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Friday, March 31, 2023

Thursday, March 30, 2023

Magnum, P.I. - Murder by Night

 




Period Magnum. Season seven, episode 13. Jan. 14, 1987.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0639697/

https://magnum-mania.com/Episodes/Season7/Murder_by_Night.html

Based on the final scene, the events of Magnum's dream are based on a story he recently wrote called Murder by Night, his first attempt at fiction writing.

Dashiell HammettRaymond ChandlerErle Stanley GardnerAgatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle are "name-checked" by Higgins (in Magnum's dream).

Christine: (to Magnum) Will you have a drink? I don't trust a man who won't have a drink.

General Price and the Pepper Bench

 


Put all the peppers on benches after bringing them in for a late freeze and then had to add a bench for General Price, a long one, to keep him off the peppers. 






Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Tai-Pan - James Clavell

 


1966 published. Hong Kong. Set in 1840s. Opium smuggling. The events in this book lead into Noble House, which I re-read last year. Good book. Keeps you up late. Shogun is next. King Rat is the first.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tai-Pan_(novel)

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/james-clavell/tai-pan/

A Pike's Peak prospector

 


Saturday, March 25, 2023

Horseshoe Falls from Goat Island, Niagara

 


Thursday, March 16, 2023

Hotel Astor, New York

 


Some of these old hotels have interesting backstories and I like the horse drawn carriages in many of them.

Friday, March 10, 2023

Monticello Hotel, Norfolk, Va.

 


[Portrait of Bill Harris, William P. Gottlieb's home (table tennis room), N.Y., ca. Apr. 1947]

 


  • For two consecutive years Bill Harris has been selected as the No. 1 trombone player of the country in the annual Down Beat poll. He posed twice for the current cover, once to permit staff lensman Bill Gottlieb to shoot the bell of his horn for a background, then unsmilingly for the photo itself. Bill may go to Milwaukee next month with the Charlie Ventura unit to open at the Continental club there on May 5
  • Gottlieb, William P. -- 1917- (photographer)
  • 1947, monographic.
  • https://www.loc.gov/item/gottlieb.03921/

Thursday, March 9, 2023

[Bottle of royal pepper sauce made for Horton-Cato Co.]

 


This morning I planted four tabasco plants in pots and three banana peppers. I am going to pickle some and dry some of the tabascos, then you can grind them for red pepper flakes. 

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

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

Mackinac Island from Round Island, Michigan

 


  • Jackson, William Henry, 1843-1942, photographer
  • Detroit Publishing Co., copyright claimant
  • Detroit Publishing Co., publisher
  • c1899.
  • Photochrom prints--Color.
  • https://www.loc.gov/item/2016802632/

Friday, March 3, 2023

Sunset in the Royal Gorge, Col.

 


"Slingin Sammy" Baugh

 


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

  • Harris & Ewing, photographer
  • "Slingin Sammy" Baugh, Washington, D.C., Sept. 11. "Slinging Sammy" Baugh, new addition to the Washington Redskins, the Texas Christian U. star is rated as one of the greatest of this generation as far as the passing game goes. Sammy's most recent feat was the practical winning alone of the Green Bay all stars game at Chicago with a series of sensational passes, he is 24 years old, weighs 190, and is six feet tall, followers of professional football will hear a lot from Sammy this fall, 9/11/37
  • https://www.loc.gov/item/2016877914/