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Danny Boy by Jackie Wilson
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sS9xhiudphU
From Rick Gordon
Northern California Ocean Rich With Life Right Now
What fishermen call “bait fish” (anchovies, herring, sardines, grunion, and smelt) have been abundant of late, attracting both fish and birds (which were swooping and diving this day last week). Can’t see them that well here, but the right third of this scene is dense with birds. Hey, gimme a “hard copy” of this photo, so I can see what’s going on.
Stairway To Hillside Home, Marin County, calif.
Super Bike in Fairfax, California
Elvis Doing “It’s Alright Mama”, and “Baby What You Want Me To Do?” In a ’68 TV Specisl
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bB0OvdCmESY?list=PL8A918EDB65602384
This was an NBC TV special recorded live June 26, 1968. The small crowd is great for his connection with the audience. He’s so comfortable. Boy was he cute!
And the music, wow!
Channelling Jimmy Reed like this…
(Stop the followup song — in the white tuxedo –on the 2nd video.)
We’re Up On Tumblr!
The first part of the complete reorganization of our “social media” is now up and running: https://shelterpub.tumblr.com/. To start, we’ve posted 10 photos from our building books. This was set up by Sean Hellfritsch. Tumblr will be our photography platform.
We have over 7,000 photos in our 6 building books, and I have something like 15,000 photos (film and digital) dating back to the ’60s, maybe 1/3rd of them on building(s).
We are currently working on redesign of my blog, the Shelter blog, Twitter and FaceBook pages, Shelter’s website, and getting Instagram rolling.
With all this going on, I’m not posting very often these days, but I intend to get rolling with Instagram soon, and coordinate my Instagram photos with this blog.
Stay tuned.
B. B. King’s “The Thrill Is Gone,” performed on a Gayageum by Luna Lee
The guyaguem is a ” …Korean zither-like string instrument…” (Wikipedia).
From Rick Gordon
A Change is Gonna Come – Aretha Franklin
Rick Gordon just sent me this. When she hit the first”…come,” it sent an electric shock to my brain. Pins and needles for lack of a better metaphor. 1967.


