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72 YEARS AGO I'd stop here while out riding my bike. The drinking fountain worked. And there was no moss. It's a beautiful north-woods day. Even saw a couple boats being put in the water.

Seeing the Blur thing at Coachella reminds me of when I played there with my old job. Nobody really knew, or cared, who we were. The crowd were just having a great time, and making sure they were seen to be having a great time. I got the impression it's not a music festival- 1/2

Detroit, Michigan

April 15, 1933 and King Kong Must Be Seen To Be Believed at Vintage Edmonton:
vintageedmonton.com/2024/04/april-…
#yeg #yeg history #yeg heritage #edmonton #1930s #KingKong

'Sect Re-enacts 'Crucifixion' In New Mexico'
April 15, 1933
#History #OTD #Penitente
#1930s

'Declares Japan To War On U.S.'
April 15, 1933
#History #OTD #WWII #1930s

Don’t work yourself to exhaustion!

Franz Kafka, 1912.

1. Decades after the sinking of the Titanic, a Soviet submarine descended to the ocean floor to explore the wreck.

It found something surprising down there: 12 tickets for the Toronto streetcar.

Here's my annual thread about how they got there…

Remembering Samuel Beckett born on this day 1906.

“Birth was the death of him.”

Herk Harvey

Charles Laughton

OK. So hear me out.

['Keeler is to good literature as rectal cancer is to good health...Given the choice of reading three Keeler novels back to back or being imprisoned in an Iranian jail, you’d need to think about it.' --Otto Penzler

Well, Happy 45th birthday to the Mysterious Bookshop, anyway!]