Life in Los Angeles in the 20th century was not nearly as dull as you've been led to believe.
There were giants in those days, really, and beings from other worlds arriving constantly.
There was abundance, and a tolerance of blemish unknown today.
There was celebration.
There was ceremony, and ritual.
There was worship.
Women were on the rise to positions formerly occupied solely by men.
The printed word was held in high esteem.
All classes and levels of society were encouraged to participate in the many festivities such clement weather made possible all year round.
Travel was slower then, but quite varied and far less restrictive, all in all.
9.10.06
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Some confusion yet resides among them:
On October 6, 1966, LSD was made illegal and all scientific research programs on the drug were shut down.
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LSD was first synthesized in 1938 and discovered to be psychoactive in 1943. It became popular in the '60's and was made illegal in 1967
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October 6, 1955 in History
Event:
LSD made illegal in U.S.
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Oct 6|LSD made illegal in the US
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LSD was legal in the United States until 1967
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The October 6, 1966 date gets the majority vote, and it jibes with my recollection.
My recollection being taking it, legally, in late September 1966, and seeing it abruptly made illegal two weeks later.
Fred Turner, in a piece excerpted from his book From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism, in The Edge, glosses the Trips Festival segment of Brand's history a little, kind of like Tom Wolfe did, and partially, I think, from having read and absorbed Wolfe's facile take on all that wild profusion:
Toward the end of 1965, Brand and Ramón Sender Barayón, a composer of electronic music and a friend of USCO's Michael Callahan, thought up the Trips Festival as a way to bring the burgeoning scene together. Together, they found promoter Bill Graham (then a member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe) and hired the Longshoreman's Hall in San Francisco for three nights: Friday, January 21, through Sunday, January 23. By this time, the federal government had outlawed LSD, so posters promised an Acid Test—a full-blown psychedelic experience—without LSD.Turner writes "According to Tom Wolfe, it was also the start of the Haight-Ashbury era", deflecting the onus for having said that, but getting the line out there anyway.
Conception's notoriously difficult to draw lines on. Whatever that was - era or moment - it was already well alive by then.
6.10.06
How NOT to wear your hair when you work in a war plant.
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Victory Corps, tomorrow's defenders of liberty. Training in marksmanship helps girls at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles, California, develop into responsible women.
Diamond Dick McClellan
not to be confused with
Diamond Dick Tanner
Paddle/Pedal for Peace
June 02 2006
426 kilometers in two days between London and Paris under his own manpower; pedalling a bike and paddling across the English Channel on a stand-up paddle surfboard
Laird Hamilton
on a paddle board
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link path Here In Malibu
see also road runner
5.10.06
Naming the StarsPoetry 180...and in the mistJoyce Sutphen
of that later telling the bell tolling
now will be a symbol, or, at least,
a sign of something long since...
a poem a day for American high schools
LoC poetry
...far from their homeland in the Wallowa Valley...Chief Joseph's surrender to General Nelson A Miles October 5, 1877
LoC Today in History
3.10.06
Well, here's a fine how-d'you do.
The Image Base of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, a massive art database which I would have normally been inclined to trust implicitly, has this image:
John Collier, artist
English, 1850 -
G. Sidney hunt, 19th - 20th century
but, at Dr. Matthew Eddy's History of Science HPSM MA Module Resource Webpage, we see the same image - this time with the notation:
Charles Darwin
Naturalist and Gentleman
By John Collier, 1883
National Portrait Gallery
and it is, in fact, no other than Charles Darwin, himself, there portrayed.
The Deceased Wife’s Sister Act may seem no more than a legislative curiosity today. Yet while it remained on the statute books it was the focus of intense, even obsessive, interest as Parliament continually renewed the well-rehearsed arguments for and against its repeal. By the end of the nineteenth century its notoriety made it an easy butt for satire: “And he shall prick that annual blister,/ Marriage with deceased wife’s sister”, promises the Queen of the Fairies in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe. Like Monty Python’s dead parrot, the Deceased Wife’s Sister Act had become humorous through incessant repetition. Yet although it was increasingly ridiculed the Act’s strange hold over the Victorian imagination cannot be denied.Sarah Brown, University of Cambridge
The Literary Encyclopedia
The Deceased Wife's Sister's Marriage Act 1907 was a statute passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.wikipedia
Previously, it was forbidden for a man to marry the sister of his deceased wife. This prohibition derived from a doctrine of Canon Law whereby those who were connected by marriage were regarded as being related to each other in a way which made marriage between them improper. This doctrine was reflected in the Table of kindred and affinity in the British Book of Common Prayer. Prohibition of marriage between certain degrees of kindred outlawed what is known as incest; prohibition between degrees of relationship by marriage (affinity) as opposed to blood (consanguinity) seems to have reflected an analogous taboo. At least one novel, Felicia Skene's The Inheritance of Evil; Or, the Consequences of Marrying a Deceased Wife's Sister addressed the topic in polemic fictional form.
from a foray into John Collier's life and work
started by ArtMagick
1.10.06
It was discretely added. What the mayor of Warsaw and his cohort altered there is substantially more important to the city than a poster by a local artist.Desperately Longing for Something OriginalRafal Oblinski
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A white scarf was discretely added over an artist's depiction of a mermaid with an exposed breast on a poster advertising the 2006 Miss World contest, after officials in Warsaw's conservative administration deemed it too suggestive, the artist's agent said Wednesday.
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Warsaw's civic avatar is a mermaid, often depicted armed with sword and shield - naked, as mermaids are wont to be. She's a symbol of resistance and strength.
The people of Warsaw are proud of their symbol, which appears in many art forms, as the one on the left from the weekly magazine "Tygodnik Ilustrowany" in 1900. But however presented, the mermaid is always shown with sword in hand to indicate the fighting spirit of the citizens. Indeed, the people of Warsaw rebelled several times in the 19th.century against the Russian occupiers of the time.The Little Upriser
In recent years, this spirit manifested itself in the continual struggle against the Nazis during World War II, culminating in the disastrous uprising of 1944 as a result of which the city was almost totally destroyed, and tens of thousands died. The maritime theme was also evident in the stylized PW symbol in the shape of an anchor that was scratched, painted, chalked on buildings, vehicles, signposts, throughout the five years of occupation.
The PW stood for Polska Walczaca, "Poland Fights."
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Among the lesser-known legends is the one written by Maria Krüger entitled "The Noble Griffin and the Beautiful Mermaid." According to the legend, the security of the medieval city of Warsaw was guarded by a manly and noble Griffin. When he once took a journey with the river boatmen to the Baltic, he met a beautiful Mermaid. They fell deeply in love and the Mermaid swam with them back to Warsaw. From then on, they both watched over the townspeople.
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Oracle at DelphiTai-Shan Schierenberg
Road to Damascus
"These instinctive visual images refuse to betray the plasticity of the medium."
'physically intense and aesthetically detached'
Flowers
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