#pacific ave

[doo-wop-city]

Stella Star at Le Voyageur

This is the 395th Doo Wop City post. We’re only 5 posts away from the Doo Wop City 400th Post Spectacular! Be sure not to miss it! As a stewardess, I enjoy being a world voyager. Its only appropriate that I pay tribute to Le Voyageur (French for The Voyager). These photos were taken on Sunday, August 25th, 1968. (…Or, was that 2024?) Here I am, outside the front of Le Voyageur, with its massive…

[savage-kult-of-gorthaur]

EMPEROR, TERROR, WARLORD, MASTER OF THE AVIAN SKIES -- IF GOD HIMSELF WERE A BIRD.

PIC INFO: Resolution at 1240×1870 -- Spotlight on ornithologist Jerry McGahan holding a 6 month old Andean Condor, the largest flying bird on the planet. Picture taken in 1971.

EXTRA INFO: The Andean Condor is one of the largest flying birds in the world as its wings spread more than 9 feet from tip to tip. Condors can soar and glide for hours without beating their wings, reaching speeds of 55 mph.

Sources: www.reddit.com/r/TheWayWeWere/comments/ibocxz, X, various, etc...

[evershifting]

Dragon Booster Figure Search

Hello the few dragon booster fans that might see this I am in DESPRATE need to get myself a wyldfyr and kitt figure. I can't currently find any for listing. BOX CONDITION DOESNT MATTER! I just need the figures to be in decent condition. I'll even take it if some non important parts are missing. If you know anyone who has one or find a listing where I can't id be internally thankful. If it helps These figures will be well love and brought to the grave with me <333

[nicolasfolch]

Urubu (en Chile, Jote), región de Valparaíso.

"A tragos insomnes fue el aprendizaje / del canelo y su memoria" (Adriana Pinda, fragmento)

[oldshowbiz]

Selma and Wilcox in Hollywood: As seen in an Elvis Presley movie versus today.

[remembertheplunge]

How terribly strange to be 70

June 9th, 1991

Dad’s last day of his 60’s." How terribly strange to be 70” (From the song Old Friends” by Simon and Garfunkel”.

I think that giving him  gifts was tough because it represents a letting go. 70 is a good bye girl year. Zoe said “it will be hard to be without him.” Enough of that.He could have many good years ahead of him.

Monday June 10, 1991

Dad’s 70th birthday. I was happy to hear tonight that Dad was kicking around and content tonight. Dan and Matt went out to see him. Dad and Mom are at Harris Ranch tonight. I’m glad. “He  (Dad) wasn’t mean like usual. He was loose.” Dan said. Interesting that Zoe and Dan both pick up on the same cruelty strain running through Mom. Running through Dad. So lonely thinking you are the only one who sees it.. 

End of this part of the entry

Note:

Zoe is my sister, Dan is my brother and Matt is Dan’s Wife's son.

Harris Ranch was a resort in Coalinga, California

I’m 68 years old now. I was 35 years old when I wrote the above entrie. Simon and Garfunle were probably younger than that when they wrote “Old Friends”. In the song, they portray the 70 year old friends as being old men  reduced to sitting on a park bench in the cold.

I don’t know about 70, but 68 is vibrant and alive. My body thinks it’s 19 and that’ how I ROLL. However, I was sitting in a court room in Stockton today aware that I was so much older than almost any of the 40 or so other people in the room. It’s an odd feeling. 

Today I drove to Pacific avenue in Stockton. I used to haunt the part of it called “The Miracle Mile.” I would do my journaling there.

Empresso Coffee house was in the lobby of an old theater. It had a funky old charm to it. It had a stand up piano that anyone could play.

Kitty- corner to it was a theater in which plays and musicals were performed. Every October they put on a performance of Rocky Horror Picture Show. I went to see it a few times.

When I arrived today, 10/3/2023,  I found that the theater that housed the coffee house had been torn down , and only large chunks of debris and rubble remained.(the coffee house had closed about 5 years ago). The theater kitty- corner where I had watched Rocky Horror had been converted into a Karate studio.

This is what 68 feels like. The things and people and places from the stage of your life  begin to disappear. They are replaced by absences. My life, now, is defined by it’s absences. The world has grown quieter. 

But, the rich glow of the past remains.

