Took a walk on the Imperial Beach pier and took some photos of different things around the area. Here are those photos:
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Comic Book Street Names
Today I was driving down the street and I turned on the corner of Gotham and Xavier and thought to myself, obviously the people responsible for naming those streets are fans of comic books.
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Historical Old Photos in Color
Henry Ford, 1919
Cornell Rowing Team 1914
Brothers Robert Kennedy, Edward ‘Ted’ Kennedy and John F. Kennedy outside the Oval Office.
Sophia Loren and Jayne Mansfield
Two Boxers after a fight
Brooklyn Bridge in 1904
Louis Armstrong plays to his wife, Lucille, in Cairo, Egypt 1961
An Oklahoman farmer during the great dust bowl in 1939
Boys buying flowers in 1908
Red Hawk of the Oglala Tribe on horseback 1905
WWII soldiers on Easter
Union Soldiers taking a break 1863
Madison Square Park New York City around 1900
Burger Flipper 1938
Helen Keller meeting comedian Charlie Chaplin in 1918
Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963, being transported to questioning before his murder trial for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Times Square 1947
Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939. Photo taken right after his famous retirement speech. He would pass away just two years later from ALS.
Girls delivering ice, 1918
Louis Armstrong practicing backstage in 1946
American Poet Walt Whitman, 1868
Baltimore Slums, 1938
View from the Capitol in Nashville, 1864
Clint Eastwood working on his 1958 Jag XK 120 in 1960
Babe Ruth’s 1920 MLB debut
An RAF pilot getting a haircut while reading a book between missions
Joan Crawford on the set of Letty Lynton, 1932
Marilyn Monroe
1920s Australian mugshots from the New South Wales Police Dept.
W.H. Murphy testing the bulletproof vest in 1923
Unemployed Lumber Worker and His Wife 1939
Country store in July 1939 Gordonton, North Carolina
Winston Churchill, 1941
Samurai Training 1860
Albert Einstein on a Long Island beach in 1939
British Soldiers Returning from the front in 1939
Hindenburg Blimp crash
Clint Eastwood, 1962
Charles Darwin
Big Jay McNeely, Olympic Auditorium, 1953
Alfred Hitchcock
Elizabeth Taylor in 1956
Pablo Picasso
Brigadier General and actor Jimmy Stewart. Stewart flew 20 combat missions over Nazi-occupied Europe, and even flew one mission during Vietnam.
Albert Einstein, 1921
A car crash in Washington D.C. around 1921
Claude Monet in 1923
Charlie Chaplin at 27 years old in 1916
Mark Twain in 1900
Audrey Hepburn
Nazi Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels scowls at a Jewish photographer, 1933
Washington, D. C. filling station in 1924
President Lincoln with Major General McClernand and Allan Pinkerton at Antietam in 1862
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Bikes, Babes, and Beer…Oh My!
Went to an event at Boarder X Brewery in San Diego, California that had bikes, models, and it was at a brewery so it had beer. Talk about an excellent combination. Here was one one the models that was posing in front of the vehicles.
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West Coast Cars
Went to an event tonight were there were some tricked out West Coast cars with hydraulics, low riders, and some motorcycles. It was my first time ever seeing anything like this so I tried to capture the cars in the best light. Here are some of my photos from the event.
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Working Mammals
Drove over to San Diego to see the pens where the United States Navy holds and cares for dolphins. I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that the United States Navy gives these dolphins the very best care that they can give them, but it made me think about if the Navy should be using dolphins as working animals. The police use dogs as working animals to help sniff out drugs and bombs. Blind people use dogs to help aid for their loss of vision. Autistic people even use dogs to assist them. Is an animal’s life less valuable than a human life? Should dolphins be used to help find and identify potential threats to naval ships? If they are used in that regard why not use them to attack and do harm to others as well? Where do you draw the line for working animals? Should animals be used as combatants or kept as non-combatants? Koreans use dogs to smell out and track down north Korean defectors. Then again Koreans eat dogs too, so they might not hold animals in the highest regard. Should it be acceptable for the United States to use animals to protect the lives of American combatants and naval ships?
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Photos of San Diego
Here are some photos look at San Diego from Harbor Island.
