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The Anchorage, Part 3

Faery_Light

Dances with Bees
Contributing Artist
I am remaining at home, indoors till all the fireworks have been used up by everyone in a hundred mile radius.
Have suffered two very traumatic injuries as a child (due to stupid adults thinking it cute to toss fireworks on a child) I have a deep fear of them.
My daughter and her family are going into the big town to watch a display there, it is controlled and safe.

The photos are wonderful!
 

Terre

Renowned
Here in hilljack country, we went out shooting - an American tradition.:D It began to rain, more and more, so we all got soaked.:cry:
The little gal in the Hello Kitty earmuffs decided her favorite weapon was the Israeli 7.62x51 Galil (not shown). That's a lot of gun for a wee little gal!:eek: This is a belt-fed AR-15 with a binary trigger, chambered in 5.56 NATO (the other AR-15 sitting on the ground is chambered in 9mm NATO).

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Sounds like a very fun day. :)
 

Terre

Renowned
I am remaining at home, indoors till all the fireworks have been used up by everyone in a hundred mile radius.
Have suffered two very traumatic injuries as a child (due to stupid adults thinking it cute to toss fireworks on a child) I have a deep fear of them.
My daughter and her family are going into the big town to watch a display there, it is controlled and safe.

The photos are wonderful!
That sounds like excellent options all around. Irresponsible people cause problems in quite a few ways. My sympathies.
 

Lorraine

The Wicked Witch of the North
I'm back! The hole has been filled in, scattered with garlic and concrete poured on top of it. Take that, you rotten hole you!

So, the 4th of July was my wedding anniversary. A note for young players...DO NOT get married on a day that will be celebrated by folk all around the world, you'll just hate it when you get divorced (not unhappy with divorce, just hate being reminded every year that I was stupid enough to get hitched). Catch yous later!
 

Lorraine

The Wicked Witch of the North
Oh and PS, we won the America's Cup, I think that makes it the New Zealand Cup now ;) and I managed to avoid the regatta in its entirety. I'm just really happy that Larry Ellison got slaughtered. Go Kiwis!!!
 

quietrob

Extraordinary
I'm back! The hole has been filled in, scattered with garlic and concrete poured on top of it. Take that, you rotten hole you!

So, the 4th of July was my wedding anniversary. A note for young players...DO NOT get married on a day that will be celebrated by folk all around the world, you'll just hate it when you get divorced (not unhappy with divorce, just hate being reminded every year that I was stupid enough to get hitched). Catch yous later!
Why is New Zealand celebrating the 4th?

Oh and Polish up our Cup. We'll back in a bit to pick it up.
 

Pendraia

Sage
Contributing Artist
Morning all,
@quietrob, They don't but even in Australia we hear about it...and I imagine they do also.

Yay, Lorraines back!!:bounce:

@Mythocentric, I spent most of yesterday playing in Zbrush and trying to solve a problem with trim that wasn't joined on a bathing suit that I'm trying to make first for Dawn with a Diva fit and then transfer to Luna. I'm feeling very happy as I worked out a process where it will be joined and not cause a problem in DS with smoothing. Once it's made in DS I'll try and transfer it to Poser...renders will follow. It's a one piece that I also thought could double for a leotard with a little jazz skirt or tutu. I decided the original one I showed you wasn't very nice...
 

Lorraine

The Wicked Witch of the North
Why is New Zealand celebrating the 4th?

Oh and Polish up our Cup. We'll back in a bit to pick it up.

