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1955 Magirus-Deutz Mercur (GW-ÖL) at the Oldtimer Museum Rügen.
Until 1976 a regular fire truck (TLF 15), then converted into a oil removel truck. The equipment box were replaced with a bed to carry oil barriers and a dinghy. It served until 1993.
Taxiing for departure.
Reregistered VP-BNN 27-Jun-03,
then N934DF 16-Jun-05,
exported back to Bermuda 30-Oct-06 as VP-BKI,
then reregistered M-PBKI 13-Dec-10,
then N504ST 23-Oct-15,
then N400JZ 27-Mar-19.
Wow! So, I got ANOTHER Selfie Snaps Sasha for a Secret Santa I was in. Then, I got HMNI Cameron as an early Christmas present. Then got VEE (AAAAHHHH!!!), the 5-pack, and all of Metallic Madness (except Raya) on Christmas plus 3/5 of the fashion packs and 5/6 of the shoefies. Plus Selfie Stick Jade. Then, I received Study Abroad Jade from my boyfriend (different guy then from my birthday, long story). We went out to eat and then stopped at Walmart and picked up the Photobooth and the Study Abroad case which went down to $15. Then we decided to head over to TRU and price match Study Abroad Sasha, Fierce Fitness Cloe and Jade, Big Cloe, the last Shoefie pack I needed, and MM Raya. It's been a good few days but now I'm almost drained of money again. Worth it? I still have fourteen dolls to go to complete this season.
One morning and afternoon solargraphy by rotating horizontal camera each hour for 30 degree (1 hour angle) counterclockwise. A negative view.
Camera: 2 jar lids
Paper: Kodak Polymax RC, 8 cm in diameter
Exposure: from 10:00 till 15:15, then camera rotated for 15 degree to finalize the recording. 2018-05-19.
Developer: old weak D-76, fixed
Scanner: CanoScan 9950f
The Lovebird siblings recently born in our Family...The puppies of Blu & Luce!
Photographed in the garden with my reflex Canon EOS 250D that always gives me great satisfaction, especially for the true colours.
Shot few days ago, at the age of 40 days around when they just had completed the first moulting but could not fly yet.
We are carrying on the flying lessons and just yesterday they begun with some short timid flights...soon they will become acrobats and quit the baby food to focus on seeds and lots of fruits and vegetables...
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(Entered in the #GREEN topic on Flickr Social ), then selected & manually explored for this TakeOver Green Day on Oct. 27 2022 with the absolute hit list n. 15.
Then selected as cover image of the "Global card" appearing in the login Flickr home worldover for many weeks and as cover of the new initiative "Weekly Snapshot" from October 28. My best thanks to Flickr for having chosen my photo but also to the 1,8 millions people who liked it and contributed to diffuse it virally !
⭐ EXPLORED ⭐ 27.10.2022: www.flickr.com/photos/white-angel/52116287291/in/explore-... Selected for the "Green" TakeOver Day.
Selected as cover of the editorial "Weekly Snapshot with Flickr Social" in the Flickr Blog, Oct. 28 2022
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On Fluidr: www.fluidr.com/explore/interesting/2022/10/27 # 15
(1 in a multiple picture album)
Do not miss Kolob Canyon if you go to Zion National Park. It is away from the main part of the park where most of the folks go. You will need to drive back to I-15, then north a bit to find it. But it will be well worth your while.
Transferred to USA 24-Mar-93 as N421AX,
reregistered C-FABP 29-Nov-07,
then N27VR 30-Oct-15,
then N479AG 25-Aug-20.
Registration cancelled 2-Jul-22.
On July 31, 1956, we boarded the Grace Line's SS "Santa Rosa" at La Guaira, the port that serves the Venezuelan capital of Caracas.
It was my first trip abroad. Naturally, I don't remember a thing about it, so I am glad to have found these slides. Unfortunately, they didn't age well and developed a red cast. It took considerable effort to make them look this good using Photo Shop. Actually, considering they were taken almost 70 years ago, it's fitting that they should have a markedly vintage look.
We disembarked in New York on August 8 after meandering across the Caribbean, calling at ports such as Curaçao in the Netherland Antilles and the colonial city of Cartagena de Indias in Colombia.
The twin towers and dome in the background on the left belong to the Cathedral of San Pedro Claver in Cartagena. Here is a link to photos I took there when Frank and I visited in 2014: www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=40595948%40N00&sort=da...
From left to right are my father (47), my nanny and I, my sister (12) and brother (15), then in the forth form at the Choate School and looking every bit the suave preppie.
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The Cathedral of San Pedro Claver was first built in 1575, destroyed by Sir Francis Drake in 1586, and rebuilt in 1602.
It was eventually named for a Spanish-born Jesuit priest, Pedro Claver, who arrived in Cartagena in 1610. Cartagena was a hub of the slave trade, with over 10,000 slaves arriving in the city each year, most arriving from West Africa.
Father Claver was not in the city long before he began dedicating himself to ministering the slaves.
During the 40 years he served in Cartagena, he personally baptized over 300,000 slaves and worked to ensure that they were treated humanely. He often would meet the slave ships and provide food, medicine, and care for all those who were ill or malnourished.
The scope of Father Claver's ministry was not known until after his death. He was canonized in 1888 and was the patron saint of slaves. Many black descendants of slaves make the pilgrimage to Cartagena to honor Saint Pedro Claver.
Those visiting the inside of the cathedral can see Father Claver's remains in the altar, and the church contains interesting furnishings. It is also possible to visit the home of Saint Pedro Claver which has been converted into a museum and is located just next door to the church.
Don't miss the lovely quiet courtyard of the church.
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The Blüemlisalp is a massif of the Bernese Alps, in the territory of the municipalities of Kandersteg and Reichenbach im Kandertal.
Its main peaks are:
Blüemlisalphorn (3,664 m)
Wyssi Frau (3,650 m) 46°29′35″N 7°47′0″E
Morgenhorn (3,623 m) 46°29′46″N 7°47′28″E
The entire massif is contained within the canton of Berne, and forms a northern extension to the main range of the Bernese alps. To the west, it is connected with the Doldenhorn group via the Oeschinenhorn and Fründenhorn peaks; to the east, it is continued by the Gspaltenhorn.
Ascent is from the Blüemlisalphütte (2,840 m), over the glacier, past the Wildi Frau (3,260 m).
The Blüemlisalp forms a ridge of great height, cut away in precipices on the southeast side, surmounted by four principal peaks, in the following order, reckoning from east to west: Morgenhorn (3,623 m), Weisse Frau (3,650 m), the Blüemlisalphorn (3,661 m) and the Oeschinenhorn (3,486 m). To the southwest of the last peak, and between it and the Doldenhorn, is a minor summit — the Fründenhorn (3,369 m). In front of the main ridge, as seen from the northwest, e. g. from the Dündenhorn, are seen three minor peaks which project as steep islets of rock from the great glacier-fields that cover that side of the mountain. These are the Wildi Frau (3,260 m), the Ufem Stock (3,221 m), and the Blümlisalp Rothhorn (3,297 m).
The two main feeders of the Blüemlisalp Glacier (German: Blüemlisalpgletscher) flow downwards through the openings between the three last-named summits, but a short branch from the ice-stream that descends between the Wildi Frau and the Ufem Stock turns to the north, and flows into the head of the Kiental.
The highest peak was ascended in 1860 by Leslie Stephen, accompanied by Liveing and Stone, with Melchior Anderegg and Pierre Simond of Argentière as guides. Starting from the chalets of the Oeschinenalp at 2 a.m., they reached the ridge near the Dündengrat at 4.15. Then mounting over snowfields, and the glacier lying between the Wilde Frau and the Ufem Stock, they passed behind, or south, of the latter summit, and gained the depression between the Blüemlisalp Rothhorn and the highest peak at 6 a.m. They finally reached the top 2 hours laters, Stephen wrote:
"We reached the top at 8 a.m., and had a grand view down the cliffs to the Tschingel Glacier, as well as a very fine view over the Swiss plains, and a general panorama resembling that from the Altels, returning easily to Kandersteg by 2 p.m."
[Source: Wikipedia]
Canon EOS 60D
Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM
Aperture: f/8
Exposure time: 1/400s
Focal length: 75mm
ISO Speed: 100
Processed with PS CS5
So this photo has a story. This is southbound Reading and Northern train NRFF (North Reading Fast Freight) on its way back south from Pittston. Leading the way is drab SD40-2 3059 still in its NS black (EMD blt. May 1979 as high hood SOU 3327) while sharp looking SD50 5018 acquired from CSXT (EMD blt. Mar. 1984 as SBD 8550) trails. They are at MP 120.9 on the RBMN mainline crossing the new bridge (opened Feb. 2020) that connects two former CNJ lines that never connected from north to the west. To read more about the bridge project check out this link: www.railwayage.com/mw/rn-opens-new-bridge/ They are about to pass over the hand throw switch at Jim Thorpe Jct. (that connects with the three mile long Jim Thorpe branch in foreground that extends to Packerton Jct.) and pass the division post indicating the start of RBMN's Reading Division.
So now that you know the technical this is not the shot I wanted. In fact when we left home around 11 AM my intention was to drive straight to White Haven for the northbound run in perfect light with 5018 leading. Alas Connecticut traffic was nothing short of horrifying and it was impossible to find a way across the Hudson River. So a when we left RI Google said I'd arrive at 3:45 PM, then quickly it said 4:15 then 5...but I thought I'd still make the train...but by the time maps said 6 PM I gave up and realized I'd get nothing. Instead it was 7 PM...twice as long as planned, when we finally made it to Jim Thorpe.
I wanted to at least say I saw and shot something....so I cranked up the ISO and settled for monochrome which was appropriate given the leader anyway. They curled across the Lehigh River almost exactly at sunset, but the sun was gone about 15 min earlier thanks to the rolling hills even on this evening two days shy of the longest day of the year. Oh, and to add to the adventure...not 10 min before getting this shot I heard my gf scream 'Dave!' and when I came running I saw a big old fat black bear ambling about in the woods no more than two car lengths from us!
Definitely a day I won't soon forget...and all I've got to show for it is this shot...appropriately dark given my angry and frustrated mood while shooting it...but hey, at least we saw a bear...and it didn't eat us!
Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
Friday June 18, 2021
Getting the firehose treatment while taxiing to depart rwy 10.
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then F-HXRG 17-Jul-15.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA
it begins with me!
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Made 9am, 2012-12-15 (then i reset the camera time stamp) lol
8 shots, camera mounted on slider + tripod.
From back to front moving the slider in 2mm steps.
Fujinon 55-200mm lens added the extension tube MCEX16 (16mm).
Ligthing: Yongnuo Macro LED Ring Flash MR58 set to full Power.
LR: exposure +3.10, presence +35, sharpness +70 - radius 1,4 - details +15
Then I synchronize all shots and export the files as PSD.
In PS (CS6): Photomerge + Auto- Blend
Dodge and burn + Level correction.
Finally sharpening in 2 steps: Frequency separation + High-pass.
In Edinburgh the present service 15 hardly bears much resemblance to that which used to serve the city. The route goes back to the 1920's when tram service 15 worked between Portobello and Fairmilehead, the bus service which took over in 1954 extended east to Joppa. In 1965 it worked a full 7 day timetable requiring 11 buses - 10 from Marine and a further part-day duty from Tollcross. It provided a useful direct link from Portobello to the south west of Edinburgh - now missing as the present day service no longer serves the seaside suburb. And this is particularly felt today as Lothian service 26 struggles to cope with full loads in summer.
Leyland Titan 541 is seen in 1971 on south St Andrew Street; its driver known as 'The Milkman' like many others then was long-service; note the detailed 6-point information given - much more than any other city outside of London. However, as the 15 then deviated from Bruntsfield Place to serve Gillespie's and Strathearn. I do recall suggesting 'Whitehouse Loan' be inserted to replace 'Piershill' as I considered that not necessary. Note coming alongside is an Eastern Scottish Bristol 'Lodekka' en-route to Rosewell.
The virgin shall be with child, and bear a son, and they shall call His name Immanuel, which is translated, God with us. (Matthew 1:23).
