Located above the Androscoggin River between Topsham and Brunswick, the Androscoggin Swinging Bridge was built in 1892 to allow workers at the Cabot Mill to cross over the river. While it might look like a simple small-town bridge, it actually boasts a very famous maker. The Androscoggin Swinging Bridge was built by John A. Roebling’s Sons Company, who is responsible for the construction of the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge in New York City!
Though the bridge has been repaired a few times over the years, and many parts have been replaced, the cables are original to the 19th-century structure.
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Staying up to see what’s coming up on the u.s mint this morning. But I don’t smoke.
Smoken Joe Fraizer once said "punch um out" in a phone commercial.
Instant replay sorta...A friend of mine was talking to him just as I beeped him, (a beeper was my need to know)
Joe Fraizer said to him "punch um out". True
Thanks for 1928 World Series posting which evidenced that in 1928 the Cardinals played at "Sportsman Park" in St. Louis.
I was surprised to then learn that it closed in 1966, the same year that I saw the Beatles perform at the newly built Bush Memorial Stadium which continued to be the home of the Cardinals until 2005.
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With Good Friday approaching this week, recollections go back to the Good Friday Earthquake of 1964 as recounted in conjunction with a TV interview following a more recent May 30th, 2021 earthquake:
On Sunday evening, May 30, 202I, I happened to be holding my cell phone when the earthquake started so I activated the video feature. Most dramatic was the sound that was recorded as the roof shook. It began with the crash of a picture in a frame falling over and concluded with a balancing Curious George on top of the bookcase swaying and the weights of the adjacent cuckoo clock wildly swinging.
The local NBC affiliate liked the footage enough to include it on the next night's news broadcast and then I was interviewed for a follow-up feature that aired on the next evening's news.
Here is a linked below summary of the story with quotes from me comparing the 2021 earthquake with the "Big One" I experienced in 1964.
"More than 150 aftershocks have followed Sunday night’s earthquake, but scientists said the quake itself was not an aftershock of the Nov. 30, 2018 magnitude 7.1.
According to the United States Geological Survey, Sunday’s quake was a magnitude 6.1 about 45 miles North of Chickaloon, with an epicenter below the Talkeetna Mountains. The shaker left many people ..... wondering if it was a result of the November 2018 quake, but ..... Earthquake Center Director Michael West said it was too far from the 2018 epicenter and is considered its own earthquake.
“I was sitting at home, and I was just getting ready to go to bed,” Dale said. “The earthquake started, I clicked the video button.”
Dale, caught Sunday’s quake on camera.
He was present for the 1964 magnitude 9.2 earthquake and the 2018 magnitude 7.1.
“Every time there’s an earthquake like this, the first thing that comes to mind is having been in the 1964 earthquake here ,” he said.
Sunday’s earthquake was almost like reliving the 1964 quake, he said.
“I felt a little bit afraid, a little bit concerned, and a little bit relieved that it didn’t continue as long as it might have,” he said."
And here are some of my specific recollections regarding the "Big One" from Good Friday 1964:
At first I thought it was fun riding out the shaking but then when the roof started creaking I became concerned the roof might fall in. I went to get my baby sister so we could get out of the house. As I returned back to where I had been sitting there was glass and broken China everywhere as the China cabinet behind where I had been sitting had spilled its contents.
Another thing I vividly recall was the tiled concrete hallway floor just rolled left and right as I had to brace myself between the walls to get to the bedroom to reach my sister in her crib.
In the days following the earthquake I helped with other Explorer Scouts to deliver Ham Radio messages received by the Civil Defense authority to businesses downtown. We were allowed access to the most damaged areas that were being secured by the National Guard to prevent looting.
We had just disembarked from the Princess Cruise Ship, The Diamond Princess, at the port of Himeji Japan. Local dignitaries and townspeople were gathered to greet us.
The local TV crew cornered me for an interview - all in Japanese- asking for my impressions of a special Taiko Drum performance that had been put on for us and also asking what I was looking forward to seeing in Himeji. I am sure the TV audience was most entertained by my non native Japanese.
Seen pictured is the Mayor of Himeji as well as the Governor of Hyogo along with Miss Himeji Castle and the Captain of our cruise ship, The Diamond Princess. Also pictured are the citizens bidding us farewell on out departure.
