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Postcard - Bellevue, Washington

"Bellevue, Washington. Located on the east side of Lake Washington, the state's fourth largest city. This photo shows a portion of the main business district with Mt. Rainier in the background."

This card is dated 1976. Known as "Blah-vue" by my Seattle friends, Bellevue is no longer the 4th largest city in Washington. It got bumped to number five when Vancouver annexed huge chunks of land several years ago.

If you can make out Mt. Rainier through the smog horizon, it looks really weird, more like a rounded dome than it does in real life.

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Olympia, Washington

Morty Comix # 2518

Morty Comix # 2518 was slipped into the dessert menu of a pizza joint in Tumwater, Washington

Postcard - Belfair State Park

"Belfair State Park on scenic Hood Canal. One of Washington's many parks which provides camping, swimming, picnicking and relaxation for all who visit 'Belfair-by-the-Sea.'"

Both of those Pontiac GTOs in there look vintage 1965-1967 to me (click on image to enlarge). Note the lack of any self-contained motor homes. Around here at least they were not really in abundance until the 1970s. Before that time we saw more campers on pickup trucks and towable trailers.

Favorite Movie Quotes: The Mask (1994)

"Aren't you due back at the lab to have your bolts tightened?"

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Noncomformist

Postcard - American Lake, Washington

"Veteran's Administration Hospital, American Lake, Washington. Located a few miles from Fort Lewis, McChord Field and Interstate Hiway 5 in a serene setting is this hospital. Majestic Mt. Rainier, 60 miles to the east stands guardian over all."

I'm guessing ca. 1970.

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Favorite Movie Quotes: The Horse Soldiers

"The Garden of Eden had its serpents too."

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Morty Comix # 2517

Morty Comix # 2517 was placed on top of a weird looking corner support in a stairway of a parking garage in Tumwater, Washington. It was placed only one floor above the hiding place of Morty Comix #2489, which is still there, by the way.

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Postcard - Aberdeen, Washington

"Aberdeen, Washington. Located at Zelaski Park are two wood carvings. Carved by Louis Benanto, Jr. musician-artist from Ansonia, Conn. using a chisel and chain-saw these figures greet the visitors as they enter and leave the city. The artist worked three months carving these two figures."

A view of Aberdeen looking west in the mid-1970s, I'd guess. Benanto is also the artist who carved the Charlie Choker statue around 1974-1975.

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Discarded portable dental floss thing. 

Part of a long running subseries, sad to say.

Tumwater, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: High Plains Drifter

"Well, it's what people know about themselves inside that makes them afraid."

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Postcard - Aberdeen, Washington

"Greetings From Aberdeen, Wash."

Some say, and for good reason, this postcard is a bit misleading. Looks like it dates back to the late 1950s-early 1960s. This is just a guess, but the top photo might be the view east from Ocean Shores, looking over the northern half of Grays Harbor, which is about a half hour from Aberdeen. At low tide that same body of water becomes a giant mud flat.

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A Gloria-us Pun Hit Me While I Have a Fever

Feel pretty lousy with some kind of bug today. Off and on I watched a great Cassavetes film on VHS from 1980 called Gloria starring Gena Rowlands. She was wonderful and tough as nails. This film is a keeper.

The premise is that a former Mob moll finds herself, by cruel circumstance, to be the protector of an annoying boy who is targeted for death by yes, the Mob.

By the end of the film you have the impression that as her thoughts and feeling evolve she could actually adopt the boy. If she did, do you know how the little feller would be like this contagious virus I have acquired?

Give up?

Because he would be a floozy's son.

Get it?

Floozy's son = Flu season.

You do? Then why aren't you laughing?

What's that you say? Because it isn't funny?

OK, OK, didn't I say I am having a fever?

Favorite Movie Quotes: Gloria (1980)

 

"Hey Jeri, you know I'd do anything for you but I don't like kids, I hate kids, especially yours."

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Brown's Mule tobacco plug cutter

Supposedly this device was used by my great grandfather, Jim Willis, back in Virginia

Postcard - Aberdeen, Washington

 

"Hoquiam and Aberdeen, Washington. Located on Grays Harbor, these twin cities are port of call for export of timber products to all corners of the earth. Rich in logger and sailor folklore, this area is also known as 'Gateway to the Olympics.'"

This has a 1979 date on  the reverse. Actually, Hoquiam is nowhere to be seen in this photo, although part of Cosmopolis is on the left, south of the Chehalis River.

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Chehalis River, Montesano, Washington

Morty Comix # 2516

Morty Comix # 2516 is being sent to my old comix comrade, Max Traffic in Butler, Pennsylvania. I'm sending a page of art for his consideration in the next White Buffalo Gazette and tossed in a Morty Comix as well. Just like the old days.

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Diamonds Are Forever

"I do so enjoy our little visits, Mr. Bond, however potentially painful they may be. But I'm afraid this one has come to an end."

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Postcard - Aberdeen, Washington

"Confluence of Wishkah and Chehalis River. Here is shown the bridge between Aberdeen and Cosmopolis with logs awaiting their voyage to nearby mills for processing into lumber, pulp or some other by-product. Aberdeen is the hub and shopping center for the Grays Harbor area and southern Gateway for the beautiful Olympic Peninsula."

I know this predates 1981, but probably is pre-1977 since the Wishkah Mall is not to be seen here. If you click on and enlarge the photo you can make out the Olympic Mountains on the horizon. 

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