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hooblie
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from out where the anecdotes roam
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Jan 11, 2016 - 09:41pm PT
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what can ya get with a double buckeye these days?
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zBrown
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Jan 12, 2016 - 07:13am PT
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That list is the Billboard official 1966 list of top albums week by week. There's also a list of singles.
Billboard was not as we say "too hip" or else they would have included this one from 1966. Folks in IB called it the first popular psychodelic album.
ALTERNATE TAKE. CONTAINS NEVER BEFORE RELEASED VERSION OF PUSHIN'
Interestingly, if you look this one up on Amazon it says there is a newer version available.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 12, 2016 - 07:38am PT
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My mama did not allow me stayin' out all night long. However, she did not restrict me from candy bars, which has been the lifelong bane of my dental existence.
Just got my first (last?) implant. A very innovative dentist.
More later, but he's got me on large doses of anti-biotics. After some researching, I have discovered that it is advisable to follow up with goodly doses of probiotics. Some recommend starting even before the anti's run their course.
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Did they still have double bills in 1966. They did in 1929.
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Clemson needs to work on it's defense, right. I sure would not have had any of them guarding Hambone.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 12, 2016 - 07:47am PT
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Come to think of it, I seem to recall another Dustin encounter in Oakdale. "I'm ridin' here" was all he said.
My mom used to listen to that first JA album, though I don't recall her ever mentioning Dustin.
I did not catch him in Berkeley, but then neither did Hartouni. Busses have played an integral role in Dustin's life, no?
Check out the poster @ :47
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Speaking of the JA
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 12, 2016 - 08:03am PT
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Cracks me up, no end. I watched Kathryn Ross' husband, old Sam Elliot, last night in The Golden Compass.
Did not visit the candy concession.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 12, 2016 - 09:20am PT
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AC Transit, it animated my trips away from school, mostly to SF...
but it is nice to see Moe's again, even if a bit before my time, I wouldn't have run into Dustin as I would arrive 6 years after the release of the movie.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 12, 2016 - 01:00pm PT
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AC Transit, or Alameda/Contra Costa Transit, is one of the best-run urban bus lines you could ever hope to use.
The bus route filmed in The Graduate is likely the 1R, as it is known now. It may have had the same code back in the '60s or not.
Line 1R runs from UC Berkeley to downtown Oakland along Telegraph Ave. and on to Bay Fair BART in San Leandro along International Blvd. and East 14th St.
At St. Mary's College near Moraga, I would have to hitch a ride into Lafayette, then take the Greyhound in to the depot on San Pablo Ave. to make a connection to the AC lines. It was such a waste of free time, but then I wasted most of my time at St. Mary's anyway.
Speaking of time-wasting, I used to fish at San Pablo Dam (El Sobrante--yay for Dam Big Burgers!) for planted trout and carp. It got to be boring, though. There was essentially very little challenge, unlike on certain spots on certain streams up in the Sierra Nevada (never to be divulged--sorry), which, if fished properly and at the right times, yielded 'bows of surprising dimensions coming from relatively "tight" water.
There are only so many places for trout to hide in smaller streams. You need to try EVERYPLACE. I found my best luck was with spinners like the Super Duper and the Colorado in small sizes.
I gave up on fly-fishing since it was so expensive for me and I couldn't tie flies well with the nine-finger methods.
Here are two episodes of 39 Hrs which will prove to be lots less boring than my lame excursions up to San Pablo Dam looking for mushy-fleshed planters.
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Jan 12, 2016 - 01:28pm PT
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Used to spend a lot of Friday nights perusing the used book stores of Berkeley back in the 70's. Usually after our nightly walk to Indian Rock, then dinner, then we would do the bookstore circuit Moe's, Cody's, Shakespeare and Co. on Telegraph and the one on Shattuck near our house whose name I have forgotten (near the theatre Pauline Kael owned and where Chūshingura played forever it seemed). Mouse probably remembers the name.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 12, 2016 - 01:40pm PT
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That's a beautiful bird, Gypsy.
It could be that you are thinking of Pellucidar Used Books. I think it was on Shattuck across the street from the pizza joint at Shattuck and Dwight.
Pellucid: transparently clear.
Some sun-bird eggs.