This is a beautiful scripture and since that first Christmas 2000 years ago, the assurance that God is with His people has taken on new meaning. Before Jesus was born, the Israelites were assured that even in judgement they could have hope because God was with them (Isaiah 8:8,10). Yet they didn't know God as fully as we can today.
We have a great advantage because through reading the New Testament we can see the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:6). And we can sense His presence in all situations of life because He is made real to us by the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:10-16).
Whenever I need reassurance that God is with me, I think about Jesus as He is revealed in the New Testament, I recall how He took little children in His arms and blessed them (Matthew 19:13-15), then I think of His crucifixion, which reminds me of all He endured to be my Savior (Matthew 27: 27-54). Finally, I reflect on His promise, I am with you always, even to the end of the age (Matthew 28:20).
The birth of Jesus gave new significance to the name Immanuel, which means God with us (Matthew 1:23). Because He lived among us, died for us, and sent His Spirit to indwell us, we can rejoice!!
So to make a really long story short-- God came to live with us so we could live with Him...!
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This bus was new to now defunct operator Armchair in January of 2003. It was then passed to Metroline, and later withdrawn.
The 172 came up for tender, and Abellio won the contract with existing buses, which was fine, except they didn't have spare buses to use. So they acquired this bus along with 14 of its sisters, refurbished them, and then used them on the 172, from March of 2011 until about this time last year.
But what if Abellio had never won the 172? What if London Central had retained it at New Cross with existing buses? This is something I've often thought about. The Y reg PVLs, being 10 years old and Euro 2, probably wouldn't have fit the bill. But Go-Ahead did have a number of spare buses, some of which were leased, that they could've used.
If we stick with PVLs, going over the numbers: '273-280 would've been available after the loss of the 35 and 40, so that's 8. Then out of '260-271, 9 would've been available, which would've covered the needed 7 (I think) for a total of 15. Then the older PVLs, including its former allocation, could've acted as refurbishment cover across the network.
There's also the possibility that '356-361 could've been retained in some way for the contract, though that's only 6 buses.
Then I suppose that allocation of 02 reg PVLs would've lasted until 2016, assuming no 2-year contract extension, and the route most likely would've been retained or lost with hybrids, depending on how TfL was feeling.
The bus in the photo is former 9833, and now with Pimp My Tour London. In case it isn't obvious, it has an open top now. I got a really nice shot of this as it was pulling out at the perfect angle. Unfortunately it was spoiled by a passing car.
Well.... the year 2008 seems to have just zipped past...and presto! its already 2009!!
So many things have happened that it may be hard for many of us to just brush aside this past year.... however, as fleeting life is..time doesn't wait for anyone.
Why, it seems only yesterday that I bought my first jeans....guess I was 14 or 15 then... :-)
Here is wishing you all a Happy New Year !! The year gone by was when I started doing some serious amateur photography and though it seems I have learnt some, but its still miles to go....In days to come I really hope to learn a lot more with the help of my dear old and new friends here....and quickly!! :-)
Cheero!
A lovely machine I snapped on an away day with work yesterday down at Bruntingthorpe Proving Ground near Leicester.
I had to get out of bed at 03.15 then catch 3 trains and 1 bus to get there and catch 1 bus and 2 trains back - it was a good day and well worth the time.
Replacing an earlier scanned photo with a better version, plus Topaz DeNoise AI 03-Apr-23.
Who remembers V-Bird? They only lasted just over a year, from Sep-03 to Oct-04. Not a bad livery though!
In the early days of Airbus, they didn't use the F-WWxx test registrations when aircraft were destined for a French company. This one was originally built as an A320-211 and first flown as F-GJVV in Feb-95.
The aircraft was delivered to ILFC International Lease Finance Corporation and leased to Air Inter in Mar-95. Air Inter was renamed Air Inter Europe in Jan-96 and the company was merged into Air France in Sep-97. In Oct-97 the aircraft was upgraded to A320-212 standard and sub-leased to Skyservice Airlines (Canada) as C-GTDB.
It was wet-leased to Airtours International Airlines during many European summer seasons, between Apr/Oct-99, Apr/Oct-00, Apr/Nov-01. Airtours was renamed MyTravel Airways at the end of Apr-02 and the summer lease continued between Apr/Oct-02. The aircraft was returned to the lessor in Oct-03.
The following day it was leased to Dutchbird as PH-VAD and sub-leased to V-Bird Airlines. The lease was transferred to V-Bird in Mar-04. Sadly, they didn't last and the aircraft was repossessed in early Oct-04 when V-Bird ceased operations.
It was re-registered N601LF and stored at Winnipeg, MB, Canada. In Feb-05 the aircraft was leased to Germanwings as D-AKNX and returned to the lessor in Apr-08. A few days later it was leased to Rossiya - Russian Airlines as EI-DXY.
The aircraft was returned to the lessor in Sep-14 and stored at Tallin, Estonia. This is where it gets messy! It was sold to DART Ukrainian Airlines as UR-CNU in Mar-15, then wet-leased to Cham Wings Airlines (Syria) in Apr-15. In Oct-15 DART sold the aircraft to Khors Aircompany (Ukraine). The lease to Cham Wings continued with the aircraft being re-registered YK-BAA in Nov-15.
The aircraft appears to have been sold to Meraj Arlines (Iran) in Feb-21 as EP-AJJ. Now 29.5 years old it continues in service. Updated 11-Sep-24.
What a glorious day that will be, amen?!
VERSE OF THE DAY 11/15 Revelations 11:15 Then the seventh angel blew his trumpet, and there were loud voices in heaven, saying, "The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever."
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Seldom does a foreground subject give such a sense of place--so we hurried up and snapped. This corner store has since been taken over by music and game dealer The Exchange. And since we bring up the "sense of place," this is as good a shot as any to discuss the "place."
Spanish-style building with terra cotta exterior at southwest corner of Coventry and Lancashire Roads dates back to 1927, and was initially owned by John P. Burke (listed Cleveland Blue Book of 1931 as living at 11118 St. Clair Ave.). He named the building after his six-year-old daughter, Betty. One of the more distinctive commercial buildings in Cleveland Heights, it is an informal "landmark" that we hope will someday become an official landmark. It was designed by Ontario-born, Cleveland-raised architect, engineer and inventor William Stanley Ferguson. General contractor was the R. Hansen Construction Company, and the build cost $230,000.00. According to co-photographer Christopher Busta-Peck, whose Cleveland Heights work is all over Flickr, terra cotta was fabricated by the South Amboy Terra Cotta Co.; the exterior has changed very little throughout history, except possibly for some frost or ice damage. The original corner tenant was Ivanhoe Savings Co., which opened January 14, 1928. Aside from storefronts, the interior housed the Coventry Recreation Co., a bowling alley, in the early 1960s, and until 2009, the Dobama Playhouse.
Coventry Village is an anomaly in Northeast Ohio. It is a north-south several blocks-long commercial district built around a streetcar route beginning in the 1910s, though the street itself dates back to at least 1852. What is now Cleveland Heights
was an outpost of Connecticut settlers known as the Western Reserve. Ezra H. Lacy began quarrying next to what later became Rock Court 300' to the east of what is now Coventry Road, in 1834. Coventry Road was the mostly due north route connecting the North Shaker Union Settlement (the western part of what is now Shaker Lakes) to Mayfield Road before it was ever dedicated as a public street; it never seems to have gone through any one person's land. Once the streetcar was in, the idea was this: drop off your laundry/mending, get a cup of coffee and take the streetcar to work. When the streetcar drops you off, pick up the prescription, pick up the dry cleaning, and buy fresh dairy, meat and produce before heading home. Most of the construction took place in the 1910s and 1920s; the immediate area began to attract Jewish neighbors and business owners around 1926, according to literature provided by the City. They were served by synagogues Anshe Emeth (Mayfield Road just east of Lee) and later by Anshe Marmaresher (Lancashire Road). But the Coventry neighborhood for decades has linked a rough area northeast of Mayfield Road, and a relatively affluent area a block to the south of Euclid Heights Boulevard. Northwest of Coventry lie the Lake View (nondenominational) and Mayfield Cemeteries (Jewish). The nicer areas are the Euclid Heights subdivision (southwest) and the Forest Hills Allotment (to the southeast), with Coventry Road being the dividing line.
When we began spending a great deal of time here, both fun and working (1981 through 1984), those of us who lived and worked here were collecting material for novels that would never be written. None of us imagined ourselves as the source material we were. In the 1980s, for example, we called Coventry a "sea of madness."
An epicenter of culture of Cleveland was the Arabica coffeehouse in Coventryard Mall at 2785 Euclid Heights Boulevard. The walls showed framed artwork over rough cream stucco, the ceilings exposed ductwork, over disgusting but highly-durable brown indoor-outdoor carpeting. The ambience was 1980s bohemian, club kid and goth. We attributed the "sea of madness" to the small but influential contingent of creatively- and chaotic-minded teenagers and young and middle-aged adult exhibitionists and others absorbed in cliques based on age and how they looked and dressed, and living out gossip about a range of behavior from personal upheavals to petty dramas. On the positive side, socially, there was no local color or flavor like it; with a heavily artistic mindset, it was a proving ground for the talents of those of us who lived and worked here or frequently visited. Deborah Harry, though describing colleagues in New York City, describes young people of the day who were like us as "living art." (Ms. Harry, too, has visited the area, and like many contemporaries, signed a wall at Record Revolution. Janet Macoska took several photos of her at locations at and near Coventry Road in 1978.)
There was also substance abuse and experimentation. When the legal beer age was 18 (and, in the 1980s, 19), Coventry Beverage and Pizza was notorious for underage sales of tobacco and alcohol. Irv's Deli had the same reputation; the City curtailed their alcohol privileges as Irv's management found it impossible, or simply did not bother, to keep order. The police department, though normally leaving us alone, reportedly maintained surveillance through the window of an apartment across Euclid Heights Boulevard. Surely marijuana was transacted but--perhaps to minimize trouble--these transactions were discreet, or at least not out in the open. Curfew in the City was 10:30 p.m. through age 15, then midnight for ages 16 and 17, which at the time was generous. Even in midsummer, 10:30 p.m. is well more than an hour after dark.
Middle-aged, mostly well-educated (or well-read) white men nursing a cup of coffee and smoking three packs of cigarettes a day, day in, day out, playing chess in the rear of Arabica looked like the collection of patients in the day room in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest." There was a well-used and well-hidden brass-faced cigarette machine at the rear, which nurtured the burgeoning nicotine habit of many a 15- and 16-year old hipster sneaking back "to use the restroom." Tobacco use was not demonized then as it is now. You could smoke almost anywhere until about 1990: in elevators, at work, and certainly in Arabica. But the men in the back, along with Arabica employees, were the "core," very much their own all-male clique, and they had no shortage of intellect, if challenged in life skills. The fashion of the day? Thrift store frumpy. The coffeehouse rank and file employees were hipsters and--no surprise--thrift store chic. They ran the gamut of musicians, club rats, and fine arts and liberal arts students. We presume that many of the unemployed or underemployed "core" chess-players lived with and off of family, or were receiving social security disability. They took the game seriously enough to bring timers. One of them, Calvin Blocker was, in his youth, a massively gifted prodigy, and who as a young adult earned the status of international chess master. Requiring stamina for his many tournaments, Blocker was uniquely a well-kempt health nut. There was no indication that any of the rear denizens of Arabica were independently wealthy, though many appeared not to work (or were not employable) and, though obviously middle-aged, were also well below retirement age. We'll ballpark the number of "core" members at two dozen. They were basically holdovers from when Coventry was once a thriving area of Jewish store owners and neighborhood residents transitioning, in the 1950s and 1960s, into a center of east side bohemianism and youth culture. This was a unique group of men, and without them, Coventry would not have been Coventry. (This is to say that both the social tolerance and the questioning mindset for which Jewish culture in the West is renowned made this possible.) It is doubtful that any of these men--middle-aged and elderly 30 years ago--survive. Well, perhaps one of them does. (See above photo.)