The 4th is inflicted upon those of us who don't give one sweet patootie, Rob, like christmas is inflicted upon us grinches, you can't get away from it even with the bloody Pacific Ocean in the way. We don't CELEBRATE it, we just know it's there. And you ain't getting that cup back never ever! It is going to reside in the South Pacific forever more and eventually peeps will forget the boat America ever won it in the first place ;)

It's raining here, it's cold out, it's dark, my gennie is running, the fire is going and I am finally sitting in front of a screen bigger than my phone...not the computer because it's raining and there's a leak over where I sit in front of it. So I'm on the laptop which still requires the gennie but doesn't use as much petrol. If I want to I can use my new bluetooth earmuffs and listen to music to drown out the noise of the gennie on the aft deck but seeing as it's not the computer it's not so loud to be intolerable. Time for dinner, catch yous later :inverted:
 

McGyver

Energetic
Well, thank you for bring up the America's Cup.
I keep seeing these historic markers mentioning it, around my town...
They are these cast iron plaques with inscriptions containing interesting information on something that occurred or once stood there.
Unfortunately, I rarely get to read them as doing so might lead to me driving into a canal or church...
And the local nuns seem to frown on that.
Anyway, a few of them (the signs) seem to mention stuff about the America's Cup...
So I looked up the markers and apparently the local historical society has a neat feature on their website that allows you to click on an icon on a map and it shows the marker and explains what it's about.
So I learned that my town used to be home to a few of the America's cup yachts and home to a couple of quality sailing gear manufacturers... It seems that lasted from the late 1800s until the mid 1970s when they abandoned the area.
Snobs.
Now I'm looking into why I keep unearthing enameled oyster cannery signs (along with other mysterious debris) in the back of my property.
Apparently the town was home to one of the first clam canning companies 146 years ago.
I'm curious, my house has been here since 1917, so I wonder if something else was back there previously.
 

quietrob

Extraordinary
Oh oh! I love nostalgic signs from yesteryear! Are they plain, signs or do they have something that would mark them from the era? Pictures of enameled oyster cannery signsm Pul-Leeese!
 

McGyver

Energetic
They are just plain white with blue artwork and lettering.
Actually, I was going to take a picture of one of them, but it's not where I thought I left it.
To make matters worse I only found out it was there after quite a bit if bother.
One of the things I used to do in addition to industrial model making was making special effects models, masks and that sorta crap...
So in the shop there were assorted scale sci-fi models, not to mention back before computer simulations caught on, lawyers used have mock-ups of accident or crime scenes made for court demonstrations.
On occasion clients would see some of these things ask if I did large scale model railroad stuff... Probably because for whatever reason 1/24th scale (1/2"= 1 foot) was the most common scale I worked in and G Scale is very close.
Stupidly that lead me to one of my pointless side detours in life...
I had a couple of well off clients having me make stuff for them every few months, so I got it in my head to construct a huge 1/24th scale/G scale "set" way in the back of my yard to show off the models in cool outdoor background.
It started out as a 12'x 4' strip and ended up a whole 25'x 30' town (Juniper falls) complete with roads, streetlights, buildings with detailed interiors, a waterfall, working drainage/sewer system, an "underground" maintenance area, a bridge, live scale forestry and an autonomous irrigation system using micro-sprinklers.
I'll save you the details, but the whole thing was basically a bunch of heavy duty(huge) planters constructed out of wood and industrial grade styrofoam with a natural looking scale cliff face detail sculpted out of a special cement mix incorporated onto the exterior
It formed a stepped, chest height, C shaped plateau, at the top of which resided the town and most of the forest.
It was curse from the beginning.
Every manner of disaster that could befall it, befell it... Culminating in some moron dropping a huge oak tree onto it which caused so much internal damage it eventually rotted out and started to collapse... It took ten years to finally die, but it managed to exist for almost eight before the tree incident.
Unfortunately, I had been using the "underground" area for storage of odd junk.
So when it really started to collapse, stuff would get crushed under hundreds of pounds of dirt and "forest".
So after writing the thing about the signs, I decided to go back there and see if they were in the storage area under one of the areas not sagging or tilting.
Well... It wasn't tilting or sagging.
It was sideways on the ground, partly collapsed in on itself.
After spending a few hours cleaning it up... In the rain (it rained heavily this morning, so that's what probably did it)...
After all that, I found out the stupid thing wasn't even in there.
There are three of the signs and I can't find a one...
Then to further underline how cursed that place is, after I finished and gave up looking, the sun came out.
!&$&?%€?#% stupid nature!
 

