38 sec video of my Pioneer RT-1050 reel-to-reel

 

This is the first song on a new 1970 mix tape I'm making. I made the old 1970 mix tape exactly 20 years ago. Last night, after I recorded this video, I made a new 80-minute tape of mixed 1970 songs, but it's not a keeper. Don't know when I'll get back to it. I've had the Maxell 10'' blank tape and take-up reel for about 22 years, but haven't recorded anything on them until now (I didn't have the necessary hub adapters until recently). The second song I'm using is Jimi Hendrix's "Machine Gun," recorded at the Fillmore East on New Year's Day (night) 1970. Hendrix was with his Band of Gypsys at the time: Buddy Miles, Billy Cox, and Hendrix. By the way, I just now found this:

Jimi Hendrix’s Landmark Final Album, Band Of Gypsys, Celebrated With Remastered 50th Anniversary Vinyl Editions

Recent phone photos from Knoop Park overlook

 

Saturday November 21

Also Nov 21. Social distancing! L to R: Rocky, George (the new dog), Molly, Albert.

Also Nov. 21

Thanksgiving morning 6:57

Trinity Episcopal kindergarten 1960 Pine Bluff

 Trinity Episcopal first-year kindergarten graduates 1960. Phillip McNulty sent this to me a while back.

Among all the familiar and funny faces, I only recognize two:  Dabney Dunklin on the front row far right, and Suzanne Willis, third from right on front row.  This group was a year or two years younger than my class. I'll check with Phillip to find out some names and add them here when I do.

Update November 21:  Here is Phillip's November 16 email giving some more of the names:

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Back Row:  ??, Mike Tracy, Richard Freeman, Steve McIntyre, Rusty Miller, ??, ??, Bobby Rice, Scott Heirs

Row 3:  Kris Shewmake, ??, ??, Mike Joseph, Holly Watkins, Chuck Barrett, Burt Hinman, Mason Monfee, ??

Row 2:   Sherry Robinson, LuAnn Smith, ??, ??, Mark Robinson, Greg Wilcox, ??, ??, Ellen Nichol, ??

Row 4:  ??, ??, ??, ??, LeAnne Kamber, Vicky Norton, Suzanne Willis, ??, Dabney Dunklin

Hold up on the unknowns, I just contacted Mark R and we will figure them out again, this is a good start.

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Me with banjo on Cano Island April 1974

 

From left, Joe Hardin of Grady, Arkansas; me with banjo I bought a year earlier, used, $35, from a classmate at Hendrix College; Hector and Jesus of Costa Rica.  Click Costa Rica photos to see other photos from the trip. My brother Steven recently sent me this one.

Molly smells a rabbit in Knoop Park

Molly the beagle gets very excited when she smalls the fresh scent of a rabbit. It doesn't happen very often, which is good since she bays and barks for several minutes while trying to follow the scent. The usual place it happens is in Knoop Park during her daily walks. I was able to film the last part of such a performance recently when I was walking her.

Main Street Pine Bluff photos July 2020

Cohen's Fashion Shop Sign...

... and storefront, 504 Main Street.

View looking south from 400 block of Main. Facades of Simmons Bank building and former Hotel Pines are barely visible behind the tops of the Bradford Pear trees. The Streetscape project (see north views below) has removed these overgrown trees in the 300 and 200 blocks of Main, and will later remove these, among other good things it's doing for Main Street.

Looking south again, now in the 300 block.  Simmons Bank and Hotel Pines are more visible here.  The old Kress department store is on the right, with only its walls and support beams remaining.

Looking north now, from railroad tracks. Streetscape project in full view.  Four photos below are close-ups of buildings on the right in this photo (east side of Main).

Sign and stairway leading to African-American attorney William Howard's former office, plus a currently unused storefront.

Wouldn't wanna have to live in this living refuge (this is on the west, Kress Building, side of Main).

Collapsed ceiling in building just south of alley next to Barre building (below). 

Former department store of Abraham Barre.

Pop's Barbershop, with customer leaving looking at his cellphone at left. The Barre building is just out of view to the right.

Mural of north view from 3rd and Main in 1888. Located catty-cornered from Pop's.

Current north view from 300 block of Main.

Current north view from 4th and Main, with a pile of paving bricks that date to around the 1880s.

New Pine Bluff-Jefferson County library under construction, west side of 6th and Main.

Farm, summer 2019; Matthews returns from Alaska

 Cattails up close, my truck in distance, near US Highway 79B on Trulock Bros' farm.

Tractor with treads and disking equipment near rice field. Cornfield in far background.

Same road as in previous photo, now with corn up close on right.

David Matthews in Little Rock airport trying to figure out where his bags got off to after returning from visiting his 34-year-old son, daughter-in-law and their two kids in Alaska.  The wonders that DNA testing can reveal!