One of the more colorful men of the group, Sid Gold, passed away around 1998. In 2000, his brother, author Herbert Gold, penned a story about Sid, continually returning to the theme of Sid's lifelong, desultory work on his own "novel:" "The King of the Cleveland Beatniks" (excerpt at link): www.sfgate.com/magazine/article/THE-KING-OF-THE-CLEVELAND.... The "novel," in fact, was Sid's real life. At least we think that was the point. We saw Sid everywhere on Coventry--he was always good for a smile and nod or "hello"-- but only met him once, and he was self-assured, mild-mannered, and outgoing, with an intensity to him underneath--ready with a word. He was an Arabica and Irv's Deli denizen, and was also a familiar face in old Harvey Pekar "American Splendor" comics (including the cover of the first issue). From Dr. Joy Marshall, an acquaintance: "Sid was an old-time, socialist Coventry figure. He was a really interesting intellectual." www.cleveland.com/mycleveland/index.ssf/2012/12/dr_joy_ma.... Sid's brother writes that Sid told a newcomer to his table (presumably at Arabica) that he was "semi-retired," and while Herbert wondered, Semi from what? one of his friends called him sharply to order: "Sid! Your novel! You're working on it." Another acquaintance, Ted Paliobeis, a conservative who knew him well, sat through one of Sid's collectivist tirades. Throwing up his hands, Ted retorted: "But Sid...you own stock!"
As local writer Bert Stratton described him: "Sid was a Coventry cowboy — a regular in Harvey Pekar’s comic books. Sid didn’t have a job and played a lot of chess."
A local figure who befriended us was Jim Murray. Not a chess player, Jimmy was a singer/songwriter, a witty storyteller, and huge Beatles and country rock fan. He grew up in Euclid, clashed with his conservative folks about his hair length, and started hanging out on Coventry in the mid-1960s when "every night was like Friday night." He played and got two of his songs on a Human Beinz album--unfortunately not the one with "Nobody But Me" on it--a huge national hit--having met some of the band members in a music store. Jim also headed local country-rock outfit Natchez Trace, who on May 29-31, 1969 opened for Neil Young at La Cave at 10615 Euclid Avenue. Natchez Trace, scheduled only to open Young's show, already knew all of Young's songs, forward and backwards. So in addition to opening, they played and sang Young's backing band Crazy Horse's parts through Young's shows over three nights. Crazy Horse, though appearing on the bill, for some unknown reason, did not back Young on the La Cave dates. (Natchez Trace's original lineup was Bob Kruck (g), Bruce Kentner (b), Ben Cavell (d) and Murray (g).) Jim told us that he had similarly accompanied Steve Miller. Jim left the Trace and was among a number of other Cleveland-area musicians who moved to the Los Feliz/Silverlake area of Los Angeles to try to get "discovered." He told us that while in California, he encountered some of the young female followers of the homicidal cult, the Family, and he tried to talk sense to them but, as Jim ruefully recalled their chat, "they had murder in their hearts." This was during the 1970-71 trial of four of them. Success eluded Jim in L.A., though, and he returned home, playing coffeehouses and taverns into his sixties--just him and his black Gibson acoustic--and unfortunately never reaped financial rewards. Jim was a major league talent and in spite of his mostly sunny exterior, he felt unappreciated and was bitter about how his career turned out. We admired him for his purism and devotion to his craft--he was a total pro--but he dismissed us as naive (in so many words, and with good intentions), and advised us not to follow his path.
Just as likable and equally talented as Jim Murray, though not as well known by us, was the late John Bassette, whose own career saw the same predicament. He, too, held and played a guitar as if he was born with it. Bassette did release several albums, received airplay on WMMS, and became better known than Jim, but only locally.
Of more prominent note, the late Camille Satullo told the story that waking up after spending the night at a friend's apartment on Coventry Road, she heard the singing of Mama Cass first thing in the morning. Cass had the most distinctive voice in popular music, heard all over the radio and television as a beloved singer in The Mamas and the Papas. To Camille's shock, she was hearing Mama Cass singing in person (presumably through the window of a neighboring unit). As a member of the Triumvirate, Cass had also played at the Euclid Avenue club, La Cave, in 1963. She returned for other shows years later, after the Mamas and Papas had peaked. "That was Coventry," Ms. Satullo explained.
The stereotype of Coventry has for decades been hippies and ex-hippies, but neither were prevalent by the 1980s. The Coventry-Lancashire street sign on the edge of the photo--rendered in psychedelic colors-shows that the local merchants and City try to perpetuate this image. More common were teenagers emulating siblings or aunts and uncles who themselves had since grown out of hippiedom, believing that they were visiting a mini-"Greenwich Village" (keeping with the east coast flavor of the area) or "Haight-Ashbury of the Midwest." Atop the Arabica "core" were: the heavily-costumed and made up creative class of high school and college students plus others, such as us, in less intense and attention-grabbing gradations of "offbeat;" college and professional radio people and members of local bands; more mainstream students (mostly Heights and Shaker) who came to people-watch; mostly liberal neighborhood residents; elderly Jewish people from when the shops and immediate neighborhood were largely Jewish; college professors and teachers; and other professionals who dealt in information such as journalists, physicians, lawyers and architects, plus and gays and lesbians in these and other walks of life who blended in well. Much of the staff of the then-revered radio station WMMS lived within walking distance of Coventry Road in the 1970s and 80s, for example, according to its former program director John Gorman. This was the assembled crowd on weekends and busy weekday summer nights. There were relatively few black people in the crowd (very few Asians or Latinos), but Coventry was highly racially and gay and lesbian tolerant, if not welcoming. Nearly any form of intolerance was unthinkable except, truth be told, intolerance of a lack of hipness.
The costumes the characters wear in Eighties John Hughes films such as "Sixteen Candles" (1984), "Pretty in Pink" (1986) or in "Valley Girl" (1983) (dir. Martha Coolidge) were dead on to how young people hanging out on Coventry looked and dressed, especially the more offbeat characters. The hardcore punk look through the Eighties is best shown elsewhere, such as in the documentary, "Another State of Mind" (1982). Many were surly and emulated the London "street punk" (which is to say, unemployable) look seen in 1980s London souvenir postcards.
Coventry in the 1980s was loosely similar to the campus area as might be found in Columbus or Ann Arbor, but without the "bratty privileged" students/"townies" division, and was not in any sense limited to college students and professors. Most people involved in Coventry Village--working there, shopping, or just hanging out--were neither. There were very few social divisions except age and interests. The Pick-and-Pay employees, for example, unionized with UFCW Local 880 at the time, were typically ethnic white blue collar high school graduates, often Catholic school products, not artistic, and were more likely to be found drinking shots and beers at The Saloon at Coventry and Mayfield. (We worked at Russo's Stop n' Shop on Cedar Hill, and later at The Record Exchange. The timing wasn't right for Pick 'n Pay. It was a challenge to find any entry-level work.) The Saloon was also full of mechanics, body men and the like who ran the garages in the auto dealerships a half-mile east on Mayfield Road. The Turkey Ridge Tavern was more offbeat and eccentric than The Saloon. Before our era, it was Chez Moi, Chester's (and briefly "Diane's"); after we left town, it became the Winking Lizard. A great many families in the area were blue collar whites who moved to Cleveland Heights to be in a good school district. Coventry counts as close neighbors Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland State University and John Carroll University; occasionally we would meet people from Kent State or Baldwin-Wallace. On breaks from college, we worked and also spent a lot of time here.
There was also an outlaw past. Chief Edward Gaffney formed a bureau of four plainclothes detectives dedicated to stopping drug dealing, and they made frequent raids on the apartments in and around Coventry Road in the early 1970s. This was the first suburban narcotics unit in the nation. They were middle-aged WWII and Korean War vets and not undercover. In retrospect they were fearless, because they had dangerous people gunning for them. Certainly few young people on Coventry appreciated the police, to say the least. But the bikers and dealers "gunning" for the police were Sunday school kids compared to Nazis in Battle of the Bulge. Chief Martin Lentz eventually disbanded the squad. Bikers roaring up and down Euclid Heights Blvd and up and down Coventry Road frequented the C-Saw Cafe' (at different times, Coventry Audio and Video, Big Fun and most recently Jimmy John's), and The Saloon (formerly The Pepper Pot Lounge and Bar). C-Saw's manager (William Sobo) shot a young customer in 1975 (Brian Hacker), who died almost immediately, and he was not prosecuted because circumstances showed likely self-defense.
Rock Court connected Hampshire Road to Euclid Heights Boulevard from at least the turn of the twentieth century until about 1979. It was, as mentioned, an old quarry 300' to the east of and parallel to Coventry Road. A wall of the former Dean Dairy garage still retains the hill of soil and quarried rock formations, plus what remains of the roadway itself. Rock Court contained about a dozen plain, Victorian frame houses, probably built for construction workers when Coventry was first developed, In the decade before demolition, the houses were rented by offbeat and artistic tenants and by then this housing stock was well-past its better days. I noticed a bunch of found objects arranged on the ground and in trees, in particular a toilet functioning as a planter, and a vacuum hose hanging high in a tall, old oak. This was obviously some kind of art, but as a preteen, the meaning of it went over my head (and still does). In hindsight it was a poor man's dadaist art installation (with artists on drugs).
Evictions and tear downs of the Rock Court houses began to make room for the expanded Pick and Pay (later Medic Drug, later Marc's) parking lot. The tenants protested for months, which made the news. The owners of Pick and Pay had been purchasing these houses over the years, and with the city not opposing demolition, there was nothing the tenants could do once their leases ran out, especially after the landlords evicted and cut off water service. These tenants, once they figured out that the adjoining grocery store owner was everyone's landlord, frankly should not have been surprised at all. Two houses not part of the old Pick and Pay assemblage remain (if there appear to be more than two, they have Hampshire Road addresses) and Rock Court is now a hundred-foot-long unpaved dead-end street off Hampshire Road that is used by these two homeowners.
But back to the photo: In the 1970s, this corner shop was a clothing store, Generation Gap, then HQ for the Ted Kennedy presidential campaign of 1980, then Vidstar Systems from about 1983 until 2010. At last visit, it was "The Exchange," an outgrowth of since-closed CD/Game Exchange (Record Exchange) two blocks north at 1780. A link to a photo from about 1971 (Generation Gap) follows: images.ulib.csuohio.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clevehts/id/2008
What appears to have been the land where the Burke residence used to stand, on the south side of St. Clair Avenue, is now a pediatric hospital.
Because the magnificent work on this building should never be lost to history, we pass on the names of subcontractors, at least for the bank buildout, included George Huberty Co. (fixtures), Kilroy Structural Steel Co., Van Dorn Iron Works (vault equipment and steel cabinets), York Safe & Lock Co. (vault door) John Hanlon (plumbing), Ohio Window Glass Co., Empire Sheet Metal Works (signage) and W.H. Splete Co. (painting and decoration).
All apparently pooled their resources for a newspaper ad for the bank placed around the time of opening.
Significant credit for the architectural, ownership. tenant and buildout information belongs to David H. Nadzam, and also to author and historian Marian J. Morton. Gratitude also to the late Camille Satullo for sharing her story, and also to Phillip S. Turner for his recollections of Neil Young's shows at La Cave.
Can you say... vintage? This kit is like a cat: it seems to have several lives! It is a Dougram Desertgunner, released in 1985 or 1986 by Revell under their hodgepodge Robotech label as "Sand Stalker" - and this one is STILL alive, even though it sees it third(!) build now. Tough piece...
The first time I built it it was OOB in the Revell livery, but you can imagine how it looked like when I tinkered it together enthusiatically at the age of about 15... Then, in the wake of improvement, I re-did the kit in a winter livery several years later, hiding the worst building flaws under fake snow.
I recently "found" the kit again, in pieces but complete, together with two Dougram Goliaths, and spontaneously decided to revive this bizarre and retro-looking mecha. The Desertgunner is a favorite of mine - I have tried to find a NIB Takara or Revell kit for some years, but they seem to have become really rare in 1:72 scale, so you have to use what you have at hand with as little loss as possible. True antique restoration!
