Monthly archives for December, 2013
Otter Crest -1982
Otter Crest is the name of the head here. Otter Rock is in the middle of the picture, out in the Pacific Ocean. This location is only about 3/4 of a mile north of Yaquina Head, Oregon. The rock is named due to the number of Sea Otters who used to live around the rock and around Otter Crest. The rock also lent it’s name to the nearby com [...]
Spottie’s Roadhouse – 196...
I though finding out information about Spottie’s Roadhouse was going to be easy. After all it’s the exact type of kitschy roadside attraction that was built a hundred times over along Route 66. To my surprise, I found Spottie’s Roadhouse was built outside of Cape Town, South Africa on the Polsmoor Road in Retreat.
The stor [...]
La Tour Eiffel – 1969
From an unknown date, two slides labeled “La Tour Eiffel.” Unfortunately the view is FROM the Eiffel tower, not OF the Eiffel Tower. Of course, I hear that the owners of the tower like to sue people who post pictures of it. So I’m probably better off posting the FROM pictures instead of the OF pictures.
But we have an gre [...]
Sea Lions – 1975
Among the many, many, many attractions at Depoe Bay, Oregon, is the number of Sea Lions living out in the Pacific Ocean. Many of them lay on the rocks along the coast giving a tourists a thrilling view as they go about their daily lives. Almost every small town between Astoria Oregon and San Francisco, and then some, has a colony of some sort [...]
Bois de Boulogne
From Wikipedia Bois de Boulogne “is a large public park located along the western edge of the 16th arrondissement of Paris, near the suburb of Boulogne-Billancourt and Neuilly-sur-Seine. It was created between 1852 and 1858 during the reign of the Emperor Louis Napoleon.”
No clue why the clock was there. Or even what year the pic [...]
Salisbury Crags – 1965
Outside of Edinburgh is this little hill known as Salisbury Crags. The hill itself is actually in Holyrood Park, a 650 acre park created by James V in 1541.
The hill is 151 feet tall, with Arthur’s Crag at 823 feet behind it. The cliffs are formed of basalt that has been a popular rock climbing spot since the early days of the sport a [...]
Luxor Egypt – 1950s
The Luxor Las Vegas takes it’s name from Luxor Egypt, a city across the Nile River from both the Valley of Kings and the Valley of Queens. Luxor is the actually the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes. The Karnak Temple Complex, or just Karnak, has been used as a place of worship for millennia and contains a large number of temples, statues [...]
Tea Party – 1968
Here is another interesting set of slides. The woman seen in “VW Bus” at a Tea Party of some sort. I’d guess that they are all military wives stationed in Japan, but maybe it was part of a Sister City Program? The woman on the right looks several years older in these old November 1968 pictures.
I can’t really tell wh [...]
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