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Forum: General Talk 07-08-2015, 09:48 PM  
Your vehicle: what do you have, why do you like it, and what do you not like?
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 2,977
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2002 Celica, 208K miles. Runs well, 32 MPG. Front hubs make a clicking sound (for years) that I have learned to live with. New tires, brakes, coil and plugs this year. A bit of bondo thanks to people running into it. Once got stuck in sand...

On a good day at Trona Pinnacles in '08.


Not looking forward to replacing it, though its time will come. Actually, I probably would like something newer but don't want a car payment :-) This is from the CD/cassette era. The 3.5mm input was still a year or two away - though I have a cheap cassette adaptor for my Sansa MP3s.
Only con I can thing of is rear corner view is obstructed making backing out of a parking space an adventure.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-10-2014, 06:39 PM  
Thematic Only Neon
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 77
Views: 7,765
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-07-2014, 08:55 PM  
Thematic Only Neon
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 77
Views: 7,765
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-15-2014, 12:31 PM  
Thematic Only Neon
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 77
Views: 7,765
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 12-03-2023, 04:42 PM  
Thematic Just Boats
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 102
Views: 2,600










Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 09-15-2020, 03:57 PM  
Thematic The view upward (take part, please...)
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 883
Views: 49,758
Sundial bridge, Redding CA.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 12-03-2023, 05:07 PM  
Thematic Just Boats
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Replies: 102
Views: 2,600












Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 12-03-2023, 04:52 PM  
Thematic Just Boats
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Replies: 102
Views: 2,600






Forum: Monthly Photo Contests 11-09-2023, 08:02 PM  
Watts Tower
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 16
Views: 209
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 12-03-2023, 06:01 PM  
Thematic Just Boats
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Replies: 102
Views: 2,600


























Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 12-03-2023, 05:16 PM  
Thematic Just Boats
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Replies: 102
Views: 2,600














Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 07-30-2023, 10:45 PM  
Thematic Celebrities Graves
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 1,093
Views: 708,917
San Fernando Mission, Mission Hills.

Ken Lynch was an actor with over 180 credits. Lynch began his acting career on radio, and on The Bishop and the Gargoyle, he played the Gargoyle, an ex-convict who helped the Bishop solve crimes. He was on the daytime radio soap operas Backstage Wife, Portia Faces Life, and A Woman of America. In 1950, Lynch starred in One Thousand Dollars Reward, a crime drama, where after the episode had ended, the host call a random listener who would then try to solve the mystery. From 1949-1954, Lynch starred in The Plainclothesman on TV. Other TV included Peter Gunn, Zorro, Have Gun - Will Travel, Checkmate, The Asphalt Jungle, Straightaway, The Honeymooners, The Fugitive, The Andy Griffith Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Blue Light, Adam-12, Star Trek, Maverick, All In The Family, The Twilight Zone, The Rifleman, and The Wild Wild West. He appeared in 12 episodes of Gunsmoke, 10 episodes of The FBI, nine episodes of Bonanza, and six episodes in both The Virginian and Gomer Pyle USMC, and three appearances on Perry Mason. He had 16 appearances on McCloud. Films include I Married a Monster from Outer Space, North By Northwest, The Lawbreakers, Pork Chop Hill, Anatomy of a Murder and Tora! Tora! Tora!. His last performance was as Rear Admiral Talbot Gray in The Winds of War mini-series. About 1970, Lynch bought a flower shop in North Hollywood and began studying floriculture and taking courses in floral arranging and design, and then providing flowers for local weddings, receptions, and other events.


Julian Rivero was an American actor who made his film debut in the 1923 silent melodrama, The Bright Shawl. His first featured role was in 1924's western, Fast and Fearless. During the early 1930s, while Hollywood was still making versions of films in different languages, Rivero continued to be cast in Spanish language films. His first sound film in English was God's Country and the Man. During the 1930s and 1940s many roles were in westerns including Winner Take All, Diamond Jim, Heroes of the Alamo, Down Argentine Way, and Blood and Sand. He had small role in the 1942 remake of Rio Rita starring Abbott and Costello, and he played a Spanish official in Woman of the Year. He was a monk in The Song of Bernadette, a waiter in Laurel and Hardy's final film, The Bullfighters. He played a government clerk in Anna and the King of Siam, the manservant in Road to Rio, and the barber in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Films from the 1950's include Broken Arrow, Sirocco, East of Eden, Giant, Don't Go Near the Water in which Rivero had a featured role, and Houseboat. TV included Adventures of Superman, The Lone Ranger, Broken Arrow, Rawhide, and after taking a break, was on The Fugitive, I Spy, Family Affair, The Flying Nun, Mannix, and Medical Center. His final role was as Gitano in the 1973 TV movie, The Red Pony, starring Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara.