For its third life on stage, I decided to renovate the personal snow livery status. Firstly I think it looks more interesting than the bleak ochre desert look, maybe with some signs of wear and lots of dust, then there are still flaws (and some repair) to hide, so the snow cover is a neat option.
As a first step, the old fake snow cover was scrubbed off - as well as the coat of dust the kit caught during the past 15 years. Revamping was done sparsely. I removed some parts I added years ago (e. g. additional rocket launchers), so that the kit was back to basics again. The only changes I made then are scratch-built equipment racks alongside the middle turret section, with some stuff from the junk box inside, plus some details like ladders and steps all around the hull, an IR searchlight next to the gun, the anti-aircraft machine gun on top, and some new and more delcate antennae. I also added two new figures because the orginal ones got unfortunately lost - they show how huge the whole F44D actually would be (and how ridiculously lousy its armament for its size is...)!
For camouflage I just re-used the last paining I did almost 20 years ago: a dark olive green with white zig-zag patterns, which look like improvised in the field. Here and there I used some lighter very dark slate grey and some brown shimmers through, for a ratty and worn look. Decals are few, just the yellow "8" on the side panels and a sqaudron emblem, that's all. Some sparse detail painting with sienna and umbra acryllic paint simulates rust and oil.
Finally, the kit received some camouflage nets made from gauze bandages, dipped in a mix of water, white acryllic paint and white glue - they not only break up the F44D's shape, but also cover the huge "empty" hull areas, making the kit look more interesting? Then, a new, light snow coat with fine, white joint mortar (plaster is too grayish and becomes yellow over time, as it absorbs up humidity!), rinsed through a fine mesh onto the kit which was sprayed with water. Some hair spray helped fixing the snow, and a matte varnish coat seals everything in place.
For display, I decided build a small simple 30x20cm winter landscape diorama for it - a small rigde which allow the F44D - better called "Snowgunner" now - to show its high mobility, even as a kit!
Considering that it is not a newly-build kit, rather a kind of youth heritage, I am quite happy with the result. True nostalgia!
NOTE: This is a second account that I will be using for photos depicting the cities, beaches, mountains, and nature of the Southeast outside of my home state of Florida. Please see my original Humble Christ Follower account for photos that showcase Florida: www.flickr.com/photos/humblechristfollower/albums
BIBLICAL CONTEXT: James 1:13-18 NIV
(from biblegateway.com)
13 When tempted, no one should say, “God is tempting me.” For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone; 14 but each person is tempted when they are dragged away by their own evil desire and enticed. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
16 Don’t be deceived, my dear brothers and sisters. 17 Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows. 18 He chose to give us birth through the word of truth, that we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created.
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5 MORE THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW:
1. Like it or not, we are ALL sinners: As the Scriptures say, “No one is righteous—not even one. No one is truly wise; no one is seeking God. All have turned away; all have become useless. No one does good, not a single one.” (Romans 3:10-12 NLT)
2. The punishment for sin is death: When Adam sinned, sin entered the world. Adam’s sin brought death, so death spread to everyone, for everyone sinned. (Romans 5:12 NLT)
3. Jesus is our only hope: But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. (Romans 5:8 NLT) For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 6:23 NLT)
4. SALVATION is by GRACE through FAITH in JESUS: God saved you by his grace when you believed. And you can’t take credit for this; it is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. (Ephesians 2:8-10 NLT)
5. Accept Jesus and receive eternal life: If you openly declare that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. (Romans 10:9 NLT) But to all who believed him and accepted him, he gave the right to become children of God. (John 1:12 NLT) And this is what God has testified: He has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have God’s Son does not have life. (1 John 5:11-12 NLT)
Read the Bible for yourself. Allow the Lord to speak to you through his Word. YOUR ETERNITY IS AT STAKE!
"Silence is Golden" on the left., "Kocham Wolność" – "I Love Freedom". On the neck TDK – "Tylko Dla Kata" – "For Executioner Only".
When I saw Mr. Rysiek on the market I just catch a glimpse of ink visible from under the sleeve of his shirt, I wasn't sure to talk - he was with a rather large group of bums / ex-cons and the younger guys can easily be aggressive but obviously in five minutes I ended up in the bushes alone with him. Long prison & tattoo story, started at the correctional facility for young offenders at the age of 15, then an extended tour trough polish prisons: ZK Mielęcin, ZK Iława, ZK Sieradz, ZK Sztum (4 times), ZK Łowicz (4 times), ZK Łęczyca and classic Warsaw's units: AŚ Białołęka, AŚ Rakowiecka i AŚ Służewiec. Rysiek got his first tattoo in 1987 and the story is still on for him. Part of his tattoos is self-made with the help of a mirror. He uses Perełka or rotring ink and needles. What strike me is the fact that he is particularly handsome – sort of 20's/30's cinema face – I documented over 200 guys by now – they have strong features, often with a lot of character, but that is the first time I photographed a Handsome Criminal. Mr. Rysiek has no front teeth – he lost them in prison – beaten by a guard. Born in 1973 – he is four years younger than me.
Warsaw, August 2013
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I was just cozying in, enjoying a perfect cup of tea and a partially sunny, peaceful early morning at 6:15...............then I looked up and there was a rainbow front and center, in my window. No rain, no threatening clouds. I've never seen a rainbow so early in the morning. With a start like this, I better make this a good day.
We are enjoying 3 seasons at the same time around here. I still have plants that are just shaking off a cool, rainy spring and thinking about putting out some robust summer growth. I have plants that are in full summer mode. And then there is the goldenrod starting to bloom at the refuge and this maple in my photo that says it's autumn!
In other words, if the Universe ended last Monday (12/28/15) then we've been without it ever since but never even noticed...
Maker: Albert Hautecoeur
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: albumen print
Size: 3 1/2 in x 7 in
Location: France
Object No. 2020.320
Shelf: E-14-PARIS
Publication:
Other Collections:
Provenance: 48151
Rank: 6
Notes: A. Hautecoeur was a publisher and seller of photographs and prints located at 172 rue de Rivoli. The firm was originally founded by Aaron Martinet as Ancienne Maison Martinet. After his marraige to Martinet's daughter in 1822, Hermenégilde Hautecoeur took over running the firm in 1824. In later years the firm was run by the next generation, Eugène (1822-1870) and Alfred Hautecoeur (1824-1882), and the name Martinet was dropped. Prior to joining the firm Eugene and Alfred worked together from 1843 to 1867 under the name "Hautecoeur Brothers". From 1868, Alfred directs the publishing house at 172 rue de Rivoli, under the name "Ancienne maison Martinet" and Eugene at Boulevard des Capucines, under the name "Maison Martinet"
Locations of the shops are as follows: 1829: 13, 15 rue Coq-Saint-Honoré (until demolished by Hausmann). 1832: rue du Coq St. Honoré, No. 13 et 15 1830 (circa): rue du Coq (Hautcoeur[sic]-Martinet) 1848-1852 (circa): 15 rue du Coq 1848-1852 (circa): (Maison Martinet), rue du Coq 1848-1852 (circa): Maison Martinet, rue Vivienne, 41, et rue du Coq, 15 Then 1855: 146 rue de Rivoli, from 1862 no. 172 (known as Ancienne Maison Martinet). 41 rue Vivienne, later Boulevard des Capucines (known as Maison Martinet)
The shop still functioned in the rue de Rivoli, no.172, in 1991, selling modern reproductions, posters and a few old maps.
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The KOM League
Flash Report
for
October 1. 2019
(Sent a day early, don’t open until the 1st)
The obituary of a very familiar name appears in this edition. In fact, it is very close to home. Read it and see why. When you run across it you’ll know why.
This photo is posted at: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/48822993022/
This photo was one of many shared with Barbara Wade the wife of Gale of the same last name who played in the KOM league with a Dodger team and in the big leagues with the Chicago Cubs. Barbara is an artist and recently asked for photos of canaries, honey bees, bumble bees and sunflowers. So, if the effort of writing newsletters is not a big hit among the masses at least some of the photos are.
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Identifying the fate of a former KOM leaguer—Independence Yankee shortstop-1947
When playing for the 1947 Independence Yankees he was known as Jerry Sullivan. He also played for Fond du lac, Wisc. that same year and the Baseball Reference shows his name as George Sullivan. However, his full name was Gerald Edward Sullivan.
For many years I was aware that he was a native of St. Paul, Minnesota and that he passed away around 1980. That information was provided by at least four of his former Yankee minor league teammates.
In recent days I decided to delve a little deeper into Sullivan’s background. He was born July 21, 1927 and graduated from high school in the spring of 1945. On July 20th of that year he joined the United States Marine Corps. In the spring of 1947 he commenced a one year career that spanned about 60 games almost equally divided between Fond du lac of the Northern and Independence of the KOM leagues. The first part of that summer was spent in the Northern league and he reported to Independence on August 7th.
Sullivan passed away on November 28, 1976 and was buried at Ft. Snelling Military Cemetery in Minneapolis.
Another 1948 Independence Yankee’s fate documented
For a quarter century a search was undertaken to locate Bruce Otto Schroeder. He started out with the 1948 KOM league Yankee affiliate but was soon sent to McAlester, Okla. where he enjoyed a great season.
Schroeder was a left-handed pitcher from Salt Lake City who was born 13 days before Christmas in 1925. However by the time he returned from his service, in the United State Navy, he had lost two years on his age and he claimed to have been born, you guessed it, in 1927.
When clicking around on the internet recently the name Robert Bruce Otto Schroeder was located. It was found in regard to his final resting place. When inserting the name, just cited, this tombstone information was found:
Name: Bruce O. Schroeder
SIC U. S. Navy WW II
Dec. 12, 1925---October 8, 2013
Inscription on tombstone partially obscured by grass read; “Baseball Star Marries Jerome Girl.”
That inscription obviously referenced the girl he married was from Jerome, Idaho.
Bruce served in the Navy from Nov. 1, 1944 to May 19, 1946. He played professional baseball in both 1948 with Independence and McAlester and then in 1949 was assigned to Twin Falls, Idaho of the Pioneer league. By 1950 he was called back into the Navy and spent time there through 1951. In 1952 he resumed his career in with Greenville in the Tri-State league and then was released to Anderson in the same circuit. Anderson was a Browns farm team and by that time the “Baseball Star” called it quits. After his baseball career he worked as a plumber. He was another player who had talent and fell into the “what if” category. What if there hadn’t been a Korean War? He stated, in 1948, that he was thrown in the brig, while in WW II, for leaving his ship to play baseball while in Hawaii.
Schroeder passed away in Boise, Idaho and is buried at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery. If you would like to witness his tombstone click on this URL www.findagrave.com/memorial/187406884
An article was found in the August 10, 1948 of the McAlester newspaper reporting that Schroeder had pitched a no-hitter for eight innings against Pauls Valley and gave up a single to Bob Hyatt in the 9th inning. That was the only hit Pauls Valley had that evening. In 1947 Hyatt had played for Bartlesville, Okla. of the KOM league. By virtue of that Hyatt became one of the hundreds of players tracked over the years. A few years ago his daughter was located and she sent me a book her father had written about his minor league career. It’s title is memorable…”The Keys to the Batter’s Box.” Of course, it was a joke pulled on every young batboy who was told by the players to go to the manager and ask for them.
With the passing of Schroeder the remaining members of the 1947 Independence Yankees are John M. Bachar, Robert Ehrlich, Andrew Ray Goldkamp, Richard Pertzborn, William McProuty and Gerald Winton “Sven” Schold. The youngest members of this group are 92 and the others 95. They live in the states of California, Washington, Missouri, West Virginia, Iowa and Florida. Getting this group together for a reunion would be a monumental task.
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A look back at the life of the late John Hall
During the baseball season of 1948 there was a young boy in Carthage, Missouri who had never witnessed a professional baseball game. He had been introduced to the game by the husband of a first cousin of the nine-year old. That introduction came by virtue of having the kid listen to a couple of guys by the names of Harry Caray and Gabby Street announce the games of a team in St. Louis that went by the name of Cardinals. As the husband of the first cousin worked around the house of the neophyte baseball listener the score of the game would be passed along to the much older man upon each request he made.
