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Tuesday, March 29, 2011
creepy crawly
www.dailynews.com/news/ci_13019902
Really good article recommended by Sbuch. The beginning is the same old same old but if you read on, there is a very interesting stories told by Box Canyon residents of coming home and finding they had been "creepy crawled".
record image borrowed from SonicYouth.com
Gypsy is hot
posted by Panamint Patty
Awesome poem by political activist and author John Ross who died last January. It's about Gypsy:
Awesome poem by political activist and author John Ross who died last January. It's about Gypsy:
Scroll down and read the one called "Wanted." Panamint Patty is straight, but this poem gets her kinda hot, anyways.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Panamint Patty's Death Valley Adventures, Part II
Lots gets written about the Goler Wash but not much about the eastern approach from Death Valley. On Panamint Patty's recent adventure, she and Mr. Patty decided to see some of the places mentioned in Bob Murphy's book, Desert Shadows. Below is a snapshot of Murphy's map. You can see the little town of Trona at bottom left. Just southeast of there are the Trona Pinnacles, which we discussed recently in our roast of Bill Nelson. The photo above should be familiar to you from his footage of his wife and Cappy strolling casually among the tufas:
Here's a look from West Road in Death Valley towards the southwest. Beyond this range is China Lake Naval Air Weapons Station (home to some of the most extraordinary petroglyphs in the world: Google "Little Petroglyph Canyon" for more details but don't use Wikipedia or Evil Liz might find out. She's evil that way). Barker Ranch is maybe 40 miles from this point to the right of Owlshead mountain, visible at the very far right.
Below: a panoramic view of Butte Valley toward Anvil Spring and Mengel Pass. The large, black butte in the foreground is Striped Butte. It looks stripier in the summer when it's not sporting a fuzzy beard. If you Google-Earth the area, you can totally make out Striped Butte because it's a darkly shaped trapezoid in a sea of beige. You can also make out this trail diagonally on its right.
Photo taken towards where we want to go, from the Willow Spring road. Can you spot a wee little cairn up there in the distance?
Dune buggies found at the Willow Springs area in October, 1969. According to Bob Murphy in Desert Shadows, "In this vehicle were found a pair of bolt cutters and a spotting scope. They would later learn the bolt cutters had been used to cut telephone wires at the Sharon Tate house. The spotting scope was probably the one Charlie took from Dennis Wilson's house." Damn. Panamint Patty wonders who plundered those little goodies from an evidence locker?
The Anvil Springs area where Stephanie Schram and Kitty Lutesinger surrendered to CHP officers who were in the area preparing to move the stolen dune buggies. Murphy writes: "As they approached Anvil Springs just after dark (on October 10), Hainey and Officer Ben Anderson observed two hippies running up the road toward them. Both said that they were fleeing from Charlie, the leader of The Family, and that they were afraid for their lives. They had left...the day before and...were relieved to learn that Clem and Randy had been arrested."
Turning the very last corner out of Butte Valley; Mengel Pass is visible. Carl Mengel is buried under that cairn along with his prosthetic leg. Carl died in the 40's, but is responsible for giving Sourdough Springs (on the Goler Wash side of the pass) its name because fried liver and sourdough pancakes were his favorite breakfast.
Liz, Grump, et. al. were talking earlier this week about the blue and white bus. The route detailed above is said to be the route that was used to get the bus to Barker Ranch. In the photo below, the bus is sitting just outside the fence line at the northwestern corner of the ranch:
Which, coincidentally, is where the crapper now sits, right about where the driver's seat used to be (note tall and short post in each photo to orient yourself):
The above photo was taken very near the entrance to the Barker Garbage dump and Helter Skelter truck, in a little draw just to the north, right where Grump says the bus sat until the early 1980's. Makes sense to Panamint Patty. Look at the undercarriage on the darned thing...wow! It sure wasn't going to go much further in one piece!
The 59' Ford got me to thinking about Jonathan Davis
lead singer of the band Korn and, owner of Ted Bundy's V.W.
Korn performed on the Ozzfest tour a few times.
I used to attend every year. As a side attraction one year Davis brought a tractor trailer full of his true crime / musician memorabilia. I paid the $5 to walk thru the whole thing.
He has a very huge collection of stuff.
Old surgery tools, barbaric implements of torture,
John Gacy's artwork as well as his Pogo the clown costume.
I remember he had a number of Kurt Cobain's guitars
and quite a bit of other Kurt stuff as well. Well worth the $5.00.
I have included a link to an article about Davis and his "murderabilia" collection. The article mentions how he
managed to purchase Bundy's car.
Which makes me think the owner of the 59' Ford may have purchased the Manson/Swartz car the same way.
http://www.dogmaticblog.com/tag/ted-bundy/
Ted Bundy's V.W. on display.
Jonathan Davis owner of the Bundy V.W. murder bug.
lead singer of the band Korn and, owner of Ted Bundy's V.W.
Korn performed on the Ozzfest tour a few times.
I used to attend every year. As a side attraction one year Davis brought a tractor trailer full of his true crime / musician memorabilia. I paid the $5 to walk thru the whole thing.
He has a very huge collection of stuff.
Old surgery tools, barbaric implements of torture,
John Gacy's artwork as well as his Pogo the clown costume.
I remember he had a number of Kurt Cobain's guitars
and quite a bit of other Kurt stuff as well. Well worth the $5.00.
I have included a link to an article about Davis and his "murderabilia" collection. The article mentions how he
managed to purchase Bundy's car.
Which makes me think the owner of the 59' Ford may have purchased the Manson/Swartz car the same way.
http://www.dogmaticblog.com/tag/ted-bundy/
Ted Bundy's V.W. on display.
Jonathan Davis owner of the Bundy V.W. murder bug.
Thursday, March 24, 2011
59' Ford
From the 2010 "Behind- The- Scenes - The L.A.P.D
Homicide Experience" held at The Palms Casino in N.V.
The 1959 Ford the Family used as their murder mode of transportation. What I would like to know is-
where the hell has this car been since 1969?
Who had it, how did they acquire it and
where do they keep it the rest of the year?
Did Juan Swartz make any money off the sale?
And......
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Another thing I sometimes wonder is- where is the Helter Skelter cabinet door taken from Juan Flynn's trailer? Does it belong to the same person who now owns the 59' Ford? |
read something
Good article about Wavy Gravy t/n Hugh Romney
founder of The Hog Farm commune.
It tells of Charlie showing up in the black bus at the commune looking for Shirley Lake, Dianne's mother.
Charlie as usual came with a pack of girls and
some bad vibes. The Hog Farmers managed to run
Charlie & Co. off by performing some kind of an
"OM Circle". On the way out they scooped up
Dianne Lake.
Dianne Lake.
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I am glad to see he invested in a whole set of teeth,
even if they are rainbow |
Clem performing with Bob Weir and Steve Miller
Posted by Matt Click the link to see pics of Steve "Clem" Grogan performing in 2001 with Bob Weir and Steve Miller: http://ratdog.org/photos/2001-02-13s
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