Recently I told you of the sad passing of my son’s Gigabit Ethernet G4 Power Mac and last week we decanted its replacement. Today, I’ll take a closer look at the Dual G4 also known as the Mirror Door Drive.
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The Dual G4 1.25 GHz Power Mac
The Raths-Keller
Here is this week’s ad taken from the program for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater in 1901. The Raths-Keller was located in The Betz Building on Broad Street near Chestnut in Philadelphia. It was owned by Charles W. Soulas, who began working in a restaurant on Dock Street at seventeen, and became the proprietor of his own restaurant eight years later. He opened his second restaurant in The Betz Building in 1894:
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Be Good Looking for a Dollar! (Plus Shipping)
Back before the term body dysmorphic disorder was coined, it was perfectly all right to obsess over every imperfection in one’s countenance brought about by the chaos of puberty and the resultant heartbreak of acne. Paragon-like beauty could be had thanks to a hypodermic looking device advertised in comic books. Correctly applied, the device would just suck away unsightly adolescent blemishes. I wonder how many hours teenagers spent before a bathroom mirror battling the onslaught of open comedones so that they might display a visage of utter perfection the next day in school.
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The Capewell Glass Negative Collection – Baby in a Lodgepole Chair
This one is for Bill Bryan who admired the lodgepole chair in last week’s photograph of the Capewell Boys. John B Capewell, the photographer, must have really liked this chair since it is featured in a number of these glass negatives.
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Unboxing A Dual G4 Power Mac
Last week I told you how the old G4 Gigabit Ethernet went to meet it’s maker. It’s probably in Computer Heaven now where Steve Jobs is complaining that the fans in it are too loud.
I was going to buy the same machine and just transfer the RAM and parts to the new Gigabit Ethernet machine, but the seller I usually rely on never did get back to me. I took my search to the internet and I found a deal on a Dual G4 Power Mac from a reputable seller that was too good to pass up. It was less expensive than I was going to pay for the replacement G4, so I placed the order and a large cardboard box arrived last Friday.
My son and I went about the task of unboxing our used/new-to-us Dual G4 1.25 GHz Power Mac. We were going to PARTY like it was 2003!
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The Gladstone
I’m posting another ad taken from the program for the play L’Aiglon starring Maude Adams which played in Philadelphia at The Broad Street Theater in 1901. This ad was for The Gladstone Apartment House built in 1895 by Philadelphia architect Theophilus Parsons Chandler, Jr.
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Etta James
Etta James passed away on Friday. It got me thinking about how I became a huge fan of someone whose career peaked when I was in grade school. You see it all began with my father’s cousin who owned a vending company, and he would give us 45′s that they emptied out of the jukeboxes. From an early age, I was familiar with the music of the Beatles, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Grass Roots, We Five, etc. But it was my entry into the restaurant business during my college years that I got my real education. It was there that I was exposed to Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, Buddy Guy, Johnny Hartman, Peggy Lee, Chet Baker. Blossom Dearie, and Etta James by co-workers who were a tad older and had varied and terrific taste in music.
Getting back to Etta – I know her signature songs were “At Last” and “All I Could Do Was Cry”, which I loved, but I think two of her really great songs are “Love And Happiness” and as far as the standards, I’d say she did a pretty damn good job on “Come Rain Or Shine”.
Rest in peace Etta, you were amazing.
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