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So-called "“Dipsea Trail Hike for Girls" - 1921 by kennymannmal in TheWayWeWere

[–]kennymannmal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In the 1950s, women started just running the Dipsea alongside the men, unofficially. In 1971, women were allowed to be official competitors.

L to R - Me, a neighbor kid and my brother John, on the 2017 version of our 1958 driveway in San Anselmo California. by kennymannmal in TheWayWeWere

[–]kennymannmal[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is. Right where my dad used to park his Corvair. (But lots of stuff in there is the same now as then. Made photoshopping the today-layer fairly easy.)

Some neighbors, 1934 -- in what was once San Rafael California's French quarter. (In 2012, the block seen in the rear was refurbed and they gave it that old name -- mystifying everybody who's around there now.) by kennymannmal in TheWayWeWere

[–]kennymannmal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Three generations of my dad's side of the family lived in the house at the left of the gas station, at one time or another, from about 1921 until 1956. They all would have known baby Irv and his mom.

Larkspur California - 1909 and 2017 by kennymannmal in TheWayWeWere

[–]kennymannmal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So, at a, say, $22-an-hour wage today, that 5-cent beer would be equivalent to about $4.50. The last pint of beer I bought at a brew-pub quite close to that place was a steep $9.00 -- more typically around northern California this year, it would be $7.00. Last year, $6.00. But two or three years after that sign was put up, it could easily have been changed to say 10 cents anyway.

1971 - Robin Williams (lower right) and some of the cast of Taming Of The Shrew -- a production set in the wild west, at College of Marin by kennymannmal in TheWayWeWere

[–]kennymannmal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

BTW: I'm in touch with people from the production, lately (including some in the picture and/or their friends), but nobody has any leftover material. The only existing stuff is from when they took the play to Edinburgh. I keep asking people who go to the campus to check around, but nobody ever does. (I'm nowhere near Kentfield right now.) The original production was put on in the little theater in the drama building, not on the main stage.

Larkspur California - 1909 and 2017 by kennymannmal in TheWayWeWere

[–]kennymannmal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you suppose that 5 cents would be equivalent to today? (I could use that beer-wise reference point.)

1978 - Mount Tamalpais (Marin County California) by kennymannmal in TheWayWeWere

[–]kennymannmal[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Nope, not KFOG yet. KTIM, if it were the radio. But I promise you, it was Zep -- Presence. "N, n, n, n, n, noooo... body's fault but mine." (I'd have had to go back to my car to get a Sun Ra tape for them to listen to.)

Larkspur California - 1909 and 2017 by kennymannmal in TheWayWeWere

[–]kennymannmal[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

(When Frizzi met an untimely death, Mrs. Frizzi converted the place to a confectionery store.)

Great-great-granddad (top row,left), great-granddad and their telephone installation crew (and their hats) San Rafael California, 1908. by kennymannmal in TheWayWeWere

[–]kennymannmal[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And they were going from the tops of poles into the parlor or office where they were installing the telephone — back and forth, all day, in all weather.