My last bunch of slides from the 1950s were in a box labeled “San Diego, 1959” — but it turns out they’re actually images from Chicago, possibly part of the 1957 trip. This bit of information certainly helped clear up my confusion about what a Second World War German U-boat was doing in San Diego’s harbor! Below, these three decomissioned […]
Long ago I wrote a short essay for a college English class in which I included a few details about the raising of the Sacramento streets during the 1860s. I’m fairly sure I’d heard the story from a tour guide at the historic Governor’s Mansion, but because I couldn’t cite a primary source for the information my instructor seemed to […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Needs to start with the letter R and have at least six letters. Let’s see how creative you can we can be on this challenge. Have fun with this week’s challenge.
February-March 1957 Two weeks ago I started the narrative of this road trip with a look at Washington D.C.; but the nation’s capital was actually my parents’ last stop before turning west toward home in California. So this week I’d like to go back to the point where my mom and my sister arrived in Chicago on the train and […]
The theme for Cee’s Fun Foto Challenge this week is Letter Q – Simply needs to have the letter Q. Let’s see how creative you can we can be on this challenge. Have fun with this week’s challenge. Vaquero room at Sutter’s Fort, Sacramento: Examples of quartzite found near Lake Natoma:
When I visited the beautiful Stanford Mansion in downtown Sacramento last June, I was disappointed to learn I wasn’t allowed to take photographs inside. So it really pleases me to see that in this episode of California’s Golden Parks Huell is highlighting most of the amazing rooms that impressed me so much… including the upstairs bathroom! When this episode originally […]
Washington D.C., 1957 — Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House and I Love Lucy was in its final season on TV when my mom and dad along with my eldest sister visited the nation’s capital in 1957. They were undertaking a pretty epic road trip that began with my mom and sister taking the train from California to […]
This is a fun yet informative episode that I’d never seen until I stumbled upon it today, as I was going through the very long list of shows Huell Howser did around California. It makes clear what an important role Sutter’s Fort played in the development of the Sacramento valley during the Gold Rush and long after — not only […]
I first posted about this particular trip to Calaveras Big Trees in two separate posts, in March and May 2009. I was going to simply repost the originals, but they were written back in my early days of blogging — when I took a look back I realized the images were much too small and I just wasn’t happy with […]