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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 - May 12, 2015 - 09:02pm PT
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No fish tacos, thanks.
Zee you tumoro.
Sleep deep, dream low, and breathe slow.
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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 - May 13, 2015 - 05:13am PT
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It's pouring zzzz'z but no dreams.
I had all the dreamless sleep I can handle.
I got up to no good and read in the R & I online Ascent of the one-go ascent of SEA OF DREAMS by Bridwell, Diegelman, and Bard.
Benjamin Franklin is responsible for the Bridwell maxim, "Fail to plan, plan to fail."
It's one of JB's best-ever journalistic efforts. He always seems to give his best and for the climbing community, I'd like to say, Jim, THANK YOU!
Even now, I can imagine some kid thinking, "Who is Bridwell?"
Hat is off to Mr. Jimmy.
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A sea shanty for the crew who
First sailed the Sea of Dreams.[Click to View YouTube Video]
Gots to thank the Gnome for the treat of reading about "little feet."
He sent me the link, no ink.
I now feel much more "in the Pink."
Will JB ever reveal those places from which he scoped the route in his planning?
Come back next Monday. Or Tuesday. Talk to "Juanita."
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As always with R & I, you must subscribe to the mag to get the links to share. I'm not a subscriber to anything.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 13, 2015 - 06:15am PT
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Auè Cntrer, my franch, sucks, the the things that you subscribe to get you through and through,
I could 'v covered for you and just agreed
in the end it makes no difference
but that Is not as fun as being contrary .
The last time I played in the house of the last alphabet letter I learned that.
but my mind is on my lack of clarity,
if I do, then you can see & scan all the links?
If so, some of the same things that choke my spit ,
make me go "WHAT?!",
seem to make you go
WHAT too?
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Any hauser if a guy named Dana has not been in touch at this point then I have no past!
I was the third wheel and the weakest of the climbers. We formed our own small hard group that was as talented as the best climbers guys like Earl W and Merril B, had some followings
Certainly Mugs & Nitro were famous. The 80s in the West climbing living vagabond style, I was Along for some of it, it was the, tHERIDE!
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 13, 2015 - 06:37am PT
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I was bullin' with The Bull on Mother's Day. Ma don't have no nickname, so we just call her Reita, like when she was born. Anyway, this guy who has legitimate things to complain about (some of you know, purple hearts and stuff), but never does, brings up midget racing in Balboa Stadium.
So without further ado, 1950's car racers. This used to be a car club thread right?
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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 - May 13, 2015 - 07:23am PT
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Groovy, dad. Groovy.
I dig the slo-mo.
How did that stadium come to be named for a fictitious pug from Philly?
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The word coming to mind is "insipid." Not quite "revolting" until the third listen.
Perhaps it could be performed better by a livelier group, like Randy Watson & Sexual Chocolate.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 13, 2015 - 02:13pm PT
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How did that stadium come to be named for a fictitious pug from Philly?
Ernie Ladd chose the name? For the long and continuing story of Ernie see below ***.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 13, 2015 - 05:21pm PT
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Following in the footsteps of The Wolfman, Ernie "The Big Cat" opened up a gym on Third Avenue in Chula Vista.
This is from Mike, who grew up in CV. The Big Cat & The Elks?
When the Chargers came to San Diego from Los Angeles in 1961, they played in Balboa Stadium, the track and football field for San Diego High School. That is how bad it was. I think a ticket was three bucks. And that team, especially the 1963 American Football League champion team, is still the most talented and dominant Charger team there ever was. They beat everyone by large margins. I remember Sid Gillman, Lance Alworth, Dave Kocourek, Ernie Ladd, Earl Faison, Ron Mix, Paul Lowe and Jack Kemp, the quarterback. I went to a game there. Never knew my dad even cared about football, but he took me there. And he took us to meet Paul Lowe and Ernie Wright once, at the Elks Club in Chula Vista
Dylan's thinking of doing The Ballad Of Ernie Ladd soon.
The most well-publicized of Ernie Ladd’s gastronomic events was when the big man participated in the Golden West Eating Classic on April 22, 1961, at the U.S. Grant Hotel in downtown San Diego. The gorge-fest, in which Ladd competed against local tuna fisherman, Nick Cordileone, brought out some 1,800 spectators, and some of San Diego’s most celebrated citizens, many of whom held “positions of authority” for the contest. Among those involved were:
Regis Philbin – Referee
Archie Moore – Referee Emeritus
Barron Hilton – Assistant Calorie Counter
Sid Gillman – Consultant to the California State Eating Commission
1/22/1965 - Just in -- Billy D. Lyon and Ken Hollis Brown
Ol' Bob's gonna light this one on fire
THE DESTROYER & BILLY LYONS OVER ERNIE LADD & KEN HOLLIS
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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 - May 13, 2015 - 05:50pm PT
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Your dog is a good-looking lady, Gnome.
