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Day #338 of 366 (03/12/2012).
Camera: HP Android.
Location: Pandak Bandung.
Tukang cukur langganan. Seorang pensiunan angkatan darat yg sudah pensiun beberapa tahun lalu. Asli Blitar tapi ia memilih mengisi masa pensiunnya tinggal di Bali. "Sudah kadung suka dengan suasananya," kata bapak yg masih energik ini.
Gede A Setiawan
(gedeasetiawan@yahoo.com)
Last Saturday, the children traditionally visited Facts, a fair in Ghent comparable to ComiCon. After working on great cosplay costumes for a few months, we drove to Ghent. Finally, after an hour and a half of standing in traffic jams, they moved into the exhibition halls.
Heidi and I had decided in advance to explore the surroundings of Ghent this time. After another half hour in traffic jams, we were able to leave the site and drove towards the harbor.
The "Captain Zeppos Park" (look for our album "Kapitein Zeppospark")was our first stop. This is a former inner dock that has now been turned into a park. A small playground, a beach on the water where swimming is not allowed, an old harbor crane that functions as a landmark and some old quay walls. A nice place.
Autumn has now fully erupted here. This makes it rain, strong winds, ... . In short, no weather to chase a dog through. As a result, we searched for some nice places to visit via Google Maps. Places with a roof over our heads. Yet our attention was drawn to a special place.
A former execution site of the Nazis. We couldn't resist visiting this place. With a large umbrella in one hand and my mobile phone in the other, I managed to take some pictures. The inclement weather contributed greatly to the experience of the place.
Quote from Wikipedia:
The Execution Centre Rieme-Oostakker is the place in the Ghent borough of Oostakker where 66 resistance fighters were executed by the German occupiers between 8 February 1943 and 24 August 1944.
Here the memory of the 20 resistance fighters who died at rieme's execution site is also kept alive. That site had to disappear in 1998 because of the construction of the Kluizendok of the port of Ghent. The whole has been transferred to the border area between Oostakker and Lochristi.
The executions were carried out in secret and the victims were buried anonymously. A number of the resistance fighters killed in Rieme were found in a mass grave in Hechtel-Eksel. In addition, German soldiers and Belgian criminals were also executed. Due to these circumstances, it is still unclear how many people died. After the Liberation, the mass grave in Oostakker was uncovered. The victims were identified and buried in their residences. The crosses on the site therefore have a symbolic meaning. Yet the execution site is also a cemetery: in 1952 the remains of 15 West Flemish political prisoners beheaded in Munich were interred.
The Postcard
A Plastichrome Colourpicture postcard that was published by the Lebanon Valley News Co. of Lebanon, Pa., with photography was by S. Fredman. The following is printed on the back of the card:
'Lebanon Treadway Inn,
Cocktail Lounge.
Modern 130 room inn located
10 minutes from Pennsylvania
Turnpike.
Banquet & conference rooms,
dining room, cocktail lounge,
swimming pool, wading pool,
hotel-motel facilities.'
The card was posted in Gloucester Point, Virginia using stamps totalling 21 cents on the 22nd. July 1976. It was sent to:
Mrs. Freda Nathan,
Flat 19,
Heathfield,
Lyttelton Road,
London N2,
England.
The message on the divided back of the card was as follows:
"21st. July '76,
Dear Mrs. Nathan,
I am writing a letter to you
in the USA. I visited some
of my Japanese friends in
New Jersey and two of my
American teachers.
The USA has a different
beauty from England,
In Penn. I enjoyed Dutch
food very much. Now I am
staying at Gloucester Point
in Virginia.
Tomorrow I am going to
Washington and then going
back to London again.
I hope I'll see you in August.
N."
The Treadway Inn
Building started on the Lebanon Treadway Inn in May 1959. It opened for business on the 31st. December 1960, offering the area its first ultra-modern hotel.
The hotel has since passed through a number of hands: it became a Rodeway Inn/Clarion Hotel. Then it was a Hammock Hotel, and since 2022 it is a Days Inn by Wyndham.
Current owner Mihir Patel and his partners officially took control of the inn in July 2022 for just under $9,000 in a sheriff’s proceeding following the property going into receivership.
A mortgage loan of over $4 million is attached to the property. Patel said that it involved debt fees and other conditional issues.
Patel said that he and his partners had no ties to the previous owners, and saw the building as a great investment with a great history.
He acknowledged the hotel had been run down for quite some time, but said that it’s now working within a fine business model (a Wyndham-backed brand), with all of its rooms being brought up to date.
Down the line, the Days Inn might even bring back a bar or office space like at the Treadway of yore, and a rebooted banquet hall could be in the works too. But that’s all for later. For now, Patel said his No. 1 priority is getting the rooms updated.
Patel said:
“They don’t build them like this
anymore. So much storage space.
It just needs some love.”
An Assassination in Dublin
So what else happened on the day that the card was written?
Well, on Wednesday the 21st. July 1976, a bomb placed by the Irish Republican Army killed Christopher Ewart-Biggs, the British Ambassador to Ireland, as well as his secretary, Judith Cooke.
Ewart-Biggs had been picked up at the British ambassador's official residence on the southern outskirts of Dublin, and was 150 yards (140 m) from his home when the vehicle ran over the mine packed with at least 50 pounds (23 kg) of explosives at 9:32 in the morning.