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Bees at Work
I was at LaJolla in San Diego, California and I walked by some flowers and saw some bees that were hard at work. I decided to take some photos of the bees and I must say I was pleased with the results.
I was playing around with an application to bring the bee to the forefront of the image:
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Comic CON 2016
Today I drove down by the convention center to see some of the interesting characters around Comic CON 2016. It was quite a crowd and it was busy. Here are some photos.
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Desert Flowers
Took a walk today and spotted these desert flowers near Otay Ranch, California. I have never seen these types of flowers before, so I snapped a shot.
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Ocean Beach Hippie Hostel
I was walking around Ocean Beach and saw this decked out hippie hostel. I think the only thing that was missing was a hippie van parked out front, but that is minor since there are a bunch of hippies and hippie vehicles in Ocean Beach.
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Photos Around Monterey, California
Here are some various photos I took while at Monterey, California.
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Monterey, California – Sea Otters
Took a trip to Monterey, California because I wanted to see some sea otters and take some photos of them. Here are some of the photos I took.
Here is a short video of one of the otters eating breakfast.
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Monterey’s Flower Burglar
This morning I was driving to the ocean in Monterey, California in hopes to take some photos of some sea otters when I noticed a movement out of the corner of my eye. When I looked over there was a young deer walking along the side of a house. I stopped my car and watched to see what the deer was going to do. He decided to snack on some vegetation in a flower bed. I’m sure the owner will appreciate that.
All of a sudden my windshield wipers went off because they were on a timer from it lightly misting rain this morning.
The noise startled the deer and it started looking around.
The deer spotted me and I decided that I didn’t want to see the deer get spooked and try running away, so I slowly drove my vehicle away and left it alone. What a pleasant experience.
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Bixby Bridge – Big Sur, California
As I drove up the California Highway 1 today, I decided to stop and take some photos of the Bixby Bridge. The Bixby creek bridge was opened in 1932. It is one of the tallest single-span concrete arch bridges in the world. It is located in Monterey County and is part of the California State Highway System. There are nice views both of the bridge and of the area because of it’s location on the Pacific Coast Highway.
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Elephant Seals Near San Simeon
As I drove up California Highway 1, I stopped off at a beach near San Simeon to check out some elephant seals. Being that I’ve never seen elephant seals before, I didn’t know what to expect. First off they are very dramatic. They are always making noise and getting into fights where it looks like they are trying to either bite or get the higher ground on their competition. Second, they are not very graceful on land. They move along and look like a slug. It’s funny because you can see all of their fat jiggle when they move. Third, I guess they get the name “elephant seal” because of the funny shaped nose they have that kind of resembles a trunk. Here are my photos from this interesting experience.
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Evening View of Point Loma
Here is a photo of the beautiful view of Coronado Island and Point Loma in San Diego, California.
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Slices of Early History
Here are some old photos that are wonderful slices of history. The descriptions are below each photo.
The rural kids in the 50’s rode bikes to school. You took whatever path was best for you. Bullet holes in the sign?
Camping out in 1918.
This was the 30’s, and this sharecropper’s son was working behind the plow, barefoot and all. You can bet there was a mule on the front of that plow.
This couple pose in an early version of American Gothic, with a groundhog killed on their Manchester farm…….It’s dinner! Note: Photo taken circa 1914, from a family photo album.
Standing over one of her many trophy mule deer, subsistence-and-sport huntress “Gusty” Wallihan appears every inch the frontier matron with her dressy bonnet, prairie-pattern cartridge belt, floral-embroidered gauntlets, hunting knife, and Remington-Hepburn rifle……1895
At least this one won’t be quite as dangerous as the old single wheeled models. Look in the trailer over the back wheel. “They have their baby in there!”
Ford Model T Street Light Maintenance Truck. This was the approved way to change the street lamps in 1910.
A single Paddy Wagon.
Here is an early motorhome, built in 1926.
Old school camper?
These are vintage treadmills in the 1920’s.
This is a 1920’s refrigerator. Only the elite could afford such a thing, and most still had the old ice boxes.
A hair dryer in the 1920 Salon. What a contraption!
Chester E. Macduffee next to his newly patented, 250 kilo diving suit, 1911.
A postcard from the 1800’s advertising a knife throwing act with the traveling circus.
