Saturday, June 10, 2017

Gloria York Salapek (1925-2017) Warren High School class of 1943



1943 Dragon yearbook


Gloria's high-school activities:
Junior Shorthand Club (3); Science Clubl (3); Stenographers' Club (4)

1967 Warren City Directory
  • Salapek Thos P (Gloria Y) ftr Pennsylvania Gas r857 Yankee Bush rd
1983 Warren City Directory
  • Salapek Larry S h447 Keller Rd Starbrick
  • Salapek Susan A emp Warren State Hosp h103 1/2 Main St North Warrenb
  • Salapek Thos P regulator tech Natl Fuel Gas Sup r857 Yankee Bush Rd
Plus these highlighted listings from the county section.  (Apparently Yankee Bush Hill history is Salapek family history.)



The popularity of Gloria as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's look at Clifford.


Clifford flourished during the 1st half of the 20th century, spending nearly 50 years in the top 100 and speaking at #57 in 1909.  Beginning in the early 1980s, however, it was an increasingly steep fall into oblivion.

Other members of the class of '43 (11 women, 6 men):
Louis Rizzardi.  (2/11/2017)
Virginia Anderson Thompson.  (10/17/2016)
Pauline Smith VanVolkinburg.  (8/27/2016)
Joyce Anderson Clark.  (8/24/2016)
Robert Johnson.  (3/31/2016)
Goldie Gelotte Hecei. (12/21/2015)
John Swick.  (11/29/2015)
William Weidert.  (10/16/2015)
Maxine Retterer Young.  (8/15/2015)
Donald Conaway, Jr.  (8/13/2015)
Anne Smith Rossey.  (5/8/2015)
Doris Stevenson Barirde.  (3/31/2015)
Mildred Kahle Glotz.  (9/13/2014)
Robert Dietsch.  (9/8/2014)
Anna Mae Olson Howe.  (9/2/2014)
Lois Bogart Niederer.  (5/3/2014)
Verna Mack Swanson.  (12/22/2013)

Greetings from Brittingham's Radio Center Restaurant in Hollywood




"Where the Stars of Screen and Radio Meet" is the tag line found on the message side of the postcard, which also includes the address:  6113 Sunset Boulevard.  Using Google Street View, you'll see that the original structure is mostly intact.


Related reading
:
Photos: Paley, A New Mid-Century Restaurant In Hollywood.  (laist, 4/26/2016)
Paley, found at Sunset and Gower in Hollywood, quietly began their lunch service a few weeks ago, but has just started offering dinner as well. While the food is particularly delicious, the space itself is perhaps even more impressive. Once the home of Brittingham's Radio Center Restaurant for CBS Studios and before that the site of film studio Nestor Film Company—considered the first film production company in Hollywood—Paley is part of an onslaught of development and new upscale eateries that are opening ahead of Viacom and Netflix's move to the block. The restaurant takes its name from the late CBS CEO, William S. Paley, whose name may already be familiar to you as he also founded the Paley Center for Media.

