The Macombs Dam.
That’s all.
Thursday, June 13, 2013
Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Monday, June 10, 2013
holy malfeasance, Batman
Back in 1954 the Ford Motor Company invested the unheard-of-sum of $250,000 to create the one-of-a-kind Lincoln Futura.
The concept car did not catch on and thus sat on a lot for a decade.
Auto customizer George Barris purchased it for $1 in 1965 and in three weeks flat turned it into the first Batmobile for ABC television.
It was inspired by a scuba-diving encounter with a shark.
The next year Barris used the original for a mold and crafted three authorized replica’s, one also used on the TV show while two others toured making personal appearances.
The original has chrome trim around the windscreen canopies, and recently sold to a collector.
The replica’s have canopies trimmed in black.
We ran into one of the replica’s down at the bottom of Wall Street.
No doubt some wealthy Gotham financier,
off to commit another crime.
:-)
Sunday, June 9, 2013
“When going through hell, keep going.”
Predating our 1886 ClockTower by about 21 years, the St. James' Episcopal Church at 2500 Jerome Avenue was consecrated on November 1, 1865.
It was designed in the Gothic Revival Style by Henry C. Dudley, a specialist in Gothic Churches, and was deemed important enough to be named to the National Register of Historic places in 1982.
Three things about this stone church are worthy of mention.
One, it had a hell of a time finding its first minister.
From the gazette: “During the first year of its life the congregation had a number of clergy “taking services” but there was no continuous oversight or spiritual leadership.”
The second thing is Louis Comfort Tiffany designed the windows. (yes, that Tiffany) A masterpiece, The Last Supper was installed in 1889, three years after our ClockTower was built.
But the third part is the best.
Jerome Avenue is named for a Wall Street playboy and racetrack habitué named Leonard Jerome, whose beautiful daughter Jenny was baptised at St. Jerome’s.
wiki
At age 20 she caught the eye of Englishman Lord Randolph Churchill to whom she bore Winston, a son. (yes, that Winston Churchill)
But the families argued for months, delaying the marriage until technically Sir Winston Churchill really was born a bastard.
When asked about the circumstances of his birth, he would reply:
"Although present for the occasion, I have no clear recollection of the events leading up to it."
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