It was a big deal for Himeji since it was the first time a Princess Cruise Ship had visited Himeji.
Pictured also below are views of Himeji Castle as it was surrounded by Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) there in the Spring of 2019.
This inaugural visit to Himeji and its celebration in the Spring of 2019 would, however, prove to be short lived. A COVID-19 outbreak on this same cruise ship would less than a year later bring to the world’s attention a pandemic that went on to encompass the entire earth. No cruise ship of any kind would visit with its passengers any Japanese port for the following two years. A return is hoped for in 2023, if not late 2022.
Added 1964 travels in conjunction with National Jamboree that was held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and Explorer Scout Conference in Lawrence, Kansas.
With Easter Egg Day ahead this week, here is one from my movie memorabilia collection to add to the basket:
And then there is this already hardened one that doesn't need to be hard boiled which is sourced from the Late Cretaceous Period where it was discovered in one of the basins of China's centrally located Henan Province.
Have fun though trying to crack open its fossilized shell.
This Friday eve we ventured out for a walk on The Meadow Loop Trail with its trailhead just a block away.
How appropriate that on our walk to this neighborhood nature preserve we encountered the heralding of a Paschal Full Moon with its Easter significance. (Easter in the United States is calculated as to fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox on March 20th.).
This first full moon of April (which will appear full from today to Monday) is also known as the Passover Moon given its appearance at the beginning of Passover and as the Pink Moon due to the concurrent blooming of pink moss in the Eastern parts of the United States.
Added sights on our nature walk, apart from the emerging Spring growth, included several moose grazing below the light of the full moon and the setting of the sun as an aircraft descended from above along with vapor trails from a jet flying at a high altitude toward Asia.
Swan Boats will be back in the Boston Public Garden on April 16
If it’s spring in Boston, it must be time to send in the swans.
Mayor Michelle Wu and city parks officials will be on hand Saturday at the Boston Public Garden lagoon to mark the start of the 145th season of the beloved Boston Swan Boats, which ferry patrons around the lagoon in a seasonal pastime connecting riders to the natural beauty of the park and its surroundings.
he statement said the oldest and smallest boat in the fleet is 112 years old, while the newest was launched in 1993. The swan design on each boat is made from either copper or fiberglass, the statement said, and encloses a paddle the driver uses to propel the boat through the water.
The boats each weigh 3 tons when fully loaded, according to officials.
Irish immigrant and shipbuilder Robert Paget created the Swan Boats in 1877. The Paget patriarch designed the boats after taking in the opera “Lohengrin,” which ends with the hero crossing a river in a boat drawn by a swan, officials have said.
And, right across from the Boston Public Garden is CHEERS
84 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
The Boston pub that inspired the fictional bar in the NBC sitcom, Cheers, is actually a real neighborhood institution that has been serving its Beacon Hill environs for over 45 years.
Established in 1969 by Thomas A. Kershaw, the bar where everybody knows your name was originally the Bull & Finch Pub, named after Boston-born architect Charles Bulfinch, who designed the U.S. Capitol as well as the Massachusetts State House
Cheers is located in the basement of the brick and granite Hampshire House, built in 1910 by society architect Ogden Codman. (Also owned by Kershaw, the Georgian Revival townhouse currently functions as a high-end event hall.) Located directly across from Boston Public Garden, the pub served as the establishing shot throughout the show’s eleven seasons on air (from 1982-1993).
In 1981, two writers and a director for the TV show “Taxi” left the series and began discussions for another workplace sitcom in a “more appetizing” environment, according to Dennis Bjorklund in his reference tome, “Toasting Cheers.” Glen and Les Charles (the writers) and James Burrows (the director) opted for a lively bar setting for their new series, and set about finding a suitable locale.
“Boston was chosen partially because only five short-lived television shows claimed the city and the East Coast pubs were real neighborhood hangouts,” says Bjorklund.
After seeing an ad Kershaw put in the Yellow Pages advertising the Bull & Finch Pub, the co-creators sent their set designer to take pictures of the basement haunt. The trio later visited the pub and met bartender Eddie Doyle and Kershaw, inquiring if they could use its exterior for the establishing shots. Kershaw agreed and the deal was sealed for $1, according to Bjorklund. The deal did not include any interior shots however, and patrons visiting the Beacon Hill establishment will be disappointed if they are looking for a replica of the spacious bar where the show is set.