Other greetings:
Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel.  (6/9/2017)
Pershing Square, Los Angeles.  (6/8/2017)
Fox Carthay Circle Theater, Los Angeles.  (6/7/2017)
Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood.  (6/4/2017)
Hotel Teris, Los Angeles.  (6/1/2016)
Broadway in Los Angeles.  (5/31/2017)
Los Angeles Civic Center.  (5/30/2017)
Southern California palm-lined street.  (5/29/2017)
Downtown Los Angeles.   (5/24/2017)
Giant Springs, Great Falls, Montana.  (5/23/2017)
Hollywood Boulevard.  (5/22/2017)
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.  (5/21/2017)
Brown Derby, Hollywood.  (5/20/2017)
Southern California.  (5/20/2017)
Mojave Desert (Joshua trees).  (5/20/2017)
Rose Hill Motel in Mena, Arkansas.  (5/20/2017)
Will Rogers Ranch.  (5/20/2017)
Grauman's Chinese Theater.  (5/18/2017)
Hollywood Boulevard.  (5/18/2017)
Barstow, California.  (5/17/2017)
California.  (5/14/2017)
Parklabrea Towers, L.A.  (5/14/2017)
La Jolla Children's Pool.  (5/13/2017)
Los Angeles.  (5/11/2017)
Laguna Beach, California.  (5/10/2017)
California.  (5/9/2017)
Los Angeles.  (5/9/2017)
California.  (5/8/2017)
Pomona College, Claremont, California.  (5/7/2017)
La Jolla, California.  (5/6/2017)
Hope, Arkansas.  (5/4/2017)
Bakersfield, California.  (5/3/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (5/1/2017)
California.  (4/28/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (4/19/2017)
Superstition Mountain, Arizona.  (4/15/2017)
Tucson, Arizona.  (4/12/2017)
Phoenix, Arizona.  (4/8/2017)
Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah.  (4/8/2017)
Dothan, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)
Mobile, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)
Anniston, Alabama.  (3/29/2017)

Johnathan Barry's resume update


Photo credit:  LinkedIn

(Mis)reported in Tyrol Basin owners selling, but want skiing to continue.  (Madison.com, 6/9/2017)

Barry changed jobs in November 2015.

Ex-Dane County executive Jonathan Barry hired for Public Lands post.  (Wisconsin State Journal, 11/26/2015)
Jonathan Barry, who recently has been working as an appointee of Gov. Scott Walker in state agencies, was chosen as executive secretary of the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands on Wednesday on a 2-0 vote, with one commission member abstaining.

Prior to his appointment to the Board of Commissioners of Public Lands, Barry was Deputy Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Safety and Professional Services from July to November 2015 and Deputy Secretary of the Department of Workforce Development from October 2011 to July 2015.  He served as Dane County Executive from 1981 to 1987.

Friday, June 9, 2017

Don't expect burger-flipping robots to take over restaurant kitchens anytime soon


Posted on YouTube on 3/9/2017



The video notes that CaliBurger hopes to install Flippy robots in 50 restaurants worldwide.  50 down.  14,999,950 to go.  (McDonald's, on the other hand, operates nearly 37,000 restaurants worldwide.)

Hamburger-making robot company raises $18 million.  (Axios, 6/9/2017)
(Of course, not every restaurant in the world serves burgers.}  Founded in 2009, Momentum Machines is developing food-preparing robots, the first one of which supposedly can prep hundreds of made-to-order hamburgers in an hour ― from raw ingredients to packaging. In other words, it might be the future of fast-food prep work.

Date when some other burger-flippin' robot videos were posted on YouTube:




Trump tweets and legal minds put head in hands, moan quietly




Quoted in Comey’s Testimony Sharpens Focus on Questions of Obstruction.  (The New York Times, 6/8/2017)

Dear Roy, Your time is up. We've checked the 'GOP can't govern' box.


That was then, immediately following the 2016 elections


Quoted in Newly Empowered, Mitch McConnell Promises an End to ‘Gridlock.  (The New York Times, 11/5/2017)

This is now.

Without Obama as a Unifier, Republicans Are Fragmented.  (The New York Times,
6/6/2017)

Related post:
Then and now, Congressional GOP remains rudderless, dysfunctional.  (6/9/2017)

Then and now, Congressional GOP remains rudderless, dysfunctional


That was then, immediately following the 2016 elections


Quoted in Newly Empowered, Mitch McConnell Promises an End to ‘Gridlock.  (The New York Times, 11/5/2017)

This is now.


Without Obama as a Unifier, Republicans Are Fragmented.  (The New York Times,
6/6/2017)

Greetings from the Los Angeles Biltmore Hotel


Now known as the Millennium Biltmore Los Angeles.  The hotel also made an apperance in the previous 'greeting'.