McGyver

Energetic
I found one of the signs.
There is a slightly better one, less faded and rusty, but they were buried underground for decades, so I'm kinda surprised it's not worse...
 

McGyver

Energetic
Wow... I looked it up... That stupid sign might be worth around $300 in that lousy condition...
Yeesh.
Apparently that sign is from the 1920s or earlier.

Uh...

Thank you Lorraine and quietrob for kicking on my easily distracted nature.

Well... I'm busting out the shovel and going full Indiana Jones now...
 

McGyver

Energetic
Too bad one can't edit a post after ten minutes.
Sorry to keep adding to this in separate posts.
So I'm looking into this company Sealshipt Oyster Systems...
Apparently they started around 1900, but that is hard to say, their patent for their logo is from 1912.
From what I gather they created a unique shipping canister which enabled them to ship fresh oysters (and possibly other "hard shells") all across the country at a time when that sort of thing was unheard of and apparently people consumed far more oysters than today.
The company operated all over the east coast, in Baltimore Ohio , Stratford Connecticut , Narragansett Bay Rhode Island and a bunch of towns all over Long Island.
The story is a bit intriguing... Sealshipt was a very aggressive monopoly and set out to control as many oyster beds as possible...
I had heard of this before, but back then you could buy underwater real estate... Profitable oyster and clam beds were either owned by companies or leased to the bay men who fished the area.
Somehow Sealshipt used its influence to get a favorable ruling from a Federal court and in so doing was able to gain control of most of the oyster beds in the great South Bay, this didn't go over well with locals and private bay men.
The accounts get blurry from there, but one of the big oyster companies (The Blue Points Company) ended up merging with them.
But the guy who ran the Great South Bay operation, who formerly owned Blue Points and was known as the "Oyster King" had trouble managing such a big operation.
I imagine a lot of it had to do with him dressing up like an Oyster King and running around shouting "I am the Oyster King!" in a very Jack Skellington manner... Because if I had that moniker, that's exactly what I'd do all day long.
In fact since that guy is dead and I have those signs, I'm officially adding Oyster King to my list of personas...
Yes, I have personas... I'm worse in person.
Eventually through mismanagement, corruption and a touch of Mother Nature's fury, things piled up to force the Great South Bay division of Sealshipt into bankruptcy.
They merged with some other company but the whole mess ended with a lot of bad feelings

Dang it... I accidentally hit post... I'll continue this later...
 

quietrob

Extraordinary
I'm in California.
But I love oysters.
And I love mysteries.

I was surprised to learn that google had anything on them at all. (Man, how good is Google?) Apparently, we can go back at least as far back as 1909. That makes it even older than me.
Credit goes to Laura Bien for her work on this. Here is a paragraph culled from the article she wrote and the Ad from the Ann Arbor Chronicle. The picture below is of course, clickable.
oyster-sealshipt-large.jpg

Does that logo on the sign look familiar?

A 1909 advertisement in the Ypsilanti Daily Press shows a gentleman who apparently did not ascribe to the austere Kellogg diet. The ad touts the “Sealshipt” method of packing oyster meats in a sanitary can. The company even offered a book about its method, should the reader be intrigued. The ad lists three Ypsilanti grocers who carried the trademark white china crock from which the oyster meats were dipped into a take-home container. The ad also shows the item of cutlery designed just for oysters: the dainty bident oyster fork.

I do believe we have fell upon Americana during what some consider, America's Golden Age. MickieG, Get your Fedora and your whip, pray there aren't any snakes. American Pickers might just make you an offer. You never know!
 

Lorraine

The Wicked Witch of the North
Hey McG, that is damn cool! I am a history buff and your info was really interesting :) And yours Rob! The plaques commemorating the America's Cup are particularly interesting given NZ's yachting history and the fact I live in a yacht racing hotbed.

winter is nibbling the bare patch of skin between my pants bottom and my slippers, time to light the fire! I have beef, barley and vege soup nearly ready in the pressure cooker and a bowl or two of that in front of that sounds the ticket for this evening...catch you on the flip side :inverted:
 
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