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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say.... three cheers, for mouse!!!!
*no, not the wash soap... ;)
say, not only do you show up, you show up with great fatherly advice, shared as it has moved into a NEW generations... :)
i too, have had some great family stuff... will email you later...
right now, my 23 year old dear bobby-bob cat, has died... :(
he was doing even-keel (for a non sailor, very well)but when i had to do that
miracle trip, about my dear daddy's memorial, the FIVE man-and-gal crew, could only do so much, for each critter... thus, my bobby-bob, did not get extra feedings, ... he did not look well when i got back... just waited for him to feed on back up, but--nope, the vet and i pretty much knew:
last legs... and those failed him, a few days later...
special help came, but we'd not go for huge test, we let him die at home,
and, thus he did...
on to the next gereration of my cats... is this:
only be a referee: if they have claws in each other, and then:
do NOT do it with word-spay, but water-spray...
you did well, mouse, for those kids!!!
say, and you did WELL, getting back here...
not many folks, love the clouds to roll in when waiting for spring and hoping for winter to leave...
but:
clouds here--which are very lovely pics, by the-flames-way, :)
are just meaning that mouse will RAIN down some
wonderful shares, and spring up to fresh things, and
keep reining over merced-action, here...
god bless and welcome back, though you were not gone... :))
i supposed, we SHOULD actually welcome THE COMPUTER CONNECTION back
instead, ;))
*except, it might make a habit of 'bowing out' just so you can 'bow' to
it's welcome, again... ;)
edit:
forgot...
i so much love that pretty colored woodduck? is it...
thanks for all the 'in coming' shares... :)
edit:
dingus, wow, great spring shot and neat rainbow, thanks for sharing, :)
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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Merced Hills Golf Club, CLOSED 2002
5320 N Lake Rd
Merced, California, 95340
Phone: CLOSED
Submit more photos of this course
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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They were finding some lost golf balls during pre-construction out at the UC campus, when they did some leveling and filling in of the golf course--which had been there maybe all of five years.
So few photos probably exist. I played on the course maybe three times, two for sure. The Oakland Raiders had a decent team back then, I recall. It was that long ago.
Merced is now 125 years old and growing...er, getting more dense?
"Grow Merced. Put this sticker on your car's bumper. Just do it. It's progress."
April 1, 1889, the place incorporated, opened for business, became a "hub city" like Redding, Chico, Marysville, Sacto, Stockton, Motown, Fresburg, Visalia, Goshen, Bakersfield.
My dear child and I attended the Hundredth Anniversary parade in '89, which was held on M Street, a very unusual venue for this town. It was rather special, come to think.
This year, the Merced Theater held a commemoration by having folks attend a film and a giveaway of eight hundred cupcakes there. A handful of admiring Congressmen and Assemblymen sent greetings in recognition of our expanding history, then Mayor Thurston delivered a speech which he may have written for an eighth grade civics class as a young teen--replete with history of the burg which was REPEATED IMMEDIATELY AFTER during the playing of a CD from the Historical Society--and THEN the cupcake handout.
Then, and only then...
did we get to see Joe E. Brown starring in Local Boy Makes Good, the film first shown at the Merced Theater in 1931, following its construction.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022085/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl
There were five or six old classic cars and trucks parked in the old school DIAGONAL PARKING, which was helped by the fact that they roped off the street for the block.
I failed to bring my camera. I scored an extra cupcake, plus a piece of the cake which was in the shape of the Merced Theater, which is a piece of "Spanish Revival" architecture, BTW, like the VFW Hall.
I did take some early morning shots that April Fools' Day. They were decent.
And this is the "gag shot"--lame, huh?I liked this of all that I took last week. It is spring green in the tree-tops in Tree City.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Skateboard contest, Merced 1963. Your's truly, stylin on my Makaha
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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of course, the high jump
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Early Santa Cruz action! This was the first real skate park I ever saw...I remember going there in maybe 1974? Before that, there was a drainage ditch off the freeway just south of 41st ave
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZ3-dvpyPs
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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^^ Are those wires in photo #1 above attached to your shorts? If so, is this a rules violation? Your photos are only a couple years after I was riding my 2X4 with skate wheels. How quickly things change.
It reminds me that I've watched Dogtown and zBoys twice and the documentary version also.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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My first board was a steel wheeled 2x4 with shag rug glued on top.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Nothing like a midnight run thru Wawona tunnel...
Here's some vintage wheels. '63 Makaha (nose chopped off for some forgotten reason) and a '75 Neverflex. Certain things, I hang on to....
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de la Playa
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shag rug glued on top Now that is definitely uptown. Did you patent it? I hope you at least got a trademark on "Shaggo Grom".
This is not me, nor is it Michele. I'll try to get a shot of her when her Shaggo arrives.
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Makes grip tape seem pointless
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Fresh parking lot, new Hobie...
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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The new UC is the best thing thats happened to Merced in a long while. Beautiful location, nice town. I haven't lived there since '71 but couldn't asked for a better place to grow up. Not the Leave it to Beaver place it once was....
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzZ3-dvpyPs
It's fun to run these old films backwards, too.
But I miss the old technology...but two X fours worked only up to a point, in the mid-sixties. They made good downhill runners at the Presidio in Monterey on their sidewalks--hauling ass down a hill with nobody in your way and the wind in your hair and you're on the family's insurance...what could be better for careless youth?
Then the underclass came along with thinner & lighter & then they got outclassed by more flexible and so on...and real trucks and wheels, too!
Throwpie, Barry McAuley still rules, HE THINKS!!!!
Little Daughter Up the Mortarboard, by M.F.M. Wells.
In light of the fact that skateboards were not banned on campus (yet), she decided to skate to class that morning. It was PE class and her climbing harness and shoes were in her locker, so she simply wore loose fitting shorts and KMart tennies and a light sweatshirt that had a UCM on the chest.
On the back of the garment was the name MooseDrool.
She knew she had her "A+" on that basis alone, but she realized it was up to her to get better at climbing than her old man, who was exceptional for who he was.
[End of Part I.]
Andrzej, my ghost-writing is cheap and I have more ideas. Call me. They could be tennies from Walmart, if you like, or the word Andrzej might as easily appear on the back of the sweatshirt, too.
"Hope you are feeling weller than you were, MD," said Dr. Wellbee wearily "I'm feeling a little low, myself. I may have The Blues Again."
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I have secret underground plans for this other major project, on which I would like some advice. The working title is, Are You Looking at Me?: The Rise of Vanity Publishing & Self-Promotion Cults in the 20th Century
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throwpie
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Barry McAuley is a kook.
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