NEW YEARS EVE

Happy New Year 2015!

   SNOOPY

December 17, 2014

Thurston HOPKINS :: Keeping Warm, Winter Night, Islington, London, 1950

THANKSGIVING 2014

HELEN

2003

ANATOMY OF A ROOT BEER FLOAT

Anatomy of a root-beer float

1994

Here's What It Was Like to Be a Music Fan in 1994

TOP 100 MOVIES OF 1994

The top 25 under appreciated films of 1994

HISTORICAL EVENTS

WORLD HISTORY

BIRTHDAY FLOWERS

soda

ROOT BEER FLOAT

  Why it is called that

SODA FOUNTAIN

Birthday boy Desi Arnaz with his best girl Lucille Ball sharing a few sodas

Lucille Désirée Ball  Desiderio Alberto Arnaz III

(Desi always sent Lucy flowers on her birthday and on their anniversary, and the two kept in close touch by phone throughout the years.)

Childhood of Lucy and Desi

FLASH GORDON 1936

  ... more adventures on the planet Mongo with Flash 

fighting against the infamous Emperor Ming.
Comic strips like Superman, Flash Gordon
and Dick Tracy kept children entertained during the Great Depression. 

Flash Gordon is a 1936 science fiction film serial. Told in 13 installments, it was the first screen adventure for the comic-strip character Flash Gordon, and tells the story of his first visit to the planet Mongo and his encounter with the evil Emperor Ming the Merciless.

Flash Gordon "Battling the Sea Beast" 1936

Flash Gordon "Trip to Mars" 1938

Flash Gordon 1936

CREDITS OF THE IMPORTANT

FLASH GORDON CAST MEMBERS

FLASH GORDON (1936) 'FLASH GORDON is still exciting and fast paced.'

RADIO:  Roosevelt "Fireside Chats" The Shadow Orson Wells Flash Gordon Jack Armstrong Dick Tracy

HISTORY:  The Second New Deal: 1935–1936

The Gardener

OCTOBER 9, 2014

 

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile."

“Autumn...the year's last, loveliest smile." ― William Cullen Bryant (Bryant Park)
The Rolling Stone's Keith Richards knows that reading is fundamental.

Bryant is ours. He’s locally grown (born in Cummington: 1st poem published in the Daily Gazette) & he changed the world in positive ways by founding American literature (w/Thanotopsis), by bankrolling and encouraging Hudson School founder Thomas Cole, and by introducing an unknown senator named Abraham Lincoln to NYC’s power elite @ Cooper Union.

The North American Review, which started in 1815 and ran without interruption until 1940, was the first American magazine devoted entirely to literature. Massachusetts native William Cullen Bryant published his first poems—including “To a Waterfowl” (1821) and “Thanatopsis,” his most famous work—in early issues.

Cocker Spaniels

Woman's Home Companion Magazine from March 1937. Great cover of two Cocker Spaniels—one black, one light brown.
My best friend was a Cocker, that was the 1950's. His name was Tugwell, we called him "Tuggy".  He had a most beautiful long golden (or  red?) coat. His namesake was Rexford Tugwell. In 1932 Tugwell was invited to join President Franklin Roosevelt's team of advisers known as the Brain Trust. After Roosevelt's inauguration in 1933, Tugwell was appointed first as Assistant Secretary and then in 1934 as Undersecretary of the United States Department of Agriculture. (I have no idea why my sister chose the Tugwell name)

Chummy  1936 (1935)

     Cocker Spaniels     Stella the Cocker Spaniel

September 2014

Scarlett in the cotton field

Scarlett O'Hara

Tara and Twelve Oaks

Ruins of Tara Plantation Set. Gone With the Wind producer David O. Selznick solemnly observed that “Nothing in Hollywood is  permanent. Once photographed, life here is ended. It is almost symbolic of Hollywood. Tara has no rooms inside. It’s just a facade… Much of Hollywood is a facade.” California, Selznick International Studios in Culver City set in 1959,  ruins of mansion from Gone With the Wind.

THE HOLLYWOOD FANTASY 

Never before seen photographs offer a rare glimpse behind the scenes of Gone with the Wind.  TARA, the plantation.

 Unaffiliated Critic. "How can you permit your husband to conduct this slave auction?"

SNOOPY

8/31/14

August 31, 2014

Azalea

August 21, 2014
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hEy JoE!

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1.  Joe
2.   Dirt
3.   Mud
4.   Java
5.   Brew
6.   Cuppa
7.   Go Juice
8.   Jitter Juice
9.   Bean Juice
10. Brain Juice
11. High Octane
12. Wakey Juice
13. Morning Jolt
14. Liquid Energy
15. Caffeine Infusion
16. Cupped Lightning
17. Leaded and Unleaded
18. Rocket Fuel (strong coffee)
19. Worm Dirt (really strong coffee)
20. C8H10N4O2 (The molecular formula for caffeine)

  Slang Terms for Coffee

COWBOY COFFEE

JULY 31, 2014

JULY 31, 2014

JULY 31, 2014

LOBERO THEATER

LOBERO THEATER
  old Lobero and star pine

1957

1957 Chicago Auto Show  ~ Chevy On Stage

1957 Retro Car Ads

Elvis at Graceland 1957
Elvis Presley with a young wallaby on the set of ‘Jailhouse Rock’, 1957

Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Wilding divorced – January 26, 1957
Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Todd marriage 2 February 1957 – 22 March 1958 "He didn't ask me, he told me," Taylor recalled of his marriage proposal in Elizabeth Takes Off. Todd -- who was 25 years older than Taylor -- fathered a daughter, Liza, in 1957. One year into their marriage, Todd died in a plane crash.
WEDDINGS...  ELIZABETH TAYLOR- THE ETERNAL BRIDE

JULY

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A woman stands in front of her flower stand on the Rambla in Barcelona, Spain by Jules Gervais Courtellemont 1929

Nantucket Sound Seafood    I'm on a seafood diet, every time I see food I eat it. 
~ Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food ~ 
2014 Spend a few hours savoring a gourmet dinner at the Vintage House. Burlington, Oklahoma

7/3/14

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SOLSTICE

Fritz Olenberger. 2014 Summer Solstice Parade

LADIES Parade June 21, 2014 Saturday. Happy Solstice 2014!

JUNE 2014

CINCO DE MAYO

Cinco de Mayo a Mexican import?

The evolution of Cinco de Mayo

Cindy Cindy

FEBRUARY 9, 2014