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Morty the Dog
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A Blog About Whatever I Feel Like
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Postcard - Seattle, Washington
"Seattle, Washington. The new King County Domed Stadium (home of the Seahawks) opens in 1976 and is the dominating structure in this birds eye view of the 'Queen City.' The stadium covers 9.1 acres -- 720 feet outside diameter -- 250 feet to top of dome -- will seat 60,000 for baseball, 65,000 for football and 80,000 for personality shows."
As it turned out, this structure became the King County Doomed Stadium.
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Phone photo 2479
Charlie embraces his reluctant mentor, Buster
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WARNING! HELL IS WAITING FOR YOU!
A newspaper ad from the early 1980s, during the rise of Ron the Con.
I love the "Christians Who Love You" counterbalance after a message of despair and fear.
Personally, I prefer Shakespeare: "Use every man after his desert, and who should ’scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity. The less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty. Take them in."
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Phone photo 2478
Buster
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Postcard - Seattle, Washington
"Lake Union, Seattle, Washington. Located in the heart of the city this lake provides recreation for boaters as well as a home for those who live in houseboats. Interstate Hiway 5 is in the center and in the background magnificent Mount Rainier."
1970s.
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Phone photo 2477
Hettie My Old Girl
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Postcard - Seattle, Washington
"Seattle, Washington's Gasworks Park, on the north shore of Lake Union provides an attractive recreational setting. In the background, the downtown business district."
Late 1970s, most likely. Too bad the postcard didn't include the crazy looking industrial ruins of the park.
During Norwescon 20 in 1997 at SeaTac the amazing Brad Foster was a guest of honor and several cartoonists hijacked him and took him to this park. I wasn't part of that crew but I did join the subsequent comix lunch. We all compared what we had studied in college to the reality of what we were doing now. I believe I was the only one in the large group who was actually employed in my academic degree (MLS, i.e., librarianship).
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Phone photo 2476
Oakville, Washington
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Tragic Rice-A-Roni Mashup
It's him again, Steve Reed of "Weber Cooks" putting it "into the thing."
Once again, on the razor edge of bathos and pathos. We laugh, we sob.
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Phone photo 2475
Oakville, Washington
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