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Olympia, Washington

Postcard - Olympia, Washington

 

"Daniel J. Evans Library Building. This modern facility, housing seminar rooms and offices as well as up-to-the-minute library operations, is part of a 1000 acre campus on the Cooper Point Peninsula, five miles northwest of downtown Olympia."

Ah, back in the days when tuition for in-state students was less than $200 a quarter. It all became out of reach after Reagan, kids.

This card was handed to me in the spring of 1975, judging by the address. "Rena" was one of the many names used by Lynda Barry, the author of this missive. "Stella" and "Plex" were a couple other monikers for her. My trivia claim to fame in Cartoonland is that I knew Lynda Barry and Matt Groening before they knew each other.

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Red Dot on yellow curb

Favorite Movie Quotes: Inherit the Wind

"I say that you cannot administer a wicked law impartially. You can only destroy, you can only punish. And I warn you, that a wicked law, like cholera, destroys every one it touches. Its upholders as well as its defiers ... Can't you understand? That if you take a law like evolution and you make it a crime to teach it in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools? And tomorrow you may make it a crime to read about it. And soon you may ban books and newspapers. And then you may turn Catholic against Protestant, and Protestant against Protestant, and try to foist your own religion upon the mind of man. If you can do one, you can do the other. Because fanaticism and ignorance is forever busy, and needs feeding. And soon, your Honor, with banners flying and with drums beating we'll be marching backward, backward, through the glorious ages of that Sixteenth Century when bigots burned the man who dared bring enlightenment and intelligence to the human mind!"

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Red Dot with red dots

Postcard - Olympia, Washington

"The Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington. Evergreen's 1000 acre campus is located in a wooded area of rolling hills on the Cooper Point Peninsula, five miles northwest of downtown Olympia. The site includes 3,300 feet of undeveloped waterfront on Eld Inlet of Puget Sound."

Late 1970s.

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Elma, Washington

Congrads to our old friend, Bruce Chrislip!

SPACE Prize

Life Time Achievement &

Official Historian

Bruce Chrislip 

City Limits Gazette

Presented at the 

Small Press and Alternative Comics Expo (SPACE)

April 13, 2013

Columbus, Ohio 

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Summit Lake area, Washington

Morty Comix # 2554

Morty Comix # 2554 is one sheet. I was watching the movie Joe Kidd and thought I'd let the film pick the destination of this issue.

Early in the story, Dick Van Patten mentions the city of Chicago to Robert Duvall.

So naturally, I looked to see if Chicago had a street called Eastwood. It did. West Eastwood Avenue is a short street. I used Google's street view to look at it and found ...

 ... a company that provides music and entertainment for events like weddings! I enjoyed their website.

So, off to Chicago, Illinois for this little Morty Comix.

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Montesano, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Hollywood Ending

"Well, listen, here it's been fabulous, sunny and clear every day. Oh, listen, I've got to run, I'm having another skin cancer removed."

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Aberdeen, Washington

Postcard - Olympia, Washington

"St. Peter Hospital, 413 North Lilly Road, Olympia, Washington, Phone 491-9480. The modern 12-story hospital, operated by the Sisters of Providence, was completed in January, 1971. The first S.P.H. was built in 1887 where the Totem Pole now stands on the Capitol Campus. The second one opened in July, 1924, at 420 South Sherman. St. Peter Hospital, the only hospital in Thurston County, has served the people well for over 85 years."

The card has a 1979 postmark. My daughter and nephew were born here. A parent and grandparent died here. I spent a week as a guest while recovering from surgery almost 20 years ago. Lots of  other emotionally charged memories associated with this building.

Morty Comix # 2507 was hidden there.

The "totem pole" was actually a story pole by William Shelton and had to be taken down in 2010.

St. Pete's ceased being the sole hospital for Thurston County by the 1980s.

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The shades of gray we call home in coastal Washington

Chehalis River as it empties into Grays Harbor

Aberdeen

Morty Comix # 2553

Morty Comix # 2553 was placed inside a plastic bag that could be buttoned shut. Then it was hung on a blank signpost in a small patch of woods surrounded by urban Tumwater, Washington.

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Shelter made out of driftwood, Chehalis River, Aberdeen, Washington

Favorite Movie Quotes: Hang 'Em High

"Here, if that hangin' rope didn't kill you, maybe my coffee will."

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OK, so here's my question: How many Californians does it take to separate the girl sardines from the boy sardines? I bet that is quite a job. And what happens to the boy sardines? I didn't see any of them for sale.

Postcard - Olympia, Washington

"Olympia and Mt. Rainier, Washington. With Capitol Lake in the right foreground and majestic Mt. Rainier in the background Washington's State Capitol Buildings could not have a more beautiful setting, a short distance from Interstate 5 no visitor should miss these magnificently landscaped buildings."

I'm guessing 1978-1980. The card has written date of 12-29-80.

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Jonathan Winters, 1925-2013

Hey fellow Boomers, the amazing Jonathan Winters died today. The guy was a walking and talking cartoon story narrator, complete with comic sound effects. Another person from our Newave Comix upbringing we could look up to who let us know it was OK to unlock those creative gates in our minds.

It should come as no surprise Winters studied cartooning early in his career.

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Favorite Movie Quotes: Hamlet (1996)

"Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting,
That would not let me sleep: methought I lay
Worse than the mutines in the bilboes. Rashly,
And praised be rashness for it, let us know,
Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well,
When our deep plots do pall: and that should teach us
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will,--"

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Red Dot on Nadine

Morty Comix # 2552

 

Morty Comix # 2552 was inserted into a flippy menu at bakery on the westside of Olympia, Washington.

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The Fabs

Meeting notes, April 2013