Much of what Caray and Street said went right over the head of the young boy but their verbal accounts of what was transpiring was fascinating. The youngster had a second cousin who was the visiting team batboy for the teams that came to Carthage and it was soon learned it too was called “The Cardinals” and was somehow affiliated with the team in St. Louis. The first baseball bat the nine-year ever owned was given him by his second cousin but that didn’t matter. It was a real bat.
As the summer progressed the young man listened to St. Louis Cardinal games and learned a few more things about baseball and also that Gabby Street had planned to visit Carthage for a game and sit in the radio booth and make a few comments around the 7th inning. That news spread to the young boy’s uncle. He told the youngster’s mother that he would take the kid to the game to see Gabby Street if he could get off work in time. The mother told her son not to get his hopes build up too high for her brother was the only air-conditioning repairman in town and that during the hot days of summer he was always on call.
Well, the young man dressed up in his Sunday best and waited for an uncle who never made it. The no-show brought the young man to tears so instead of going out to the ball park to see Gabby Street he turned on KDMO 1490 on the dial and listened to Jim King announce a game between the Ponca City Dodgers and the Carthage Cardinals. Gabby Street did come on the air during the 7th inning stretch and tell the fans how fortunate they were to see major league ballplayers in the making.
So, that is the end of that story, right? You be the judge. Some 47 years later the young man who didn’t get to attend the Dodger-Cardinal game in 1948 embarked upon a project to memorialize that league.
When leafing through the pages of the Carthage Evening Press, some 47 years later, the now not so young man, found an account of a game where Gabby Street showed up to be honored by the local team. With great excitement the account of that game was read and the box score had a surprise. It showed the starting pitcher as “Hall.” The reader of that article searched some more to determine if the pitcher was Don Hall or John Hall. It turned out to be John and that was as exciting to the young pitcher from 1948 as it was discouraging for the boy who had missed the game that year. He had shut out Carthage 2-0 earlier that season.
Not long after making that discovery, John William “Bucky” Hall was located in Sarasota, Florida. In making contact with “Bucky” it was revealed that the fellow calling him had lived with the disappointment that John Hall never got to attend the game in 1948 with his uncle but in fact that he, John “Bucky” Hall, had pitched that evening. Bucky interjected he beat Carthage that night 2-0. Oh, what a great tale that would have been. But, after all those years I had to inform Bucky he lost 3-2.
In fact, Bucky Hall never recalled Gabby Street being at a game in Carthage. His memory was of another big league manager, Burt Shotten. He said that on July 15 of that 1948 season something was going in New York. Mel Ott resigned as manager of the New York Giants and upon learning this Leo Durocher asked to be released from his managerial role with the Brooklyn Dodgers to take over the helm with the Giants. Before the game on July 15th the Dodgers called Shotten, who was in Ponca City looking over the talent. Instead of seeing the Ponca City Dodgers for a few days he was in the dugout of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Over the years Bucky Hall and his wife Anne attended numerous KOM events and he always told the story about the John Hall who wanted to see that game in 1948 and had to give way to another John Hall who was the pitcher of record in that contest.
In recent weeks a conversation with Dick McCoy, a teammate with Bucky at Ponca City asked if I had heard any news on that front. I told him I hadn’t but would check. Both McCoy and I figured he was probably in a nursing home.
Upon finding the 13-month obituary on Bucky Hall it was shared with baseball necrologist, Jack Morris and Molly and Dick McCoy. Mollie replied “We were surprised to hear about John Hall’s. Death I talked with him some time before his passing. Sorry we didn't get to send his children a card of our sympathy for him. Thanks for letting us know.” Morris responded thusly; “We missed this obituary. Thanks for sending it along.” In this case “we” is a group of people who monitor the media for news of the death of former professional baseball players.
Following is the obituary for the former Ponca City Dodger.
John William (Bucky) Hall passed away in Sarasota, Florida, on August 24, 2018.
www.homerfuneralhome.com/obituary/john-bucky-hall
Bucky was born to John Wharton Bates Hall (West Medford, MA) and Madge Louise Finlason (British West Indies and Costa Rica) on October 25, 1926, in Cartago, Costa Rica. They lived in Bocas del Toro, Panama where his dad worked with the United Fruit Company/Chiquita Banana Division.
Bucky graduated from Cristobal High School in New Cristobal in 1944 where he played basketball and baseball. During the war years and until he was signed by the Dodgers organization to play with the KOM (Kansas Oklahoma Missouri) League in 1947, he pitched and played First Base with fellow Zonians and Army/ Professional players for Colon “Carta Vieja” in the Pro League in the Canal Zone. He left Ponca City and the KOM League upon the outbreak of the Korean Conflict and trained with the Navy in San Diego to repair radial aircraft engines on PBYs and PBMs.
Bucky returned “home” to Panama in 1952 and took a job with Canal Zone Customs. Bucky played First Base in the Atlantic- side Twilight League until the late 1950s.
Bucky met Margaret Anne Cosgrove, a nurse at Gorgas Hospital. They were married at Holy Family Catholic Church in Margarita, Canal Zone in April of 1955. Their son Will was born in 1961 and daughter Jill in 1964.
Bucky also ran the Pro Shop at Brazos Brook Golf Club during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Bucky retired from the Panama Canal Company in 1979 as Special-Agent-in-Charge of the Canal Zone Customs Criminal Investigations Division. Anne retired from Gorgas Hospital at the same time and they returned to Anne’s hometown of Laporte, Pennsylvania for a year before cold weather and snow reminded them why she went to Panama in 1952 in the first place. They then permanently settled in Sarasota, Florida, near Bucky’s parents but continued to spend their summers in Laporte.
Bucky was predeceased by Anne in 2014. They are survived by their two children, Jill Tekampe (John) of Sarasota and Will (Kim) of St. Augustine, and five grandchildren Sumner, Virgilia, Will, Claire, and Katherine.
There will be a celebration of Bucky’s life with family following his interment in Sacred Heart Cemetery in Laporte, PA and a scattering of his and Anne’s ashes together in Panama.
A Graveside Service will be held on Friday, November 23, 2018, at 11:00 A.M. in the Sacred Heart Cemetery, Laporte, PA, with the Msgr. Stephen D. McGough, presiding. To send condolences or sign the e-guestbook, please go to www.homerfuneralhome.com
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The long list has grown very short
Over the years of writing about the KOM league the list of those still with us has dwindled to a precious few. Every few days a fresh reminder of that reaches me by e-mail. The messages come from Legacy.com and since most of the passing’s of former players are noted by this source, a reminder is sent offering the chance to send flowers or well wishes in the name of the deceased. In most cases there isn’t anyone left who would get those condolences or messages. However, Legacy.com would reap some financial benefit which I’m not here on earth to facilitate.
For those readers with an interest in older obituaries try this site:
www.google.com/search?q=kom+league+bituaries&rlz=1C9B...
Not all those mentioned are former KOM Leaguers but they are up to the name of Donald Brickell. Brickell’s obituary stated he played for Iola in the KOM league but he was only with Iola in the month of August in 1954 when they were in the Western Association and struggling to hang on. If you read any of those obituaries and wonder if they guy was a KOM leaguer, and the obituary is unclear, I’ll bet you know where to find the answer.
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A former Independence Yankee recalls a great era
The following is a feature article about Jim Qualls of the 1950 Independence Yankees.
countyjournal.org/james-qualls-reflects-on-his-days-in-pr... Pictured in this URL is James Qualls from when he was playing baseball for the 1950 Independence Yankees.
Ed comment:
This story is almost 100% correct. What is “iffy in this account, concerns Yours truly. It was attributed that I became the editor of a newspaper in Columbia, Mo. The closest I ever got to that was publishing a newsletter about the KOM league. Just make that clarification so as to not give newspapers in Columbia a bad name. However, the largest newspaper in town did print my newsletter on their presses alongside the Midwest edition of the New York Times.
Also, in the attached article it was asserted that Yours truly was the batboy for every visiting team. That was not the case as a couple of teams brought along their own batboy. A prime example was Tedd Gullic Jr. His daddy managed Bartlesville for three years and Jr. went along to most every road game as well as working every home contest. Personally, I know that he got tired of that.
Written by Dan Zobe1--Thu, Apr 26, 2018 (County Journal –a publication located in Randolph County, Illinois)
In the 1940s and 1950s, Gorham High School made its presence known on the baseball diamond.
During that time, the Mustangs won five district titles and advanced to the Final Four on two different occasions.
That baseball program produced numerous ball players who went on to play professionally.
One of those athletes was James Qualls, 87, who now resides in Sparta with his wife Marge. The two have been married for 65 years.
Qualls spent 30 years working for Prudential Financial and was the charter president of the Trico Lion’s Club in 1955.
He is also a pilot, though he does not fly anymore, and he loves golf, something he and Marge played a lot of as a team.
Before all of that, however, his dream, like many aspiring young men, was to play baseball for a living.
He recently sat down with the County Journal to talk about and relive his playing days.
Qualls starred for the varsity baseball team at Gorham in the late 1940s, where he was captain of the team for two years and the hitting and fielder leader for the club several seasons.
In 1947 and 1948, his baseball dreams started to become reality when Qualls competed in several baseball tryouts.
“Today they draft you from college and high school,” Qualls noted. “In the old days, they held baseball tryouts. It was mostly the Yankees, Cardinals and St. Louis Browns that held those. The Yankees showed the most interest in me. They kept in touch with me and indicated they would sign me someday.”
During his senior year at Gorham, the Yankees sent Qualls to advanced tryout camp twice in Branson, Missouri, so the Yankee big brass could see him play. It was at that time Qualls said he could tell the Yankees were definitely interested in him.
In May of 1949, Qualls graduated from Gorham, and the next day, he boarded a train for Clay Center, Kansas, to play in the Amateur Baseball League of America.
It was there that Qualls met Bill Virdon, who would later go on to play 12 seasons of Major League Baseball and manage nearly 2,000 games in the big leagues.
“We were roommates,” Qualls said. “He was a college boy, and I’m just out of high school. He was a tremendous ball player.”
Qualls and Virdon were signed by the Yankees to play in 1950 for the Independence Yankees in Independence, Kansas as part of the KOM League.
“I’ve been told I was the 17th player to sign professional out of Gorham High School,” Qualls said. “After me, there were several more who did, and a couple made the big leagues.”
The contract signed by Qualls was for a total of $1,000, including $750 for signing the contract.
“I was hopeful this was the beginning of a great career,” Qualls said. “I gave up a college scholarship to play professionally. It was good fun. I’d do it again. It was exciting. They let a lot of players go, so I guess I was good enough that they kept me. It was a good experience.”
In that year with Independence, Qualls batted .238 over 344 at-bats, including 18 doubles and three triples.
One of the things that stands out to Qualls from those days was the conditions of the uniforms.
“The Yankees were a first-class operation except for the ball clubs in the minor leagues,” Qualls said. “The only thing that was first class about us was we had a good bus to travel on. They passed all the uniforms down, and it was horrible.”
Pointing to a team picture of that Independence team, Qualls explained that the uniform he was wearing came down from one of the big heavyset guys on the Yankee big league team.
“They were old wool uniforms,” Qualls said. “I had one, and the ball cap was so big it fit down on my ears. That was the only way I could keep it from falling off.”
Laundry services, or rather a lack thereof, also stood out in Qualls’ mind.
“We played all summer without (the uniforms) being laundered,” Qualls said. “They would stack them up, and they would almost stand up by themselves. There were no showering facilities in our ball club. We had to go back to where we were staying. It was bad, but that’s just the way it was.
“It was the low minors. The more you went up, the better the facilities. Most of the ball diamonds were converted football fields. We had one of the better ones, but it was still a converted football field.”
Qualls played all but two weeks during the summer of 1950 in Independence. During the two weeks he did not, he was sent to Vincennes, Indiana, in the Mississippi-Ohio Valley League, which also included teams in West Frankfort and Paducah, Kentucky.
“I OK’d that so my parents could see me play,” Qualls said. “After two weeks, I was back to Independence for the rest of 1950.”
