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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Apr 18, 2013 - 04:10pm PT
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It was a time of extremes. The weekly death toll on NBC with Huntley & Brinkly, and stories of massacres and horrible reprisals (collecting human ears on necklaces, etc.) While young people were building communes away from society and striving for peaceful existences. [I think communes may come back in the not-distant future due to lack of retirment incomes among those who are early middle-age now]
My first wife and I enrolled our young daughter, Pam, in a school run by a sort of communal effort in Ft Collins, where freedom of expression was encouraged. It went well until one day a disturbed student, probably no more than 9 or 10, started throwing rocks against the building, breaking windows, and the teachers stood aside saying "let him express himself." We pulled Pam out at that point.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Apr 18, 2013 - 06:02pm PT
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Garry's most definitely a character you should know about.
Charles Garry's brother lived in Fresno, and would occasionally stop by my law office to tell me stories about his famous brother. My favorite was how the Panthers chose him as their attorney. Time Magazine repeated the story, so it must be true. . .
Anyway, the Panthers were looking for a lawyer, and someone suggested Garry. When they interviewed him, they told him they wanted a lawyer as good as Perry Mason. Garry responded "I'm better than Perry Mason." Incredulous, they responded, "How can you be better than Perry Mason? He always wins!" To which Garry replied, "Yeah, but his clients are innocent."
John
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 19, 2013 - 11:41pm PT
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Old Skinflint Left a Legacy Standing Tall in the Peppers
July 26, 1988|CHARLES HILLINGER | Times Staff Writer
All those times that I've driven past the Fancher Monument here on the road to Planada, Mariposa, & Etcetera, I've thought it was a monument to a son of a large landowner, not to the actual BARON HIMSELF.
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Fancher&GSst=6&GRid=36345096&
It varies from 66' to 68' tall. It may be haunted. It has a reputation for being the largest single concrete "event" memorializing one man. The granite maybe is from the Raymond/Knowles Quarry in Madera County.
TUTTLE, Calif. — A 68-foot obelisk rising out of fields of tomatoes and bell peppers on a huge farm in this Central California hamlet is a mystery to hundreds of motorists who pass it every day.
The granite shaft stands on a massive concrete base containing 13 steps on each of four sides. Carved in the side of the obelisk are two decorative scrolls and the inscription: "George Hicks Fancher. Born New York State February 9, 1828. Died in California March 30, 1900."
I remember sleeping next to it once hitching to Yosemite in '67.
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Apr 20, 2013 - 02:15am PT
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Gotta get Locker involved here so calling out this one:
Dusty Springfield and the boys.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2iukP1FXYcY
You get Tom Jones and Andy Williams a couple of times, but the kicker at the end is ROBERT GOULET who was actually dead and reanimated for that performance with Dusty.
And yes, Batso would have totally drilled Catwoman.
Eric
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Apr 20, 2013 - 02:26am PT
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I don't know how she did it (and she'd probably get arrested for it today), but that voice blew me away when I was all of five years old:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Then there were those Jersey Boyz from around the same time:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
Frankie Valli was a nice addition to the later seasons of The Sopranos.
And one more for the Trifecta:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
I have done this much free associating since... oh probably yesterday!
Eric
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2013 - 06:57am PT
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From The Velvet Underground
Doug and Sally inside
They cookin' for the Down Pipe
Who's staring at Miss Rayon
Who's busy licking off her Pig Pen
I'm searching for my mainline
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
Aw just like Sister Ray said
Whip it on.
Rosie and Miss Rayon
They're busy waiting for her booster
Who just got back from Carolina
She said she didn't like the weather
They're busy waiting for her sailor
Who's big and dressed in pink and leather
He's just here from Alabama
He wants to know a way to earn a dollar
I'm searching for my mainer
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
I couldn't hit it sideways
Aw just like Sister Ray said
Lay it on him.
Cecil's got his new piece
He cocks it shoots it between three and four
He aims it at the sailor
Shoots him down dead on the floor
Oh you shouldn't do that
Don't you know you'll stain the carpet
Now don't you know you'll stain the carpet
And by the way have you got a dollar
On no man I haven't got the time-time
Too busy sucking on a ding-dong
She's busy sucking on my ding-dong
Oh she does just like Sister Ray said
I'm searching for my mainline
I said c-c-c-couldn't hit it sideways
I said c-c-c-c-c-c-couldn't hit it sideways
Ah do it do it just su-su-su-suck
That's ju-ju-just excellente
Oh!