Philip Abbott was an actor and director known for The F.B.I. (1965), General Hospital (1963) and Sweet Bird of Youth (1962). Abbott was a co-founder of Theatre West, a Los Angeles stage company. He served as the honorary mayor of Tarzana in the early 1970s, and served terms as the president and board chairman of the Los Angeles United Cerebral Palsy-Spastic Children's Foundation.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 04-06-2023, 05:48 PM  
Thematic Celebrities Graves
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 1,093
Views: 708,917
Los Angeles National.

Floyd Butler was a co-founder of the vocal group The Friends of Distinction, best known for their late 1960s hits, "Grazing in the Grass", "Love or Let Me Be Lonely", and "Going in Circles".


George Eldredge was an actor in over 180 movies and TV from the 1930s through the early 1960s. Before acting, he was a photographer for a police department, and sang with the SF Opera. His first role was as an English spy in Till We Meet Again. He was typically cast as authority figures but was cast against type as the traitorous Dr. Tobor in the B movie, Captain Video: Master of the Stratosphere. His best-known film role may be in the 1945 cult exploitation film Mom and Dad, where Eldredge played the father of a teenage girl who accidentally becomes pregnant because her parents withhold knowledge about sex from her. With little advertising, it still became the number two moneymaker for 1945, and in 2005 it received a National Film Preservation award from the Library of Congress. On TV, he appeared on Peter Gunn, The Adventures of Superman, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Perry Mason, and as Dr. Spaulding in all three Spin and Marty series.


Robert English was a US Navy Rear Admiral, and in 1932 he served with Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd on the Antarctic II Expedition, as captain of the "Bear of Oakland". A portion of land near the SW base of the Antarctic Peninsula is named for him. For his service in 1934 aboard the battleship "USS Nevada" he was awarded the Navy's Distinguished Service Medal. During the WWII, he was on General Dwight D. Eisenhower's staff and earned the Army Distinguished Service Medal, two Legion of Merit awards and several British and French awards.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 06-11-2023, 02:30 PM  
Thematic Celebrities Graves
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 1,093
Views: 708,917
Holy Cross, Colma CA.

Richard Hongisto was a businessman, politician, sheriff, and police chief of San Francisco CA and Cleveland OH. He earned a reputation for activism, fighting discrimination within the police force and against police brutality. He was a co-founder of Officers for Justice, an organization of officers who were primarily racial minorities or gay. He was elected SF sheriff in 1971, shocking the political establishment as the incumbent, Matthew Carberry, had been a four-term sheriff and had been considered a shoo-in. Hongisto was the first sheriff to hire gay and lesbian deputies. After serving as sheriff in SF, Hongisto briefly moved to Cleveland in 1977, where he served as police chief, but eventually was fired by the mayor on live local TV. The Governor of New York then invited Hongisto to manage that state's prison system, but Hongisto returned to SF to run for Supervisor in 1980, and later ran for Assessor. In 1991, he ran for mayor but came in fourth in a race won by police chief Frank Jordan, who appointed Hongisto as SF's police chief in 1992. Hongisto's tenure as police chief lasted only six weeks, due to his handling of rioters and demonstrators in the wake of the Rodney King police brutality trial in Los Angeles. Hongisto left public life to become a businessman and real estate investor, apart from an unsuccessful run for County Supervisor in 2000.