I stood briefly in front of the new Star Bucks which is across the street from the old Empresso Coffee House and just was with the essence of the coffee house and the theater, and those times.

And then I returned to court.

[ifelten]

Stillehavslom (Gavia pacifica), 1K

Pacific Loon (Gavia pacifica), 1CY

[directactionforhope]

Late notice but

Today 10/5 is an international day of action protesting one year of the Gaza genocide!

Find a protest near you today or tomorrow 10/6! If you're in the US, look at the links below, from the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights!

October 5, 2024

Note: Tumblr has capped the number of outgoing links you can use in one post. Go to the USCPR link above and click on a protest for a flyer/organizer info for each and every one of these events.

Albany, NY | 4:30PM Dana Park

Albuquerque, NM | 2PM Robinson Park

Amherst, MA | Amherst Town Common

Anchorage, AK | 2PM Townsquare Park

Atlanta, GA | 2PM 190 Marietta SW

Austin, TX | 1PM Austin City Hall

Birmingham, AL | 2PM Victoria Square

Blacksburg, VA | 3PM Pylons

Boston, MA | 2PM Cambridge City Hall

Burlington, VT | 1PM Battery Park

Charleston, SC | 2PM Marion Square Park

Chicago, IL | 2PM Water Tower Park

Cleveland, OH | 3PM 11804 Lorain Ave

Columbus, OH | 2PM Goodale Park

Corvallis, OR | 12 NOON County Courthoue

Dallas, TX | 12PM The Grassy Knoll

Denver, CO | 12PM 400 Josephine St

Detroit, MI | 2PM 5 Woodward Ave, Detroit

Dover, DE | 12 NOON 250 Gateway S Blvd

Fort Myers, FL | 6PM Centennial Park

Gainseville, FL | 2PM City Hall

Honolulu, HI | 11AM Ala Moana & Atkinson

Houston, TX | 2PM Houston City Hall

Indianapolis, IL |  2PM Lugar Plaza

Kansas City | 1PM Mill Creek Park

Kona, HI | 12:30PM Old airport by the skating rink

Las Vegas, NV | 2PM 3449 S Sammy Davis Jr Dr

Little Rock, AK | 4PM 1200 Main St

Los Angeles, CA | 2PM Pershing Square

Louisville, KY | 3PM Water Front Park

Maui, HI | 11AM Kapuka’ulua (Baldwin Beach)

Memphis, TN | 2PM City Hall

Miami, FL | 5PM Torch of Friendship

Milwaukee, WI | 2PM Zedler Union Square Park

Missoula, MT | 7PM 200 W Broadway

Nashville, TN | 2PM Centennial Park

New York, NY | 2PM Times Square

New Haven, CT | 1PM New Haven Green

New Orleans, LA | 5PM Congo Square

Ottawa, Ontario | 2PM Parliment Hill

Orlando, FL | 4PM Orlando City Hall

Pensacola, FL | 5PM Palafox & Gregorary St.

Pittsburgh, PA | Film screening, 3PM 100 S Commons St.

Portland, ME | 5PM Monument Square

Portland, OR | 3PM Unthank Park

Providence, RI | 3PM RI State House steps & 5:30PM 1 Finance Way

Raleigh, NC | 3PM Moore Square

Rochester, NY | 1PM MLK Park

Sacramento, CA | 2PM West steps of the Capitol

Salt Lake City, UT | 2PM 125 S State St

San Antonio, TX | 1PM Travis Park

San Diego, CA | 2:00PM 1600 Pacific Highway

Seattle, WA | 2PM TBA, with car caravans from Spokane, Pasco, Ellensburg

St. Louis, MO | Liberation weekend, 9AM-8PM 475 East Lockwood Ave

Tampa, FL | 2PM Bank of America Plaza

Toronto, Ontario | 2PM Yonge Dundas Square

Urbana, IL | 2PM 101 E Main St

Ventura, CA | 2PM 501 Poli St

Washington, DC | 4PM White House

West Plains, MO | 12 NOON Downtown Square

Wichita, KS | 12:30PM Spirit Aerosystems

October 6, 2024

Amityville, NY | 1PM LIRR

Boston, MA | 1PM Boston Common

Green Bay, WI | 5:30PM Leicht Memorial Park

Los Angeles, CA | Vigil, 6:30PM Echo Park Lake

Minneapolis, MN | 1:30PM Gateway Park Fountain

Ontario, CA | 1PM Euclid & C St

Paterson, NJ | 2PM Palestine Way with Gould Avenue

Roanoke, VA | Vigil, 6PM Heights Community Church courtyard

San Diego, CA | 4PM Centro Cultural de La Raza

San Francisco, CA | 1PM 16th & Valencia

San Jose, CA | 12 NOON City Hall

St. Louis, MO | 1PM Choteau Park

[doo-wop-city]

