#historic california

[helena-bottom-farter]

The Carson Mansion, Eureka, CA in 1902

[the-hometown-aesthetic]

[anyikis]

Knapp's Cabin, Kings Canyon National Park

These are the kind of abandoned and unused historical buildings that really captivate me. Rough around the edges and showing their age.

Pictures by me, click on 'em of you want better quality

[puppetmaker40]

Having worked at a historical site, I wish I had thought of this. Credit to the California parks division for this great way of telling people not to sit on the Furniture without telling them so

[sacrificial1-lamb]

🕯️ 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑎 𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑙𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑢𝑟𝑐ℎ, 𝑏𝑜𝑑𝑒𝑔𝑎 𝑐𝑎

𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛 35𝑚𝑚 𝑐𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑖𝑙𝑚

[emaadsidiki]

The untouched wilderness of the Big Sur 🌊

[vintagehomecollection]

The Cottage Book, 1989

[mur-art]

Can you do more caliyork please??

Trying to think of some scenarios for their first meeting! This is probably on the more cheesy OOC side but I’d like to think they initially bonded because New York actually followed through on his promise and got to know California as a person instead of focusing on the shallow things, like everyone else did.

More rambling and alt text under the cut:

Not to get too deep into the history, but…

New York at this time had a reputation much like California does today; a bastion of progressive-for-the-era ideals— including women’s suffrage, abolitionism, labor rights, and various new and experimental social movements. There was a lot of immigration and urban poverty. I think New York definitely has a soft, compassionate side, and he saw the danger California was in— growing too quickly for his own good and being exploited for his resources— and saw something of himself in that. Initially it was a protective, big brother type instinct, but it (quickly) grew to be something more.

Alt Text:

Panel 1:

New York: “Good to finally meet you, California!”

California: “New York, I know why you came here… gold.”

New York: “…wait!”

Panel 2:

New York: “Hey, I’m not here for your stupid shiny rocks, okay?

…I’m here to get to know YOU. All of you.”

[cpleblow]

Point Reyes Lighthouse

©cpleblow (2016)

(shot prior to $5.7 million restoration)

[somethingfromnothingsuddenly]

Winchester, CA

[clove-pinks]

The Jewish American businessman and Prussian immigrant Harris Newmark, with a relative c. 1850s (from Sixty Years in Southern California).

Incidentally, this is the source of the portrait on Myer J. Newmark's Wikipedia page.

[mypastnow]

[carbone14]

Parade en l'honneur du Général George S. Patton – Los Angeles – Californie – 9 juin 1945

©National Archives and Records Administration - 535941

[postcard-from-the-past]

Underground opium den in the Chinatown of San Francisco, California, US

American vintage postcard

[wandering-jana]

Mission San Diego de Alcalá, founded in 1769.

San Diego, California

Oct. 2018

[fisarmonical]

Hunter Thompson in Big Sur, 1961 Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author. He rose to prominence with the publication of Hell's Angels (1967), a book for which he spent a year living with the Hells Angels motorcycle club to write a first-hand account of their lives and experiences. In 1970, he wrote an unconventional article titled "The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved" for Scanlan's Monthly, which further raised his profile as a countercultural figure. It also set him on the path to establishing his own subgenre of New Journalism that he called "Gonzo", a journalistic style in which the writer becomes a central figure and participant in the events of the narrative. (Source: Wikipedia)