The Ambassador and Britain's Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, Brian Cubbon, were on their way to a meeting with Irish Foreign Minister Garret FitzGerald.
The bomb itself had been placed in a culvert beneath the road, and was detonated from 200 yards (180 m) away by three men. Cubbon and the chauffeur of the Jaguar limousine, Brian O'Driscoll, were injured.
Ewart-Biggs had become the Ambassador only two weeks earlier, and was only 54 years old at the time of his assassination.
Colour Photographs From Mars
Also on that day, the first-ever color photographs of Mars (as opposed to the black and white pictures sent the day before) were transmitted from the Viking 1 lander the day after its arrival on the planet.
The photographs confirmed that the soil and rocks were a reddish color, similar to rust. The more surprising discovery was that the sky on Mars was light blue, which American scientists believed was from a high amount of dust and water vapor in the thin Martian atmosphere.
An Execution in Bangladesh
The day also marked the death at the age of 37 of Lieutenant Colonel Abu Taher.
Taher, who was a Bangladesh Army officer, was hanged for treason for attempting a coup d'état in November 1975.
Elton John
Also on the 21st. July 1976, the Number One chart hit record in the UK was 'Don't Go Breaking My Heart' by Elton John & Kiki Dee.
As we were walking in this really gorgeous area of the Memorial site, I was struck by the beauty and peace of it. Then I realized that this is where the SS were executing some prisoners using pistol, and I started to cold shiver...
"Executions through shots in the back of the neck were carried out at an earthen wall or in a ditch. In the Fall of 1944 the SS shot 92 Soviet officers, members of a resistance organization."
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Germany. 24Jun2010
Sept. 22, 2011---The day after the state of Georgia murdered Troy Davis, an innocent man--Boston,Mass. protest against the death penalty.
*miniature wax carving of face; body of moveable limbs action figure
p.s. the head one of several dozen was carved in the early 90's
Executions of prisoners in the Small Fortress began in 1943. A total of 250 to 300 prisoners were shot dead without a court sentence. The biggest execution took place on May 2, 1945. As many as 52 people, mostly members of the Czech resistance groups (e.g. Predvoj or Vanguard) were killed. The gallows were used just once for the hanging of 3 prisoners. A passageway through the embankment leads to the mass graves.
FILE - This July 25, 2014 photo shows bottles of the sedative midazolam at a hospital pharmacy in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma is one of three states where executions have gone awry this year using midazolam as part of a two- or three-drug lethal injection process. Officials in Texas and Missouri, two of the most active death penalty places, are confident in the use of their single drug pentobarbital and show no willingness to slow down. (AP Photo/File)
It is rumored that the lighthouse's site got its name before the American Revolutionary War when British colonial authorities executed people by chaining them to the rocks at low tide, allowing the rising water to drown them.
Execution Rocks Light is a lighthouse in the middle of Long Island Sound on the border between New Rochelle and Sands Point, New York. It stands 55 feet tall, with a white light flashing every 10 seconds. The granite tower is painted white with a brown band around the middle. It has an attached stone keeper's house which has not been inhabited since the light was automated in 1979.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2007 as Execution Rocks Light Station.
Last Saturday, the children traditionally visited Facts, a fair in Ghent comparable to ComiCon. After working on great cosplay costumes for a few months, we drove to Ghent. Finally, after an hour and a half of standing in traffic jams, they moved into the exhibition halls.
Heidi and I had decided in advance to explore the surroundings of Ghent this time. After another half hour in traffic jams, we were able to leave the site and drove towards the harbor.
The "Captain Zeppos Park" (look for our album "Kapitein Zeppospark")was our first stop. This is a former inner dock that has now been turned into a park. A small playground, a beach on the water where swimming is not allowed, an old harbor crane that functions as a landmark and some old quay walls. A nice place.
Autumn has now fully erupted here. This makes it rain, strong winds, ... . In short, no weather to chase a dog through. As a result, we searched for some nice places to visit via Google Maps. Places with a roof over our heads. Yet our attention was drawn to a special place.
A former execution site of the Nazis. We couldn't resist visiting this place. With a large umbrella in one hand and my mobile phone in the other, I managed to take some pictures. The inclement weather contributed greatly to the experience of the place.
Quote from Wikipedia:
The Execution Centre Rieme-Oostakker is the place in the Ghent borough of Oostakker where 66 resistance fighters were executed by the German occupiers between 8 February 1943 and 24 August 1944.
Here the memory of the 20 resistance fighters who died at rieme's execution site is also kept alive. That site had to disappear in 1998 because of the construction of the Kluizendok of the port of Ghent. The whole has been transferred to the border area between Oostakker and Lochristi.
The executions were carried out in secret and the victims were buried anonymously. A number of the resistance fighters killed in Rieme were found in a mass grave in Hechtel-Eksel. In addition, German soldiers and Belgian criminals were also executed. Due to these circumstances, it is still unclear how many people died. After the Liberation, the mass grave in Oostakker was uncovered. The victims were identified and buried in their residences. The crosses on the site therefore have a symbolic meaning. Yet the execution site is also a cemetery: in 1952 the remains of 15 West Flemish political prisoners beheaded in Munich were interred.