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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 29, 2013 - 11:37pm PT
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Might as well get what you want.
Don Jonhnson/Tell It Like It Is
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Find yourself a toy.
I love dogs. A dog would be a good companion on these rambles, but there's no way I'd keep one in Middle Earth.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 30, 2013 - 01:11am PT
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scene:
Hornitos, CA. One of the oldest communities in the state. And among the quietest. Take it or leave it. I gotta go.
Peace in, peace out.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 30, 2013 - 01:16am PT
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Can...may I have another cone?
How about some Rocky Road?
Good night, Gracie.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jul 30, 2013 - 01:21pm PT
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Goodnight George -> Goodnight Willie -> Goodnight Kate
Goodnight Irene
Goodnight Mrs Calabash, stay out from behind the 8-Ball.
Goodnight ladies.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jul 30, 2013 - 01:27pm PT
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This is for all the insiders here. It is not widely known, but the possibility of looking away down Gower Avenue is actually nil, since Gower is a Street.
Additionally, there was in fact a murder at the Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel [and Apartments] on August 2, 1978. wZevon and zBrown were both in town, but neither has/had any knowledge of this event.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jul 30, 2013 - 01:39pm PT
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Speaking of products which last for a long time, this jar was produced from 1950-1970, making my mom's bottle between 43 and 63 years old. The stuff looks and smells just like a new jar.
It appears to have worked for this guy.
* Disclaimer. This is not the Mothers! of Invention and I was an employee of the Richardson Vicks Company at one time.
The origin of the name Vicks has been clouded by time. However, according to company lore, Lunsford Richardson thought his own name was too long and cumbersome to attach to a product. He decided to use the shorter Vicks, in honor of his brother in law Joshua Vick, a doctor in Selma.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jul 30, 2013 - 03:07pm PT
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Those were the correct rocks Mr. M More on the other side of the first one...pretty soft as I remember. Heres a blurry shot of my mom looking for fossil shells on top of the first plateau. Circa 1957.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jul 30, 2013 - 04:56pm PT
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Symptoms have resolved to a cough, so:
SO COMMON CAUSES FOR ACUTE COUGH
1. RESPIRATORY CAUSES :
- Upper respiratory tract infection
- Lower respiratory tract infection
- Pneumonia's
- Influenza
- RSV virus infection
- Acute Bronchitis
- Acute Laryngitis
- Acute Laryngotracheobronchitis
- Acute Tracheitis
- Acute asthma
- Spasmodic Croup
- Aspiration of gastric acid and vomitus
- Foreign body obstruction
2. IMMUNOLOGICAL CAUSES :
- Anaphylaxis
3. VASCULAR CAUSES :
- Pulmonary infarction
- Pulmonary embolism
4. POISONING CAUSES :
- Chemical and dust inhalation inhalation
- Nitric oxide and Smoke inhalation
5. TRAUMATIC CAUSES :
- Injury to Bronchus
- Fat embolsim
- Trachea injury
6. OTHER CAUSES :
- Amnioitic fluid embolism
THERE CAN BE MANY MORE CAUSES FOR ACUTE COUGH BUT THESE ARE THE MOST COMMON SYMPTOMS ACCORDING TO ME, OF COURSE MORE CAUSES WILL ALWAYS BE WELCOMED, ADD MORE IN COMMENTS IF YOU KNOW..
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 30, 2013 - 05:24pm PT
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I coughed up wine through my nose one time a day ago when Marcel was here and he said something funny.
Glad my nose wasn't stuffed with Vicks.
Throwpie, choss is where you find it: I've seen a lot lately, and it's relative, but choss is choss. If it holds together long enough, it's good. If it's not too run out. Or has a crappy landing.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Jul 30, 2013 - 09:01pm PT
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There was an old guy we would visit on our adventures to Hornitos in the 60s. He lived in a brokedown palace on Main Street...wore a sock on his mangled hand and claimed to have been a circus baby who had a trunk for a cradle. Said he was an old hard rock miner who drank up all he ever earned. He drank for sure...whiskey was it. His only nourishment was Karo syrup...hence his name Karo Joe.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 30, 2013 - 10:21pm PT
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For the one & ONLY DMT, known to some, or at least to myself, as Cool Bridges, who may remember nothing of the old bridge, which is the case with me, as well. I don't recall ever having traveled "The 49 and passing over the old span.
