I could take inside the museum photographing. It was like the punishment hut in Bridge on the River Kwai. I came out and downed two bottles of water and went to the machine shop, looked around quickly, then hit the back lot and the huge storage park in front.
There are one or two items I'm going to post next and then I'm hitting the bed!
The famous Chowchilla School Bus!
The famous Minneapolis-Moline line of mud-movers!
Minneapolis-Moline was a large tractor and machinery producer based in Minnesota. It was the product of a merger between three companies in 1929: Minneapolis Steel & Machinery (MSM), Minneapolis Threshing Machine, and Moline Plow. It was headquartered in Hopkins, MN and had plants on Lake Street at Hiawatha Avenue in Minneapolis, MN, in Hopkins, and Moline, IL.
This is what the place looks like on the approach from Planada, MN.
I like to be thorough. Everyone probably has seen pix of Minneapolis, though some may have not; and since Moline's not in MN, who cares?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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GOSPEL PLOW
"Gospel Plow"
Mary wore three links of chain
Every link was Jesus name
Keep your hand on that plow, hold on
Oh Lord, Oh Lord, keep your hand on that plow, hold on.
Mary, Mark, Luke and John
All these prophets so good and gone
Keep your hand on that plow, hold on
Oh Lord, Oh Lord, keep your hand on that plow, hold on.v
Well, I never been to heaven
But I've been told streets up there
Are lined with gold
Keep your hand on that plow, hold on
Oh Lord, Oh Lord, keep your hand on that plow, hold on.
Oh Lord, Oh Lord, keep your hand on that plow, hold on.
Oh Lord, Oh Lord, keep your hand on that plow, hold on.
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Keep your hand on that belay rope, hold on!
Keep your eyes on that leader, hold on!
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Gene
climber
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You're up early today, Mr. Mouse.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Not quite up to 316.8'/sec.
[Click to View YouTube Video]These glamorous fellows were livin' in the fast lane in the last century. Love the quaint clothes, flashy performing.
Stars in the little tiny Playboy universe for a time.
"Well, Buck, lemme tellya how I come to develop my strain of purple hays. Y'see, there's a toad lives over to Mariposa Crick, way out by the river...Hey, don't go a-chewin' on that straw, Buck. Well, enjoy the ride."
Now we're getting up to speed.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Farm Reports, Gene.
And time to go out and shoot Clark, Gray, Red, Merced, and Triple Divide.
Stay tuned.
I believe I'll ride, today.
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