Topic: THE TIME MACHINE DREAM (Read 5344 times)

elmore3003 · « **Reply #30 on:** July 20, 2015, 05:49:16 AM »

This should takes us to Page 2?

elmore3003 · « **Reply #31 on:** July 20, 2015, 05:49:42 AM »

Bingo!

Michael · « **Reply #32 on:** July 20, 2015, 05:52:51 AM »

good morning to all

Michael · « **Reply #33 on:** July 20, 2015, 05:53:19 AM »

continued health vibes for all that need them

Michael · « **Reply #34 on:** July 20, 2015, 05:55:38 AM »

BK

Perhaps you can put an insert into the program where an audience member can reserve a copy of the cd and in doing so they save some money $$

Laura · « **Reply #35 on:** July 20, 2015, 06:14:59 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 20, 2015, 05:12:41 AM

I hate hot weather.

I hear you!

Laura · « **Reply #36 on:** July 20, 2015, 06:16:41 AM »

Good morning. I actually got to the trailhead at 5 a.m. today. Well, I got to where the road is closed for construction or something. So I couldn't hike after all. Sigh. I haven't been able to get out early enough this summer.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #37 on:** July 20, 2015, 06:36:54 AM »

Okay, here's some Hollywood Boulevard. I kept the files huge to retain detail, so rather than shrink them, here are links.
The B&Ws were taken in 1973, the color in 2004.

(In the first shot, the part of the block east of Musso & Frank's, including M'Goo's and the Greek coffee shop I've mentioned, is what burned down around 1975, and none of those places ever came back.)

http://home.comcast.net/~chasmith7/Hollywood/01-Musso%20to%20Cherokee-Loves.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~chasmith7/Hollywood/02-Loves%20to%20Bookshop.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~chasmith7/Hollywood/03-Bookshop%20to%20Whitley.jpg
http://home.comcast.net/~chasmith7/Hollywood/04-Whitley-Pies%20and%20east.jpg

And here's what had become of BK's Coffee Dan's by the time I'd moved there. It's the hamburger place. Really sad. (That's the Warner/Pacific building at the left.)
http://home.comcast.net/~chasmith7/Hollywood/Cahuenga.jpg

ChasSmith · « **Reply #38 on:** July 20, 2015, 06:49:30 AM »

The images are from this book which I only discovered a few years ago. To say it's a godsend (for me, anyway, since I lived there when those were taken) would be the understatement of the millennium. If only I could have such documentation for the other places I grew up...

Ben · « **Reply #39 on:** July 20, 2015, 06:49:46 AM »

Sing, I had no commute. My office was half a block from our apartment. We're on 16th between 5th and 6th and the office was at 79 Fifth Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets.

For the first time in 31 years I have to commute to the office. The next 8 years (I'll retire when I'm 70, I'm 62 now) will be quite different. The new office is all the way downtown in the Financial District. The address is 32 Old Slip. It's a block from the East River and a 5 minute walk from the end of the island.

Today I took the R to Whitehall, the last stop in Manhattan. Tomorrow I will try the 2 or 3 to Wall Street and I will also try walking. It's a 45 minute walk from my apartment and today it took 25 minutes by train.

ChasSmith · « **Reply #40 on:** July 20, 2015, 06:51:36 AM »

OMG, what a change, just the commute itself. That's ... well, just incredible, DR Ben.

Jane · « **Reply #41 on:** July 20, 2015, 07:14:25 AM »

Adjusting to the new office vibes for DR Ben!!!!

Jane · « **Reply #42 on:** July 20, 2015, 07:16:40 AM »

Quote from: Laura on July 20, 2015, 06:16:41 AM

Good morning. I actually got to the trailhead at 5 a.m. today. Well, I got to where the road is closed for construction or something. So I couldn't hike after all. Sigh. I haven't been able to get out early enough this summer.

How very frustrating, especially so early in the morning. I have only hiked once since we moved here.