Paul Kantner was an American rock musician, best-known as the co-founder, rhythm guitarist, and occasional vocalist of Jefferson Airplane. Jefferson Airplane formed in 1965 when Kantner met Marty Balin. Kantner eventually became the leader of the group and led it through its highly successful late-1960s period, until 1973. Kantner revived the Jefferson Starship name in 1974 and continued to record and perform with them through 1984 and reformed Jefferson Starship from 1992 until his death. He had a cerebral hemorrhage in 1980 likely due to a residual hole in his skull from a motorcycle accident in the 1960s, but recovered without surgery. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll HoF in 1996.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 02-07-2014, 09:36 PM  
Thematic Bigger Flowers
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 4,336
Views: 262,925
There is a large "Tiny Flowers" thread already going. These were too big for that one, and there must be more. Post 'em :-)

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All in this man's front yard. He is used to visitors...
Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II 12-12-2013, 08:37 PM  
why I won't buy a k3 (Warning: Satire Thread)
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 102,936
Views: 4,794,626
I was told, culturally speaking, Japan is not big on cheese.
Forum: Pentax K-3 & K-3 II 11-30-2013, 08:31 PM  
why I won't buy a k3 (Warning: Satire Thread)
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 102,936
Views: 4,794,626
@Joel B might already know, but adding bacon and turkey to this results in a Kentucky Hot Brown.
Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges 11-04-2018, 07:17 PM  
Weekly Challenge Weekly Challenge #438 - I Spy Something ... The Letter P
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 14
Views: 1,718
1935 Packard.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-15-2023, 06:13 PM  
Thematic Celebrities Graves
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 1,093
Views: 708,917
Holy Cross, Culver City.

Pat Paterson, born Eliza, was an English film actress with over 20 films, but she is best-known as the wife of actor Charles Boyer. By age twelve, she had a portfolio of local acting and modeling. In 1929, she arrived in Hollywood and was signed by Fox Studios, renaming her Patricia, almost immediately shortened to Pat. From 1930-34 she appeared in many studio pictures with roles of increasing prominence. In 1935's Charlie Chan Goes To Egypt, she played the female lead. In early 1934, as production on Charlie Chan Goes To Egypt was ending, Maurice Chevalier persuaded fellow French actor Charles Boyer to attend a studio post-New Year dinner party where he met Pat. They married on Valentine's Day 1934. Though Charles claimed his wife would be relinquishing her career, however, Paterson continued to work, and had great success in the five years immediately following the marriage. At the outbreak of World War II, she devoted her time supporting the war effort of Britain and France, which essentially ended to her film career. In December 1943, she gave birth to the couple's only child, Michael Charles Boyer, who died of a self-inflicted gunshot in 1965. Pat died of a brain tumor in 1978, and Charles Boyer died by suicide two days later.


Francis Feeney was a director, actor and producer in early Hollywood. He was the brother of famous John (Feeney) Ford. Francis made numerous features and shorts, thought essential none have survived. He had some very minor roles in his brother's movies - as the drunken stage keeper in 1939's "Stagecoach," 'Dad' in 1946's "My Darling Clementine", and the old man who was lynched in "The Ox-Bow Incident."


John Joseph Haley III was a director, producer and writer, and a two-time recipient of the Emmy Award. His credits include directing the 1974 compilation film That's Entertainment!. He was second husband of Liza Minnelli whose mother, Judy Garland, starred with his father in The Wizard of Oz. As a producer, Haley worked on Hollywood and the Stars (1963-1964), That's Entertainment! (1974), That's Dancing! (1985) and The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: 50 Years of Magic. Haley's other credits include producer and executive producer of Academy Awards shows, director of the 1970 film Norwood and the 1971 film The Love Machine.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 01-15-2023, 05:34 PM  
Thematic Celebrities Graves
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 1,093
Views: 708,917
Hollywood Forever, Los Angeles.

Elinor Warren was a pianist and composer of contemporary classical music. She sent an early composition to the Schirmer music publishing company and received her first publishing contract before she graduated high school. Warren supported herself as an accompanist for singers and went on tour with contralto Margaret Matzenauer. In demand as both a pianist and a composer, she was a soloist twice with the LA Philharmonic and made several recordings with various singers. In the 1930s, Warren began working on larger-scale compositions including The Harp Weaver and the symphonic The Passing of King Arthur. In 1940, she focussed on composition with themes of nature, especially as in the American West, and mysticism. She wrote over 200 compositions, and her manuscripts and other materials are collected in the Library of Congress. Her second marriage, in 1936, was to film producer Z. Wayne Griffin.


