THE SONGS OF A NIGHTINGAIL

  So, what were all these spectators seated in cars or milling around on foot expecting to see there at the Coronado ‘Country Club’?  Were they there to view a golf tournament? A few golfers of the times out for a bit of exercise and challenge on the Coronado ‘County Club’’s original 9-hole golf course.  I think the great crowd in the photo above was too large and perhaps too congested to be there for a golf tourney?  Especially those seated in their cars.  Maybe they were there to watch airplanes fly over the club and perhaps land there?  Nearby North Island was leased by a famous aviator by the name of Glenn Curtiss.  He used the island as a place to experiment with his newly developed seaplane.  Eventually he convinced the Navy to establish their first aircraft squadron making North Island the "Birthplace of Naval Aviation."  He often flew his planes in the area.    Byplanes in flght over Coronado ‘Country Club’ in 1911. Curtiss'...

Once upon a time – luckily in ‘my’ day – there was a marvelous lakeside resort on the western shore of Lake Tahoe called “Meeks Bay”.  It’s still there, but it’s nothing like it used to be!   It had a wonderful old lodge with  a newspaper & magazine stand with cards & postcards,  a gift, souvenir, & native jewelry dept., men’s, women’s & children’s resort clothing, a back room with wicker writing desks under every window for writing out postcards, and a TV in one corner surrounded by soft-cushioned wicker chairs & sofas.  In an extended section there was a beauty parlor and the post office.  Upstairs were offices & living quarters.  Unfortunately, the grand old lodge burned down in a suspicious arson fire in 1978. My brother heads for the beach past the old lodge in 1962. The extended addition to the main lodge with the beauty shop and post office.  There’s no line at the post office, so the mail must not have come in ...

  Shoppers & tourists in Stratford upon Avon, England The crowd attending Market Day in Ludlow, Wales. Tourists crowding the sidewalks of Llangollen, Wales Bonzi the owl takes flight over the crowd attending a raptor bird show at Dunrobin Castle in Golspie, England. Crowd aboard the ferry from Oban to Craignure on the Isle of Mull, Scotland 2014 Italy tour group gathered for a souvenir photo. 2015 Scotland tour group gets together for a picture.  2017 Alaska tour group posing for a souvenir shot. 2700 bicycle riders with friends & family in San Francisco getting ready to ride to Los Angeles in a 2001 charity event. Closer to home, a crowd sets off on “Luc’s Run” – a 2K/10K charity run event in Tuolumne City, CA. Climbers navigating the chains as they hike to the top of Half Dome in Yosemite . . . . . . unaware, as they reach the top of the granite dome, a wild fire has broken out on the trail behind them, cutting off their return route necessitating a rescue by helicop...