I saw the bar from the outside when I went on my trip to Boston in 2012, but I didn't go inside because I knew it wasn't the same, and honestly I'd already had to many at a few other bars through out the day
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Boston Common was established in 1634 and is the oldest city park in the United States and was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1987. The Boston Common is part of the Emerald Necklace of parks and parkways that extend from the Common to Franklin Park in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, and Dorchester.
The Common was used as a camp by the British before the American Revolutionary War, from which they left for the Battle of Lexington and Concord, and has since been the location for public gatherings, protests, concerts, and sporting events. While the original ponds on Boston Common were used for grazing cattle, the park was transformed in the late 1800s into a public park. Swimming holes and pond skating were replaced with the spray pool in the 1970s and the ice rink in 1996. Today, the only animals you’ll see frolicking at today’s Frog Pond are squirrels!
Frog Pond is now home to a summer spray and splash pool in the summer and is the outdoor winter ice skating place to be in Boston.
@SiriusBlack said:
I saw the bar from the outside when I went on my trip to Boston in 2012, but I didn't go inside because I knew it wasn't the same, and honestly I'd already had to many at a few other bars through out the day
I was there the night before my wedding..............I don't remember to much.
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Yep... Not too far at all.... Though I have not been to this particular site. Great pictures. Cheers, RickO
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Pedestrian Swinging Bridge In Maine
Located above the Androscoggin River between Topsham and Brunswick, the Androscoggin Swinging Bridge was built in 1892 to allow workers at the Cabot Mill to cross over the river. While it might look like a simple small-town bridge, it actually boasts a very famous maker. The Androscoggin Swinging Bridge was built by John A. Roebling’s Sons Company, who is responsible for the construction of the world-famous Brooklyn Bridge in New York City!
Though the bridge has been repaired a few times over the years, and many parts have been replaced, the cables are original to the 19th-century structure.
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It has been awhile. Here are some updates on the "neighbor's" construction project including for the first time views from the upper level:
I hope no one has epilepsy.
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Smoken Joe Fraizer once said "punch um out" in a phone commercial.
Instant replay sorta...A friend of mine was talking to him just as I beeped him, (a beeper was my need to know)
Joe Fraizer said to him "punch um out". True
Friday comes to a close.
Some parting photos taken this past week:
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--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.Thanks for 1928 World Series posting which evidenced that in 1928 the Cardinals played at "Sportsman Park" in St. Louis.
I was surprised to then learn that it closed in 1966, the same year that I saw the Beatles perform at the newly built Bush Memorial Stadium which continued to be the home of the Cardinals until 2005.
Here is a photo of my moments from that visit:
A pic from today’s tour of my daughters new home for the next 4 years….Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts.
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"Paper money eventually returns to its intrinsic value---zero."----Voltaire
"Everything you say should be true, but not everything true should be said."----Voltaire
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With Good Friday approaching this week, recollections go back to the Good Friday Earthquake of 1964 as recounted in conjunction with a TV interview following a more recent May 30th, 2021 earthquake:
On Sunday evening, May 30, 202I, I happened to be holding my cell phone when the earthquake started so I activated the video feature. Most dramatic was the sound that was recorded as the roof shook. It began with the crash of a picture in a frame falling over and concluded with a balancing Curious George on top of the bookcase swaying and the weights of the adjacent cuckoo clock wildly swinging.
The local NBC affiliate liked the footage enough to include it on the next night's news broadcast and then I was interviewed for a follow-up feature that aired on the next evening's news.
Here is a linked below summary of the story with quotes from me comparing the 2021 earthquake with the "Big One" I experienced in 1964.
"More than 150 aftershocks have followed Sunday night’s earthquake, but scientists said the quake itself was not an aftershock of the Nov. 30, 2018 magnitude 7.1.
According to the United States Geological Survey, Sunday’s quake was a magnitude 6.1 about 45 miles North of Chickaloon, with an epicenter below the Talkeetna Mountains. The shaker left many people ..... wondering if it was a result of the November 2018 quake, but ..... Earthquake Center Director Michael West said it was too far from the 2018 epicenter and is considered its own earthquake.
