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San Diego to LA and Little Tokyo, 10 Sept 2016
With my two days of work at the San Diego office finished, on Saturday, 10 Sept, we headed north to LA. We did not want to have to get up at 5 in the morning to catch the Surfliner that would connect with the Starlight on Sunday morning, so instead we had a leisurely breakfast, got packed, turned in the rental car and got a cab to the San Diego rail station.
Trackwork had the Surf Line closed south of Oceanside, so we had a bus connection out of San Diego. It would not leave for another 2 hours or so and it was lunchtime, so on the advice of the person at the station information booth, we headed for the waterfront to get some food. A pedicab driver saw us and we rode both ways in the back of a pedicab....possibly the first time I'd done so since India in 1980, although Anne had ridden one in San Francisco a few months back.
USS San Diego, LPD-22, seagulls and boats were the view out the restaurant window as we enjoyed fresh seafood. USS Midway, CV-41 was on display a few blocks south, but we did not get close enough for photos. Something for another trip.
The bus ride to Oceanside was thankfully brief, then we caught Surfliner 583 pushed by F59 460 to LA. The train was on time...the bus connection had left about 20 minutes before the train was due out. I shot a few photos out the front cab car window, including a meet with a southbound Surfliner.
From LA Union Station, we took the Gold Line a half mile to the Little Tokyo stop and checked into our hotel, which had an excellent Japanese restaurant. After dinner, I wandered around Little Tokyo snapping photos while Anne relaxed in the room. Little Tokyo was fun and while I briefly considered hopping over to Union Station, I wound up staying and getting night shots of the city.
The Mossman River in Nth QLD was named by explorer Dalrymple in 1873 after Hugh Mosman. Note the spelling change! He was a white cattle station man whose Aboriginal servant Jupiter Mosman discovered gold at Charters Towers in late 1871. Jupiter Mosman, Hugh Mosman (his father started Mosman farm in Sydney), James Fraser and George Clarke registered the first find. Jupiter Mosman discovered a nugget of gold on Towers Hill. The mining site and town was named after the QLD Gold Commissioner Mr W. Charters. Jupiter Mosman died in 1945. His employer Hugh Mosman fared well from gold and left a big legacy to his descendants. The main street of Charters Towers is called Mosman Street. Jupiter was born in 1861. In the late 1860s he was taken to Hugh Mosman’s station in the west. He took on Hugh Mosman’s surname and worked as his servant. Jupiter was sent to school and christened a Catholic with the of name Jupiter. Hugh Mosman and his white companions made a fortune from gold mining in Charters Towers. Hugh’s company was the North Australian Mine and later he added the Victoria Gold Mining Company. He also owned the Rise and Shine ore crushing mill. When Hugh Mosman left Charters Towers in 1891 Jupiter went too and worked for Hugh’s brother Archie droving cattle. A large boomerang shaped monument was erected in 1997 to the memory of Jupiter Mosman in Lissner Park with its picturesque rotunda. Before his death locals petitioned the Queensland government to allow Jupiter Mosman to be cared for in a local nursing home because Aboriginals were not allowed to be cared for with white Queenslanders at that time. Archie Mosman, the brother of Hugh Mosman inherited much of the fortune that Hugh had amassed from gold at Charters Towers. Hugh never married. Archie had children with an Aboriginal woman. In Hugh Mosman’s will valued at £70,000 in 1909, Archie was left a life time’s right to a sixth of Hugh’s estate. It was not until 1977 that Archie’s Aboriginal descendants were granted their entitlement to their white father’s estate by a Queensland Court! Unfairly Jupiter received nothing from Hugh Mosman’s will.
A gold rush to Charters Towers began in 1872 and was extended by the discovery of the Day Dawn reef in 1879 and the Brilliant reef in 1889. The arrival of the railway from Townsville in 1882 helped bring investors and capital to the gold mining companies of Charters Towers. In the 1870s Charters Towers had a population of about 30,000 people and was the largest city outside of Brisbane. So much money flowed through the town that it was colloquially called “The World”. In 1886 miners took the city to the world - at the 1886 Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London. They set up a display of mining and ore crushing and they accepted £1 shares in various mining companies that operated in the town. It was a great success. One company is an example- Day Dawn Block and Wyndham- they received almost £500,000 in paid up shares to finance their future mining work! This exhibition put Charters Towers on the world map and was the first time London investors invested directly in Australian mines rather than through a London based share broking company or finance company. Some of the companies were duds but most were not. Charters Towers Stock Exchange gave British investors the chance to invest directly in the gold mines. The boom of the 1880s built offices, shops and the Stock Exchange. Between 1891 and 1896 the gold mines at Charters Towers were the most productive mine in the Australian colonies .But in 1896 many miners rode off to WA goldfields in search of more gold and the town stumbled in its growth. But a peak year for Charters Towers was 1899 when it got one third of all its gold from cyaniding the discarded dumps. Although mining by companies ceased in 1917 a few miners worked the old mines and overburden dumps during the Great Depression.
The first Post Office opened in 1871 and Charters Towers became a municipality in 1877 with its first mayor. The historic Venus Battery to crush and extract gold was established in 1872 and operated until 1971 when it became a museum which is now closed. Gold mining ceased in 1917 but the city survived and thrived. Its population dropped from 22,000 in 1901 to less than 6,000 in 1921. Between 1871 and 1917 over 200 tonnes of gold was extracted from Towers Hill. The gold ore was especially rich and produced 50% more gold from its ores than what the Victorians got from their ores and 75% more than what the Western Australian goldfields of the 19th century got from their ores. Charters Towers today has around 30 heritage listed buildings and it has a thriving tourism industry and beef industry and around 8,000 inhabitants. Since 2006 Citigold Company has recommenced gold mining outside of the town.
First time watching (and photographing) the sport of mushing. Didn't even know this was the word for it in English until a couple of minutes ago. Lots of noise, dogs, dog poo/ pee and wet dog smell. Still, a good day in the slopes of Spåtinn, Oppland, Norway though. Lots of people in the crowd.
it felt pretty good,
the shop assistant was great, explaining how simple it was to use.
if only i had an excuse to get one, it felt like well resolved, solid & contemporary.
dmc
Auckland
No kidding.. I was initially nervous until the needle went in and I didn't feel a thing (it hurt more when the doctor pricked my finger to test my blood). This was for Chi's dad.
proud to present Ms. Lucy Elizabeth China Hobbs - The first image in the first few moments of a new life - "531 Peoples Liberation Army Hospital"
5:03pm - August 2, 2005
Jeremy's jeep and me with my muddy liberty. We had just stopped to go back into 2wd. First time my jeep got muddy. :)
Dit is een patroon dat eerste keer Tiffanisten kunnen maken in hun allereerste workshop die vier uur duurt. De ontwerpjes zijn zo gekozen dat ze goed te verwerken zijn voor de ongeoefende hand.
Dit is een patroon dat eerste keer Tiffanisten kunnen maken in hun allereerste workshop die vier uur duurt. De ontwerpjes zijn zo gekozen dat ze goed te verwerken zijn voor de ongeoefende hand.
Trying out my new atom 95x for the first time.
Too bad I forgot to tighten the wheels and it was too fast for my novice skills... had to use the break all the time so I wouldn't fall.
The first time ever I saw your face.....
I thought the sun rose in your eyes....
Amarah meets her first girl.... Sky Rosetta. (We have no idea where she came up with Rosetta! lol)