#osceola

[deadmotelsusa]

The former Elms Plaza Motel of Osceola, Iowa is now a private residence.

[thislovintime]

Photo by Henry Diltz (in a screenshot from VH1 Behind The Music).

“[Post-Monkees, Peter was part of] a San Francisco-based rock band named Osceola. ‘That was a name full of significance,’ he said. ‘Osceola was chief of the Seminoles, the only tribe never to have surrendered to the federal government.’ Tork said he identifies strongly with that kind of defiance. ‘All of my early life was spent feeling out of whack. Physically I matured late and never was very athletic and always found myself on the short end of the stick. I was raised in a liberal family in the middle of the McCarthy era.’ Against those odds, Tork inevitably developed an inferiority complex that he carried into adulthood and his musical career. When he became one of four young men chosen out of 437 applicants to become what were supposed to be the ‘American Beatles,’ his self-doubt grew to mammoth proportions. ‘Half of the time I would think I didn't deserve it and the other half I would think I was God's gift to the children. I got my head turned around. It was the "arrogant doormat' syndrome low self-esteem combined with arrogance.’” - The Daily Oklahoman, November 11, 1983

[luvluvexorcist]

Lucy Yang: We all have our demons.

Osceola, grabbing Rin: This one’s mine!

[unteriors]

E Louis Street, Osceola, Indiana.

[glowingcritter]

Portrait of Seminole leader Asi-yahola by George Carlin, 1838

[trainmaniac]

Crossing the St Croix by ~Zack Bovitz Via Flickr: GN 325 crosses over the St Croix River on a now disabled swing bridge, outside of Osceola

[transfloridaresources]

December 30, 2023, 1PM Kissimmee, FL

[Photo ID: Color graphic of the Palestinian flag above a group of pro-Palestine protestors. Text reads: 'Osceola Protest for Palestine! Join us as we march and demand for a permanent ceasefire! Date: Saturday, December 30th. Time: 1PM. Location: 201 Lakeview Dr, Kissimmee, FL 34741. Come wearing any or all colors from the Palestinian flag! Florida Palestinian Network.' /End ID]

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[kazehana23]

Honestly enjoying in drafting the comic for Osceola.

Killed my hand when I did this lol.

Did I forget to post this no I didn’t

[amarajadexo]

a walk through the trail

[radovanrybovic]

Next steps on small side western project Osceola and Tuko-See-Mathla, Semiole chieftains. Blacks and base color definition. 💂🏻📯🖌👁 Dalsie kroky na malom bocnom westernovom projekte Osceola a Tuko-See-Mathla, nacelnici Semiolov. Cierna a farebna definicia bejziek. . . . . #frenchindianwar #seminolewars #tukoseemathla #osceola #miniature #miniatures #miniatureconversion #miniaturepainting #miniatureart #napoleonic #napoleonicwars #napoleonicwargames #28mmwargaming #28mm #28mmminiatures #workinprogress #wip #acrylicpainting #acrylic #blackpowder #warlordgames #paintingwarlord #paintingwarlordminiatures #westernmovie #wildwestguns #wipthursday https://www.instagram.com/p/CnCZH9eNgq0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[manwalksintobar]

Dear Deborah // Deborah Ager

They tell me that your heart has been found in Iowa, pumping along Interstate 35. Do you want it back? When the cold comes on this fast, it's Iowa again— where pollen disperses evenly on the dented Fords, where white houses sag by the town's corn silos, where people in the houses sicken on corn dust. Auctions sell entire farms. It's not the auctions that's upsetting but what they sell, the ragged towel or the armless doll, for a dollar. I hear they've found an eye of yours in Osceola calling out to your mouth in Davis City. That mouth of yours is in the bar, the only place left in town, slow dancing and smoking. It's no wonder you look so pale. Ever wish you'd done more with your thirty years? Seeing you last week I wonder if you crave that sky filled with the milky way or the sight of Amish girls in blue at sunset against wheat-colored prairie grass. Here, the trees are full of gossip. They're waiting to see what you'll do next.

