This Is Drivel

Category: hobby

  • seventeen

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    Andy Rooney had the same affliction I have that makes me collect typewriters: There were six Underwood #5 typewriters [in the newsroom] and two L.C. Smith typewriters. The Underwoods were my age, twenty-three, but had lived a harder life. Those old Underwoods were the best typewriters ever built – one of the best of anything Read.

  • Baskerville

    Front entrance to the Baskerville building on Hamilton St. (This is a hand-held shot, although I had to take about a half-dozen snaps to get it, and hold my breath each time. I’ve learned a new setting on my digital camera that lets me take photos at night. ) Read.

  • The Lamb Building – Michaelangeo’s

    The Lamb building on the 100 block of State Street, home to Michelangelo’s, the finest coffee shop in downtown Madison. Wouldn’t it be heaven to live in an apartment over a great coffee shop? Especially an apartment with leaded, stained-glass bay windows. Maybe someday… Read.

  • Inside Taylor’s

    Time to share a few more photos of the interior of Taylor’s antique store, on Carroll Street in capital square (next to Shakespeare’s book store). I wandered in today to see the newly-arranged selection of trinkets and baubles. The assortment is dizzying. The shop resembles nothing so much as your very rich aunt’s eclectic collection Read.

  • Taylor’s on North Carroll

    Taylor’s on North Carroll Street in downtown Madison has decorated their front window with a dizzying display of old-time toys. It’s more than I can do justice to in a few snapshots, but perhaps I can capture a tiny bit of the fun to be had looking in the window. A close-up of a few Read.

  • Mautz mansion

    I went for a walk through the ‘mansion district’ once again. Most of the old piles have fallen on hard times, their rooms now parceled out as flats to students. The landlords certainly aren’t much interested in preserving the character of the buildings, as evidenced by the cartoonish color of this lost mansion. Pink? Read.

  • Makado

    I went back to the ski slopes again! A couple guys as work, Romeo Bautista and Dave Christy, were headed for Makado, up north by Mutsu Bay, and asked me if I wanted to come along. I probably shouldn’t have; my legs were still sore and tight from skiing at Moya, but I couldn’t say Read.

  • shuss

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    Some people can strap on a pair of skis and learn to shuss down a hill with only a few minor spills that everybody can sit around and joke about later. Tim’s one of those people. He got on a snowboard and was shooting down the steeper slopes by mid-afternoon. My Darling B, I suspect, Read.

  • dear Mom

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    [a letter to Mom:] Thought I’d pass along to you that I finally went through the hoard of coins you passed on to me from Grandpa Fred. It was a lot of fun, just like going through his pocket change, and I wanted to thank you. Lots of nice coins in there, by the way; Read.

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