"Go to sleep. You'll never hear the shot that kills you."
The Diogenes Club
Tuesday, April 2, 2013
Buttons - Popular Culture - 1968
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Monday, April 1, 2013
Postcard - Olympia, Washington
"State Capitol Group, Olympia, Washington. Capitol lake at right."
Some small details in this photo, particularly in the area of the Maple Park Apartments, make me conclude this photo was taken in the early to mid-1960s.
Notice the steam plant on the shore of the Fetid Lake of Doom in the lower right hand corner-- winter quarters for the caimans that now inhabit the lake. Sure, they're telling you to stay out due to some little snail. Yeah. Right.
Favorite Movie Quotes: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
"If you see somebody without a smile, give 'em yours."
Sunday, March 31, 2013
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.
Phone photo 2369
Favorite Movie Quotes: Alexander the Great
"What I am is on my face and what I see is on my tongue."
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
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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Saturday, March 30, 2013
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.
Phone photo 2364
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
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.
Phone photo 2363
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.
Friday, March 29, 2013
Postcard - Olympia, Washington
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.
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.
Morty Comix # 2548
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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