Now who is that knocking
Who's knocking at my chamber door
Now could it be the police
They come and take me for a ride-ride
Oh but I haven't got the time-time
Hey hey hey she's busy sucking on my ding-dong
She's busy sucking on my ding-dong
Aw now do it just like Sister Ray said
I'm searching for my mainline
I couldn't hit it sideways
I couldn't hit it sideways
Oh now just like
Oh just like
Ah just like
Ah just like
Oh just like
Oh just like.
Doug and Sally inside
Now move it along
Cookin' for the Down Pipe
Who's staring at Miss Rayon
Do it do it do it do it do it do it
Who's licking off Pig Pen
I'm s-s-s-searching for my mainline
I couldn't hit is sideways
I couldn't hit it sideways
Just like
Oh just like
Do it do it do it
Just like
Just like
Just like.
Now Rosie and Miss Rayon
They busy waiting for her booster
She's just back from Carolina
She said she's bound to beat a sailor
I said she haven't got the time-time
You're busy sucking on my ding-dong
You busy sucking on my ding-dong
Now just like Sister Ray said
I'm searching for my mainline
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
Whip it on me Jim
Whip it on me Jim
Whip it on me Jim
Whip it on me Jim
Said I couldn't hit it sideways
Oh do it now just like
Just like Sister Ray said.
I said now Cecil's got his new piece
He cocks it shoots it bang between three and four
He aims it at the sailor
He shoots him down dead on the floor
Oh you shouldn't do that
Don't you know you'll hit the carpet
Don't you know you'll mess the carpet.
Oh she hasn't got the time-time
Busy sucking on his ding-dong
She's busy sucking on his ding-dong
Now just like Sister Ray said
I'm searching for my mainline
Couldn't hit it sideways
Couldn't hit it sideways
And just like
And just like
And just like
S-Sister Ray said
Now do it to him.
Doug and Sally inside
They're busy cooking for the Down Pipe
Who's staring at Miss Rayon
Busy licking off her Pig Pen
I'm busy searching for my mainline
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
I said I couldn't hit it sideways
Now just like
Now just like
I said ah-uh
Just like
Amph-ph-ph-ph-phetimine
Popular drug, speed. In all generations, not just the sixties.
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2013 - 07:03am PT
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From Canned Heat
This here's a song with a message
I want you to heed my warning
I wanna tell you all a story
About this chick I know
They call her "Amphetamine Annie"
She's always shovelling snow
I sat her down and told her
I told her crystal clear"
I don't mind you getting high
But there's one thing you should fear"
"Your mind might think its flying, baby
On those little pills
But you ought to know it's dying, 'cause
Speed kills"
But Annie kept on speeding
Her health was getting poor
She saw things in the window
She heard things at the door
Her mind was like a grinding mill
Her lips were cracked and sore
Her skin was turning yellow
I just couldn't take it no more
She thought her mind was flying
On those little pills
She didn't it was going down fast, 'cause
Speed kills
Well I sat her down and told her
I told her one more time
"The whole wide human race has taken
Far too much methedrine
"She said "I don't care what a Limey says
I've got to get it on
I'm not here to just see no man
Who come from across the pond
She wouldn't heed my warning
Lord, she wouldn't hear what I said
Now she's in the graveyard, and she's
Awfully dead
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2013 - 07:19am PT
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I know what you're thinking, Locker!
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2013 - 08:51am PT
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There IS a history lobe in the brain.
It is stimulated by drinking.
Alcoholics are partly prisoners of their past.
Stoners, too.
Drugs are drugs.
Are you happy?
So don't freak out, just be mellow.
Fletcher's a good example of mellow.
Locket, you freak me out, but you own rights to the phrase.http://www.supertopo.com/climbing/thread.php?topic_id=243813&tn=0
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2013 - 09:39am PT
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"It was a time of extremes. The weekly death toll on NBC with Huntley & Brinkly, and stories of massacres and reprisals..."--Jogill
Yeah, but...
what time is not a time of extremes?
And furthermore...
what time is not immune to massacres and reprisals?
http://www.nbcnews.com/
FLASH!
Nose In an Hour on the Hour!
KNOS Taco Radio.
Five-five on your dial.
You Heard It Hear First!
BRINKLEY OUTLIVES HUNTLEY!
The much-laundered Age of Aquarius dawned with blood,
set into the fabric of our young lives with hot water,
rinsed in the myths of pop culture,
and set out on the line of our future past to dry into truth.