The motivation to keep playing came from trying to do their best to hopefully move up through the minors and striving for every victory possible.
“We wanted to win,” Qualls said. “Everybody on that ball club was a good ball player; otherwise they wouldn’t be there. Some of them got more attention than others because they were paid a bigger bonus. We were on the bottom of the totem pole, so we had to earn our way more.
“I just did my job. I enjoyed the company. The ball players came; the ball players left, and I was always glad I was not one of them that went out on the road.”
Following the summer in the Amateur Baseball League of America, Qualls and Virdon were sent to Springfield, Missouri to play against an all-star team of big league players.
Qualls said once the season was over a barnstorming team was put together from a bunch of major league players.
The minor league players were not just going to roll over, though.
“There was Mickey Owens and a whole bunch of guys who were pretty big time in the big leagues on a team,” Qualls said. “These little ol’ guys in Branson beat the crud out of them. That was really a thrill for us. They bussed us up there, and they thought they were going to show us, you know; and we showed them. I never will forget that.”
Qualls’ play for Independence set him up for a promotion in 1951, when his contract was assigned to Joplin, Missouri in the Western Association. That moved Qualls from Class D level teams at Independence to Class C.
In Joplin, Qualls formed a double-play combo with a future hall of fame player.
“During spring training of that year, I was on Joplin’s ball club,” Qualls said. “There were four different teams there. Every day on the wall, you didn’t know which ball club you would be on. I walked up there, and Mickey Mantle was playing shortstop opposite of me. I played two or three ball games that way.”
Following spring training, Qualls’ lifelong battle with asthma put a halt to his career.
“They sent us to Branson, Missouri, and I had asthma bad,” Qualls said. “That, combined with the cold weather, really set me back. That’s one of the reasons I ended up asking for my release. They gave it to me.
They wanted to send me to Georgia, but I did not want that. I came back home to look for a job.”
That did not last long, though, as later in the summer, Qualls received a phone call from former high school teammate Lavern Grace.
“He was from Gorham also,” Qualls said. “He was playing for the Green Bay Bluejays right across the street from the Packers. They used the Packers’ facilities and would walk across the street and play baseball. It was a nice stadium there.
“Grace said his manager wanted to talk to me. Phil Seghi, who later became the general manager of the Cleveland Indians, came on and said ‘Verne tells me you’re a better second baseman than I’ve got playing up here. Would you like to come play for me?’”
Qualls agreed and made the trip to Green Bay to play for the Bluejays, who were part of the Cleveland Indian organization and competed in the Wisconsin State League.
Qualls played 24 games for the Bluejays that summer, batting .307 with eight doubles in 88 at-bats. The next year, Qualls went back and hit .212 in 85 at-bats over 23 games.
That would be the last summer he played professional ball.
“I returned for four months in 1952 before stopping because I was not playing much,” Qualls said. “So, that ended my baseball career.”
Qualls paged through a green book called “Majoring in the Minors” by John G. Hall, who was a bat boy in the KMO League, while talking about how the book came about.
“This book, I don’t know this for a fact, but I’ve been told by people that it’s in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown,” Qualls said. “I can’t quote that as truth, because I went up there and couldn’t find it. If you look right there, though, that says James Lavern Qualls. That’s me. If that would be the case, that this is in the hall of fame, that means I’m in the hall of fame, too.”
The book has details about each team and player that ever played in the league.
“(Hall) had a personality that he knew everybody,” Qualls said. “He was the bat boy for every visiting team. He was just kind of a guy who everybody remembered. He grew up to be an editor of a newspaper in Columbia, Missouri, and he wrote this book.”
Whether Qualls has his name etched in a book in Cooperstown or not, the memories of those days on the diamond always have a way of coming back to him.
He talked about a time he and Marge were driving around the country and stopped back in Independence, Kansas, to see one of the guys he used to play with in his pro days.
“While I was in town, I went out to the old ball park,” Qualls said. “There’s no baseball field there anymore. It’s a high school and college football stadium.”
Qualls said when the baseball field was there, a picket fence served as the outfield fence.
He made his way through the stands and went underneath them to where the dressing room was. He then made his way onto the field.
“There was a little plaque there commemorating where home plate was," Qualls said. "They say you can’t go back (in time), but I stood at that place and I had the weirdest feeling that I was getting ready to hit again while I stood right there. I really felt it. It’s just a queer feeling.”
Concluding comments:
A note was sent to the publication responsible for this story asking permission to share the foregoing article with “readers like you.” This note was received in return. “Thanks for your email. Yes, you can use the Qualls article with our credit. Larry Willis Publisher” So, if you enjoyed this story a message to Mr. Willis would be a nice gesture and also prove this publication has a couple of readers. Sent to: cjournal@egyptian.net
It was shared with Mr. Willis that seldom have my old eyes ever seen anything written, concerning the KOM league, being so factual. I did point out that writing for a real newspaper was never on my resume and that the book Qualls shared with the writer of the article never made it into the Hall of Fame. However, every edition of the KOM League Remembered newsletter made it to the HOF library and was once cited as the best publication of its kind received by that institution. The only problem with that is, it was the only one of its kind they received. But, I still have the citation somewhere in my files for the great grandkids or their kids to peruse around 2080.
Over the years it has been vindicated that the reason for writing books about the KOM league was accomplished. They were written, primarily, for the former players and their families. Not many of the old guys are left but frequently, those who still remain will make contact and relate how they pulled out their copy of one of the books and relived the past for a few moments. Mission accomplished.
Note from Marge Qualls: “Hi John So good to hear from you...Jim is 88 now and dealing with bladder cancer. Lots of doctor stuff. Say hello to any and all of the KOM league. We often wonder about Bill Virdon.” Sincerely, Marge Qualls
Response: Bill hasn't been doing too well either. Shirley doesn't get on the computer anymore so I haven't heard from them in a while. Sure sorry to hear about Jim's condition. I'll try to get hold of the Virdon's and pass along the message you are thinking of them. It was sure good hearing from you and give Jim my best regards.
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A reader’s comment:
I like your commentaries after reading the obituaries... you bring these guys "back to life"
Thanks. Bdc
Ed comment:
It is a joy to “resurrect” the former players and one other thing needs the same treatment, my memory. Believe it or not, I don’t recall every e-mail address of those on my file. Thus, I had to use Bdc instead of his name. However, I think the person is Bob and lives in Columbia, MO. If I’m wrong Bdc will sure let me know.
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Donald Thomas Barclay 2/1/1926---1/3/2019
It was in early June, of 1949, when Yours truly saw his first baseball game. Bob Knell, Carthage mortician, took me to the game and we sat his “luxury” box seat—a folding chair-down the third base line, behind the Carthage dugout. The game was between Carthage and the visiting Independence, Kansas Yankees. In the ballpark that night were future big leaguers; Bob Wiesler Steve Kraly, Lou Skizas and former big leaguer, Harry Craft who was managing the Independence club. Mickey Mantle joined Independence and Bob Speake showed up at Carthage about a week after I witnessed my first professional game on either June 3 or 4 of 1949. Mickey Mantle played his first KOM league game at Carthage on July 15.
None of those names meant a thing to me. The person who caught my eye was a fellow wearing a snow white uniform with traditional Chicago Cub blue piping and lettering. He came to the plate swinging from the left side and was introduced by public address announcer, Lee Hooker, as Don Barclay.
Barclay was a 23-year old veteran by that point in time. He was born 2/1/1926 in Chicago, Illinois. (Most official baseball publications show the year of birth as 1928) He graduated from Mt. Carmel High School in 1943 and Uncle Sam greeted him with open arms.
When returning from military service, Barclay signed with the Chicago Cubs and played in the Arizona-Texas and West Texas league in 1947. In 1948 he tried his luck in Reno where he played for that Sunset league team.
With Carthage becoming a Chicago Cub affiliate in 1949 the Cubs attempted to intersperse some experienced players. Barclay played the outfield until June 15 and then was sent to Charlotte, NC of the Tri-State league and wound up with Concord in the North Carolina State circuit. In 1950 he was with Wellsville, NY of the PONY league and he concluded his career in 1951 with Flint in t, Mich. in the Central league.
During the years of writing about the KOM league contact was established with Barclay but in recent years it had waned. It ceased forever on January 3, 2019. Here is confirmation of that.
www.findagrave.com/memorial/195813684/donald-t_-barclay/
For those of you with more than a passing interest a photo of Barclay is on Ancestry.com If you don’t subscribe to that service don’t bother clicking on the following URL. If you subscribe to Ancestry.com you can find more of him by doing a search of Mt. Carmel High School.
Mt. Carmel High School photo 1942 -Don Barclay
www.ancestry.com/interactive/1265/43134_b184376-00149?pid...
A Carthage team photo with Don Barclay might have been shared at this juncture had he been in one. Of the two different ones on file he was in neither. I said “might have been shared” since I’m now seeing a number of the photos I have shared in different forums now on the Internet and they are being pitched as “one of a kind” in most instances. Of course, those sites displaying the photos are charging for them. When I spot one of my photos on any site I can easily identify it. One recent photo that I shared in a Flash Report showed up and the person trying to sell it claims he found it in his grandmother’s collection and needs to have the players identified. Funny thing is that most of them were. I have a positive way of identifying that photo as a copy of the original from my collection.
In short, this forum isn’t apt to be sharing many historical photos in the future.
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Francis Urban 1 of 57.
With the death of Casimer Stackowiak, reported in the last edition, it leaves Francis Urban as the lone survivor of the 1947 Chanute Athletics.
Urban was born April 11, 1925 in what was attributed to being Carthage, Mo. but he actually lived in the village north of town called Kendricktown. Your’s truly became aware of him when he pitched in the Carthage Twilight league. That league’s name meant the games were played after men got off work in the evening and before the sun set.
In both 1947 and 1949 the Chanute ball club came to town in a world of hurt for pitchers and in each instance Urban rode home with that team and pitched in a pinch. He saw action in 10 games during the 1947 season and in 1949 he was in less than 10 contests.
Most of the KOM league attendees at the last KOM league held in Carthage would not remember where the Civil War era house was located and the location for a large banquet.. It was in Kendricktown. Across the street from where baseball names such as: Cloyd Boyer, Jerry Lumpe, Bob Speake, Gale Wade, Joe Stanka and Whitey Herzog had a great meal stood an old grocery store and service station. It was called the White Spot Café back in the day Urban was playing in the Carthage Twilight league and with the Chanute A’s. It was there he made his living as a service station attendant.
Today, Francis F. Urban is 94 years of age and lives in Springfield. Mo.
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A second glance
John G. Handzo Jr. of the 1951 Carthage Cubs passed away May 3, 2016 and that event was mentioned in this publication. Taking another look at that obituary it was noticed that one account had his place of death as Rome, Pennsylvania. He passed away not in Rome but in Linden, New Jersey. The only people reading this who will know who is being referenced are Don Biebel and Walt Babcock.
Handzo had a second shot at the KOM league after the Carthage franchise evaporated he was with Blackwell, Okla. in 1952.
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Maker: Jules Hautecoeur (1849-1935)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: collotype
Size: 5 3/8" x 3 3/8"
Location:
Object No. 2018.0014
Shelf: D-18
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Provenance: cartepostalesale
Rank: 22
Notes: Jules Hautecoeur was a publisher and photographer. In 1884, he took over the family publishing house of his father Alfred Hautecoeur (1824-1882), located at 172 rue de Rivoli in Paris. The sign of his initials is "JAH". The firm was originally founded by Aaron Martinet as Ancienne Maison Martinet. After his marraige to Martinet's daughter in 1822, Hermenégilde Hautecoeur took over running the firm in 1824. In later years the firm was run by the next generation, Eugène and Alfred Hautecoeur, and the name Martinet was dropped. From 1868, Alfred directed the publishing house at 172 rue de Rivoli, under the name "Ancienne maison Martinet" and Eugene at Boulevard des Capucines, under the name "Maison Martinet"
Locations of the shop are as follows: 1829: 13, 15 rue Coq-Saint-Honoré (until demolished by Hausmann). 1832: rue du Coq St. Honoré, No. 13 et 15 1830 (circa): rue du Coq (Hautcoeur[sic]-Martinet) 1848-1852 (circa): 15 rue du Coq 1848-1852 (circa): (Maison Martinet), rue du Coq 1848-1852 (circa): Maison Martinet, rue Vivienne, 41, et rue du Coq, 15 Then 1855: 146 rue de Rivoli, from 1862 no.172 (known as Ancienne Maison Martinet). 41 rue Vivienne, later Boulevard des Capucines (known as Maison Martinet)
The shop still functioned in 1991 at 172 Rue de Rivoli selling modern reproductions, posters and a few old maps.
