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The screeching is horrendous.....day & night. People have let their ''pet'' parrots free...now we see the damage it does. Parrots are best left to their native jungle habitats where they come from..... such as South America, etc. |
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Kea parrot destroying a windshield wiper |
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Are they Parrots? |
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For Southern Californians, Palms are familiar fellow "citizens" in our environment . . . https://s26.postimg.org/9im3pvpah/palmsla.jpg https://www.aada.edu/campuses/los-an...mpus-overview/ . . . so we generally don't tap into the overtones that they have, or had, for others who live in non-palmy areas. In the Victorian era, and well into the Twentieth Century, and perhaps still just barely now, a Palm, especially an indoor palm, and most especially a Kentia Palm (Howea forsteriana) would carry much of the elite and luxurious air that an orchid might today because to have them at hand to decorate your home's living areas or personal ballroom--you do have a personal ballroom at your place, don't you?--one would need to have a Palm House or conservatory, as their cultural requirements are such that they wouldn't last long just sitting in your parlor, ballroom, or salon--nope, you'd have to be rotating them between the house and your conservatory, or just leaving them in the conservatory to be trotted out only for a few hours to ornament your social event. https://s26.postimg.org/n3cvpdn7d/palm3.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F...Palm_House.JPG They would bestow an air of rarefied elegance on wherever they were sited. https://s26.postimg.org/3ms62nhqx/Palm4.jpg cover, New Era Rag, 1919; odinthor collection This would be just what hoteliers and restaurateurs would be after to give a high tone to their establishments; hence they would have facilities named Palm Garden, Palm Room, Palm Court, and so on, to emphasize the luxuriousness of what they had to offer, and would scatter specimens about their premises to reinforce in their customers and clients a notion of what a fine place they were visiting. https://s26.postimg.org/awip79g6h/Hot_VLob1001.jpg Hotel Virginia; odinthor collection https://s26.postimg.org/pypyvvw8p/Palm1.jpg Scene from The Cocoanuts http://www.grouchoreviews.com/reviews/4980, re-sized and slightly cropped And let us close with some entertainment . . . https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwXVRIlw1t0 New Era Rag, by James Scott, 1919. |
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If you wish to make a separate category " Neo-Noirish" I can go along . But the bright clear air of the Owens valley ain't noire, no matter what the dialogue and so on For really noire what's the name of that border town movie with Orson Wells in heavy make-up- can't disguise the voice- and IIRC Janet Leigh and Charleton Heston? |
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Yes, I liked "Drive", although I don't know if I'd watch it again. I enjoy some stylish mayhem set against an LA backdrop. "Replacement Killers" (1998) is a favorite. I dunno where to draw the line on if a film is noir or not. I guess I don't have a dog in that fight. |
Here's another piece of rare ephemera. (possibly found stashed away with the 'Palm Garden Dancing Pavilion' advertisement)
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/I2KCFV.jpg EBAY Lew Dockstader's Minstrels, Mason Opera House, Los Angeles. https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/XVVhaD.jpg back https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...923/9oZu2X.jpg Has anyone heard of this Lew Dockstader black-face dude? __ |
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Thanks so much for all the information on Catherine Sherman French and her extended family oldstuff.
I really appreciate it. (I sent you a personal email as) -so check your mail. |
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:previous:You must have quite a sheet music collection odinthor!
Do you have 'The Sweetheart of Sigma Chi'? (I was a Sigma Chi many moons ago......and NO, I wasn't the 'sweetheart') ;) |
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Worth watching? https://www.filmink.com.au/wp-conten...6/04/combp.jpghttps://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l...4p3ko1_500.gifhttps://78.media.tumblr.com/94fc4d67...go1_r1_500.gif https://www.filmink.com.au/wp-conten...6/04/combp.jpg |
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Alas, no (about Sigma Chi). Mostly I've concentrated on instrumentals (cuz I like to sit down at the keyboard and play 'em; songs, probably the world doesn't need to hear my singing). I have the inventory of my collection online (with some pictures): http://web.csulb.edu/~odinthor/music.html |
I'll have to check out your inventory odinthor. thx for the link.
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Well, this is now a mystery photograph because I lost the information :( (I was at my mom's house when I came across it)
I can say it's somewhere in the valley (which doesn't narrow it down much, does it) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/O4xKo8.jpg ? Ill let you know if/when I find the source again The church is lovely, but I mostly wanted to comment on the RR. sign. I don't believe I have ever seen one like it. and with the raised letters...it looks like it might light-up! https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/6...923/aEWs1W.jpg Any rail fans familiar with this type of r.r. sign in the Los Angeles area? _ |
St. Charles Borroneo Church
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I think the church is St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 10800 Moorpark, North Hollywood. ________ |
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