Tell the kids about not feeding her like she's Ernie Ladd, though.
Here's a story.
First women's alpine Olympic gold medal, 1948.
http://retro-skiing.com/2014/01/gretchens-gold/
Not being an slpine skier, this story didn't interest me. MUCH!
Not having any connections to skiing at Sun Valley, it left me cold. NOT!
My relatives in Sun Valley and Ketchup and McCall all recall the member of our family, one of my mom's cousin Connie's kids, who was a member of the US Olympics Alpine Ski Team.
Her name is Maria Maricich and she was born in 1961 and finished 19th in the Downhill in 1984.
Her father is this man, Connie's husband, Herman Maricich.
[Click to View YouTube Video]I was never able to meet "Herm," because I only visited Idaho once, when I was three. That was in 1951 and the Mariciches didn't show up in Sun Valley until much later.
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Spider Savage
Mountain climber
The shaggy fringe of Los Angeles
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May 13, 2015 - 08:26pm PT
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This is how the 70's ended for me. Good times.
Unfortunately someone messed up all the Rolling Thunder vids on YouTube with legal. This one is just sound.
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Love this thread.
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Gnome Ofthe Diabase
climber
Out Of Bed
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May 13, 2015 - 08:28pm PT
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Laboratory reagent – Silver compounds are used as oxidation catalysts due to the high oxidation power of silver salts. Silver carbonate is used in the Koenigs-Knorr reaction, which is a glycosyl halide substitution reaction, wherein glycosil halide and an alcohol react to give a glycoside. In the Hunsdiecker reaction, the decarbozylation of silver carboxylates results in corresponding carboxylic acid.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujò de la Playa y Perrito Ruby
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May 13, 2015 - 09:07pm PT
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^Is it safe to drink or do you have to smoke it?
Anyway, did he know Tesla? And more importantly what instrument did he play?
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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May 13, 2015 - 11:25pm PT
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hey there say, mouse.... aHA! that there STARLING, is 'a kin' of what is nesting in my old un'used wall vent... :O
yep--finally got it... :)
course, i had to ' sleuth it out' as, i could never see her well enough, to tell what she is/was... she took the nest, before the wren-of-lasts-year, could get back to it... oh my...
miss the wren, but this is still fun, :)
babies, are deep in nest, i reckon...
that WHITE slant, on the left side of pic, IS the open vent door... the right, goes into the wall...
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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 - May 14, 2015 - 12:26am PT
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RR stands for Royal Robbins or Rolls-Royce or Range Rider, none of which should be confused with the Range Rover.
http://www.drivearabia.com/news/2013/10/29/2015-range-rover-long-wheelbase-offroad-limo-uae-dubai-motor-show/
I have always preferred the Range Rider, simply because it's the first TV western series that I recall watching when we got a Raytheon cabinet TV in 1953, just after the family moved from Redding to SACTO. [Click to View YouTube Video]
This is a short version of one of the Range Rider episodes, and it stars Jock Mahoney as RR, with Dick Jones. They were two of the best stuntmen in Hollywood, Jones specializing in horse tricks. He was pretty slick with his guns and fists, too, and went on to play Buffalo Bill, Jr., in the series of that name. He also provided the voice of Pinocchio in the Disney classic.
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http://hollywoodstuntmen.blogspot.com/2015/03/jock-mahoney.html
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427934/
These were mostly filmed at the Corriganville Movie Ranch in Simi Valley, where some of us have climbed and bouldered.
Corriganville had its own amusement park at one time, with daily hangings and gunfights, etc.
http://www.b-westerns.com/corvlle.htm
http://www.authorsden.com/visit/viewarticle.asp?AuthorID=12206&id=8414
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I tipped my hat and, riding tall in the saddle, slowly cruised away into the flaming sunset.
Eddie Parker, highest-paid stunt man in Hollywood at one time, doubling for Buster Crabbe in the serial, "Buck Rogers."Reminds me of the goat being tossed by the eagle from the cliff...
One of the good guys who wore a black hat.
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