One Hundred Years Ago

[albrecht]

I'd have to read up on Tyrol but something along those lines sounds vaguely familiar.

It is a beautiful area.  Definitely would love to spend about a month touring around the Alps.

I read a book once - the author lived on a beach in Spain.  He had four neighbors - all WWII veterans and all from
different countries.  He eventually got their stories.  It was essentially something like this. The British guy was a
paratrooper that was involved in Market Garden and had hellish experiences.   The American served on a bomber and
was shot down over Germany and became a POW, which lead to hellish experiences.   The German was driver on a
tank and his life was one long living hell.

Then there was the Italian.  He was an Alpini which was the Italian Armies elite mountain troops.   When the Germans
invaded Russia he and his was sent to help up near Leningrad.  The German commander wanted nothing to do with
them - he pointed to a couple of little hills off in the distance.  "It was like well, you are mountain troops - go hang out
in those hills".   So this guy goes up into the hills and they find a Russian village devoid of men - so they spent their
time partying with the Russian ladies.  When things started to look bleak for the Germans they simply left - it is a long
walk from Leningrad back to Italy but they eventually make it.   Once they got home they find Italy in turmoil with the
Germans and Allies slugging it out in a death match.   So they simply hike back up over the Alps into Switzerland and
rode the rest of the war out in style.    He had style that Italian.  Even if the tale probably was B.S.   Plus the
Alpini had bitchin' hats:

Interesting. I really like the NPR thing, and others, have done to record conversations with older folks. I did in my family also. So much history is lost. Btw,  I might be totally off-base, and a bit tired to look it up, but I seem to recall some story (like many others) that Tirol was screwed over by the Hapsburgs. Hofer leader of rebellion of country-folks and much of a good guerilla campaign until he was sold out and killed? Beautiful area regardless, and like Switzerland, etc I could see how a military against some hold-outs could be stymied. Like Norway also infamously in the more wilder regions operating against the NAZI occupiers. (Or like our "Red Dawn" of movie fame.) The Finnish-Russian War is also totally forgotten (here) but should be subjects of books or movies.) Amazing stuff of a far out-numbered force (and internal problems within the Finnish area.) This guy, alone, should be a major movie. Amazing. Hero and famous in some circles but not the wide-spread it should be. Besides his record "kills" the stuff like chewing snow (so no breath seen) and iron-sights instead of scopes due to the tech, at the time, and cold weather. Epic. And his survival (and many of the kills weren't with his sniping but by submachine gun, he was an overall soldier.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simo_H%C3%A4yh%C3%A4

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, May 16, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, May 16, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

Here is an interesting, if somewhat bizarre video about Burton Holmes.  I do like the song.
https://youtu.be/HpJbTNqf8j8

[K_Dubb]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, May 16, 1916.

Ah, the old debate!  I think Tonopah had its own school of mines, though maybe that came later.

I had to find a picture of Marie Doro as a geisha:



Striking girl.

[Rix Gins]

Ah, the old debate!  I think Tonopah had its own school of mines, though maybe that came later.

I had to find a picture of Marie Doro as a geisha:



Striking girl.

Don't know when I got this impression but I thought there was a mining school in Tonopah during 'our' time.  I also thought that it was made up primarily of high school boys like say, some kind of supplemental, post high school education...perhaps like an early day community college course? 

Great photo of Marie, K.  That one is a real 'keeper.'

[K_Dubb]

Don't know when I got this impression but I thought there was a mining school in Tonopah during 'our' time.  I also thought that it was made up primarily of high school boys like say, some kind of supplemental, post high school education...perhaps like an early day community college course? 

Great photo of Marie, K.  That one is a real 'keeper.'

Looking for the Airdome in all those panoramas, the school didn't show up until the later ones, kind of behind the first Airdome site.  That isn't to say it couldn't have predated the building.

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, May 17, 1916.   

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, May 17, 1916.  (Good for J.E. Smith!)

[K_Dubb]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, May 17, 1916.  (Good for J.E. Smith!)

I never thought of it, but all that beef fat has to go somewhere!

Good to read a little of how the movie business operated back then before chain theaters.  The idea of salesmen on the road selling pictures is very quaint.  Thanks, Rix!

[K_Dubb]

The Sons of Norway lodge in Seattle as it appeared in 1916:



The same building today, used occasionally for a theater:



The group moved to Ballard sometime in the '80s I think to a new, horrible modern building onto which a few halfhearted attempts at dragestil have been grafted.  But it will be packed today:  Hurra, hurra for syttende mai!

[albrecht]

The Sons of Norway lodge in Seattle as it appeared in 1916:



The same building today, used occasionally for a theater:



The group moved to Ballard sometime in the '80s I think to a new, horrible modern building onto which a few halfhearted attempts at dragestil have been grafted.  But it will be packed today:  Hurra, hurra for syttende mai!

The old building looks much better! Happy syttende mai. Got my flag out (hoping that people aren't going to mistake it for a rebel flag as has happened before in the past.)

[K_Dubb]

The old building looks much better! Happy syttende mai. Got my flag out (hoping that people aren't going to mistake it for a rebel flag as has happened before in the past.)

Haha I suppose it's similar enough, I hadn't thought of that!  There are enough Norwegians here that hasn't happened, but the days when you could line up for pølse med lompe and a piece of fyrstekake to eat at the parade have long passed.  Happy syttende mai!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idswJQxsRl8

[Walks_At_Night]

Everett True, May 17, 1916.

Need to bring Everett with my the next time I get a vehicle appraised

[albrecht]

Need to bring Everett with my the next time I get a vehicle appraised

He is currently booked and busy working on my property tax appraisal dispute. I'll send him over after he is done with those bureaucrats. 

[Walks_At_Night]

He is currently booked and busy working on my property tax appraisal dispute. I'll send him over after he is done with those bureaucrats. 

Get 'em Everett

[WhiteCrow]

Just ended four days with Gabrielle in Ottawa Canada.
Best day of trip was spent in the military museum.
Impressive world class exhibitions.
As a lifelong serious history buff, Gabrielle knowledge of the most munite detail was awesome.. Thanks Gabrielle for sharing your time and impressive knowledge with me..

Your Obedient Servant

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, May 18, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Day Book, May 18, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, May 18, 1916.

[K_Dubb]

The Day Book, May 18, 1916.

I wonder if the lady had smoked her first cigar.  It's a natural assumption.  Old Henrietta gives great advice, and that reminds me:  I haven't given anyone the merry ha ha yet -- that was one of my goals for the spring.

[K_Dubb]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, May 18, 1916.

Ha, it took me a while to figure out the gentleman was driving a buggy!  You read about quite a few fatalities under similar circumstances.  It's hard for me to imagine how such necessarily slow-speed (relative to modern car crashes) ejections could have been fatal, but I guess it was a real danger.

A bit of googling reveals the Cobweb was in the bank building kitty-corner from the Mizpah and was regarded as pretty swanky.



An extinct fumarole, though in NM:

[Walks_At_Night]

Everett True, May 18, 1916.

Good God - we haven't really advanced at all as a culture have we?

Same crap was going on a century ago. 

[Rix Gins]

Re:  The fumarole.

Somebody is selling mining claims to some mines outside of Tonopah, on ebay.  So far there are 85 bids for a total of $675.00.  No sense in placing a link as it won't lead anywhere after tomorrow.  If you want to see (beautiful pics) or bid on the claims, go to ebay and enter Tonopah, Nevada.  It's on the first page of items.  Edit:  Actually these mines are by a town called Fallon, Nevada.  Still a pretty cool place, though. 

[gabrielle]

Hi Guys

I had the pleasure of visiting the Memorial Chamber in the Peace Tower of the Parliament of Canada buildings with White Crow.

This pic is of the Book called the "First World War Book of Remembrance".  Visiting the Chamber was a somber and awesome experience.

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canada/memchamb

[K_Dubb]

Re:  The fumarole.

Somebody is selling mining claims to some mines outside of Tonopah, on ebay.  So far there are 85 bids for a total of $675.00.  No sense in placing a link as it won't lead anywhere after tomorrow.  If you want to see (beautiful pics) or bid on the claims, go to ebay and enter Tonopah, Nevada.  It's on the first page of items.  Edit:  Actually these mines are by a town called Fallon, Nevada.  Still a pretty cool place, though.

I finally found it.  Oh that would be fun to poke around in and smell the sagebrush!

A few years ago, I stayed with some friends at an uncle's mining claim S of Pendleton, OR.  The claim was huge, but we were advised not to wander around because some of the neighbors were known to fire warning shots.  Cagey fellow, too -- we panned for garnets, but we couldn't know where he got the sand; he brought it back in buckets for us.

[K_Dubb]

Hi Guys

I had the pleasure of visiting the Memorial Chamber in the Peace Tower of the Parliament of Canada buildings with White Crow.

This pic is of the Book called the "First World War Book of Remembrance".  Visiting the Chamber was a somber and awesome experience.

http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canada/memchamb

That must have been very moving, Gabrielle, thank you for the report.

[gabrielle]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peace_Tower

Here is a picture of the Peace Tower.

[Rix Gins]

Everett True, May19, 1916.

[Rix Gins]

The Tonopah Daily Bonanza, May 19, 1916.