Moonlight View

ca. 1899. Algiers, Algeria. Photochrom. Library of Congress.

https://www.loc.gov/item/2001697805/

Johnny Deformed

Johnny.

White Lightning (1973)

Directed by Joseph Sargent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Lightning_(1973_film)

1979 CBS.

http://every70smovie.blogspot.com/2013/05/white-lightning-1973-gator-1976.html

1975 NBC open.

https://scenesfromthemorgue.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/take-a-bite-and-feel-all-right-september-1973/

1982 KCOP.

Lady Ice

1973. Directed by Tom Gries. Heist film. Donald Sutherland. Jennifer O'Neill. Lucien Ballard cinematography.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Ice

Janitor

Boom Boom Boom Boom.

Al Adamson: Murder of a B-Movie Maestro.

Exploitation king Adamson disappeared under mysterious circumstances. 

Watching Mean Mother (1974) now on Bounce and Black Heat (1976) is coming up next. Al Adamson was the legendary director of such cinema classics as Satan’s Sadists and Dracula vs. Frankenstein. He disappeared in 1995 and weeks later was found buried beneath a floor of his house. Killed by the contractor hired to do renovations.

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-08-08-me-32791-story.html

Satan's Sadists trailer.

http://www.coolasscinema.com/2014/02/satans-sadists-1969-review.html

http://templeofschlock.blogspot.com/2010/06/al-adamson-15-years-gone.html

Horror of the Blood Monsters trailer.

https://monstermoviemusic.blogspot.com/2010/02/horror-of-blood-monsters-al-adamson.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Adamson\

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0011467/

I Ran

 I ran so far away.

Chili

This is another original recipe I needed to save. Three kinds of meat. Three kinds of beans. One beer.

I'm Your Captain

Though I'm feeling mighty sick.

https://yesterday.uktv.co.uk/blogs/article/famous-captains/

The History of Gumbo

Gumbo weather. No okra. File'.

https://whatscookingamerica.net/History/GumboHistory.htm

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2009/12/gumbo-the-mysterious-history/32659/

https://www.seriouseats.com/2014/09/history-new-orleans-gumbo-okra-file-powder.html

https://www.southernfoodways.org/interview/a-short-history-of-gumbo/

Photochrom

https://www.loc.gov/item/2001698402/

Early colorization technique popular around 1890-1900. Black and white photograph had colors printed in a complicated lithography process. Library of Congress site has a large collection.

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/pgz/

LOC collection.

Neuschwanstein, Upper Bavaria, Germany. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom

La Bourboule, France

[The swans in the park Tête d'Ór, Lyons, France]

Lights Out - Death Robbery

Boris Karloff.  1947.

https://www.escape-suspense.com/2010/10/boris-karloff.html

Lights Out: "Death Robbery"-- Classic Lights Out episode about a scientist who brings his wife back from the dead...with really bad results. (July 16, 1947)

 http://www.radiohorrorhosts.com/lightsout.html

Lights Out history.

I Collect Beer Cans Myself

In the early 80s beer can collecting was big.  I kept mine and have them on the wall in the TV room in my house. Worth nothing after thirty years. $3 at best for most. There are a different class of beer cans that are worth a whole lot of money. Into the thousands.

Newmann the Great

I am so great. Master mentalist. I was listening to a Gilbert Gottfried podcast on the headphones  while putting together this original post, and I remembered I needed to add a link to the movie Nightmare Alley (1947) at the bottom of the page. A favorite. Within two minutes Gilbert mentioned the movie Nightmare Alley.

https://geniimagazine.com/wiki/index.php?title=Newmann_the_Great

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentalism

Can O' History - Shootout on Juneau Wharf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Juneau_Wharf_Skagway_AK_Postcard.jpg 

July 8, 1898. Skagway, Alaska. A case of stolen gold causes Soapy Smith to meet his end.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shootout_on_Juneau_Wharf

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Soapy_Smith_1898c.jpg

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Skagway-js-parlor-1898.jpg

Albert Johnson: The Mad Trapper of Rat River

Canadian Yukon, 1931-32. After various disputes Canadian Mounties attempted to blow up Johnson with dynamite. Big mistake. Story used for Charles Bronson in Death Hunt (1981).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Johnson_(criminal)

After Johnson’s death, RCMP officials realized that he had travelled over 137 km (85 mi) away from his cabin in less than 3 days, burning approximately 42 MJ (10,000 kcal) a day. Seventy-five years later in 2007, forensics teams found that his tailbone was not actually symmetrical, causing his spine to curve left and right slightly. In addition, one foot was longer than the other.

An examination of Johnson’s body yielded over $2,000 in both American and Canadian currency as well as some gold, a pocket compass, a razor, a knife, fish hooks, nails, a dead squirrel, a dead bird, a large quantity of Beecham’s Pills and teeth with gold fillings that were believed to be his. During the entire chase, the Mounties had never heard Johnson utter a single word. The only thing they heard was Johnson’s laugh after he shot Constable Edgar Millen. To this day people debate who he was, why he moved to the Arctic, or if he was actually responsible for interfering with the trap lines as alleged.

http://archive.macleans.ca/article/1955/10/1/who-was-the-mad-trapper-of-rat-river

https://www.whitehorsestar.com/History/a-most-bizarre-case-the-mad-trapper-of-rat-river1

Bird is the Word

Bird. Bird.

At the Automat

Vintage. Library of Congress. 

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/meet-me-at-the-automat-47804151/

https://www.eater.com/2015/9/16/9334659/automat-eatsa-history-future

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/29508/automatic-people-remembering-automat-restaurants

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat