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Hella.
That’s a funny joke. I’m trying to figure out where this photo is taken. On the back the stamp from the processor says Ohio, 1971. But is that where the photo is? Here’s another from the album. I left it upside down because it looks cool. Anyone recognize the building?
I believe it’s the US Capitol Building… the upside down photo looks like the West Front. Being that it’s stamped 1971 on the back, perhaps these photos were taken on Monday, May 3rd. According to Wiki, this day in US history brought on one of the most disruptive protests of the Vietnam War era and occurred in Washington, DC. Thousands of anti-war activists tried to shut down the Federal government in protest of the war. Go yippies!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_May_Day_Protests
You know you’re in New Hampshire when you see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.
Comment by jb — December 3, 2008 @ 5:10 am
Yep, that’s the capitol.
jb’s last comment is freaking me out because I had a dream just last night that I was back in NH for some reason and I went to a restaurant and sat down at some private table function, just me and a bunch of backwoods hunters. I didn’t fit in.
Comment by Lyle_s — December 3, 2008 @ 8:04 am
lyle, you live in Wisconsin, can’t get much more back woods than that. I know, my in-laws live there and they come to parties wearing camo. Get yourself a packers jersey and a orange camo vest and join the team.
Comment by Al — December 3, 2008 @ 10:40 am
That’s what made the dream so odd, I don’t normally think that way about NH.
When I first moved to Milwaukee, I delivered pizza (just as I had before I left NH; is Foodie’s still around?). When hunting season rolled around, I got my first exposure to gutted deer hanging from trees over people’s driveways. I’m not saying you see that all the time around here but the first time I pulled into someone’s driveway and saw that I thought I had stumbled on a crime scene and maybe the perp had ordered a pizza to lure in his next victim.
In all my time in NH, I can only recall one person I knew who was into hunting. Everyone else I knew who had a gun used it to shoot up furniture and other inanimate junk.
Comment by Lyle_s — December 3, 2008 @ 12:24 pm
foodies is closed, Now there is a kick buttons place called Gracie’s, Good breakfast, there is original pics on the walls for sale, like 25 yr old Johnny Cash, and other trendy dead people,, lyle you comin home ever??, let’s bowl, Denny Dejanova works at Gracie’s , nice eyes,,,,,,,and such
Comment by pooperlooper — December 3, 2008 @ 2:45 pm
Thanks for doing the legwork JB. I oughtta get to DC so next time I see it I can recognize where all the idiotic legislation is coming from.
I must have told this story a thousand times. My neighbor, I think Mr. Harvery, had one of those hand painted signs nailed to a tree at the end of his driveway. “Deer cutting”. And that’s what he did in hunting season.
I watched him run the carcass through a floor model band saw and the glass half gallon of Bacardi was jiggling from the vibrations. The guy had two or three sons. Aaron was the oldest and he was younger than me. I think he tried to fight Pooper at one point, who’s older than me. Basically a fourth grader picking a fight with a seventh grader. It was bizarre. They swore like truckers and Aaron taught me one thing about deer cutting. At the very least, cut the pecker off in the field.
Comment by Rolston — December 4, 2008 @ 12:22 am
Coming to MA next week but won’t make it all the way up to NH. Gives me a good idea, though: I’m going to roll some candlepin while I’m there.
Comment by Lyle_s — December 4, 2008 @ 10:43 am