From Retiring Guy's postcard collection

From the Los Angeles Conservancy Millennuium Biltmore Hotel Walking Tour webpage.
Once the largest hotel west of Chicago, its magnificent architecture has attracted countless celebrities and dignitaries since its opening in 1923, including Rudolph Valentino, the Prince of Wales, J. Paul Getty, Howard Hughes, Herbert Hoover, and Eleanor Roosevelt. You might even recognize it from many beloved films and shows, from Pretty in Pink and Ghostbusters to Fight Club. 

Related links:
10 Secrets of Los Angeles’s Historic Millennium Biltmore Hotel.  (10/29/2013)
The Millennium Biltmore Hotel: The Story of an L.A. Icon.  (Discover Los Angeles, 6/2/2015)

Other greetings:
Pershing Square, Los Angeles.  (6/8/2017)
Fox Carthay Circle Theater, Los Angeles.  (6/7/2017)
Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood.  (6/4/2017)
Hotel Teris, Los Angeles.  (6/1/2016)
Broadway in Los Angeles.  (5/31/2017)
Los Angeles Civic Center.  (5/30/2017)
Southern California palm-lined street.  (5/29/2017)
Downtown Los Angeles.   (5/24/2017)
Giant Springs, Great Falls, Montana.  (5/23/2017)
Hollywood Boulevard.  (5/22/2017)
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.  (5/21/2017)
Brown Derby, Hollywood.  (5/20/2017)
Southern California.  (5/20/2017)
Mojave Desert (Joshua trees).  (5/20/2017)
Rose Hill Motel in Mena, Arkansas.  (5/20/2017)
Will Rogers Ranch.  (5/20/2017)
Grauman's Chinese Theater.  (5/18/2017)
Hollywood Boulevard.  (5/18/2017)
Barstow, California.  (5/17/2017)
California.  (5/14/2017)
Parklabrea Towers, L.A.  (5/14/2017)
La Jolla Children's Pool.  (5/13/2017)
Los Angeles.  (5/11/2017)
Laguna Beach, California.  (5/10/2017)
California.  (5/9/2017)
Los Angeles.  (5/9/2017)
California.  (5/8/2017)
Pomona College, Claremont, California.  (5/7/2017)
La Jolla, California.  (5/6/2017)
Hope, Arkansas.  (5/4/2017)
Bakersfield, California.  (5/3/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (5/1/2017)
California.  (4/28/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (4/19/2017)
Superstition Mountain, Arizona.  (4/15/2017)
Tucson, Arizona.  (4/12/2017)
Phoenix, Arizona.  (4/8/2017)
Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah.  (4/8/2017)
Dothan, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)
Mobile, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)
Anniston, Alabama.  (3/29/2017)

Carol Burgeson (1937-2017) Warren High School class of 1955



1954 Dragon yearbook
Carol is in the front row, 3rd from right


1967 Warren City Directory
  • Burgeson Archie T (Margt E) roofer King-Keystone h11 Willey
  • Burgeson Margt E Mrs clk Hadden Grocery r11Willey
1983 Warren City Directory
  • Burgeson Margt E Mrs retd h11 Willey St

The popularity of 'Carol' is graphed here.  Let's look at Archibald.


It's been a long time since we've seen you around, Archibald.

Other class of '55 members:
Theoidore Huber.  (5/3/2017)
Mary Sperry.  (4/11/2017)
James Graziano.  (3/28/2017)
Lavonne Devore Saber.  (12/8/2016) 
Martin Gage.  (12/5/2016)
Sally Jean Nelson Kittner.  (11/15/2016)
Lester Nero.  (9/8/2016)
Cleo Stack Yaegle (10/24/2015
Carl Stranburg.  (1/30/2015)

Dear Mr. Big Stuff, Be careful what you wish for. You're dealing with a former Freedom Caucus crazy.


The usual specious nonsense from Governor Wannabe.


Quoted in Wisconsin's Robin Vos and Paul Farrow meet with Trump on infrastructure.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6/8/2017)

Robin, you talked to a guy who would just as well have us raise our own road funds for highways as a way to "devolve more power back to the states."

