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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2017 - 09:59pm PT
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Moses? Or Aaron?^^^
Twart infinity and beyond...
Can't miss it...
These are Indian workers at Bellvue Ranch, operated by the Crocker-Huffman Land and Bong Company.
The ranch managers had no beef with the noontime ritual of Burning One.
The line shut down in '46.
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 9, 2017 - 10:10pm PT
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And there's a Richard II recital, a Respighi recital, and probably lots of wedding vow recitals this weekend.
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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 - Mar 9, 2017 - 10:30pm PT
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According to Ruth Decker, John Decker's mother, the definition of "a good shot"
is when the banjo hits the accordion in the dumpster.
Hans Conreid says that if you're going to be a bird, at least be on that flies.
And if you're going to go around like the wolf swallowing ducks, you're going to feel down in the mouth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YDxduXvdFg
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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 - Mar 9, 2017 - 10:49pm PT
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I am dedicating this page to the Gypsy in All of Us.
Bon voyage, Gypsy!
I'm not sure if she's shipping herself to Corsica on a Loveboat or on a jet.
However you travel, wherever you go,
Remember to go slow and ride low.
Have a great musical migration vacation, dear Gypsy.
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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 - Mar 10, 2017 - 06:26am PT
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The rest of the story.*
Nowadays, Koken barber chairs are the most sought after vintage barber chairs. Their design and craftsmanship are genuinely one of a kind. A modern equivalent of the chair, the Legacy Koken Barber Chair, is being sold by the Takara Belmont Company to this day. On another note, there was a Koken featured in History Channel’s American Restoration. It was a 1930’s model shown in the episode titled, Close Shave which premiered on September 23, 2011. Fully restored, it sold for US $6,500. Rick Dale, owner of Rick’s Restorations, bought it from a local picker for US $400. Not bad for a beat-up Koken barber chair.
A Koken barber chair is considered revolutionary during its time. It was the first one that would hydraulically lift up and down. Before 1891, barbers used a chair which spun to raise it or spun the other way around to lower it. Ernest Koken, a German immigrant, ended up designing his chair so that when the lever is pumped up and down, it would raise the chair up. On the other hand, the chair would gradually lower itself when the lever is pushed on its side.
*Footnote: Main Street culture seems to remain the same, serving the basic needs of citizenry. This chair sits in the window of the barber shop across the alley from O'Ryleigh's bar and the Cigar Store, for example (which has its wooden Indian chief inside to prevent vandalism), thus allowing a man to have a haircut, then buy a cigar and adjourn to the bar to smoke it outside on the street.
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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 - Mar 10, 2017 - 06:58am PT
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On the Oddfellows Building, dated around the 1890s.
Inside of the Oddfellow's, upstairs, is a large room for the meetings held by the Lodge. A dome of stained glass overhead lets in light enough for meetings, I suppose, though I have never been up there in the daytime, only at night while visiting the lodge. The dome is impressive even at night, and I hope to be able to talk to the current tenants about photographing it one day.
The Oddfellow Lodge's activities here are now limited because the members are dying off and there are not enough new members to replenish the group. There is a Christian congregation which now rents the upper floor and a shop in the ground floor, which serves as a children's care facility when the Triumphant Believers are meeting.
Yours truly was asked to consider joining the Rebekahs, as they are also known. Their avowed purpose is to help others in the community. I attended one social out in Atwater. All of the folks were older than me; over 75% were retired airmen and their wives. The men met on their own on Mondays and the women's auxiliary met some other night or likely out in Atwater.
At any rate, at the Monday night meetings the guys would sit around in an adjoining room to the meeting room and play several rounds of Uno, a pleasant way to spend time with the guys, for some. NOT quite what I expected...no regalia-wearing ceremonies, followed by solemn discussion of current charity efforts, or that sort of thing. There was no alcohol consumption but all the soda you wanted. If there had been money on the table during cards, I would have lost my shirt--they were all sharks in sheeps clothing when it came to Uno.
This side street, Canal (when I was a kid it was 'L' St., and before that it was called Canal, and the old name has been re-instated), was literally the heart of downtown. The building which houses the barber's, the cigar store, a jewelry store and a florist shop was originally the Central Hotel, the oldest foundation of any building here.