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Maker: Albert Hautecoeur
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: albumen print
Size: 3 1/2 in x 7 in
Location: France
Object No. 2020.326
Shelf: E-14-PARIS
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Notes: A. Hautecoeur was a publisher and seller of photographs and prints located at 172 rue de Rivoli. The firm was originally founded by Aaron Martinet as Ancienne Maison Martinet. After his marraige to Martinet's daughter in 1822, Hermenégilde Hautecoeur took over running the firm in 1824. In later years the firm was run by the next generation, Eugène (1822-1870) and Alfred Hautecoeur (1824-1882), and the name Martinet was dropped. Prior to joining the firm Eugene and Alfred worked together from 1843 to 1867 under the name "Hautecoeur Brothers". From 1868, Alfred directs the publishing house at 172 rue de Rivoli, under the name "Ancienne maison Martinet" and Eugene at Boulevard des Capucines, under the name "Maison Martinet"
Locations of the shops are as follows: 1829: 13, 15 rue Coq-Saint-Honoré (until demolished by Hausmann). 1832: rue du Coq St. Honoré, No. 13 et 15 1830 (circa): rue du Coq (Hautcoeur[sic]-Martinet) 1848-1852 (circa): 15 rue du Coq 1848-1852 (circa): (Maison Martinet), rue du Coq 1848-1852 (circa): Maison Martinet, rue Vivienne, 41, et rue du Coq, 15 Then 1855: 146 rue de Rivoli, from 1862 no. 172 (known as Ancienne Maison Martinet). 41 rue Vivienne, later Boulevard des Capucines (known as Maison Martinet)
The shop still functioned in the rue de Rivoli, no.172, in 1991, selling modern reproductions, posters and a few old maps.
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What about drainage? Drainage is very similar to natural grass. Synthetic Grass by Lawn Pros has perforations (holes) in the backing that allow water to drain into the blended rock base below the artificial turf. Different blends of crushed rock are used for different applications, depending on permeability needs.
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NetJets Hawker 400XP parked on the Atlantic Aviation ramp.
Reregistered N408GJ 14-Aug-15,
then PS-WTU 30-Oct-24.
When I saw Mr. Rysiek on the market I just catch a glimpse of ink visible from under the sleeve of his shirt, I wasn't sure to talk - he was with a rather large group of bums / ex-cons and the younger guys can easily be aggressive but obviously in five minutes I ended up in the bushes alone with him. Long prison & tattoo story, started at the correctional facility for young offenders at the age of 15, then an extended tour trough polish prisons: ZK Mielęcin, ZK Iława, ZK Sieradz, ZK Sztum (4 times), ZK Łowicz (4 times), ZK Łęczyca and classic Warsaw's units: AŚ Białołęka, AŚ Rakowiecka i AŚ Służewiec. Rysiek got his first tattoo in 1987 and the story is still on for him. Part of his tattoos is self-made with the help of a mirror. He uses Perełka or rotring ink and needles. What strike me is the fact that he is particularly handsome – sort of 20's/30's cinema face – I documented over 200 guys by now – they have strong features, often with a lot of character, but that is the first time I photographed a Handsome Criminal. Mr. Rysiek has no front teeth – he lost them in prison – beaten by a guard. Born in 1973 – he is four years younger than me.
Warsaw, August 2013
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What type of maintenance should I expect with Artificial Synthetic Grass by Lawn Pros? An occasional brooming to stand the grass fibers up is recommended but not necessary. Debris like twigs and leaves can be easily removed with a leaf blower or rake.
How is Synthetic Grass by Lawn Pros Installed?Existing sod must first be removed. Next, a base is created using a special blend of crushed rock (2″ to 4″ depth), then smoothed and compacted. The artificial grass is then rolled onto the surface of the base and seamed together if necessary (turf widths are 15′.) Then the infill material is is spread over the top of the grass using a fertilizer spreader and brushed to the bottom of the artificial grass. The grass product type and the type of use determines the type and amount of infill. The infill can be sand, rubber crumb, or our eco-friendly (or a combination of the above.) Installation for synthetic putting greens is similar but there are additional layers of base materials that need to be thoroughly compacted.
What about drainage? Drainage is very similar to natural grass. Synthetic Grass by Lawn Pros has perforations (holes) in the backing that allow water to drain into the blended rock base below the artificial turf. Different blends of crushed rock are used for different applications, depending on permeability needs.
How does the cost of Artificial Synthetic Grass in Colorado compared to installing a natural lawn?When compared to installing a sprinkler system, topsoil, the price of sod, combined with frequent watering, mowing, weeding and fertilizing, the cost synthetic grass hits a break-even point in 3 to 5 years. You can minimize your investment if you include landscaping rocks, mulch beds and xeriscape elements with your synthetic grass. The contrast of landscape rock with Synthetic Grass looks fantastic!
How do I choose which type of Synthetic Grass by Lawn Pros is best for my needs? We have the largest selection of synthetic grass in the industry. A Lawn Pros representative can help you choose the right type of synthetic grass for you. The numbers in the names of our artificial grass for lawns refers to the density/thickness of the product – the higher the number the thicker the product.
Why should I choose Lawn Pros over another artificial grass company? Not all synthetic grass is created equal!! Lawn Pros has been making the highest quality artificial synthetic grass since 1987. All Synthetic Grass by Lawn Pros has undergone many years of extensive research and development, including extensive stability and wear-resistance testing. Most importantly, all Lawn Pros products are lead-free (not all artificial grass companies can say that!) Synthetic Grass by Lawn Pros is made in the USA, we stand behind our third-party warranty and have done so since 1987. We are the only company that controls the manufacturing from resins through final installation.
I’ve heard that lead has been found in artificial grass, is there lead in Grass by Lawn Pros? There is no lead or any other heavy metals in Synthetic Grass by Lawn Pros products. Lawn Pros has the most stringent testing in the industry.
Get your project done right and let Lawn Pros artificial synthetic grass in Colorado help you get the grass you always wanted. Give us a call for a free quote 719-963-6267 or 720-221-3606.
We offer artificial synthetic grass in/around the following Colorado cities:Aurora, Broomfield, Castle Pines, Castle Rock, Centennial, Cherry Hills, Colorado Springs,Columbine, Commerce City, Denver, Englewood, Franktown, Greenwood Village, Highlands Ranch, Ken Caryl, Lakewood, Larkspur, Littleton, Lone Tree, Monument, Parker, Thornton,Westminster, and Wheat Ridge.
When I saw Mr. Rysiek on the market I just catch a glimpse of ink visible from under the sleeve of his shirt, I wasn't sure to talk - he was with a rather large group of bums / ex-cons and the younger guys can easily be aggressive but obviously in five minutes I ended up in the bushes alone with him. Long prison & tattoo story, started at the correctional facility for young offenders at the age of 15, then an extended tour trough polish prisons: ZK Mielęcin, ZK Iława, ZK Sieradz, ZK Sztum (4 times), ZK Łowicz (4 times), ZK Łęczyca and classic Warsaw's units: AŚ Białołęka, AŚ Rakowiecka i AŚ Służewiec. Rysiek got his first tattoo in 1987 and the story is still on for him. Part of his tattoos is self-made with the help of a mirror. He uses Perełka or rotring ink and needles. What strike me is the fact that he is particularly handsome – sort of 20's/30's cinema face – I documented over 200 guys by now – they have strong features, often with a lot of character, but that is the first time I photographed a Handsome Criminal. Mr. Rysiek has no front teeth – he lost them in prison – beaten by a guard. Born in 1973 – he is four years younger than me.
Warsaw, August 2013
Recently repainted LSLO Pool 47 593 'Galloway Princess' is seen working 1Z47 west through Bristol Parkway, on April 16th 2025.
TOPS Info:-
47593 LSLO CD G M E AA.
She was built at Crewe as D1973, entering service in 1965.
Haymarket 10/11/1965
Gateshead 10/1968
Haymarket 10/1969
Allocation recoded 64B to HA 05/1973
Renumbered 47272 09/1974
Renumbered 47593 09/08/1983
Named Galloway Princess at Stranraer Station on 16/9/83. The nameplates were removed in 3/94 at Bounds Green TMD
Inverness 03/1991
Renumbered 47673 03/08/1991
Bristol Bath Road 11/1992
Immingham 05/1993
Named York InterCity Control at York Station on 22/3/94. Nameplates removed in 9/94
Crewe Diesel 04/1994
Renumbered 47790 16/12/1994
Named Saint David above Dewi Sant at Swansea Station on 1/3/95. The nameplates were removed about 12/02
Motherwell 01/11/1997
Toton 01/2004
EWS Headquarters Pool 01/04/2004
Store 01/04/2004
Kingmoor Diesel 29/03/2007
Store 29/03/2007
Kingmoor Diesel 30/07/2007
Returned to Service 30/07/2007
The loco appears to have then been in and out of store on several occasions without these being formally recorded
Had the Galloway Princess nameplates reapplied on 31/7/11
Stored at Crewe Gresty Bridge 1/7/15, then moved to Eastleigh Works 12-13/7/15.
Kingmoor Diesel 02/10/2015
Returned to Service 06/10/2015
Store 15/12/2015
Stored at Crewe Gresty Bridge 15/12/15, the final class 47 operated by DRS, then moved to MoD Longtown 22/12/15
Moved from MoD Longtown to Carlisle Kingmoor 8/1/16
Sold to Locomotive Services Ltd
Crewe Diesel 19/01/2016
Moved from Carlisle Kingmoor to Crewe DMD 5/2/16
Renumbered 47593 11/02/2019
Galloway Princess nameplates refitted 11/2/19
Returned to Service 03/2019.
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Departing rwy 26.
Reregistered N10HZ 30-Aug-08,
then N10HQ 8-Aug-14,
then C-GXPZ 8-May-15,
then N406EA 26-Jul-18,
then N84PH 21-Jan-20.
The regular vehicles used and branded for the Diamond services 13, 14 and 15 between Canterbury, Dover, Deal and Sandwich are Enviro 200s and 300s, in a very easy to identify livery....
Following the same pattern as the Triangle services 4 and 6, the reason the Diamond routes are labelled as such is easier to comprehend when you see the route map... A full rounder on the 15, then either a 13 or 14 to/from Canterbury is in the shape of a Diamond!!
36857 is one such Enviro 200 branded for the services, seen laying over on Pencester Road in Dover with a 15A to Canterbury via River and Lydden.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ramlila (Rāmlīlā) (literally 'Rama’s lila or play') is a dramatic folk re-enactment of the life of Rama, ending up in ten-day battle between Rama and Ravana, as described in the Hindu religious epic, the Ramayana.[1] A tradition that originates from the Indian subcontinent, the play is staged annually often over ten or more successive nights, during the auspicious period of 'Sharad Navratras', which marks the commencement of the Autumn festive period, starting with the Dussehra festival. Usually the performances are timed to culminate on the festival of Vijayadashami day, that commemorates the victory of Rama over demon king Ravana, when the actors are taken out in a procession through the city, leading up to a mela ground or town square, where the enactment of the final battle takes place, before giant effigies of Ravana, his brother Kumbhakaran and son Meghanath are set fire, and coronation or abhisheka of Rama at Ayodhya takes place, marking the culmination of festivities and restoration of the divine order.[2]
Rama is the 7th incarnation of Vishnu and central figure of the Ramayana. The Ramayana is based on the life, times and values of Lord Rama. Lord Rama is called the Maryada Purushottam or 'The best among the dignified'. The story of Lord Rama and his comrades is so popular in India that it has actually amalgamated the psyche of the Indian mainstream irrespective of their religion. The very story of Ramayana injects ethics to the Indian mainstream.