Ready to scounge up $763,229,980 in no longer appropriated FAST Act dollars?



Source:  U.S. Department of Transportation (highlight added)

One-hit wonder Jean Knight had a huge hit with "Mr. Big Stuff", which debuted at #on the Billboard Hot 100 for the week ending May 29, 1971.  It spent 16 weeks on the chart, peaking at #2 for 2 weeks.




Thursday, June 8, 2017

UPDATE. More than 4 months into his presidency, Trump blathers about draining the swamp


Fantasy
6/8/2017 Email blast from Donald J. Trump, President

Reality




Original 1/23/2017 post, "Headline news:  Daily Mail wonders what happened to Trump's promise to drain the swamp", starts here.

From the conservative Daily Mail

Related reading:
Source:  Tricky Trump Floods the Swamp.  (Civitas, 12/2/2016)

UPDATE. Fox and Friends white people like what they hear from most unpopular governor in America



Original 6/8/2017 post, "Chris Christie, America's most unpopular governor, confirms that Trump lives in a bubble world", starts here.


Or as Chris Hayes tweets...


Quoted in Chris Christie: Trump's pressure on Comey was "normal New York City conversation"  Vox, 6/7/2017)

Related reading:
Christie is the most unpopular governor in US.  (The Hill, 4/11/2017)
Republicans lead the way. Seventy-one percent of New Jersey votes disapprove of Christie while just 25 percent approve, according to the Morning Consult poll released Tuesday. Christie edged out Kansas Gov. 
Sam Brownback (R) as the nation's least popular. Brownback had a 66 percent disapproval to 27 percent approval, the poll found.

Greetings from Pershing Square, Los Angeles


From Retiring Guy's postcard collection

Timeline:

  • 1866.  Block 15 set aside as a town square.  No funds provided for improvements
  • 1870.  Renamed Los Angeles Park, which was fenced in with trees planted around the perimeter.
  • 1910.  $80,000 renovation.  Architect John Parkinson's design creates a symmetrical plan with walkways and ornamental plantings.
  • 1918. Renamed Pershing Square, in honor of John Pershing, commander of U.S. forces in what later became known as World War I.
  • 1930s and 1940s.  Gathering place for the marginalized
  • Early 1950s.  Renovation includes subterranean parking garage (access at lower right in postcard) and a walking path around the perimeter of a fenced-in lawn area.
  • 1990s.  Another redesign, which KCET shrugs off as not worth describing.


Related reading:
Here's the Timeline For the Big Redesign of LA's Oldest and Most Hated Park.  (Curbed Los Angeles, 9/2/2015)
Pershing Square is Los Angeles's oldest park, dating from 1866 (with name changes and redesigns since), but an unfortunate Post-Modern renovation in the early 1990s has also made it LA's most hated.

Other greetings:
Fox Carthay Circle Theater, Los Angeles.  (6/7/2017)
Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood.  (6/4/2017)
Hotel Teris, Los Angeles.  (6/1/2016)
Broadway in Los Angeles.  (5/31/2017)
Los Angeles Civic Center.  (5/30/2017)
Southern California palm-lined street.  (5/29/2017)
Downtown Los Angeles.   (5/24/2017)
Giant Springs, Great Falls, Montana.  (5/23/2017)
Hollywood Boulevard.  (5/22/2017)
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.  (5/21/2017)
Brown Derby, Hollywood.  (5/20/2017)
Southern California.  (5/20/2017)
Mojave Desert (Joshua trees).  (5/20/2017)
Rose Hill Motel in Mena, Arkansas.  (5/20/2017)
Will Rogers Ranch.  (5/20/2017)
Grauman's Chinese Theater.  (5/18/2017)
Hollywood Boulevard.  (5/18/2017)
Barstow, California.  (5/17/2017)
California.  (5/14/2017)
Parklabrea Towers, L.A.  (5/14/2017)
La Jolla Children's Pool.  (5/13/2017)
Los Angeles.  (5/11/2017)
Laguna Beach, California.  (5/10/2017)
California.  (5/9/2017)
Los Angeles.  (5/9/2017)
California.  (5/8/2017)
Pomona College, Claremont, California.  (5/7/2017)
La Jolla, California.  (5/6/2017)
Hope, Arkansas.  (5/4/2017)
Bakersfield, California.  (5/3/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (5/1/2017)
California.  (4/28/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (4/19/2017)
Superstition Mountain, Arizona.  (4/15/2017)
Tucson, Arizona.  (4/12/2017)
Phoenix, Arizona.  (4/8/2017)
Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah.  (4/8/2017)
Dothan, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)
Mobile, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)
Anniston, Alabama.  (3/29/2017)

