pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Cats. The list of things that have gone missing finally hit the tipping point and the wife and I are going to go through this house top to bottom. Those hairy little miscreants play innocent but we know better ..........
wwkirk
Divine
Arguably the most iconic photo in jazz history, the 1958 snapshot of 57 legendary jazz musicians on the steps of a Harlem brownstone, titled A Great Day in Harlem.
Musicians depicted:
Red Allen | Buster Bailey | Count Basie | Emmett Berry | Art Blakey | Lawrence Brown | Scoville Browne | Buck Clayton | Bill Crump | Vic Dickenson | Roy Eldridge | Art Farmer | Bud Freeman | Dizzy Gillespie | Tyree Glenn | Benny Golson | Sonny Greer | Johnny Griffin | Gigi Gryce | Coleman Hawkins | J.C. Heard | Jay C. Higginbotham | Milt Hinton | Chubby Jackson | Hilton Jefferson | Joe Thomas | Wilbur Ware | Dickie Wells | George Wettling | Ernie Wilkins | Mary Lou Williams | Lester Young | Osie Johnson | Hank Jones | Jo Jones | Jimmy Jones | Taft Jordan | Max Kaminsky | Gene Krupa | Eddie Locke | Marian McPartland | Charles Mingus | Miff Mole | Thelonious Monk | Gerry Mulligan | Oscar Pettiford | Rudy Powell | Luckey Roberts | Sonny Rollins Jimmy Rushing | Pee Wee Russell | Sahib Shihab | Horace Silver | Zutty Singleton | Stuff Smith | Rex Stewart | Maxine Sullivan
Musicians depicted:
Red Allen | Buster Bailey | Count Basie | Emmett Berry | Art Blakey | Lawrence Brown | Scoville Browne | Buck Clayton | Bill Crump | Vic Dickenson | Roy Eldridge | Art Farmer | Bud Freeman | Dizzy Gillespie | Tyree Glenn | Benny Golson | Sonny Greer | Johnny Griffin | Gigi Gryce | Coleman Hawkins | J.C. Heard | Jay C. Higginbotham | Milt Hinton | Chubby Jackson | Hilton Jefferson | Joe Thomas | Wilbur Ware | Dickie Wells | George Wettling | Ernie Wilkins | Mary Lou Williams | Lester Young | Osie Johnson | Hank Jones | Jo Jones | Jimmy Jones | Taft Jordan | Max Kaminsky | Gene Krupa | Eddie Locke | Marian McPartland | Charles Mingus | Miff Mole | Thelonious Monk | Gerry Mulligan | Oscar Pettiford | Rudy Powell | Luckey Roberts | Sonny Rollins Jimmy Rushing | Pee Wee Russell | Sahib Shihab | Horace Silver | Zutty Singleton | Stuff Smith | Rex Stewart | Maxine Sullivan
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
There is a local news app that mentioned this so I went and tracked it down and downloaded a copy. It's an 8mm film someone found recently and it shows Hyde Park, NY about 1962. My brother was five and I was still two years away at that point. I'm guessing '62 as it looks like they just buried Eleanor Roosevelt. I was literally blown away, very emotional. You'll see a quick glimpse of the library sign - I grew up two doors down. The old Town Hall was directly across the street and was part of 'the row' of buildings. Most of it burned in '64 but there are family stories of FDR pulling himself up those steps to vote and of 'G-men' in our house'. No doubt Gram fed them and gave them coffee and cigarettes. Some of that stuff is still there unchanged - the post office, Vanderbilt's, Norrie Point, Mills mansion. All gilded age mansions given to the government in lieu of (at the time) income taxes.
You don't often get a literal peek back in time to your youth but here it is. I remember all that stuff !
You don't often get a literal peek back in time to your youth but here it is. I remember all that stuff !
pigfarmer
tall, thin, irritable
Had an errand to run yesterday and for once didn't mind the drive. Got to take the time to actually look at what you are passing through and admire it.
This place is steeped in colonial history. Control of the Hudson was critical and signs that say (never actually saw one) George Washington Slept Here might actually have meaning. Heavily wooded, beautiful but dark and slightly scary area. I followed a familiar secondary road that hugs the east side of the river - West Point is right there on the opposite side. That's about the spot they stretched a big mofo chain across to prevent the British from going upriver. Crossed at the Bear Mountain Bridge - not huge but stunning. Then we picked up the Palisades Parkway and took it straight down to Ft. Lee. Never did that before - I used to drive commercial service trucks and they aren't allowed on on parkways. I have to say it was absolutely beautiful and made a hellish ride into a ,dare I say, an enjoyable one. Been through Washington Heights many times on the east side and prefer not to even think about that ****hole, but from the west side it's gorgeous. This whole area probably looks not all that much different from when they were fighting over this area and I thought wow, these folks had some serious cajones to be doing any of that.
Bear Mtn Bridge
This place is steeped in colonial history. Control of the Hudson was critical and signs that say (never actually saw one) George Washington Slept Here might actually have meaning. Heavily wooded, beautiful but dark and slightly scary area. I followed a familiar secondary road that hugs the east side of the river - West Point is right there on the opposite side. That's about the spot they stretched a big mofo chain across to prevent the British from going upriver. Crossed at the Bear Mountain Bridge - not huge but stunning. Then we picked up the Palisades Parkway and took it straight down to Ft. Lee. Never did that before - I used to drive commercial service trucks and they aren't allowed on on parkways. I have to say it was absolutely beautiful and made a hellish ride into a ,dare I say, an enjoyable one. Been through Washington Heights many times on the east side and prefer not to even think about that ****hole, but from the west side it's gorgeous. This whole area probably looks not all that much different from when they were fighting over this area and I thought wow, these folks had some serious cajones to be doing any of that.
Bear Mtn Bridge
wwkirk
Divine
It's certainly beautiful up there. Particularly in autumn.Had an errand to run yesterday and for once didn't mind the drive. Got to take the time to actually look at what you are passing through and admire it.
This place is steeped in colonial history. Control of the Hudson was critical and signs that say (never actually saw one) George Washington Slept Here might actually have meaning. Heavily wooded, beautiful but dark and slightly scary area. I followed a familiar secondary road that hugs the east side of the river - West Point is right there on the opposite side. That's about the spot they stretched a big mofo chain across to prevent the British from going upriver. Crossed at the Bear Mountain Bridge - not huge but stunning. Then we picked up the Palisades Parkway and took it straight down to Ft. Lee. Never did that before - I used to drive commercial service trucks and they aren't allowed on on parkways. I have to say it was absolutely beautiful and made a hellish ride into a ,dare I say, an enjoyable one. Been through Washington Heights many times on the east side and prefer not to even think about that ****hole, but from the west side it's gorgeous. This whole area probably looks not all that much different from when they were fighting over this area and I thought wow, these folks had some serious cajones to be doing any of that.
Bear Mtn Bridge
wwkirk
Divine
I swear I didn't know that!
wwkirk
Divine
michael59
Celestial
I didn't either.
