Baby hydrangea, July 31, 2017
This half-sphere of hydrangea is in the outer reaches of the constellation that includes the huge hydrangea planet featured in this post here.
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Scroll down to find commentary on the original Boomerang that was posted yesterday.
Original Boomerang, February 4, 1923
The top stories in this issue of the Original Boomerang are about Ruth’s travels as a drama coach–so exciting!–and the weather–brrrr! A couple stories further in to the issue have some intriguing references: what’s “flunk day,” one wonders, and what’s “Lightnin”? The former is mentioned in the story about Des Moines beating the University of North Dakota in a basketball game; quoting the Boomerang Man, “the next day was flunk day for Beth and the bunch, with pickles, sandwiches, victrola records in our happy home.” Flunk day sounds like fun, in a homey roaring twenties kind of way! As it turns out, it wasn’t exactly an occasion brought about by the university’s basketball win; it just happened to coincide. Flunk day was an annual day for skipping classes at Coe College! And in fact the flyer for it for 1923 was at the Iowa Heritage site — wow! Flyers for other years didn’t have near this “pinko” frame — I guess it’s truly a sign of the times!
As for “Lightnin,” which the Boomerang Man and “Mama” are planning to to see on Valentine’s Day, it was a comedy written by Winchell Smith and Frank Bacon. It was on Broadway from 1918 to 1921, breaking the record for number of performances, and then went on tour around the country, including to Des Moines Iowa! Read all about it here.
There’s also a mention in this issue of Horace and Hellen taking charge of the Loper farm, which is an intriguing bit of family history, which I will look into when Horace and Hellen come up again.
Really really almost there! July 29, 2017
Just getting its binding hemmed before being put to use!
Intriguing window, flower box, July 28, 2017
A curtained window graced with such a pretty flower box gets a person’s imagination running …it seems that all kinds of stories could involve a window like this!
Feathery window dressing, July 27, 2017
Pretty painted feathers: the latest decorative allure along the front of the same Berkeley institution featured in this post here.
White staircases through big windows, July 26 2017
It’s a little incongruous to have such wonderfully big windows letting light in on staircases … as opposed to rooms … still, though, the two sets of stairs are striking!
Trumpet-vine honeysuckle blossoms, July 25, 2017
These flowers are jubilant about something!
Pointer, July 23, 2017
A bold mosaic arrow pointing the way out of the Lake Merritt BART station. And … this would normally be the day when I’d post a new issue of the original Boomerang (I try to do that every two weeks), but I hadn’t yet written comments on the one I posted two weeks ago, having been shocked by the prospect of another Imle! I got over that today, and there are now comments on that issue, including an identification of this new member of the Imle club. Find it here.
Mulit-colored shadow, July 22, 2017
Who knew that a shadow can change color according to the color it’s projected on? These colored construction site barrier panels made a wonderful demonstration that a shadow can do that. That’s a little bit of the hand of the photographer in the lower right corner.
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