Meet the plutocrats whose money changed the GOP's view of climate science



How G.O.P. Leaders Came to View Climate Change as Fake Science.  (The New York Times, 6/3/2017)

Related post:
Scott Walker continues to heed the voices of his masters, Charles and David Koch.  (10/26/2016)

6 years later, the urban/rural digital divide persists, right here in Dane County




Related posts:
In Scott Walker's 6th year as Governor, some folks in Town of Berry still without high-speed Internet service.  (8/16/2016)
Bill Esbeck, the Town of Dunn in on line 1.  (1/7/2012)
Town of Dunn Keeps Up the Pressure for High-Speed Internet Access.  (12/23/2011)


Original 2/8/2011 post, "The Urban/Rural Digital Divide", starts here.


Digital Age is Slow to Arrive in Rural America.  (The New York Times, 2/18/2011)

Excerpt:   As the world embraces its digital age — two billion people now use the Internet regularly — the line delineating two Americas has become more broadly drawn. There are those who have reliable, fast access to the Internet, and those, like about half of the 27,867 people here in Clarke County, who do not.

In rural America, only 60 percent of households use broadband Internet service, according to a report released Thursday by the Department of Commerce. That is 10 percent less than urban households. Over all, 28 percent of Americans do not use the Internet at all.

The report was developed in conjunction with a national broadband map that was also released Thursday, as part of a billion-dollar effort to improve Internet access in the United States, particularly in rural areas
.



State Broadband Data & Development Program
The above list needs to be updated, of course.

Climate change as a matter of fact: Brazil:




Reported in Infectious disease collides with changing climate.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 5/24/2017)
But climate alone cannot account for Brazil’s latest bout with yellow fever, according to Chame, coordinator of the foundation’s biodiversity research unit. 
Other contributors include the clearing of forests for farms and plantations, an activity that brings humans into areas thick with mosquitoes; the grinding rural poverty that makes insect repellent a luxury for many villagers; and the reluctance of many Brazilians to receive the yellow fever vaccine.

Other climate change as a matter of fact posts:
Global Seed Vault on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen.  (5/20/2017)
Madeline Island, Wisconsin.  (2/23/2017)
Mexico City.  (2/19/2017)
Kansas.  (1/29/2017)
Moose of Maine.  (1/21/2017)
Florida Keys.  (1/14/2017)
California wine country.  (1/11/2017)
Kaktovik, Alaska.  (12/20/2016)
Bolivia.  (7/11/2016)
Alaska's Glacier Bay National Park.  (7/7/2016)
Kiribati.  (7/6/2016)
Peru,  (5/21/2016)

UPDATE: Apparently, Scott Walker has moved governor's office to 1241 North Franklin Place in Milwaukee


What a difference 6 years and some document hacking makes.


Related links:
Future of the Family Commission.  (Wisconsin Department of Children and Families)
Future of the Family Commission: Final Report and Recommendations.
Bradley Foundation (address)


Original 11/21/2011 post, "Wisconsin's Conservative Bradley Foundation Manages to Avoid the Spotlight", starts here.


