The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?
A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.
Interior of Table Bluff Hotel and Saloon in Table Bluff, Humboldt County, California, 1889.
Source: Sonoma County Library
Some mighty comfortable lookin’ chairs there.
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California State flag presented to Hoover, 3/5/29
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The Zep Diner in Downtown Los Angeles, CA - 1931
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The concept of an “official souvenir history” of a strike just seems bizarre…though interesting.
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