“I was sitting at home, and I was just getting ready to go to bed,” Dale said. “The earthquake started, I clicked the video button.”
Dale, caught Sunday’s quake on camera.
He was present for the 1964 magnitude 9.2 earthquake and the 2018 magnitude 7.1.
“Every time there’s an earthquake like this, the first thing that comes to mind is having been in the 1964 earthquake here ,” he said.
Sunday’s earthquake was almost like reliving the 1964 quake, he said.
“I felt a little bit afraid, a little bit concerned, and a little bit relieved that it didn’t continue as long as it might have,” he said."
And here are some of my specific recollections regarding the "Big One" from Good Friday 1964:
At first I thought it was fun riding out the shaking but then when the roof started creaking I became concerned the roof might fall in. I went to get my baby sister so we could get out of the house. As I returned back to where I had been sitting there was glass and broken China everywhere as the China cabinet behind where I had been sitting had spilled its contents.
Another thing I vividly recall was the tiled concrete hallway floor just rolled left and right as I had to brace myself between the walls to get to the bedroom to reach my sister in her crib.
In the days following the earthquake I helped with other Explorer Scouts to deliver Ham Radio messages received by the Civil Defense authority to businesses downtown. We were allowed access to the most damaged areas that were being secured by the National Guard to prevent looting.
Some of the photos I took at the time:
Dinner tonight. Chile verde.
I do like ice cream
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We had just disembarked from the Princess Cruise Ship, The Diamond Princess, at the port of Himeji Japan. Local dignitaries and townspeople were gathered to greet us.
The local TV crew cornered me for an interview - all in Japanese- asking for my impressions of a special Taiko Drum performance that had been put on for us and also asking what I was looking forward to seeing in Himeji. I am sure the TV audience was most entertained by my non native Japanese.
Seen pictured is the Mayor of Himeji as well as the Governor of Hyogo along with Miss Himeji Castle and the Captain of our cruise ship, The Diamond Princess. Also pictured are the citizens bidding us farewell on out departure.
It was a big deal for Himeji since it was the first time a Princess Cruise Ship had visited Himeji.
Pictured also below are views of Himeji Castle as it was surrounded by Sakura (Cherry Blossoms) there in the Spring of 2019.
This inaugural visit to Himeji and its celebration in the Spring of 2019 would, however, prove to be short lived. A COVID-19 outbreak on this same cruise ship would less than a year later bring to the world’s attention a pandemic that went on to encompass the entire earth. No cruise ship of any kind would visit with its passengers any Japanese port for the following two years. A return is hoped for in 2023, if not late 2022.
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Added 1964 travels in conjunction with National Jamboree that was held at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania and Explorer Scout Conference in Lawrence, Kansas.
Take me out to the ballgame.
Can anyone guess where I was?
"Jesus died for you and for me, Thank you,Jesus"!!!
--- If it should happen I die and leave this world and you want to remember me. Please only remember my opening Sig Line.With Easter Egg Day ahead this week, here is one from my movie memorabilia collection to add to the basket:
And then there is this already hardened one that doesn't need to be hard boiled which is sourced from the Late Cretaceous Period where it was discovered in one of the basins of China's centrally located Henan Province.
Have fun though trying to crack open its fossilized shell.
Past campus views in Illinois along the shore of Lake Michigan:
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Happy Easter !
It is now not only Friday, but Good Friday.
This Friday eve we ventured out for a walk on The Meadow Loop Trail with its trailhead just a block away.
How appropriate that on our walk to this neighborhood nature preserve we encountered the heralding of a Paschal Full Moon with its Easter significance. (Easter in the United States is calculated as to fall on the first Sunday after the first full moon following the vernal equinox on March 20th.).
This first full moon of April (which will appear full from today to Monday) is also known as the Passover Moon given its appearance at the beginning of Passover and as the Pink Moon due to the concurrent blooming of pink moss in the Eastern parts of the United States.
Added sights on our nature walk, apart from the emerging Spring growth, included several moose grazing below the light of the full moon and the setting of the sun as an aircraft descended from above along with vapor trails from a jet flying at a high altitude toward Asia.