For years, Bedeson's butcher shop occupied space here, the meat hanging on hooks out on display. The streets, being dirt and horse manure, must have been really fun when it rained and I'm sure the smell wasn't very pleasant on hot days. I think about this stuff walking around, glad I'm not having to wear woolen clothes and stiff collars, trying to keep the shoes clean and the sweat off your neck so your collar wouldn't get filthy, back when America was greater than now.
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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 - Mar 10, 2017 - 07:38am PT
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For years, since the old building on the site of the Lofts was razed in the nineties, that lot remained empty. Standing in front of the bookstore one could see straight through the block, through the parking lot of the Wells Fargo over on 18th, and through the next block (more parking lots), all the way over to 19th.
The Central Office and the corner of Canal St. is shown in the mirror, the wall of the Mainplace Theater beyond the mirror and the intersection of K St.
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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 - Mar 10, 2017 - 07:46am PT
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For all the visually impaired olpharts in the audience.
It happened that while I'd been walking up this direction from Canal, the notorious "Loud Chick"--the one I photographed two weeks ago shouting to the anonymous and invisible "pussy-grabber"--was doing her thing, shocking the small knot of ladies standing outside the Wired internet cafe.
A short time later, while sitting in front of Catholic Charities over on Main St. to rest my bones, this same loud streetie sweetie came along and saw a friend of hers by the name of Lisa, who was just going into the office of the Papal Outreach Center (CC of A), where she had arranged for several boxes of food for her household, seven in all, I counted later--a goodly amount of chow.
So the two exchanged happy hugs and then I met Cheryl, the street gal, and her friend Lisa, and Lisa's kid and his friend, and another two women friends of Lisa. Everyone was happy--Lisa was still gonna die from her cancer, but her family's needs were met temporarily, and she had some special relationship with the mysterious Cheryl.
Cheryl's normal when she speaks to you. It's when she's addressing her imaginary following that she's spooky and loud. She is a tough gal, rambunctious doesn't quite do her demeanor justice as a description. You have to see her in action, so to speak.
There is a moral of sorts about prejudging people here, but I'll trust you to figure it out for yourselves. I know you've seen folks like this, too--they have been living in Camp 4 for years, calling themselves climbers.
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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 - Mar 10, 2017 - 08:24am PT
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May God or fate take a likin' to ya, amigos. If everyone was able to work, and able to work TOGETHER, the world might be EVEN BETTER!
[Click to View YouTube Video]Bees do it. Why don't WE do it?
Whoopee!
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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 - Mar 10, 2017 - 10:20am PT
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"I'm a foreigner here myself", a stranger in a stranger land, un extraño en una Tierra Media de Merced.
A feuilleton from our correspondent en Espanya, Karen.
http://www.enjoylivingabroad.com/my-blog
I was very fond of these women, but even for them I could not embrace big hair and bad art.
And that’s what makes living abroad so fascinating. You find yourself gaining fresh perspective on everything from Palestine to the media to whether the proper low cholesterol diet revolves around red wine, dark chocolate, and high-quality ham...
neebee, the Spanish student, and Tami, the illustrator, you gotta read this one.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Mar 10, 2017 - 11:21am PT
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terrazo
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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 - Mar 10, 2017 - 03:35pm PT
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^^^Escher-esque.
Hey there, say, Mr. Tambourine Man...
Kirchhof of New Jersey made toys and novelties from cheap metal--this tambourine is a good example of the artwork printed on the line.
And here is a small collection of former Ebay merchndise--as the antiques man Barry explained it to me, this person who operates this booth/counter in the Antiques Mall doesn't bother with too many garage sales and the like. He gets lots of his items off of the net.
The stoppers are pretty, they were cheap, but would they hold a screamer? Only the foolish would try without thoroughly testing them.
You could be a dick and set these up on a belay station and wig out your second. Then stand up and show him the bomber cam placement you've been casually sitting on and tied into as well.
No, on second thought, he might get really pissed and it's hard enough for you to find partners as it is, isn't it? You just won't admit to it. But they never forget, do they?