Harry Kurnitz was an American playwright, novelist, and screenwriter. He wrote swashbucklers for Errol Flynn and comedies for Danny Kaye. He also wrote some mystery fiction under the name Marco Page. After college, he worked as a book and music reviewer for The Philadelphia Record in 1930. Kurnitz wrote Fast Company, about skulduggery in the rare-book business, and after Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought the book, Kurnitz wrote the screenplay. He wrote more than forty movie scripts, including Witness for the Prosecution; What Next, Corporal Hargrove?; and How to Steal a Million. He was co-nominated with Noël Coward for a 1964 Tony Award as Best Author (Musical) for "The Girl Who Came to Supper."


As a child, Edmon Simonian practiced hand-carving with his father and grandfather using many heavy-duty woodcarving tools. Later in his youth, Edmon spent time in Italy and studied Renaissance architecture, which he later incorporated in his work. Edmon moved from Armenia to the US and set up a furniture-making shop in the small Hollywood apartment he shared with his wife and daughter. He opened his own store on Melrose Avenue in 1978 and often had to build furniture on the sidewalk because he did not have enough room inside. That venture grew into a block-long storefront, creating reproduction furniture, carved panel rooms, fireplaces, and mantels.
Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 12-16-2022, 12:45 AM  
Thematic Celebrities Graves
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 1,093
Views: 708,917
Forest Lawn, Glendale.

Charles Cadman was an American composer, whose musical education was completely American. He began piano lessons at 13, then studied harmony, theory, and orchestration with Luigi von Kunits and Emil Paur, the concertmaster and conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. At eighteen, he was a railroad office clerk, while he continued writing music on the side. In 1902 he met a neighbor, Nelle Richmond Eberhart, who wrote the text of their first work together, a hymn for which they were paid one and a half dollars. Their collaboration continued for 40 years, including the Four American Indian Songs, and five operas. In 1908 Cadman was appointed as the music editor and critic of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. He was greatly influenced by American Indian music, which he had been studying. After publishing several articles on American Indian music, Cadman was regarded as an expert on the subject. In 1908 he began 25 years of touring to present lectures known as the "Indian Talk", or "Indian Music Tour". In the 1920s, Cadman moved to Los Angeles, and helped found the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, often performing there as a solo pianist. He also wrote scores for several films and was considered a top film composer of the period.


Actor Robert Williams ran away from home at the age 11 to join a tent show. He later worked on showboats in Mississippi. In New York, he appeared in several stage productions, then landed a role in Eyes of Youth, starring Marjorie Rambeau. He put his career on hold to join the US Army during WWI. After the war, Williams resumed his acting career. In 1922, he made his Broadway stage debut in the popular stage comedy Abie's Irish Rose, and appeared in That French Lady; Scarlet Pages; and Love, Honor and Betray. After appearing as "Johnnie Coles" in the play Rebound, Williams was chosen by director Edward H. Griffith to reprise the role in the 1931 film version. He followed this with a supporting role in Devotion, also in 1931. Later in 1931, Williams had his first and only leading role in the romantic comedy film Platinum Blonde, starring Loretta Young and Jean Harlow. It was his final onscreen appearance as he died only 3 days after its premier. Williams was married first to singer Marion Harris, then actress Alice Lake. They separated three times before divorcing in 1925. Williams was last married to actress Nina Penn.

Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 12-16-2022, 12:34 AM  
Thematic Celebrities Graves
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 1,093
Views: 708,917
Evergreen cemetery, Los Angeles.