Took a little road trip to Pittsburgh for opening day.
"If I say something in the woods and my wife isn't there to hear it.....am I still wrong?"
My Washington Quarter Registry set...in progress
Swan Boats will be back in the Boston Public Garden on April 16
If it’s spring in Boston, it must be time to send in the swans.
Mayor Michelle Wu and city parks officials will be on hand Saturday at the Boston Public Garden lagoon to mark the start of the 145th season of the beloved Boston Swan Boats, which ferry patrons around the lagoon in a seasonal pastime connecting riders to the natural beauty of the park and its surroundings.
he statement said the oldest and smallest boat in the fleet is 112 years old, while the newest was launched in 1993. The swan design on each boat is made from either copper or fiberglass, the statement said, and encloses a paddle the driver uses to propel the boat through the water.
The boats each weigh 3 tons when fully loaded, according to officials.
Irish immigrant and shipbuilder Robert Paget created the Swan Boats in 1877. The Paget patriarch designed the boats after taking in the opera “Lohengrin,” which ends with the hero crossing a river in a boat drawn by a swan, officials have said.
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And, right across from the Boston Public Garden is CHEERS
84 Beacon Street, Boston, MA
The Boston pub that inspired the fictional bar in the NBC sitcom, Cheers, is actually a real neighborhood institution that has been serving its Beacon Hill environs for over 45 years.
Established in 1969 by Thomas A. Kershaw, the bar where everybody knows your name was originally the Bull & Finch Pub, named after Boston-born architect Charles Bulfinch, who designed the U.S. Capitol as well as the Massachusetts State House
Cheers is located in the basement of the brick and granite Hampshire House, built in 1910 by society architect Ogden Codman. (Also owned by Kershaw, the Georgian Revival townhouse currently functions as a high-end event hall.) Located directly across from Boston Public Garden, the pub served as the establishing shot throughout the show’s eleven seasons on air (from 1982-1993).
In 1981, two writers and a director for the TV show “Taxi” left the series and began discussions for another workplace sitcom in a “more appetizing” environment, according to Dennis Bjorklund in his reference tome, “Toasting Cheers.” Glen and Les Charles (the writers) and James Burrows (the director) opted for a lively bar setting for their new series, and set about finding a suitable locale.
“Boston was chosen partially because only five short-lived television shows claimed the city and the East Coast pubs were real neighborhood hangouts,” says Bjorklund.
After seeing an ad Kershaw put in the Yellow Pages advertising the Bull & Finch Pub, the co-creators sent their set designer to take pictures of the basement haunt. The trio later visited the pub and met bartender Eddie Doyle and Kershaw, inquiring if they could use its exterior for the establishing shots. Kershaw agreed and the deal was sealed for $1, according to Bjorklund. The deal did not include any interior shots however, and patrons visiting the Beacon Hill establishment will be disappointed if they are looking for a replica of the spacious bar where the show is set.
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I saw the bar from the outside when I went on my trip to Boston in 2012, but I didn't go inside because I knew it wasn't the same, and honestly I'd already had to many at a few other bars through out the day
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The Frog Pond in the Boston Common
Boston Common was established in 1634 and is the oldest city park in the United States and was declared a U.S. National Historic Landmark in 1987. The Boston Common is part of the Emerald Necklace of parks and parkways that extend from the Common to Franklin Park in Jamaica Plain, Roxbury, and Dorchester.
The Common was used as a camp by the British before the American Revolutionary War, from which they left for the Battle of Lexington and Concord, and has since been the location for public gatherings, protests, concerts, and sporting events. While the original ponds on Boston Common were used for grazing cattle, the park was transformed in the late 1800s into a public park. Swimming holes and pond skating were replaced with the spray pool in the 1970s and the ice rink in 1996. Today, the only animals you’ll see frolicking at today’s Frog Pond are squirrels!
Frog Pond is now home to a summer spray and splash pool in the summer and is the outdoor winter ice skating place to be in Boston.
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I was there the night before my wedding..............I don't remember to much.
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QUITE A DAY AT FENWAY TODAY
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Boston Red Sox Opening Day Today
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Number 42
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and Mo Vaughn and his son Lee
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