Photo by Myron Hart
We pulled into Terre Haute for the night. By the time we make it back to Pomeroy early tomorrow afternoon, we will have driven 7500 miles. A lot of this beautiful country has been traversed, and more will be revealed!
Photo by Vanessa Kaukonen
Good to hear the positive review. I actually live less than 2 miles from the Arch but haven’t yet seen the revamped version of the museum. Now I’ll have to move it up on my list.
@Dan Nigro
It’s the expense. Not just food, but Elephants have to be moved around to other zoos from time to time. Then there’s health care. A zebra breaks down they butcher and feed to lions. Happened to be within earshot of board discussing Elephants at a meeting at Bx Hist Soc.
Pink Floyd at the stadium.
“Hot Tuna was the symbol of great music shows, but today Floyd is the greatest of all time”
– Ricky Henderson
Growing up in the Bronx, a short walk to the zoo, I spent many an afternoon with the elephants. I have mixed emotions on Happy the elephant losing her court case and being denied constitutional rights just because she isn’t a human being.@Ed Also spent many an afternoon at Yankee stadium, there is indeed something missing without live organ music
Cancellation of the pachyderms ?
Must have been excess flastos!
@greg martelli
Stopped to have a gander at Pittsburgh Zoo last week. It’s not the Bronx (which is discontinuing elephant exhibit), but I needed a good walk.
Incidentally,I did not forget Ozzie.
We went out to see McGuire during that home run ,run( sorry for redundancy),he was about at 63 hr I believe .
The Pirates pitched him out all game .
I approach baseball as if I was last playing it ( with a 17 year old mentality ),the pitch outs were a bummer .
As for the Martin /Jackson Yanks ,I’m sure they were somewhere between the venomous snake section of the herpetarium and the lowland gorilla house .
As for zoos we’ve compared National ,Bronx ,SanDiego ,St.Louis ,the CINNCINATTI zoo has the healthiest and most dynamic gorilla “pavilion “.
I could tell a few about the one they euthanized a few years ago prior to his incident .
He had a attitude
@carey georgas
Too much caffeine yesterday, on top of something bothering me. Oh, well.
@Kevin
Truly outstanding, Kevin. I was thinking just of the three popes.
Btw, I was a sportswriter a long time ago, and for old-time Cardinal fans out there – an off-field highlight was chatting with Jack Buck one day. Hearing that gravelly voice in person was a treat.
I won’t get started on my Billy Martin/Reggie Jackson-era Yankee stories. Suffice to say, calling that outfit the Bronx Zoo was a disservice to the inhabitants of the real Bronx Zoo.
But one music tidbit: I got to know Eddie Layton, great organist at Yankee Stadium and Madison Square Garden.
You just can’t beat sitting in the press box at the old Yankee Stadium listening to live music you requested. Good times.
Keep on truckin’ Jorma and co., love reading about your travels and seeing the pics –
@BrendanC
NUTS!
@Ed
Maris is one.
Couple years ago someone replied ‘nuts’ to a theoretical trade I put forth on a baseball site. Usage relates to refusal of an unacceptable offer, erroneously attributed as Gen. McAuliffe’s refusal reply to German demand for Allied surrender of Bastogne in ’44.
For a lifetime pass to FPR parking lot: what was Gen. McAuliffe’s real reply? (Dad told us when Patton aired, and my brother later confirmed with jr officer who delivered message to Germans, who was chief engineer at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry). Bet Mr. K knows answer.
I believe there are 5. Joe Torre, Roger Maris and 3 Popes.
Ok, as long as we’re talking Cardinals: Which three former Cardinals have plaques at Yankee Stadium?
R&R HOF.
Wikkied up on Hernandez and learned he’s from Bay area, graduated H.S. ’71 but Ham n Dan knew that. He could probably get into R&R NOT with his cred.
Awesome @Ham Neggs, next you will be telling me Donnie Baseball is a Deadhead (and yes both belong in the Hall of Fame)
https://youtu.be/FkNAVSiLT7Y
Peace✌🏻️❤️Love All Ways🔥🚲🌹🙏🏻🖖🏼
@Ham Neggs
That right – Kief is one of us? Has he been to shows?
@Ham Neggs
Learn something new every day. Thought Hernandez was born a Met.
Hands down the Cardinal on my map is someone who loves Hot Tuna – Kieth Hernandez. Thanks Whitey for sending him to New York. Peace✌🏻️❤️Love All Ways🔥🚲🌹🙏🏻🖖🏼
@Greg martelli
Yep. A lifelong Astros fan, Saint Louis regularly trounced us in my youth, along with the reviled Reds and detestable Dodgers, but I’ve always pulled for the Cards when they play anybody else, and have always respected the players and the organization.
Bigger than you think Greg, Down here in Jupiter Florida we have Cardinals Spring Training and the A ball minor league Palm Beach Cardinals. Lots of Cardinals fans
On and on .
The Cardinals are a storied franchise .
And they’re support audience probably is largest footprint geographically ,it’s a regional team by support .
@Greg martelli
Not to go on and on, but I’d put Ozzie Smith in Stan and Bob’s class. And Albert Pujols, and…oops, there I go…
thanks Tom and Gregg. next road trip will put St Louis as a stop and not a drive through.
Cooler temps coming i’ll have to make some Hot Tuna heavy Spotify playlists and hit the road
Hi Michael-The museum you saw several years ago has been replaced by a much bigger, better one. There’s also new landscaping and a grassy walkway over the highway between the Arch and the Old Courthouse. Check it out!
Mike
Not from St.Louis ,but a really cool town.
The musesm is unique in that it is laid out in concentric decade derived circles ,with historically significant
disciplines and cultures realized ,farming ,American Indian ,commerce ,warfare ,all cut out as vectors .
You could walk concentric circles by decade and review all the divisions ,or you could walk the Musesm from origin to its succession to today ,for instance follow farming by decade to the exclusion of all other divisions ,truly interesting way of presenting museum .
The movie of the construction of the arch was incredible .
The Zoo was Marlin Perkins home ,(saw a hippo crap a bale of hay ,only to activate all the fish in the pool to a feeding frenzy ).
The levee is a great 40 mile bike ride.
St. Louis cardinals (Stan Musial ,Bob Gibson ,on and on ).
The arboretum is superb as are the botanical gardens .
Grants farm where the Anhauser Busch stallions are stationed ,in a grand Teutonic stable .
Seen very good tunes at Fox theatre -Little Feat
So after shotgunning at Remington facility across River in Illinois ,we did the levee bike (40),got off levee at arch ,had a cold one ,Ted Nugent “appeared “ on the stage ,via grape vine swing with arch as back drop.
It was as good as blotter or Mr.Natural
Ted Nugent -too much on the 4th
Didn’t go to the town for the experience ,didn’t know he’d play on the 4th.
It was both hilarious & surreal .
By any measure ,St.Louis is a great town
the musuem is well done. going to the top of arch is better! went several years ago with enough wind around to make it interesting. the little pods to take you up and down were unique – dont think id do it again!!
There’s a great museum located underground beneath the Arch. Check it out if you ever get a chance.
@MIKE
Gotta be White Rabbit. Embyonic Journey would be my second guess. EJ relates the very essence of the Sixties more than any other song I’ve heard. IMHO.
White Rabbit
@MIKE
Ok, I’ll be the jerk.
The band’s name was Jefferson Airplane, not The Jefferson Airplane.
But “the Airplane” is kosher usage.
JORMA JEOPARDY
this song by the jefferson airplane has been in a tv show or movie every year since 2001