My brother Mike had a friend named Old Dog Charlie. He lived in or around the town of Babby. He kept many dogs, he was not too old, like about forty, Mike said. He himself was eighteen. He quit the place when the time came to pull up his cuffs. I couldn't say how the dogs fared. They could dog paddle outta there, if it came to that...
MODESTO BEE, July 28, 1966
NEW BRIDGE - A BAGBY REQUIEM
BAGBY- The sleek new Bagby Bridge, spanning the Merced River and opened for traffic and set to be dedicated at 3:30 p.m., Aug. 12, might be termed a monument to oblivion for this community. Bagby, which includes a general store, cafe, and a scattering of dwellings, will be all inundated a year or two hence as the Merced River Project becomes a reality. This is the reason the new span, part of a highway relocation project, was constructed here.
It replaces the old bridge, about a quater of a mile upstream. This picturesque span is 180 feet long. Its successor is 1,158 feet.
The north end of the new $1.2 million bridge is 28 feet higher than the lowest point.
Next Month
It was started last August and officially will be completed next month: August 12, acording to George Amaro, resident engineer. Part of its cost is being paid by the Merced Irrigation District, which also is buying all the Bagby property to be placed under water when Lake McClure expands from a 281,200 acre-foot capacity to one of 1.1. million acre feet as a result of construction of a new Exchequer Dam, which towers over the old one by 180 feet. The new structure, already in place just beow the old one, plus a power house to be installed there and other features including the new bridge will cost $36 million.
Amaro said it will be necessary to dismantle the old bridge eventually.
The new concrete span is double-laned but, while finishing work is being completed , is restricted to one-way traffic during the day.
Bagby's population of 25 today belies its once historic eminence as a bustling mining and milling community The bridge which today is being replaced was erected in 1923.
But nearly a score of years before that, a concrete abutment had been laid for support of a bridge which- until 1945- carried traffic of the Yosemite Valley Railroad.
Bagby, in its salad days, was known well to Gen. John C. Fremont. In 1848 he purchased a 44,000 acre Mexican land grant in which the Bagby area was included.
The town was initially called Benton's Mill by Fremont in a testimony of affection for his father-in-law, the famed lawmaker, U S Sen. Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri [AKA Old Bullion].
Honor For Fremont Aide
The name change of the town subsequently came about and was derived from Abner Bagby. As in countless other Mother Lode hamlets, the gold mining diminished and Bagby saw an exodus of much of its population. The milling continued as did the YV Railroad operation. But, in August, 1945, a train of this historic enterprise made its last run.
Bagby and its skeletal population became observers to the passing parade of motorists who came down the winding incline from Bear Valley and on toward Coulterville. Progress, reflected in part by a high rise bridge, finally has caught up with Bagby, the former Benton Mills.
Yet, some of it will remain. Soon, the old YV Railraod depot and turntable here, along with two giant twin wooden railroad water tanks- memorials to the past- will be relocated from Bagby to El Portal. They will become a part of the YV Railroad Museum being established.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 31, 2013 - 02:02am PT
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Power (in Mariposa County)
"Some mines along the Merced River develop hydroelectric power from the river for their own use and the Mariposa Grant also supplies a limited amount of power for lighting purposes and mill power from its plant on the Merced River at Bagby. Their lines run from the Merced River through the grant to the towns of Mt. Bullion and the county seat, Mariposa. The plant consists of a flume 400 feet long by 16 feet wide and 6 feet deep which carries water under a 34-foot head to three Pelton wheels which are 27, 30 and 40 inches in diameter, respectively. The plant is capable of developing 600 horsepower and the power is generated by two Westinghouse dynamos.
The Pacific Gas and Electric power line comes from Tuolumne County to the Peñon Blanco mine and thence through the town of Colterville to the Potosi gold mine and owned by the Merced Gold Mining Company.