Stella Star's Among The Cars, Part 7

Part 6 Part 5 Part 4 Part 3 Part 2 Part 1 Autumn has returned to Doo Wop City. Much as we love the tourists, in September, we locals revel in cruising our cars throughout the island along the spacious, non-congested roads. Stella was strolling about Pacific Avenue, enjoying the cars in town that are destined to one day become classics. These pictures were taken on May 13th, 1967. (…Or, was…

[briery]

deadstrangeblog​: Endemic to the Wolf and Darwin Galápagos Islands, the Vampire Ground Finch is a rare bird that drinks the blood of other living birds. During times of extreme drought, this unusual blood-drinking behaviour is crucial in the finch’s survival.

[scottpartridge]

Goshawks, American (left) and Eurasian (right), formerly one species, the Northern Goshawk, but split in 2023.

Also some other taxonomic shifts I added to the AVE recently: the Western Flycatcher, a lump of Pacific Slope and Cordilleran Flycatchers, and the Grand Cayman Bullfinch, elevated from Cuban Bullfinch subspecies to full species status.

[hometoursandotherstuff]

Okay, guys, this is your opportunity to buy a house on the coast of the Pacific Ocean, well, the Columbia River, they call it, and it feeds into the ocean, (the pink paint is peeling on the outside - could be the salty air from the ocean - but the inside is remodeled), plus your own crematory business for only $660K. 1892 Victorian home with 6bds, 6ba, (room for everybody), in Astoria, Oregon.

So, this is the business- you have a conference table next to the display wall.

Newly redone customer rest room.

Plus an office. Looks like they're pretty busy.

I'm thinking the oven is somewhere in this cement garage- maybe down those stairs.

Hall to the family quarters. They've done it all in the popular gray and white.

The original pocket doors remain and they put in new floors. Pardon the family, they're very disorganized.

I don't think I'd trust them for not mixing up all the ashes. Unless they're organizing a moving sale in here.

Dining area and a smallish, but open and clean white kitchen.

The rooms are large, but I don't think this one was meant to be a bedroom, b/c of the large open doorways.

The bedrooms look pretty big.

Bathroom is redone. Too bad they don't use the sink.

Could be a nice enclosed back porch.

6,534 sq ft corner lot.

Only about 3 blocks to the river.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1229-1213-Franklin-Ave-Astoria-OR-97103/86304836_zpid/

[tintenfischie]

View from Pacific Ave, Tacoma, WA. Sometime in Summer 2024.

[featherbow]

Critical Role presents Bells Hells LIVE Saturday, June 15th 2024 Presale for Beacon members starts Monday, May 20th at 10:00 AM PACIFIC General Tickets available Tuesday, May 21st at 10:00 AM PACIFIC

Watch Critical Role LIVE at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on June 15th as Bells Hells gather their courage and their allies to stop Ludinus Da’leth and his planned destruction of the gods.

Game Master Matthew Mercer will lead players Travis Willingham, Laura Bailey, Liam O’Brien, Sam Riegel, Taliesin Jaffe, Ashley Johnson, Robbie Daymond, and Marisha Ray through an exciting live performance of Campaign 3, Episode 98 of Critical Role with the extraordinary Brennan Lee Mulligan serving as the Master of Ceremonies.

Here are all the details to join these wayward heroes on their adventure!

WHEN IS THE BELLS HELLS LIVE SHOW?

Our first Bells Hells Live Show will take place on June 15th at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles, California!

The Greek Theatre 2700 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90027 https://www.lagreektheatre.com/

[neilfrancephoto]

Anaheim St & Pacific Ave

[findthosedetonators]

A 1979 Photograph shows a man coming up the steps on the IRT Platform at Atlantic Ave / Pacific Street (Station (Today Atlantic Ave - Barclays Center) in Downtown Brooklyn. Photo: NYTM COLLECTION