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mouse from merced
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The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 10, 2017 - 09:47pm PT
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The Hearty Breakfast Bunch.
The Finest Mushrooms might improve this, but it wouldn't be an El Capitan omelet.
The Peanut Butter Gallery outside.
I went out to the VA clinic today, getting the referral I needed from Doc Love to see a surgeon in Fresno about having hernia surgery (Round Two).
He checked me out, chided me for not having come in on a more timely basis (nothing new there--we reap what we sow, stupid is as stupid does, no one else to blame). Then he told me that he could no more to ease my cramps. I had a BA-A-D-D experience two days ago--nearly got an ambulance but it went away in a few hours. This was in my abdominal wall, so I was only able to curl into a ball to find relief.
Then there are night cramps. Doc Love says he gets them, too, and it's a common problem with aging. There was some empathy happening here, but all he can do, he says, is to Rx some magnesium tablets, and recommended not much else. His claim is that the medical science community is at a loss to explain them.
So that should answer feralfae's question from the last page.
I feel real fine at the moment. I went out to the 'scape and shot the next-to-the-full moon.
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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 - Mar 10, 2017 - 10:27pm PT
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Yes, DMT?
You rang me.
And the party was just getting started.
I've been busy on the other threads.
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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 - Mar 10, 2017 - 10:35pm PT
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I managed to convince the sister act Deckadent to fall by and do a few numbers for the crew. They are both dental hygienistes by day and in the evenings they are usually available. They don't climb like your posse. In fact, they are both poseurs. They do a routine called The Belay Ballet that's unmentionably indescribable.
But I'm burnt, they'll be on their way to their next gig.
Hello, walls...
I'm turning out the lights.
[Click to View YouTube Video]Part gypsy. Like the headband, Willie. Never quit.
Earlier version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OQcglFoL_Y
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 10, 2017 - 11:27pm PT
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hey there say, mouse...
wow, HAPPY THAT THE FIVE, made it a-round, :)
you know:
five, makes a circle-it-a'round...
if you 'make the rounds'
(as you have done)
we'll leave THIS for the others
that wonder:
four, makes a square...
:)
three, a triangle, and
two, a line...
and one-- well, ENOUGH for ONE:
one dot-- .
oh my, just having fun, being creative, tonight...
going to sleep now...
got an early morning...
:)
happy god bless...
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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Mar 10, 2017 - 11:43pm PT
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hey there say, mouse...
ooops, forgot to say:
i read the link... 'living a broad' ...
very interesting, and pretty much, knew the basic feel of it all...
say-- now as for me...
well, not across the seas, for me... :))
me:
it's the tex-mex where i fit in, and understand the way...
you got to live there, to know what i mean by that...
:))
a whole different world, but--
no ocean to cross, for
the folks that do not understand it...
though easier, they'd not seek it out,
as it is minus the sophistication
that they seek, as to europe...
tip of tex... el valle...
my partial homeland,
bonded with my youthful calif days...
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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 - Mar 11, 2017 - 02:28am PT
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http://www.iflscience.com/space/congress-passes-195bn-nasa-bill-includes-humans-to-mars-and-europa-mission/
Whoopee!! We're gonna fly!!
Better get busy, Spacekateers. It's a long way to New Tipperary on Phobos.
Why not name it new DC instead?
Cuz "Everyone wants to be Irish." And I say let them experience a long voyage first. Then they can work on the monorail systems while they acclimate and settle in.
Then, anyone coming in a second wave will have to deal, as did the Irish, the Chinese, and the rest who came here to this great country in the 1800s and 1900s, with the differences and to assimilate as well as acclimate.
But n00bs in-country are not looking to assimilate so much as to bring their own cultures with them, QED.
Just fantasizing in my head, too, neebee.
That's a very tight and well-made video, too. Thanks, old Taco buddy. :0)
Hummingbirds at night enter a state called "torpor" in which their majorly strong and super-fast heartbeat slows to as low as 70 bpm. NASA should investigate the potential for human bee-ings to use this in space travel.
The Upside of Upper Rio Grande Valley Mud, as demonstrated by Jose for old Amarante.
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