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Even in elevators it is impossible to escape the Seahawk frenzy around here. It is fun to see people get so excited about something. And I am not a football fan.

Wouldn't it be great if we could see this same kind of intense united energy around something like eliminating homelessness, funding public education, providing better institutional care for the forgotten developmentally disabled, seniors, mentally ill, and other marginalized populations?

That'll be the day.

Burt Bacharach Plays Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

Tommy Hunt Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

Anna German Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

Unidentified

Unidentified.

The final photo in the McDowell Family Album is also the only tintype in the group.

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Olympia, Washington

Thelma Houston Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

The Barack Obama Song

I like Barack Obama

Period.

Don't need no qualifier

Or comma

Ellsworth Boy, Marie Ross

Written on verso: Ellsworth Boy, Marie Ross
Imprinted on front: Pierson Bros.

More than likely taken in Casey, Illinois. I have no idea how these two children are connected to the family.

The Grover Cleveland Song

They supposedly named a candy bar

After his baby Ruth

And he had a rubber jaw

Where you'd normally find a tooth.

He was an honest, plodding man

and certainly no dumbo.

To his pals he was "Big Steve,"

Or simply, "Uncle Jumbo."

Jennifer Warnes Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

Favorite Movie Quotes: Romancing the Stone

"What did you do, wake up this morning and say, 'Today, I'm going to ruin a man's life'?"

Mary

Written on verso: Mary
Printed on verso: I.H. Bonsall, Photographer, Arkansas City, Kan.
This small photo is partially wrapped in purple crêpe paper. The back flap has something written on it that I cannot quite decipher.

I.H. Bonsall had been an apprentice to Matthew Brady, visually documenting the US Civil War. Bonsall was active in Arkansas City, Kansas in the 1870s.

As for Mary, the little girl with the determined stance, I really don't know who she is. Ellen Snyder McDowell, the keeper of this album, did have a little sister named Mary Snyder who would've fit the age of this girl. But I am unable to explain why Ellen's sister would be in Kansas when the rest of the family was in Casey, Illinois.

The Andrew Johnson Song

If Andrew Johnson
Hadn't been such a stubborn cuss
Congress would be running the country today--

A reality from which may the Lord ever deliver us!

Candice Glover Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

Morty Comix # 2688

Morty Comix # 2688 was folded in half and tucked behind a windowsill in the McCleary, Washington Post Office.

Unidentified

Unidentified.

The original is quite small.

Sybil Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

The Theodore Roosevelt Song

Theodore Roosevelt

Loved war

But then his son was killed in battle

And TR died shortly after

A broken man

Favorite Movie Quotes: Robin Hood: Men in Tights

"I vow to put an end to the injustice, right the wrongs, end the tyranny, restore the throne, protect the forests, introduce folk dancing, demand the 4-day work week, and affordable health care for Saxons."

Morty Comix # 2687

Morty Comix # 2687 was left in a real estate brochure distribution box at a gas station/minimart in McCleary, Washington.

By a strange coincidence, it wasn't until I posted this that I saw the mention of Windermere Real Estate in Centralia, Washington. Their HQ is in the house where my great-great grandfather's ghost still lurks, where my grandparents were married, where my mother was born. So many stories connected with that place. These kind of things happen when you are a 5th generation Washingtonian.

Unidentified

Unidentified

Presented in postcard format

The Abraham Lincoln Song

If Abraham Lincoln was alive today

He'd be a liberal Democrat.

He stood for civil rights

And Big Government.

What do you think of that?

Dionne Warwick Sings Bacharach

Don't Make Me Over

Favorite Movie Quotes: Princess Caraboo

"Any man obsessed is to be pitied."

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I love my sprayer

I want to elect it Mayor

It would clean up City Hall

We need to elect it next fall.

Unidentified

Unidentified

Embossed: Echelberry, Extra Finish, Casey, Ill.

Favorite Movie Quotes: Desperado

"Everybody's killed-- someone's brother, someone's son, someone's father."

Babs Tino Sings Bacharach

Keep Away From Other Girls

The Calvin Coolidge Song

Calvin Coolidge was a weirdo and sphinx

His policies gave our economy the jinx.

He was not exactly a shaker and mover

He helped cause the Great Depression

The world got the wrong impression

And everyone blamed Herbert Hoover.