On this day in 1922, the Hollywood Bowl opens with a performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. The idea for the venue came after an Easter Sunrise service on the property – then known as the Daisy Dell – when the organizer, Hugo Kirchoffer, commented that the area had naturally good acoustics, he suggested the stage be transformed into a “huge bowl”. Since that time, a long, diverse list of performers, including The Beatles, Luciano Pavarotti and Judy Garland, Jimi Henrix, The Who, Frank Sintra and countless legends have appeared on stage at the Hollywood Bowl. The venue has become a Los Angeles landmark! Photo taken July 11, 1922.

(via Vintage Los Angeles and Hollywood Photographs)

Remember the episode when Greg pulled the shower curtain across the backyard and shined the UFO stencil on it with a flashlight and blew into a whistle and then Peter and Bobby thought it was a real UFO? Try not to hurt yourself working out those angles here.

Spoken like a true Aquarian. Nothing nauseates us more than institutionalized partisan thinking.

(Source: Internet)

Should we laugh or cry? Via The Onion:

Before I clean ’em up and start pouring on the miles, check out my new pair of WW2-era military-issued combat boots. Unworn, they were manufactured in 1942 by Edwin Clapp & Son, Inc. Dark brown, nearly black, very heavy leather, six eyelets, six hooks. Picked ’em up during an event at Battery Osgood, Fort MacArthur, San Pedro CA, U.S.A., the setting for Under Angels.

The first thing that crossed my mind when they caught my eye: Those things better not be size twelve, or I’ll have to buy ’em.

It’s no surprise they were. Size twelve.

Turning seventy years old this October, these boots were meant to find me. Spooky stuff. The size , the location (Battery Osgood; our backyard), everything. And they’re exactly what Pete Durante would’ve been wearing in the Under Angels story.

Serendipity happens.

Imprinted inside:

EDWIN CLAPP & SON, INC.
12 C 6106
BOSTON OCT. 13 W155
DEPOT 1942 QM14096

Imprint on leather sole:

U.S.A.
No349

12
C
PAR

Imprint on leather heel:

U.S.A.
No35

An HD video compilation of all 135 space shuttle launches, including the last one in July. Crank up your speakers.

(Created by McLean Fahnestock.)