Most Ramlilas in North India are based on the 16th century Avadhi version of Ramayana, Ramcharitmanas, written by Gosvami Tulsidas entirely in verse, thus used as dialogues in most traditional versions, where open-air productions are staged by local Ramlila committees, 'Samitis', and funded entirely by the local population, the audience.[3] It is close to the similar form of folk theatre, Rasa lila, which depicts the life of Krishna, popular in Uttar Pradesh, especially Braja regions of Mathura, Vrindavan, and amongst followers of Gaudiya Vaishnavism and Vaishnavism in Manipur, with some similarity with Pandavlila of Garhwal, based on life of Pandavas of Mahabharat and Yakshagana of Karnataka, based on various epic and puranas.[4]
Ramlila has received considerable global attention, especially due to its diverse representation throughout the globe, especially amongst the Indian diaspora community, and regions where Hinduism has spread over the centuries, like Africa and several South East Asian countries. UNESCO proclaimed the tradition of Ramlila a Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity in 2005.[5] Subsequently, Govt. of India and IGNCA produced a two-hour documentary, titled "Ramlila - The traditional performance of Ramayana" for UNESCO, on 'Ramnagar Ramlila', and Ramlila traditions of Avadh, Braj and Madhubani, and that of Ayodhya, which assimilates elements of all three.[6] Another unique Ramlila, is being staged since 1972, at Bakshi Ka Talab, about 20 km from Lucknow, where lead characters like Rama, Lakshman and Hanuman are played by Muslim youths, a clear departure in a region known for communal flare-ups; this four-day Ram Lila starts on the day of Dusshera day, and has also been adapted into a Radio play, 'Us Gaon ki Ram Lila', by Lucknow All India Radio, which won the Communal Harmony Award in 2000.[7]
Historically it is believed that first Ramlila shows were staged by Megha Bhagat, one of the disciples of Tulsidas, the author of Ramacharitamanas in about 1625 AD, though there are some evidence of its existence in some form before the creation of this version as well. Some scholars believe its first appearance somewhere between 1200 and 1500 AD. Later during in the time of Mughal emperor Akbar, according to some, Akbar is said to have watched a performance. Krishna Das Kaviraj mentions in his 16th century hagiography of saint Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (1486–1533), Chaitanya Charitamrita, that once he got carried away while performing the character of Hanuman at a play in Puri, thus proving the existence of Ramayana plays, before the Ramcharitamanas appeared.[4] Though it would safe to conclude that its implosion into the Hindi heartland, happened only after Tulsidas created his version in people's language of the time, the Avadhi, unlike the original written by Valmiki, in Sanskrit, the language only spoken by Brahmins by then, which excluded much of masses from experiencing the inspirational saga, which is essentially the victory of good over evil.[8]
Styles of Ramlila[edit]
An actor playing Ravana for a scene from Ramlila
Today, several regions have developed their distinctive form of Ramlila, Uttar Pradesh itself has numerous variants of presentation styles, most prominent among them is that of Ramnagar, Varanasi, staged over multiple venue, the pantomime style is visible in jhankis or tableaux pageants as seem in Ramlila of Varanasi, where colourful Jhankis and pageants depicting scenes from the life of Lord Rama are taken out through the city.[9] According to a 2008 UNESCO report, the most representative Ramlilas are those of Ayodhya, Ramnagar and Varanasi, Vrindavan, Almora, Satna and Madhubani.[5]
The Almora or Kumaon style was set in the musical rendering of thekatha based on the theatrical style developed by Uday Shankar during his stay in Almora, it was carried on forward by Mohan Upreti and Brijendra Lal Sah.
A Ramlila actor the traditional attire of Ravana
Next is the operatic style incorporates elements of folk theatre elements generously, while the traditional style remains, where the couplets of Ramacharitmanas not only act as dialogues, but also as chorus as well, and lastly there is the Ramlila staged by professional troupes called "mandalis".[10] Many urban Ramilias now have dialogues written in Khadi Boli or in local dialects, but the treatment remains melodramatic as always to achieve maximum impact amidst an audience that knows the story by heart, but watches the enactment nevertheless for religious fervour and also for its spectacle value, making Ramlila an important event in the religious as well as social calendar of not only in small town and villages but also many big cities. Just other folk theatre form of India, like Jatra of Bengal, topic themes are often interwoven in the script to had relevance and sometimes humour is used to offer a critic or commentary over current happenings.
A unique staging of Ramlila, takes place at Chitrakoot, over five days every year during the last week of February, beginning from the Maha Shivratri day, here the episode of Bharat-Milap is of prime importance, and is watched by eager devotees.[11] The Ram Barat of Agra is another interesting tradition connected with Ramlila, where in during the three festivities, a marriage procession of Rama is taken through various localities of the city.
Delhi holds many prominent Ramlilas across the city, including the oldest one on the Ramlila Grounds, outside the historic Red Fort, it was started in times of Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar,[12] and in 2004, for the first time, Ramlila celebrations organised by Luv-Kush Ramlila Committee were telecast to over 100 countries, telecast on SADHNA TV.[13]
Ramlila at Ramnagar, Varanasi[edit]
The tradition of staging the Ramlila at Ramnagar, Varanasi, which lies across the Ganges river from the Hindu pilgrimage city of Varanasi, was started in ca 1830 by Maharaja Udit Narayan Singh, Kashi Naresh with the help of Pandit Laxmi Narayan Pandey's family (present vyas ji of the Ramlila of Ramnagar).[14][15] It rose in popularity during the reign of his successor Maharaj Isvari Prasad Singh, and received continued patronage from the subsequent Kings of the Royal House of Benares to create a participatory environmental theatre (Site-specific theatre) on a grand scale, where attendance ranges from few thousands to 100,000 for others.[16] The Ramlila is a cycle of plays which recounts the epic story of Lord Rama, as told in Ramcharitmanas, the version of the Ramayana penned by Tulsidas. The plays sponsored by the Maharaja, are performed in Ramnagar every evening for 31 days.[15]
Though several local legends exist regarding the beginning of this Ramlila, including one of which suggests that it was first staged at a nearby village, Chota Mirzapur as the one at Varanasi was disrupted due to the floods in the Ganges, from where it evolved to the present Ramlila, which is by far the most traditional rendition of the Ramayana, and has been a subject of study by scholars from all over the world for many decades now.[17]
The Ramnagar Ramlila is held over 31 days instead of usual 10, and is known for its lavish sets, dialogues and visual spectacle. Here permanent structures have been built and several temporary structure are also added, which serve as sets, to represent locations like Ashok Vatika, Janakpuri, Panchavati, Lanka etc., during the performance. Hence the entire city turn into a giant open-air set, and audience moves along with the performers with every episode, to the next locale. Preparations begin, weeks before its commencement, even the audition process is traditionally attended to by the Maharaja, where Svarupas, literally divine embodiment, the various characters of the Ramayana, are chosen from amongst local actors. Important roles are often inherited by families, for example, the role of Ravana was held by same family from 1835 to 1990, and roles of Hanuman, Jatayu, and Janaka traditionally belong to one Vyasa family.[18] When the Dussehra festivities are inaugurated with a colourful pageant Kashi Naresh rides an elephant at the head of the procession.[15] Then, resplendent in silk and brocade, he inaugurates the month long folk theatre of Ramlila at Ramnagar.[15] During the period, hundreds of sadhus called 'Ramayanis' descend into the town to watch and recite the Ramcharitmanas text. Many an audience carry a copy of the Ramacharit Manas, simply called Manas, and follow stanza after stanza, after the characters delivering their dialogue.[19][20]
During the course of the performance, there is a double transformation of the space within the city, as it first transforms from a city to theatre and then to mythic geography, as the scale of the performance is gradually increased to mythic proportions, coming down only in the end, when Rama finally returns home, this is when the Raja himself becomes part of the theatre thereby incorporating local element into the story itself. In the end, as the swarups, actors depart, they take off their garlands and offer it to Royal family members and give darshan to audience, after the performance one last time.[21] At the end of each episode, lila, an aarti is performed, chants of 'Har Har Mahadev' or 'Bolo! Raja Ramchandra ki Jai!' resound in the air, as the audience join in. Thereafter, a jhanki, literally a peep or glimpse, tableaux of frozen iconic moments from the 'Manas', is presented, which not only distill and crystallize the message of the story for the audience, but is also appreciated for its spectacular effect.[21]
On the last day the festivities reach a crescendo as Rama vanquishes the demon king Ravana.[15] Over a million pilgrims arrive annually for the vast processions and performances organized by Kashi Naresh.[22]
Format[edit]
Lead performers of a Ramlila troupe mandali, with the director, called vyasa
Traditionally organized in a makeshift open-air theatre at night, it is usually staged by amateur actors drawn from the same social grouping as the audience. There is often a singer (occasionally a priest) in the sidelines who recites relevant verses from the Ramayana during scene-changes or at moments of dramatic tension. These recitations and the narrative of the play are usually based on Ramacharitamanas, Gosvami Tulsidas' version of the Ramayana, in the Awadhi language, written in 16th century. The dialog is improvised, and often responsive to audience reactions. Dhol drummers and other musicians participate. The atmosphere is usually festive and free, with the audience whistling and commenting as the story proceeds.
In many rural areas, traditional venues for Ramlila have developed over the centuries, and hundreds of people will often make the trip nightly to attend the play. Surrounding areas temporarily transform into bazaars to cater to the audience. Depending on the region, interspersed breaks in the play can become impromptu talent shows for local society, and a de facto competition takes place between neighbouring Ram lilas, each vying to stage a more lavish production. Though the play itself is thematically religious, this social aspect often draws in people from non-Hindu segments of the community as well. Performance costs are usually financed by fundraising in the community, often by self-organized Ramlila Committees.
Geographic spread[edit]
Over the centuries, Ramlila has evolved into a highly venerated art form, and has travelled to far corners of the globe, through Indian diaspora, not as acts of "cultural recovery", rather as fresh expressions of a persistent faith. Today, Ramalila is staged in most countries that with immigrant Hindu populations from the Indian subcontinent, including that from India, Nepal and Pakistan. Outside the Indian subcontinent, this includes Fiji, Mauritius, South Africa, Canada, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Great Britain, The Netherlands, the United States, and Australia. Some Asian cultures have similar drama traditions based on the Ramayana, for instance the Phra Lak Phra Lam (Lak and Lam are the Laotian names for Lakshman and Ram, respectively) folkplay of Laos and northeastern Thailand.
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As promised two weeks ago, here is the time lapse video I made from the 12th street bridge in downtown Seattle. I apologize that it is not of the greatest quality as it was more of an experiment for me. Here is my HDR photo taken from the same night: www.flickr.com/photos/fresnatic/6023389640/
This video was an extreme challenge due to constant changes in the light due to the bright sun, dark foreground and changing light due to the sunset. You will see some brightening and darkening as the video proceeds as the exposure time kept needing to change as the sun set. What you will see is a lot of great motion on the freeways, but not much movement in the way of the clouds. I hope you like. I have a long way to go to perfect this, but it was fun to do!
I shot JPEG only here and the exposure times started at about 1/15 then progressed to about 12-15 seconds a piece to get the light trails. I then processed one photo in Lightroom and then used the "Sync" option to apply adjustments to the rest of the photos. Most adjustments were while the sky was still bright, which is why you will see some changes in the brightness of the sky as the video progresses.
I am now working on a time lapse I shot from Kerry Park yesterday afternoon. That one looks to be a bit more interesting as there is a lot of cloud movement. Hopefully I can have that for you in a couple of days.
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Managed by Catwalk Modeling Agency, Chi Ling Lin is one of the most recognized supermodels in Taiwan and has been dubbed by many as the number 1 beauty in Taiwan. Many have also voted her legs as the sexiest legs in Taiwan. Chi Ling was scouted on the streets when she was 15. Then she went to Canada and attended the Bishop Strachan School for her senior year of high school.
She was in attendance at the Chanel International Show in 1999.