Katherine Grant was an actress with 53 credits in silent movies. In 1922, Grant won the "Miss Los Angeles Beauty Contest". She was offered a contract by Hal Roach, and appeared in a few small roles in the "Little Rascals" comedies. Grant later entered the "Miss America" contest. A few months earlier she posed for a series of photos to be used by a sculptor who was creating a fountain, which featured Grant in artfully nude poses. When in Atlantic City for the "Miss America" contest, she saw copies of the photos she believed were made solely for use by the sculptor. She was also called by a man trying to extort her for return of the negative. Grant's attorney sought a warrant charging fraud against the photographers and attempted extortion against the former movie extra man. On December 8, 1925, Grant was the victim of a hit-and-run accident while crossing a street near the Hal Roach Studios. There were no physical injuries, but doctors advised Grant to take a prolonged rest from working. However, she was working within a few days and made two more movies. In May 1926, Grant was in a sanatorium, where the psychiatrist said she suffered shock from the accident, and after several months, launched her into a nervous and physical breakdown. It was Hal Roach's suggestion she be taken to a sanatorium, and Roach Studios paid for all the expenses. Eventually, Grant's condition worsened, requiring complete care, and she was admitted to the Patton State Hospital in San Bernardino where she lived the rest of her life. She died at age 32 from pulmonary tuberculosis and dementia praecox psychosis. In August 2016, her unmarked grave was given a headstone by Jessica W, who runs a silent film stars blog.


William Joseph Seymour was an African American preacher. Seymour was a student of early Pentecostal minister Charles Parham, and he adopted Parham's belief that speaking in tongues was the sign of receiving the baptism in the Holy Spirit. In 1906, Seymour moved to Los Angeles, where he preached the Pentecostal message, and sparked the Azusa Street Revival which drew large crowds of believers and media coverage that focused on the controversial religious practices and the racially integrated worship services, which violated the racial norms of the time. Seymour broke with Parham in 1906 over theological differences as well as Parham's unhappiness with interracial revival meetings. Seymour tried to develop the revival into a larger organization called the Apostolic Faith Movement, which was defeated by power struggles with other ministers, and led to a decrease in Seymour's influence. By 1914, the revival was past its peak, but Seymour continued to pastor the Apostolic Faith Mission until his death.

Forum: Mini-Challenges, Games, and Photo Stories 12-01-2022, 08:06 PM  
Thematic Celebrities Graves
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 1,093
Views: 708,917
Westwood, Santa Monica.

Allan Melvin acted on The Phil Silvers Show as Corporal Henshaw. He played Archie Bunker's neighbor Barney in All in the Family, and had different roles on eight episodes of The Andy Griffith Show. On The Brady Bunch he played Sam the Butcher, the boyfriend of Alice. Melvin also was the voice of Magilla Gorilla in the cartoon.


Anna Lee, born Joan Boniface Winnifrith, was an English-American actress, labeled by studios as "The British Bombshell". She was the goddaughter of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and lifelong friend of his daughter, Dame Jean Conan Doyle. Lee made her debut in His Lordship (1932). In the early 30's, she played a number of minor, often uncredited, roles in films, though she co-starred with Louis Hayward in Chelsea Life (1933). She played leading lady roles in The Camels Are Coming, The Passing of the Third Floor Back, The Man Who Changed His Mind, and the war film OHMS. In 1937, she starred in King Solomon's Mines. Her final film in Britain was Return to Yesterday. She appeared in 1943's Forever and a Day, How Green Was My Valley, Two Rode Together, Fort Apache, and Flying Tigers. She appeared on TV anthology series in the 1940s and 1950s, and on Wagon Train, and Perry Mason. She played Sister Margaretta in The Sound of Music, and the neighbor in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? In 1994, Lee had the leading role in What Can I Do?. In later years, she played matriarch Lila Quartermaine on General Hospital and Port Charles. Her final marriage was to novelist Robert Nathan. In 1981, a car accident left her paralyzed from the waist down. In 1982 she was awarded an MBE, and in 1995, she got a star on the Hollywood WoF. She was posthumously awarded a Daytime Emmy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004.


Ernst Toch was a self-taught composer of classical music and film scores. He wrote seven symphonies, and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1956 for his Third Symphony. He was oscar-nominated for Address Unknown, and Ladies In Retirement, and he wrote books about music theory.
Forum: Pentax K-1 & K-1 II 09-04-2021, 02:50 PM  
New K1 Mark II. I think I've gone too far.
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 110
Views: 7,448
Hexapentaxian.
Forum: Weekly Photo Challenges 01-26-2023, 03:01 PM  
Weekly Challenge Weekly Challenge #602 - Doors
Posted By SpecialK
Replies: 23
Views: 1,405
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