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BAY AREA CITY STREETS IN THE EARLY 1900s

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Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, Calif. Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, the Shattuck Hotel on the near left. Hink's department store on Shattuck Ave. opened in 1939 and occupied the ground floor of the Shattuck Hotel.  I shopped there quite a bit seeing as how I only lived 5 miles away and it was a quick bus ride to town.  Fun note: in the late 1950s when I was in high school, the underground parking lot behind Hink's was a popular place for teenagers to "park".  Y   J    Berkeley’s Center Street. Berkeley celebrating its 50 th Anniversary in 1916 on Shattuck Ave. An early look at the campus of the “University of California at Berkeley”.  Charter Day was March 23, 1868. Street scene in Oakland, Calif. An earlier bird’s eye view of the same scene taken from a greater distance. Waiting for a street car in Oakland. I don’t know what the fancy building on the corner was, but I recognize the shorter building behind it with the “H.C. Capwell Co.” sign above it....
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ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE (or not)

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  My Mom walking along a busy sidewalk in San Francisco in 1937, taken by my Dad who worked for the same company she did and wanted to meet her.  He hoped giving her the picture he took of her would act as an introduction, and so it did. The Easter Parade.  Leading Is my middle sis, then me, then my youngest sis, and bringing up the rear is her boyfriend at the time – taken  on Carmel Avenue in El Cerrito, Calif. in 1968 on Easter Sunday.  There's a church up on the corner which explains why there are so many cars parked on the street. We're not walking along a busy street although we did meet a few hikers along the way, but this is my family walking along a sandy road behind Meeks Bay, Lake Tahoe on our way to another, much smaller lake whose name I cannot remember.  L-R: my brother up ahead, me, my youngest sister, my Mom, & my middle sis.  1954 - I was 14. Mom had trouble with dirt or sandy roads.  She hated the feeling of sand or dirt in...
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STONE GHOSTS

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  Stonehenge in England Standing stones in Wales An Irish circle of standing stones. Standing stones on the Isle of Arron in Scotland The standing stones of Stennes on the Orkney Mainland, Scotland The 5000 year old standing stones of the “Ring of Brodgar” in Orkney, Scotland The standing stones near Carnac in Brittany are smaller and stand in straight lines rather than circles. The giant statues of Easter Island HAPPY HALLOWEEN La Nightingail
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THE NEED FOR AIR

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  If you’re jumping out of an airplane, you’d better hope there’s air beneath you to fill your parachute.  More importantly, you’d better make sure you have a parachute!  1973 - my husband on the left.  Balloons need air. Twenty-two years ago during the time I was staying with my cousin in Reno, Nevada while my eldest daughter recovered from a serious boating accident in the hospital there,  the annual “Great Reno Balloon Race” was held and every morning for a couple of weeks as I drove down to the hospital, I saw fantastic sights like this.  What a way to start the day! J     Birds need air to fly, of course.  This is what my sweet Ella might have looked like as she flew around our house or when I took her to settle with a bird lady a few miles away who could take proper care of her, and she flew back to us instead.  What a bird. Y These are the young eagles, Sunny and Gizmo – Shadow and Jackie’s offspring of last year (’25) – who bec...
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