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04/20/2026

Friday: French Quarter Festival NOLA

Lawrence Cotton 99th birthday playing with the preservation hall jazz band

04/09/2026

Wednesday, April 8 2026 7pm Bourbon St., New Orleans Street

04/06/2026

04/03/2026

April 7 2024 one day before total eclipse of the sun

03/30/2026

just put the mason bees out into the aha urban Farm Garden

03/29/2026

Done with our no Kings day protest March we just stuck to West Seattle saw a lot of friends for hours of protesting at the Alaska Junction

02/18/2026

Moss HAir!! -Spotted in the Tibbetts church cloistered Garden

01/31/2026

Sunset on 2025

01/15/2026

People basically do want to be good and everybody thinks they’re the good guy. There’s a lot of problems in this world right now. it would appear more than there’s been a long time,
-but we’ve had troubles before we fought fascist in World War II (mostly outside the USA at that time )
A time of peace followed.
I came across this picture this week - reminds me of simpler times. I I believe MOST  people truly strive toward peace.
This is a picture I took of some school kids when I did a cherry blossom tour of Japan nearly 34 years ago. My second visit to Japan in the spring of 1992. “Pea-su!”

12/27/2025

Ann Nordling 1930s fear mongering dangers of women playing jazz. Crazy crazy extreme fear based legislation never made it out of committee of course.

In the 1920s and early 1930s Americans flouted traditions. Women known as Flappers drove automobiles, wore short skirts, and smoked and drank in public. Gangsters ran speakeasies defying prohibition laws and leading to a spike in crime. Young people played and danced to strange music. On this day in Washington (Dec. 22, 1933) a state legislator blamed the social disorder on “jazz intoxication.”

State Representative William A. Allen, who lived near Alki Beach, introduced a bill claiming “people are becoming dangerously demented, confused and distracted or bewildered by jazz music.” He urged Washington Governor Clarence Martin to “bring about immediate cessation” of playing jazz in public. Violators faced heavy penalties. “All persons convicted of being jazzily intoxicated shall go before the Superior Court and be sent to an insane asylum,” Allen threatened.
His bill calling for a commission to study the deleterious effects of jazz on society never made it out of committee. Jazz intoxication has spread unchecked in America ever since.

Post written courtesy of David J Jepsen - Historian

Image from WSHS collection. Four women, members of a jazz band, holding different types of saxophones, pose outdoors in Puyallup, WA. Photographic print. Creator Marvin D. Boland Creation Date Sep. 23, 1922 Catalog ID: 1957.64.B6663