Post 737 - A Convergence of Material - Phonographs, Battle Creek, Dr. Kellogg, and Those Wild 1870s!

 

For all the clutterbugs out there, if you accumulate material, eventually a connection will emerge!

And two Kelloggs, not related, crossed paths in the name of entertainment AND scientific discovery!

 

Post 654 - Another Good One, Gone - Brandt Rowles, FSC Prof from the 1970s

 

Brandt was one of the best teachers I never had!  My first meeting with him came on the heels of his departure from Ferris, when he came down the sloped auditorium aisle, hopping up to tap each of the TV monitors on the way.  We had a conversation first about creating educational videos, then to his side-hustle writing for pharmacy-based journals, and he really lit up when I mentioned interest in old photographic methods.  

That led to a visit to an Ohio NSA convention, experiments in free-viewing, and my first Realist.  We swapped cards throughout the 1980s and kept in frequent touch through our shared literary contributions to Stereo World and random discussions on mounting techniques, dangers of Fixative, and whether Cal Stewart will ever be a popular recording artist again.  

Our last conversations were about his health-inposed downsizing, whether being the King of Ebay is all that regal, and volumes of some of the most delicious, egregious puns ever committed to email.  I sensed a tear in space-time when his energies faded, and shed a tear when they completely dissipated after last spring.  I am sure Charon was kept convulsed all along the river Styx.  Rest in Peace?  Make that Stir the Place.  Long live the King of the Funderworld!

Post 496 - 1979 - Battle Creek Michigan in STEREO 3D!

Taking off on an Air Wisconsin flight from the Battle Creek Regional Airport (back when it had commercial flights)

The Official Radioactive Black Squirrel from HELL - near my brother's first apartment

The secret entrance to Willard Library for after-hours reading

The pathway to pharmacy and cafeterias from HELL - no, just the way to get to the coffee machine at the now-not-even-a-parking-lot location of the Lakeview General Osteopathic Hospital

A little snow, surrounding my first car after college - it tried to kill me several times, but it got good mileage

The downtown unnamed alleyway from HELL - no, just a walk-by of the now-demolished "flat iron" building downtown.  It was packed with several floors of historic artifacts that all went down with the wrecking ball.

Now a great restaurant (Clara's On the River), but in 1979 it was still the Station On the Rails for Amtrak

A walking mall in a Michigan downtown, where winter arrives in October and leaves by May.  What could possibly go wrong with that business model.  This sculptural do-hickey was moved to the Leila Arboretum to the west when the mall returned to a road in the 1990s (the same consultant group recommended the creation of both events), but somewhere along the way, it lost its ball.  Ouch.

The "Capri" downtown was one of three adult theatres in 1979 Battle Creek.  This one was originally the "Rex" - it featured westerns back then - but went for other varieties of leatherstocking tales.

The Emily Andrus Home - for retired ladies seeking sanctuary and access to a convenient mailbox.

The flat-ion building again, because it had such great texture for 3D.

Fort Custer helped protect the Surreal City from invasion by Augusta.

Mr. DNA wants you to study SCIENCE!

My visiting brother from another pan-dimensional universe.

C. W. Post, looking toward the north in 1979.  Now he looks eastward, where a factory bearing his name still makes cereal products.

 

Post 495 - Some Random Specimens from "Tour of the World" - a Keystone Stereo View Collection

 ...from the late 1920s to early 1930s...items from the ephemeral archives around the Animating Apothecary studios...

                                                                Zeppelins over Arabia

                                                                         Mt Vesuvius

                                                            Hall of Mirrors - Versailles

                                                                    Dancers Thai one on

                                                                         Ruins in Rome

                                                                You want your mummy?

                                                                    The Old Curiosity Shop

                                    Niagara Falls - slowly I turned, step by step, inch by inch...

                                                                            Mt Ranier

                                                                        Stone-faced Abe

                                                        Where Abe was purportedly born

                                                The pretty Great, if ineffective, Wall of China

                                                The Grand Tetons, and I do mean Tetons!

                                                                            Glacier Park

                                                                        The Fullish Moon

                                                            Anne Hathaway's Cottage

                                                                That wacky Tour d'Eiffel

                                                                        New Yawk, NY

                                                                    The Capitol at night

                                                    Where the Canterbury Tales wound up

                                                Some of these statues are still in England

                                                                The Arch of Triumph

                                                        Better not firgit this one, pard...