From local roots, Bradley Foundation builds conservative empire. (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 11/19/2011)

Excerpt: Less than a week after being elected governor, Scott Walker and his wife met privately with one of the most powerful philanthropic forces behind America's conservative movement.

It wasn't the Koch brothers - the bogeymen for the American left.

On Nov. 8, 2010, the Walkers broke bread at the upscale Bacchus restaurant in the Cudahy Tower with the board and senior staff of the Milwaukee-based Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation.

With more than $600 million in assets, the Bradley Foundation provides a cornerstone for the conservative movement in Wisconsin and across America. It has been the financial backer behind public policy experiments that started in the state and spread across the nation - including welfare reform, public vouchers for private schools and, this year, cutbacks in public employee benefits and collective bargaining.

Yet outside conservative circles, the foundation has kept a low profile. It receives a fraction of the attention given the billionaire brothers David and Charles Koch and the Scaife family
.

Very quietly, Wisconsin's Mike Gallagher worms his way to top echelon of Congressional conservatives


He is among 22 Republicans receiving a perfect 100% score, as rated by the Conservative Review.


The company he keeps includes Rep. Liz Cheney (WY), Sen. Mike Lee (UT), and Rep. Dave Brat (VA). 

Related reading -- the ultimate puff pice, actually
The hopeful signs in the first 100 days of a freshman congressman.  (The Hill, 5/1/2017)
Instead, Gallagher’s first 100 days have been refreshing and may portend the type of congressional vision offered by a new class of millennial leaders. Gallagher appears intent on offering bold reforms to address key policy concerns that have the potential to unleash American ingenuity, while at the same time taking the necessary steps to secure the homeland.

What he has done is align himself with the most conservative members of Congress. 

Lara Trump has thankless job of promoting a campaign that will never happen


Photo credit:  Cebel Nest

Quoted in The face of Donald Trump's 2020 campaign.  (McClatchy, 6/7/2017)

(Morning Consult, 5/31/2017)

EPA Director Scott Pruit will do and say anything to promote and favor fossil fuel industry


Quite simply, the coal sector has added about 1,000 jobs since October 2016—not 50,000. Coal could not have added 50,000 jobs in the last eight months, since that is essentially the size of the entire coal industry, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Pruitt’s statistic would otherwise imply that entire coal mining industry started in October.


Source:  Economic Research, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis

Other Pruitt posts:
Meet Scott Pruitt, top fox in EPA henhouse.  (5/21/2017)
The news isn't Scott Pruitt's views on climate science -- they're obvious -- it's GOP orthodoxy.  (3/10/2017)

Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Georgia Republican candidate Karen Handel wants to fill the swamp



Karen Handel: ‘I Do Not Support Livable Wage’ . (TPM, 6/6/2017)

If Karen wins this special election, it will be a very sad day for America.  And it's close, people.  Very close.


How loud of an alarm do we need?

Related reading:
1 In 2 Working Americans Make Less Than $30,000 A Year.  (Daily Caller, 10/25/2015)

This is how our president behaves nowadays. Have you soiled your underwear yet?


Illustration credit:  Huffington Post

Reported in PoliticsTrump, furious and frustrated, gears up to punch back at Comey testimony.  (Washington Post, 6/6/2017)

Yes, folks, Baby Huey is in the White House.

Glenn Grothman on the Paris Accord: The blithering goes on



Quoted in Grothman backs Trump pulling out of Paris Climate Accord.  (Wisconsin Radio Network, 6/5/2017)

Wisconsin is 2nd to Indiana.

Yale University's Environmental Performance Index (EPI) ranks the United States at 26th. Here's the top 10.



The Great Recession took a big chunk out of Wisconsin's manufacturing employment numbers.


