January 6, 2014 by tomdalzell

Gone #4: Old Weird Telegraph Part Two: Bookstores

Let’s start with the bookstores.  The bookstores, especially the used bookstores, were – and to a limited extent are – a part of what made/makes Telegraph Telegraph. I am not unbiased here.  I discovered the great joy of a used bookstore in the summer of 1972 – my last summer in Philadelphia – with Allen’s Bookstore at […]

January 6, 2014 by tomdalzell

Mail Boxes #6 – Structural Quirk

I have been away from mail boxes for a while.   In the last few months I have added a number of good animal boxes and a few little house ones, but no new mail box posting.  Until now.  There are any number of mail songs still to be chosen for theme songs, but because […]

January 6, 2014 by tomdalzell

Bowling

  I believe that bowling is quirky.  Or – at least – whimsical in our era of shunning social settings such as bowling alleys. I saw this coming.  The Quirky Berkeley insider who thinks that donuts are not quirky and who thinks that urban chicken coops are not quirky weighed in early on this one. […]

January 6, 2014 by tomdalzell

Giant Bowling Signs (With Balls and/or Pins)

You know I like giant signs.  I proved that with the giant donut signs.  Likewise with signs for bowling alleys. I don’t include the many great bowling alley signs that scream GOOGIE STYLE, but that don’t show bowling balls or pins.  These do. I showed these photos to my friend.  He said “Dude!”  He went […]

January 5, 2014 by tomdalzell

Gone # 4 – Old Weird Telegraph Part One: The Lost Block

When I say “old weird Telegraph,” I suspect that the images that would first come to your mind would be from the late 1960s and early 1970s, born in fierce opposition to the war in Vietnam and the struggle over People’s Park.  These are some of the image that I think would come to mind:  This […]

January 3, 2014 by tomdalzell

Telegraph Before Bohemian/Counterculture Changes

Another near-miss / near-hit on a posting without words.  Just missed!

January 3, 2014 by tomdalzell

Sather Gate

I have fantasized about a posting with no words.  Just photos.  Almost made it here.  Not quite.

January 1, 2014 by tomdalzell

The Bus in the Farm Worker Movement

I am, I admit, a tad UFW-centric.  I spent the summers of 1968 and 1970 working for the Union, and then was full time from 1972 until 1980.  I was 16 when I went to Delano.  I was 28 when I left. Those are big years in a person’s life.  The picture above was in […]

December 31, 2013 by tomdalzell

John Law’s Three Doggie Diner Heads

Eni Green has a Doggie Diner doxie head in her Harper Street driveway.  What could be better than that? John Law lives in Emeryville.  Too bad it’s not Berkeley, but – he doesn’t have one Doggie Diner doxie head. He doesn’t have two Doggie Diner doxie heads.  He has three Doggie Diner doxie heads. They travel!  John […]

December 30, 2013 by tomdalzell

Gabby Greyhounds to Texas

  My friend Gabby grew up in Nekoosa, Wisconsin.  In 1967, in the spring of his senior year in high school, he took the Greyhound to the Rio Grande Valley for a senior project with striking melon workers, a senior project that turned into 12 years of working for the United Farm Workers.  Here is […]