Postcard - Olympia, Washington

Olympia and Rainier [click on image to enlarge]

The reverse side of this postcard is blank. I date this in the late Ike era or in JFK period. The Pritchard Building is visible near the right corner making this no earlier than 1959. The residential area across Capitol Way is bereft of any State buildings. I'll guess this is in the timeframe of 1959-1961.

The old Olympia High School and Capitol Park Apartments can be seen. Also those grand original maples on Maple Park, which were ripped out about ten years later.

For us local boomers, if you said "Olympia and Rainier" when we were young we would assume you meant the two regional beers.

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This little trail in my lawn has been made by rabbits, cats, possums, and raccoons and it leads to a hole my fence. If small dogs start moving in I'll patch up the opening, but otherwise I don't mind my yard being a sanctuary for these critters. Besides, they'd just create another opening.

Favorite Movie Quotes: Alexander the Great

"What I am is on my face and what I see is on my tongue."

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The Fab Four at their stations

Buttons - Popular Culture - 1986

Soitenly!

On the curl [or in this case, on the Curly]: (c) 1986, N.M.P. Inc. - Col. Pic. Ind., Inc. Button -Up Co. 2011 Austin Troy MI 48084 

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Morty Comix # 2550

Morty Comix # 2550 is going to Florida. A Morty the Blog reader sent me a SASE with the above note.

The thought crosses my mind that those of you who were raised in the email era might not know the acronym-- SASE means Self-Addressed Stamped Envelope and was a regular part of our pre-Internet vocabulary in the Newave Comix era.

Anyway, I'll the keep the identity of this individual anonymous for the time being, since I know this person to be a fellow lover of mischief and I don't want to spoil whatever surprise he has in mind.

The envelope now waits by the door for my next trip to the Post Office.

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Postcard - Olympia, Washington

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"State Capitol Group, Olympia, Washington. Capitol Lake at right."

From the early 1960s or 1959 at the earliest. The Capitol Campus has not yet jumped across Capitol Way and displaced all those homeowners. The Capitol Park Apartments (gone now for over 4 decades) can be seen on the left edge.

This postcard is a frightening reminder of the close proximity of the Fetid Lake of Doom to our center of government here in Washington.

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味噌汁

Buttons - Popular Culture - 1980s?

I do the work of 3 Men ... Moe, Larry & Curly

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Homeless

Son + I are

Scared + Alone

Please Help Us

God Bless You.

Anything will help us.

Discarded cardboard sign near freeway entrance, Tumwater, Washington. I call these Reagan boards, since around here at least we never saw people with homeless cardboard signs until old Ron the Con took office.

Morty Comix # 2549

Morty Comix # 2549 was drawn on a piece of cardboard. Buster, Hettie and Dreamer are demonstrating the size of this comic relative to a cat. They need to earn their keep somehow around here.

This comic was left in a rare actual working phone booth in Tumwater, Washington. Between the time I took these photos and created this post, the comic was already gone. It probably landed in that garbage can next to the booth.

The last photo was taken from across the street, at a dead phone booth, the same one where I deposited Morty Comix # 2532. That particular issue apparently blew out of the booth in the wind and got rained on. Waaay in the background you can see the working phone booth where I left Morty Comix # 2549.

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It's been a hard night's day

And I've been sleepin' like a cat

It's been a hard night's day

You think you'll sit here? Imagine that!

'Cause I sleep here all day

And then I get up and play

And eat and groom and poop.

Postcard - Olympia, Washington

"Olympia, Washington. The State Capitol buildings may be seen at right center. Mt. Rainier stands as sentinal [i.e. sentinel] in the distance."

I figure this postcard photo was taken between 1959 and 1965. In the far right of the photo the Washington State Library (opened 1959) is visible. The Capitol Center Building, also known locally as "The Mistake by the Lake" is not visible. It was built in 1965.

The Fetid Lake of Doom had yet to be the home of caimans.

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Buttons - Popular Culture - 1980s

On the curl: Most of the curl is cut off, but I can read "Warren, MI."

I am pretty sure this button was given to me in the 1980s when the Stooges were rediscovered.

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Morty Comix # 2548

Morty Comix # 2548 was drawn on a letter size piece of white cardboard. While I was enjoying an Italian grinder sandwich at a Tumwater, Washington restaurant I found myself reading the latest issue of a local publication called Pet Connection Magazine. So I stuffed the comic into the tabloid and returned my copy to the top of the freebie heap at the lobby of the place.

This issue of PCM included a bit about the Kitten Rescue of Mason County project, written by a former co-worker and townsperson, I think. I already have 4 cats living with me, and I am definitely done with adopting more felines. My contribution to appeasing this species of overlords has been more than adequate. But I applaud the Rescue for their efforts. Local readers of this blog who are petless should check them out.

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Postcard - Olympia, Washington - 1959?

"Olympia, Washington. 4th & Capitol Way."

We moved to Olympia from Spokane in 1958. This is pretty much how I first remember seeing downtown Oly. [Click on image to enlarge]

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Buttons - Popular Culture - 1985

Stoogemania

Catch It!

On the curl: (c) 1985 Atlantic Releasing Corp.

 

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Morty Comix # 2547

Morty Comix # 2547 was sort of a rush job. It was placed under a dining table at a Tumwater, Washington pizza joint at the peak of lunch hour.

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Postcard - Ocean Shores, Washington - 1970s?

"S.S. Catala, Ocean Shores Marina, Ocean Shores, Washington. Moved to this lagoon in 1963 to serve as a salmon fishing base for sports fighing [i.e. fishing], this former World's Fair hotel ship capsized in a violent 100 MPH wind storm New Years Day, 1965."

The Catala is gone now, but occasionally parts of it resurface after storms. Now this area is home part of the year to the Alaskan Snowy Owls.

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Tumwater, Washington

Buttons - Popular Culture - 1980s?

This Lone Ranger button was produced in Japan. I have no idea how or when this particular piece landed in my box of buttons, except that it was probably dated back to the 1980s.

To us Boomers there is only one Lone Ranger, Clayton Moore, the actor who carried this 1950s role into his later private life in spite of legal consequences. Moore's story is worth a movie treatment by itself.

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Tumwater, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Armed and Dangerous

"As you can see it's really quite simple. Just remember, when you pull the trigger, the bullets come out going very very fast, so make sure to keep the weapon pointed away from you. Now that's about it. You are now armed guards. God help us all."

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Steilacoom, Washington

Morty Comix # 2546

Morty Comix # 2546 was left in an interesting public bulletin shelter in Steilacoom, Washington. Rather than posting this comic as a notice I stuck it in the rafters. There was one public declaration that really stood out, about how the Post Office helped a soldier from neighboring Fort Lewis.