I seriously doubt if we'll ever see anything like what
we remember anymore. It's kind of a shame really...
I'm really talking about the 50's and early 60's - when I was a kid - when damm near every street in every neighborhood would look like this from just after school got out until sometime around dark. Bear in mind we're of that infamous baby-explosion post-war boomer generation when every family you knew had at least three or four kids. There was more trust and considerably less worry coming from our parents. I mean fuck, they were happy to get rid of us for a few hours. Certainly different times. Impossible to recreate anymore, I reckon... ...
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I lived right around the corner from the tennis courts. The area identified in this is Branch Brook Park in Newark (and a little bit of Bellevile), New Jersey.
I actually took this picture about 40 years ago from the window of a plane I flew out of Newark Airport - which, by the way - is not in Newark.
Juss' so's ya know...
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Those of us who prefer to have our cocktails at or just after Happy Hour - and not for breakfast - are perfectly okay with leaving the clocks exactly where the fuck they are right now, thank you very much... ...
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Glen Beck did a great analysis of the big switcharoo on Gates' reversal on the whole global warming/climate change fuckin' nonsense. According to Beck, this reversal has more to do with the energy requirements of Gates' AI shit than it does anything else. Makes sense coming from a one-world, two faced, technology thief like Gates, don't it? Well done, Glen. I like that show. ...
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That park is one of my favorite places anywhere (for private reasons), and it's been a shithole for the past 20 years with all this open-air drug market and weekly protest bullshit going on, and nobody has done shit about it. If ya don't know the area, it's in The Village adjacent to the main NYU campus, but it is in a basically residential area. It's about friggin' time they cracked down on the crap. Is it because of Trump or because that jerkoff Deniro's grandson OD'd there the other day? Who cares - as long as they return it to it's previous glory.
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I regret profoundly that I was not an American and not born in Greenwich Village. It might be dying, and there might be a lot of dirt in the air you breathe, but this is where it’s happening.
- John Lennon
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Here's a great idea for a gift for best gal...
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We had a kid like this is our neighborhood - I guess there mighta been one in every neighborhood. Anyway, Pat Kennedy - him - was always a little to the left of center brain-wise, but a nice kid. He dressed a little weird, didn't need friends to have a good time, and danced with the music in his head. Anyway, the day Pat turned 18 he enlisted in the Army, and six months later he was dead. I never heard the definitive story, but word was he was in 'Nam and killed his command sergeant and then himself. Guys like him rarely have good endings, ya know? ...
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DEWALT 20V MAX Cordless Drill and Impact Driver, Power Tool Combo Kit with 2 Batteries and Charger - marked down again to only $ 149.00.
The two batteries alone almost cost that much!
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Halloween was ruined when it became just another excuse for women to dress up and get stupid drunk. Probably, the late 1980s in DC at least.
ReplyDeleteIn that Hallowe'en street photo, did you ever see cars like those? I share in the tender sentiment for the goodness of bygone Hallowe'ens, but those cars . . . nice try, AI. (!)
ReplyDeleteCurrent Federal law only allows the states to either: 1) Do the annual Standard/DST switch OR 2) elect permanent Standard Time (hence Arizona). Permanent DST is not allowed and would require Federal legislation.
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