Other Grothman posts:
Dear Glenn Grothman, Not that anyone is listening to you.  (6/5/2017)
Oh, yeah, I just bet he does.   (6/1/2017)
It's bromance time for Glenn Grothman, sez Greg Gianforte seems like a good guy.  (5/26/2017)
Grothman dons his clown suit again.  (5/1/2017)
At Glenn Grothman's groan-inducing town hall.  (5/2/2017)
51 U.S. House members implore Trump to legalize LGBT discrimination.  (4/27/2017)
At KFIZ, everybody loves a clown.  (4/17/2017)
Wishful thinking: Glenn Grothman does a little Mick Jagger at the podium during Sheboygan listening session.  (4/11/2017).
What DO they think of Glenn Grothman on Capitol Hill?  (1/31/2017)
Not a Muslim ban, Glenn Grothman? The numbers indicate otherwise.  (1/31/2017)
On the other hand, some might say we do need Congressmen, but we can not have the wrong Congressmen.  (1/2/2017)
The conservative values of Glenn Grothman, straight shooter and exemplary public servant.  (10/30/2017)
GOP donor and Neenah realtor pens letter to editor, praises Glenn Grothman.  (10/28/2017)
Well, Glenn Grothman, looks as though Donald Trump and Paul Ryan won't accompany Mr. Gumpy on his outing.  (10/20/2016)
Meet the 3 Stooges who introduced Donald Trump at yesterday's rally in Green Bay.  (10/18/2016)
Likely to be other reasons why Trump and Glenn Grothman's relationship might be "less than perfect".  (10/13/2016)
Glenn Grothman raises GOP specter of black bogeyman Al Sharpton.  (7/14/2016)
Recommended reading from Glenn Grothman.  (3/3/2016)
Once again, Grothman does the blah blah blah.  (1/13/2016)
Tea Party alert: Glenn Grothman supports increase in federal gas tax.  (12/29/2015)
Glenn Grothman's moving service.  (11/16/2015)
Glenn Grothman: Still trying to get to 'yes' with Paul Ryan.  (10/18/2015) 
Dear Glenn Grothman, Breaking up is hard to do.  (10/17/2015) 
He's a guy, and has access to 'all machines that one would need'.  (9/29/2015) 
Meet the Members of the Republican Study Committee: Glenn Grothman (R-WI, 6th District).  (8/18/2015)
What about seeing the light, Representative Grothman?  (8/11/2015)
Glenn Grothman's gibberish in full flower.  (7/1/2015)
Rep. Glenn Grothman puts corporate personhood first.  (6/23/2015)
Glenn Grothman Finds His Voice in Washington, D.C. (6/19/2015)
Glenn Grothman goes seriously bland on us.  (5/12/2015)
Glenn Grothman's lips are zipped.  (4/9/2015)
Glenn Grothman Speaks the Language of the Godfather of states' rights.  (1/13/2015)
Glenn Grothman, Quiet Man.  (10/12/2014)
Tom Petri returns the favor to Glenn Grothman.  (9/5/2014)
Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District primary: Less than 12% of voters paid attention.  (8/24/2014)
Hey guys and gals, Scott Walker is not 100% convinced that Glenn Grothman can win the 6th CD. (8/23/2014)
Career politician Glenn Grothman moves one step closer to Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District general election.  (8/22/2014)
To the tune of $692,000.   (8/14/2014)
Glenn Grothman:  A man without a mandate.  (8/14/2014)
Glenn Grothman to Tom Petri: Thank you for your 35 years of service.  (8/1/2014)
Duey Stroebel can't be bothered with fundraising, looks to buy seat instead.  (8/1/2014)
Clearly, "common-sense bills" and "Grothman" should never be used in the same sentence.(7/9/2014)
Two career politicians pledge limited service in the U.S. House of Representatives.  (7/8/2014)
Glenn Grothman, Affirmative Action, and the demographics of Wisconsin's 6th Congressional District.  (4/28/2014)

Greetings from Fox Carthay Circle Theater, Los Angeles


From Retiring Guy's postcard collection

Fox Carthay Circle.  (Cinema Treasures)

Timeline

May 18, 1926.  Cecil B. DeMille's "The Volga Boatman" is the first movie to play here.

