In & Around Cannery Row – Monterey Peninsula, CA

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Happy Halloween to ALL – Even Tyrants & Clowns

America's Favorite Clown - Glenn Beck

Rush Limbaugh - America's Favorite Tyrant

Who will you be for Halloween?

Today is the Sesquicentennial of Charles Ebbets’ Birth – October 29, 1859 – April 18, 1925 – Green-Wood Cemetery

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Charles Ebbets – Wikipedia

CLICK FOR LARGER IMAGE - Charles Ebbets circa 1915 - Wikipedia

Ebbets Field - Wikipedia

Trommer’s Genuine Ale – Fletcher’s Castoria – Astoria, Queens

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Distributed by John F. Trommer Inc - 1632 Bushwick Avenue, Brooklyn NY - US Beer Labels dot com

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circa 1937 - Tavern Trove dot com

circa 1937 - Tavern Trove dot com

Old Beer Stuff dot com

Tavern Trove dot com

John F. Trommer’s Evergreen Brewery
[Bushwick Ave at Conway Street, Brooklyn]

The Brooklyn brewery was founded by John F. Trommer, who had emigrated from Germany. He settled first in Maine, then worked in Boston, and finally settled in New York City. After working in a number of breweries, he purchased the recently built plant of Stehlin and Breitkopf in 1896. Know as the Evergreen Brewery, it grew gradually during the next two decades. Trommer died in 1898, but his son, George, continued the business. Somewhat atypically, George Trommer managed to expand business during the 1920s by lending money and giving support to potential owners of hot dog restaurants-which, of course, featured Trommer’s White Label Near Beer. By 1930 he supplied more than 950 such places.

In 1933, a second plant was opened in Orange, New Jersey, and both breweries proved very successful well into the late 1940s. [Furthermore, Trommer’s housed one of Brooklyn’s most popular beer gardens called the Maple Garden.] The New York City strike of 1949 and loss of sales thereafter hurt the company, however, and the New Jersey plant was sold to Rheingold in 1950. In 1951 Trommer announced the sale of the Brooklyn plant to Piel Brothers. George Trommer died on November 16, 1956, at the age of 83.

In Bushwick, the presence of the brewing industry encouraged the dairy industry. Farmers collected spent grain and hops for cow feed. Milk, with close to 4% butterfat, was sold fresh, made into cream, butter, cheese or ice-cream, or thinned for drinking. The milk business supported blacksmiths, wheelrights and feed stores along Flushing Ave. The Bedford section of Brooklyn (now part of Bedford-Stuyvesant) was agricultural until the 1920s, hosting substantial dairy activity. – New York Food Museum (Brooklyn Beer)

• Tavern Trove dot com
• John F. Trommer, Inc. Brooklyn, NY (1895 – 1955) – Trayman dot net
• Fletcher’s Castoria – Chinatown – Fading Ad Campaign Website

Scenes on Monterey Bay

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Modesto Cooperative Winery – Modesto, CA

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• Escalon-Modesto – Notable Wineries by District & Region – Presented in 1955
• Last Cooperative Winery in California Calls It Quits in 2002

State Theatre – Monterey Peninsula- The Playground of America – Monterey, CA

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Barry Cigar – California’s First Theatre – Monterey, CA

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• California’s First Theatre – CA Parks dot gov
• California’s First Theatre – Historic Monterey

Flor de Baltimore Cigars – The Peer of Havana Cigars – Butte, MT

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Wikipedia

Standard Baking – Our Lady of the Rockies – 90 Foot Statue of Mary – Butte, MT

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Our Lady of the Rockies is a colossal 90-foot statue of the Virgin Mary that overlooks the beautiful city of Butte, Montana from her lofty perch on the East Ridge of the Continental Divide. The statue itself was built as a monument to honor not only Mary, but also all women regardless of race, religion, or creed. (This goes doubly so for mothers.) She stands at an elevation of 8,510 feet above sea level, which is also approximately 3,500 feet above the elevation of Butte itself. – City Data dot com – Our Lady of the Rockies – Butte, MT

Peanut’s Barber Shop – Tombstone, AZ

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Palm Springs Roadrunner – BEEP BEEP!

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Midas Mufflers – Astoria, NY – October, 2006

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Pianos – Wilkes-Barre, PA

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Affectionate Men – A Photographic History of a Century of Male Couples – Part I & II

Courtesy of Music Misfit dot com - Frederick Delius

The photos appear in the following two books:
Affectionate Men: A Photographic History of a Century of Male Couples, 1850-1950 by Russell Bush and Ron Lieberman
Dear Friends: American Photographs of Men Together, 1840-1918 ~ David Deitcher
The slideshow just shows a small portion. I encourage you to purchase them. – Frederick Delius

Affectionate Men Part I & II
A Photographic History of a Century of Male Couples

I found these photos to be both beautiful and profound. The times between 1860 and 1930 men were more free to hold hands, hug, even kiss, without the fear of being riduculed, beaten or labeled.

Regardless if the men pictured here were lovers or friends, the photographs let us all realize that today we live in a society where our emotional freedom and tolerance of others should have moved forward. Instead we seem to be moving backward every day.

In spite of our great and positive leaps in science, medicine and fantastic inventions, as humankind we seem to have taken a rather significant negative leap into a world that is filled with hate and intolerance, one that has lost the innocence, simplicity and joy one feels in experiencing these photographs of a special and more unique time and place. – Frederick Delius