A company formerly had a power plant at Exchequer on the Merced River, but their plant was washed out during the heavy freshet of the winter of 1913. The San Joaquin Power and Light Company, which generates power from Merced Falls in Merced County, owns a power line which extends as far as the Mt. Gaines mine in the Hornitos mining district. This company also uses the Exchequer line for transmitting power."
Excerpt from Report XIV of the State Mineralogist - Mines and Mineral Resources of Portions of California, Chapters of State Mineralogist's Report - Biennial Period 1913-1914, Part IV. "The Counties of Fresno, Kern, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus," by F. L. Lowell, Field Assistant (field work in July, 1914), San Francisco, California, July, 1915, California State Mining Bureau, San Francisco, California, 1916, pp. 173-370.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jul 31, 2013 - 12:20pm PT
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When is that DMT tripod class being offered again?
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 31, 2013 - 02:46pm PT
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That dog will be swimming in circles turning to the left. He'll have to use course correction to the max. Are German Shepherds that smart?
He'd be a good companion for a photographer.
Where do you find dogs with no legs?
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jul 31, 2013 - 05:12pm PT
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They're all over.
Abe & Barry dig 'em
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jul 31, 2013 - 06:33pm PT
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Ringmaster.
Contestant.
Contestant's family.
Some challenges in the competition.
Learning technique.
Friends to support.
Meeting the challenges of competing.
Taking 'doing nothing' to a new, lower level at an early age.
I blame genetics for my lack of drive, though I'm not concerned about my image overmuch, it's nice to understand oneself. My grandad was a smart man, erudite as well as having learned in construction camps in the twenties and thirties that books aren't the answer for everything. He, like myself, dispensed with higher education and chose to operate big earth-moving machines instead. He and Nana got to see the West, that's for sure.
Leonard on a visit to Idaho, near McCall, where Sis'n'Roy's ranch was located.
Family arriving at a place the grandfolk rented in Etna, CA, in Trinity area, working a road project.
An early version of the Caterpillar tractor, probably similar to the ones Leonard learned to drive after WWI.
Un-finished Trinity Dam.
"Dog bites car." Not a headline we see at all.
It's just her and the Falls. Amazing? It was. The place was deserted this day. She came to the park to help Dad out in some public-spirited phone company display to promote the new Princess phone, BELIEVE IT OR NOT! Pacific T&T higher-ups were not pleased the populace had stayed away in droves.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Jul 31, 2013 - 08:03pm PT
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Hopefully Mike and the cousins were all well coated with Vicks before venturing out in the boat. I know Florence Chadwick used it. If she were still alive she'd have a bottle to show us.
That's ma rubbing it on
Interestingly, photographers BITD couldn't tell left from right.
Cousin Buster was a Shoe in. Can't recall if dog had lost any limbs. Can't recall if he found any either.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Come, Tige! Come, boy!
Can't you be more like Alex the Stroh's mutt?
"The St. Louis-based Brown Shoe Company ranked as an early believer in television’s marketing potential and sponsored its own half-hour show, Smilin’ Ed’s Buster Brown Gang. Smilin’ Ed made the successful transition from radio to the new medium with his cast of crudely-made puppets—Froggy the Gremlin, Squeaky the Mouse, and Midnight the Cat—and the new show premiered on November 21, 1949. Soon, in addition to shoes, they began hawking comic books and other licensed products. The Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play at The Strong holds one of those Buster Brown comic books. Issue No. 37’s Christmas Fun feature story illustrates the three main characters up to their usual shenanigans."--Rick Sharin on Play Stuff blog
These were OK, I guess. Couldn't hold a firebrand to the likes of Turok and his friend Ander, living by the skin of their loincloths in the Lost Valley.
Certain ducks provided more exciting tales than Buster and Tige, as well.That Mutton Buster brown ale should be in Fritz's refrigerator.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Buster Hell, damn near broke her!
Playmate Mini
Playmate Mini
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Smilin' Ed hisownself!
I see now why folks continue to confuse Andy and Ed.
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