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sadykadie2 Feb 2, 2018 6:16 AM

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Originally Posted by Otis Criblecoblis (Post 8067797)
Here in Bungalow Heaven, Pasadena, we have a massive flock of compact African-type parrots that tend to spend the night in the trees surrounding our property (they tend to avoid our property, despite our massive trees, because we have three big dogs and a vital crow community). In the morning, they leave in a number of groups (like individual platoons in a company) in different directions. Near dusk, they return, all at the same time, swirl around in a massive avian tornado, then light in a number of trees in the area.

When we lived in Culver City, we had a sizable platoon of Australian long-tail parakeets (sleek, colorful birds, 15 to 18 inches long).

We have huge flocks, very loud and squawking every day here in Glendora ( about 20 miles East of Pasadena), but we had them in Costa Mesa ( 50 miles South) My daughter is a biology student and says they come from Mexico

CityBoyDoug Feb 2, 2018 2:47 PM

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Originally Posted by sadykadie2 (Post 8070581)
We have huge flocks, very loud and squawking every day here in Glendora ( about 20 miles East of Pasadena), but we had them in Costa Mesa ( 50 miles South) My daughter is a biology student and says they come from Mexico

I can believe you Sady. The people of Sydney, Australia are desperate to get rid of the thousands of parrots that are breeding in their suburbs...such as Blacktown. I have seen the damage they do there...like eating the covering off of telephone wires.

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.

Earl Boebert Feb 2, 2018 3:56 PM

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 8070780)
I can believe you Sady. The people of Sydney, Australia are desperate to get rid of the thousands of parrots that are breeding in their suburbs...such as Blacktown. I have seen the damage they do there...like eating the covering off of telephone wires.

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.

The Kea parrots on the South Island of New Zealand, which are indigenous, shred windshield wipers, door seals, and every other form of rubber on automobiles. We took a tour up in their mountain habitat and at every photo stop the guide stayed with van to guard against them.

Cheers,

Earl

CityBoyDoug Feb 2, 2018 4:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Earl Boebert (Post 8070873)
The Kea parrots on the South Island of New Zealand, which are indigenous, shred windshield wipers, door seals, and every other form of rubber on automobiles. We took a tour up in their mountain habitat and at every photo stop the guide stayed with van to guard against them.

Cheers,

Earl

http://www.biopix.com/photos/jko-nes...ilis-00056.jpg
Kea parrot destroying a windshield wiper

Ed Workman Feb 2, 2018 5:20 PM

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Originally Posted by CityBoyDoug (Post 8070780)
I can believe you Sady. The people of Sydney, Australia are desperate to get rid of the thousands of parrots that are breeding in their suburbs...such as Blacktown. I have seen the damage they do there...like eating the covering off of telephone wires.

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.

Aren't the Galahs native?
Are they Parrots?

odinthor Feb 2, 2018 5:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8070560)
Here's a bit of rare ephemera I just came across on ebay:


"PALM GARDEN DANCING PAVILION - INVITATION w STAMP - LOS ANGELES 1890 -1900's"

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1...924/kRX1p2.jpg
EBAY

[ . . . And lots more additional interesting stuff . . . Thanks, e_r!]

Some words on Palms are not called for, but that won't stop me . . . :koko:

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.

Ed Workman Feb 2, 2018 5:30 PM

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Originally Posted by CaliNative (Post 8070241)
I don't think a noire or "neo-noire" needs to be always in black&white. Chinatown & L.A. Confidential & Day of Locust & Blade Runner (future noire dystopia) in color but dark noire in plot & attitude. OK, put Big Sleep in the contenders, but the plot is somewhat murky but has Bogey and the noire look & feel. My vote still goes to "Double Indemnity" with "Sunset Blvd" a close 2nd. Edward G. Robinson is terrific in DI, as are Stanwyck & the dude from "My 3 Sons".

You mean Fred M
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?

Earl Boebert Feb 2, 2018 6:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Ed Workman (Post 8071023)
You mean Fred M
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?

"Touch of Evil." With the unforgettable Marlene Dietrich. So Noir it's almost opaque :-)

Cheers,

Earl

tovangar2 Feb 2, 2018 8:14 PM

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Originally Posted by sopas ej (Post 8070400)
Did you like it? I've only seen it once, but I really enjoyed it.

Some may disagree, but I feel it has noirish qualities... Cynical tone/attitude, antihero protagonist, hint of sexual motivation...


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.

ethereal_reality Feb 2, 2018 9:13 PM

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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ethereal_reality Feb 2, 2018 9:18 PM

:previous:
https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/xq90/924/pE0cUn.jpg
Los Angeles Herald, June 1907

ethereal_reality Feb 2, 2018 9:25 PM

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.

ethereal_reality Feb 2, 2018 9:38 PM

oops.

odinthor Feb 2, 2018 10:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8071495)
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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Yep. We collectors of sheet music from that era see him on sheet music for songs he introduced or was associated with. In my own collection I have The Dockstader Rag of 1912, composed by Les Copeland. (I don't like it very much.)

https://s26.postimg.org/6ep7yks5l/dockstader.jpg
http://castleragtime.com/ragtime-sheet-music/the-dockstader-rag

ethereal_reality Feb 2, 2018 10:40 PM

: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') ;)

CityBoyDoug Feb 2, 2018 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by tovangar2 (Post 8070313)
Thx, I kept missing "Drive" (2011), but finally saw it today.


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

odinthor Feb 2, 2018 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8071676)
: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)

Thanks!

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

ethereal_reality Feb 2, 2018 10:48 PM

I'll have to check out your inventory odinthor. thx for the link.

ethereal_reality Feb 3, 2018 12:11 AM

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?

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WS1911 Feb 3, 2018 3:29 AM

St. Charles Borroneo Church
 
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Originally Posted by ethereal_reality (Post 8071784)
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?

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I think the church is St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church, 10800 Moorpark, North Hollywood.

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