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Gypsy
Social climber
Usually behind the camera
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Jan 12, 2016 - 01:45pm PT
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Yup, Pellucidar
Dwight and Shattuck--where we all lived
The legend
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 13, 2016 - 08:08am PT
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Zero rain here...a dry storm so far and looks to be breaking up.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 13, 2016 - 06:16pm PT
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Laurel Canyon - this is strange. I'll have to read it sometime.
http://www.whale.to/b/inside_the_lc1.html#Part_I_
An uncanny number of rock music superstars will emerge from Laurel Canyon beginning in the mid-1960s and carrying through the decade of the 1970s. The first to drop an album will be The Byrds, whose biggest star will prove to be David Crosby. The band’s debut effort, “Mr. Tambourine Man,” will be released on the Summer Solstice of 1965. It will quickly be followed by releases from the John Phillips-led Mamas and the Papas (“If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears,” January 1966), Love with Arthur Lee (“Love,” May 1966), Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention (“Freak Out,” June 1966), Buffalo Springfield, featuring Stephen Stills and Neil Young (“Buffalo Springfield,” October 1966), and The Doors (“The Doors,” January 1967).
One of the earliest on the Laurel Canyon/Sunset Strip scene is Jim Morrison, the enigmatic lead singer of The Doors. Jim will quickly become one of the most iconic, controversial, critically acclaimed, and influential figures to take up residence in Laurel Canyon. Curiously enough though, the self-proclaimed “Lizard King” has another claim to fame as well, albeit one that none of his numerous chroniclers will feel is of much relevance to his career and possible untimely death: he is the son, as it turns out, of the aforementioned Admiral George Stephen Morrison.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 13, 2016 - 06:46pm PT
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I remember that pizza place, but not the name.
There was another small bookstore about Ashby and College.
1828 Euclid - Fine Art Theatre
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 13, 2016 - 07:35pm PT
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1950 saw the release of Long Gone Lonesome Blues by Hank.
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Which featured Honky Tonkin.
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How 'bout dat, Cowboy?
You know Wes & Wanda's Kit-Kat Club on San Pablo in El Cerrito?
They were a country bar in the city.
The owners weren't too fond of hippies due to their takin' over the stage with "country rock."
They came around, though, eventually.
But they took it to the limits with their own Captain America/Christ is Your Savior routine, some say.
I think it was a Shakey's Pizza. We watched Kung Fu and Streets of SF on the TV there once a week--our "date night."
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 13, 2016 - 08:46pm PT
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Lenna is thinking about taking a trip North to Alaska, because Ed's always wanted to take the journey. It's along the lines of a 70th birthday present, she says.
Could be a rush a-comin'.
Big nuggets!
Big fish!
Everything's embiggened in AK!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 13, 2016 - 09:02pm PT
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Bushman
Social climber
Elk Grove, California
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Jan 14, 2016 - 04:15am PT
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Out Here o'er the Blue Line
I've been in my holding pattern
Far out in left field
Reverted to rebelliousness
And trying not to feel
Dreamin's got me nowhere
Way above the stratosphere
Was just asking Mr. Bowie
What these ch-changes all mean
And why time ch-changes me
But I'm stuck here with my same ol'
Exploding personality
I'm repeating old behaviors
It's not who I want to be
Floating on the blue line
Way up high here on the wing
Not fixed to her or anybody
Time keeps ch-changing my mind
It's not who I want to be
So my dreams keep me in orbit
But my feet are made of clay
Though these hands were made for painting
I'm not handling them that way
Way up here o'er the blue line
Spoke to Bowie and some friends
'Bout some things back in the ol' days
And how I see it all depends
On if I ever mend my ways
With my exploding personality
So volatile in ways
That do to me such disservice
Like it did in bygone days
I'm still waitin' to make that phone call
Suspended here in orbit
With my clown car and a dime
For the floating spinning phone booth
And a question mark called time
-bushman
01/14/2016
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Jan 14, 2016 - 06:29am PT
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I'm still waitin' to make that phone call
Suspended here in orbit
With my clown car and my dime
For the floating spinning phone booth
And a question mark called time.
Please deposit twenty-five cents.
I was just comin' from the crapper,
My thoughts in a plain brown wrapper;
I wondered if good old bushman
Had maybe ridden up on his Cushman
With a poem he'd just written.
I love his words--I'm really smitten.
Just say "No" to kryptonite, bushman.
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