Living room with desk

I moved my desk into the living room-dining room area so I'd start using it more, which I actually have done.  But I still mainly sit at the cluttered dining room table.  There's a 5-inch reel-to-reel tape playing on the Pioneer RT-1050 with my 1970 segued song collection on it. I used a regular 7-inch reel to record the first side of the 1970 collection ("side" meaning one side of a 90 minute cassette tape, which corresponds to one 7-inch reel tape running at 7.5 inches per second), but Radio Shack only had one of those so I used two 5-inch Radio Shack blank tapes to record the second side.  I used the reel tapes as master tapes and made copies onto cassettes to send out to family and friends. Yeh, I still use the reel-to-reel and even got adapters so I can play or record on 10-inch reels (the professional size) but alas have nothing currently that I want to record.

At the corner of Pullen & University Ave

For y'all who know a little about Pine Bluff, the chain link fence shown on the right is the southwest corner of St. Joseph's Catholic Cemetery.

Community, Saenger, Hotel Pines

West 2nd Avenue, looking east toward Main Street traffic lights in Pine Bluff, Arkansas, mid-afternoon 24 February 2017. This is the marquee of the restored Community Theater, advertising an upcoming appearance of a couple of magicians: a magic show.

The stabilized (roof replaced a few years ago) much larger Saenger Theater is shown on the right.  Pat Calkins and I went into the Saenger in 2011, when it was open to the public for a day as a fund raising effort (I'd already contributed some money). It was in terrible shape, with a big hole in the roof.  Although it is not in imminent danger of collapse and has been "saved" for the time being and is now owned by the City, there is still the big question of how it could be put to use.

On a happier note, the Hotel Pines was recently bought by a non-profit group, Pine Bluff Rising, that plans to renovate it, with something like $35 million in funding, provided the building passes a structural analysis assessment.