That old David outlived Chet is hardly breaking news.
But I loved the way he later shared his informed views.
"The one function that TV news performs very well
is that when there is no [now] news
we give it to you
with the same
(commercial break)
EMPHASIS
(commercial break)
as if there were."
--D.B.
KEEP SUPERTACO ROWDY, NOW
Mick Jagger used the word "now" frequently,
now, to emphasize as much as to fill in, now,
when he wrote lyrics, now,
as in The Rolling Stones Now!
You can't catch me.
What a Shame.
You're real down home, girl.
Like, y'know what I mean, now?
--Jelly Bean
We Used to Climb in Hobnail Boots --A Complaint as much as a Boast
She's not a girl who misses much
Do do do do do do do do, oh yeah
She's well acquainted with the touch of the velvet hand
Like a lizard on a window pane
The man in the crowd with the multicoloured mirrors
On his hobnail boots
Lying with his eyes while his hands are busy
Working overtime
A soap impression of his wife which he ate
And donated to the National Trust
Down
I need a fix cos I'm going down
Down to the bits that I left uptown
I need a fix cos I'm going down
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Mother Superior jump the gun
Happiness is a warm gun (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Happiness is a warm gun, mama (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
When I hold you in my arms (Oo-oo oh yeah)
And I feel my finger on your trigger (Oo-oo oh yeah)
I know no one can do me no harm (Oo-oo oh yeah)
Because happiness is a warm gun, mama (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Happiness is a warm gun, yes it is (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Happiness is a warm, yes it is, gun (Happiness bang, bang, shoot, shoot)
Well, don't you know happiness is a warm gun, mama? (Happiness is a warm gun, yeah)
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edit: "At the same time," I yet hope that a change is gonna come.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vrn-kfrIN5Q
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Apr 20, 2013 - 01:00pm PT
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1962 Port Huron Statement
1964 Free Speech Movement
1965 Vietnam Day protest at UCB
1966 Muhammad Ali refuses induction
1967 Spring Mobilization
1968 Democratic convention
1969 National Moratorium
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Bruce Morris
Social climber
Belmont, California
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Apr 20, 2013 - 01:22pm PT
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I do remember when the actress Natasha Kaplanova took me to the Fairmont Hotel to meet Alan Ginsberg, Peter Orlovky (?), Michael McClure, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Timothy Leary, all of whom were speaking on a panel about how LSD was just great for you. Afterwards a band played and I think Jerry Garcia and Janice were among the crowd dancing on the floor. Think it was during the winter of 1965-66. The regular guests at the Fairmont were certainly amazed at the people who turned out for this event. Yes, LSD was still legal then. Those speakers were actually pretty persuasive then and a lot more lucid than they sounded later on.
There's some 60s memorabilia for you!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Apr 20, 2013 - 01:28pm PT
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"Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose." - an old heartthrob
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2013 - 02:26pm PT
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"I do remember when..."
No offense, guys and girls, but it never fails to send me when...
What was I sayin'?
Oh, yeah.
Like this: "Like, this is something I DO remember...most things are kinda sketchy, like, y' know--it comes with age, forty's a bitch, ain't it? But this one, I talk about it all the time, so it's good beta...So we had a case of Coors and Wern and Dill were sittin' there all frownin'...Yeah?Well they're all from the sixties, man, Werner, Dill and Coors, so STFU...OT this, *&^%+)(! marmots!"
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Topic Author's Reply - Apr 20, 2013 - 02:39pm PT
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I'm goin' to Farmers' Market.
Decide where this (these peaks are) peak is.
I have no clue but possibly CO.
Discuss among yourself.
Arbiter of prize is zBrown, a man of trust and who obviously plans on being able to kick Kato's ass at rock 'n roll history in Safe at Last!, MC'd by St. Alex in heaven. Lol.
The prize is either what I come back with from the Market, or a pair of VINTAGE POSTCARDS from the Vault. TBA.
Support your local thread.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Apr 20, 2013 - 10:05pm PT
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1968 Miss America Protest
1969 New York City Abortion Speakout
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Apr 21, 2013 - 12:33am PT
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1961 Freedom Riders
1962 James Meredith attends the University of Mississippi
1963 Gov. George Wallace blocks integration of the University of Alabama
March on Washington DC
1964 St. Augustine movement
Civil Rights Act of 1964
Martin Luther King Jr. Nobel Peace Prize
1965 Selma to Montgomery March
Voting Rights Act of 1965
1968 Martin Luther King Jr. assassination
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