B. DeMille’s

December 21, 1937.  World premiere of Disney's "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs".

December 28,1939.  West Coast premiere of "Gone With the Wind".

December 22, 1956.  To accommodate the premiere of "Around the World in 80 Days", the theater's interior was 'remodeled' to accommodate the Todd A-O screen and projection room.

1969.  Theater demolished after "The Shoes of the Fisherman", Oscar bait that bombed at the box office, ends its run.

Other greetings:
Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood.  (6/4/2017)
Hotel Teris, Los Angeles.  (6/1/2016)
Broadway in Los Angeles.  (5/31/2017)
Los Angeles Civic Center.  (5/30/2017)
Southern California palm-lined street.  (5/29/2017)
Downtown Los Angeles.   (5/24/2017)
Giant Springs, Great Falls, Montana.  (5/23/2017)
Hollywood Boulevard.  (5/22/2017)
Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.  (5/21/2017)
Brown Derby, Hollywood.  (5/20/2017)
Southern California.  (5/20/2017)
Mojave Desert (Joshua trees).  (5/20/2017)
Rose Hill Motel in Mena, Arkansas.  (5/20/2017)
Will Rogers Ranch.  (5/20/2017)
Grauman's Chinese Theater.  (5/18/2017)
Hollywood Boulevard.  (5/18/2017)
Barstow, California.  (5/17/2017)
California.  (5/14/2017)
Parklabrea Towers, L.A.  (5/14/2017)
La Jolla Children's Pool.  (5/13/2017)
Los Angeles.  (5/11/2017)
Laguna Beach, California.  (5/10/2017)
California.  (5/9/2017)
Los Angeles.  (5/9/2017)
California.  (5/8/2017)
Pomona College, Claremont, California.  (5/7/2017)
La Jolla, California.  (5/6/2017)
Hope, Arkansas.  (5/4/2017)
Bakersfield, California.  (5/3/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (5/1/2017)
California.  (4/28/2017)
Little Rock, Arkansas.  (4/19/2017)
Superstition Mountain, Arizona.  (4/15/2017)
Tucson, Arizona.  (4/12/2017)
Phoenix, Arizona.  (4/8/2017)
Monument Valley, Arizona/Utah.  (4/8/2017)
Dothan, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)
Mobile, Alabama.  (4/5/2017)
Anniston, Alabama.  (3/29/2017)

Theodore Shaw (1934-2017) Warren High School class of 1952



1952 Dragon yearbook

1967 Warren City Directory
  • [county section] Shaw Janet rRussell
  • [county section] Shaw Ralph rRussel 
  • [county section] Shaw Thoedore rRussell
  • [county section] Shaw Vera L r Russell
1983 Warren City Directory
  • [county section] Shaw Janet rRD 2 Box 2733 Russell
  • [county section] Shaw Thoedore rRD 2 Box 2733 Russell 

The popularity of 'Theodore' as a baby name is graphed here.  Let's look at Vera.


'Vera' enjoyed a steady run of popularity during the first quarter of the 20th century.  Her decline accelerated during the 1960s, and she disappeared from view after 1983.  She's been on the comeback trail since 2009, although it looks to be stalled momentarily.  She moved up just 1 place in 2016.

Other class of '52 grads:
Richard Suppa.  (5/27/2017)
Neil Siefert.  (4/18/2017)
Mary Anne Handest McHenry.  (3/23/2017)
Reynold Flatt.  (2/27/2017)
Donald Merkle.  (9/23/2016)
Minnie Bonavita Miller.  (6/10/2016)
Myra Wilson Babcock.  (5/19/2016)
Norma Pierce Nielsen.  (4/6/2016)
Santo 'Sam' Pascuzzi.  (2/14/2016)
Glenn Culbertson.  (10/23/2015)
Elizabeth Eggleston Hoffman.  (10/17/2014)