Jane · « **Reply #43 on:** July 20, 2015, 07:22:59 AM »

Quote from: Ben on July 20, 2015, 06:49:46 AM

Sing, I had no commute. My office was half a block from our apartment. We're on 16th between 5th and 6th and the office was at 79 Fifth Avenue between 15th and 16th Streets.

For the first time in 31 years I have to commute to the office. The next 8 years (I'll retire when I'm 70, I'm 62 now) will be quite different. The new office is all the way downtown in the Financial District. The address is 32 Old Slip. It's a block from the East River and a 5 minute walk from the end of the island.

Today I took the R to Whitehall, the last stop in Manhattan. Tomorrow I will try the 2 or 3 to Wall Street and I will also try walking. It's a 45 minute walk from my apartment and today it took 25 minutes by train.

I figured you would have farther to go but not that far.

John G. · « **Reply #44 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:22:52 AM »

Good morning, all.

Welcome back, DR Ben. I hope the new office and the commute is not too much of a problem. I'd use it as reading time.

Good to see you, too, DR Druxy.

John G. · « **Reply #45 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:23:28 AM »

Vibes for Dan M, Cillaliz, Mike, JRand's father and anyone else in need.

John G. · « **Reply #46 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:27:52 AM »

TOD:

I'd love to have gone to the Stork Club and El Morocco in New York in their heydays, but I think that was before the 1940s.

The Brown Derby would have been fun, too.

I would also have liked to have gone to some of those fun diners and drive-ins along Route 66.

John G. · « **Reply #47 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:28:12 AM »

here's one:

John G. · « **Reply #48 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:29:04 AM »

And another:

Ginny · « **Reply #49 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:33:08 AM »

Monday morning greetings! It's a quiet week ~~in Lake Wobegon~~ for me. The only things on my calendar are a piano/clarinet recital Thursday evening at the local Miami campus and a midday webinar on Friday from the Cleveland Clinic about the cardiac dissection phenomenon I experienced almost 5 years ago.

I'm sure other things will develop, but I'm looking forward to some puttering time.

Ginny · « **Reply #50 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:43:37 AM »

DR Ben, thanks for the update on your workplace move. I'll be interested to see the new digs. It doesn't really surprise me that the library is smaller, but I'm especially interested in the meeting room space. In the Fifth Avenue location that area was very congested during Network Days.

As for your commute, I hope the adjustment isn't too painful. Last fall Richard and I spent a day in lower Manhattan and had a delightful ride on the Downtown CoNNection, a free shuttle bus that appears to go along Water Street with stops near Old Slip.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #51 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:51:16 AM »

I am home from my doctor: good cholesterol, good blood sugar, good blood pressure, lost 2 lbs. Back in three months.

elmore3003 · « **Reply #52 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:52:02 AM »

DR Ben, the commute would really piss me off. Subwats ar rush hour are no fun. What's the bus situation like?

Jrand74 · « **Reply #53 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:52:34 AM »

Office and commute vibes for DR BEN.

Jrand74 · « **Reply #54 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:52:56 AM »

DR JANE glad to hear that you are happy with your new home.....

Jrand74 · « **Reply #55 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:53:32 AM »

Yes.....I think I am too old for the part....so I doubt that I will be cast in the play....we shall see this evening.....

Ginny · « **Reply #56 on:** July 20, 2015, 08:54:45 AM »

Quote from: elmore3003 on July 20, 2015, 05:12:41 AM

I hate hot weather.

Me, too, DR Elmore. I think I stay in more in the summer than winter.

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #57 on:** July 20, 2015, 09:01:21 AM »

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #58 on:** July 20, 2015, 09:02:01 AM »

Hot day here in Oakland CA yesterday.

The condo got a bit toasty before I turned on my portable A/C. Thanks goodness for A/C!

Ron Pulliam · « **Reply #59 on:** July 20, 2015, 09:02:22 AM »

Oh, what the hey!

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