[aryburn-trains]

CB&Q Nebraska Zephyr eastbound at Osceola, IA. July, 1967

[thislovintime]

(Photo 1) Rehearsals for the Australia and Japan tour, 1968; (photos 2 & 3) 1970s, photographer unnamed.

1970s:

Q: "When you left that project [The Monkees], was it just the foresight of seeing a sinking ship, and you thought it was time to bail? Peter Tork: "No, I had no idea [whether] it was going to die or not. I didn’t have enough experience to consider the question. Obviously in retrospect the TV show was the driving factor for everything! And without the TV show the thing was nothing. But basically no. I just wanted out because I didn’t like hanging out with those guys primarily because of the music aspect of things. You know, we did the 'HEADQUARTERS' thing and Micky said that he didn’t want to do it again, what he said was 'You can’t go back,' which was pure self-history, and just all a joke. Micky just says what comes to mind when he doesn’t want to do something. He will not tell you why, and all he’ll do is just throw up a lot of smoke. Davy on the other hand said that he didn’t want to do it because he was just banging a tambourine. We’re doing fifty seven takes of the same song working on arrangements. He’s got his part down take number two! And he was sick of banging a tambourine while the rest of us hassled over our parts, and he said his arm couldn’t take it (laughs). He didn’t want to do it anymore, and so you couldn’t argue with that. Mike wants to be the boss, basically Mike is 'my way, or the highway' and there’s no room for discussion in his cosmos. And Mike basically didn’t want to join the group. He wanted to be in charge, and all I ever wanted was to be a member of a group. And after 'Headquarters' we had this moment when we tried it out and it worked okay more or less, but we didn’t seem to have whatever it took to sustain it. So I quit to pursue music for better or for worse and of course nothing was heard from me again for twenty or thirty years or something." Q: "A lot of people followed every move you made though." PT: They may have but you know, some of my great musical triumphs in between time were on fairly small scales. I tore the house down in Fairfax California..." Q: "Fairfax!" PT: "Fairfax! I lived in the Fairfax area… actually San Anselmo, but Fairfax was the base. I was in the Fairfax street choir, and I worked at the Sleeping Lady Cafe. I was in a group called Asiola [sic - Osceola] with the late Chuck Vincent, and we played the ballrooms from time to time. I tore the house down when I played the Sleeping Lady one time with just a pick-up band… tore it up. It was great! You know, but it was a small scale triumph and I didn’t know how to parlay that into anything more significant." Q: "Did you ever record any of that stuff?" PT: "I did make one tape. I don’t have a copy of it though anymore." Q: "No?" PT: "I don’t have a copy of it anymore." Q: "There goes the anthology." PT: "Yep. (laughs)" - steve-escobar dot com

"[Peter] was a really good musician and I remember him playing at the Lady. […] I’ve heard some of his live stuff on tape that he did at the Sleeping Lady and was blown away by how great he really was as a musician.” - Marla Hunt Hanson, Facebook, January 3, 2021 (x)

More about the Sleeping Lady, and Peter's gigs there (including some ads from 1973, in an older post.

[luvluvexorcist]

Lucy Yang: Everyone, calm down! We're grown-ups, let's deal with this like adults!

Cheng-Long Liu: So, we're just going to wing it and hope for the best?

Lucy Yang: Obviously. Now, Osceola, pass the shovel.

[neareport]

Life In Prison for Man Convicted of Capital Murder in Osceola

OSCEOLA, Ark. — Prosecuting Attorney Sonia Hagood of the Second Judicial Circuit today announced the conviction of Reggie Matthews for capital murder in the tragic death of Tiana Robinson. Following a jury trial held from September 24 to September 26, 2024 with the Honorable Daniel Ritchey presiding, the jury found Matthews guilty of capital murder. Judge Ritchey then sentenced Matthews to life…

[paulpingminho]