A Strong-woman balances a piano and the pianist on her chest. 1920
London, in the 1920’s, this was a telephone engineer.
Two young girls in a West Germans street chat with their grandparents in the window of their home in the Eastern sector, separated only by a barbed wire barricade.It was a common occurrence for families, who had once only lived on the opposite side of the street from one another, to become separated by the ever growing Berlin Wall.
A Gibson Girl in her corset in the early 1900’s. Those poor women. This was one fad that really hurt a lot of women for life.
Lillian Russell. A plus size beauty in the late 1800s. She was around 200 lb at the peak of her career. She was considered “The American Beauty.”
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Kansas Highway Patrol Officer Traffic Stop Story
Story from a Kansas State Highway Patrol officer:
I made a traffic stop on an elderly lady the other day for speeding On U.S. 166 Eastbound at Mile Marker 73 just East of Sedan, KS.
I asked for her driver’s license, registration, and proof of insurance.
The lady took out the required information and handed it to me.
In with the cards I was somewhat surprised (due to her advanced age) to see she had a conceal carry permit. I looked at her and ask if she had a weapon in her possession at this time.
She responded that she indeed had a .45 automatic in her glove box.
Something—body language, or the way she said it—made me want to ask if she had any other firearms.
She did admit to also having a 9mm Glock in her center console..
Now I had to ask one more time if that was all.
She responded once again that she did have just one more, a .38 special in her purse.
I then asked her what was she so afraid of.
She looked me right in the eye and said, “Not a f*****g thing!”
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Great Old West Black and White Photos
Here are some shots from the era of the Old West. (captions are below each photo)
Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir in Yosemite. Two men most responsible for the Nation Parks we have in California.
William Sydney Porter, aka O. Henry. Teller at First National Bank, Austin, 1891-1894. Man, look at that fancy woodwork done by the craftsmen of the day!
Earthquake of August 31, 1886, centered near Charleston, SC, damaged many of the railroads in the area.
Old West gunfighter Bat Masterson. was a colorful figure – an army scout, gambler, buffalo hunter, frontier lawman in Dodge City, and eventually a US Marshall. He was friends with Wyatt Erp, and had visited Wyatt in Tombstone, Arizona shortly before the showdown at the OK Coral. Later in life, after the West had been tamed, he settled in New York City, and worked as a sports editor for the New York Morning Telegraph.
Wyoming, circa 1900, Overland by Stagecoach….Crossing the country by stagecoach was adventurous even by nineteenth-century standards. Nine people could squeeze inside a stagecoach; additional passengers sometimes traveled on the roof. Passengers remained sandwiched together for about 22 days, with only brief stops for meals and changes of stock or equipment.
Wanna buy me a drink, Cowboy? When women were pretty scarce, this was a welcoming site for the cowboy who’d been on the range for weeks, seeing nothing but cows!
Photo of bareback bronc riding at the Buffalo Bill Rodeo. These guys were real pros!
Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken. The real Sonora Webster Carver and her diving horse.
Nevadas Tonopah to Sodaville stages meet on the road, circa 1903, for a rare respite. The iron engine would soon take their place as the next year, a 60-mile railroad connected Tonopah with the Carson and Colorado branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad at the Sodaville junction. The railroad would become known as the Tonopah and Goldfield Railroad.
This cowboys house was dug in so that the insulation of the earth help keep it warm. Today we would think of this as a root cellar, but to him it was home!
A Saloon in Georgetown, Colorado. Again, everyone wanted in the picture!
Log cabin in the mid 1880’s – Washington CO, Minnesota
A pair of New Mexico brothers get a studio shot in the 1880s.
Another studio shot showing everything that was important to this cowboy. 1880’s.
A shot from the Great Depression, where a title for this picture might be…I dont know what to do next!
A Memorial placed on the battlefield of the Little Bighorn Massacre in 1879.
Frank Boardman “Pistol Pete” Eaton (October 26, 1860 April 8, 1958) was an American author, cowboy, scout, Indian fighter, and Deputy U.S. Marshal for Judge Isaac C. Parker. He was also known to throw a coin in the air, draw and shoot it before it hit the ground.
A store in Stone Hill, Missouri in the early 1900’s.
Cowboys. Christoval, Texas late 1800’s Women riding side saddle with Colt 45 peacemaker.