Perspective

On Friday night I saw the rainbow arch over the Cahuenga Pass in Hollywood. 

It passed right over Jesus and went straight to Capitol Records.

A Picture Book Soon to be Published

My Grandfather in 1929 as he crossed the Sahara. The book is accompanied by excerpts from his letters home as he journeyed from Algeria through the Congo. He was 26 years old.  
click here to view book

A Visit to Huntington Beach

View from Griffith Observatory

April 12, 2011.  50 years ago Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarian orbited the earth. A celebration called "Yuri's Night" took place at the Observatory. 

His quote:

"Orbiting Earth in the spaceship, I saw how beautiful our planet is. People, let us preserve and increase this beauty, not destroy it!"

A Picture of My Grandmother

Polly Wright Young was a school teacher in Baltimore. This photograph was taken by Jack Engeman, probably taken in the late 1950's. I scanned it from a contact sheet I found after her death 7 years ago.  
From a publicity statement about a show of his work: "The landmark Brown v. the Board of Education, Topeka decision by the United States Supreme Court on May 17, 1954 that declared unconstitutional racial segregation in public education propelled dramatic and historic changes in the Baltimore City schools. Jack Engeman, who had been photographing in the schools for years, was a witness to the changes, and his photographs reveal much about the decision’s impact."

She was born on August 11, 1911.  She is buried in Greenmount Cemetery next to her husband Louis T. Sandlass.

Pershing Square, Labor Union Rally

Click here to see slide show on youtube.

New Year, New Moon in Chinatown

Eggheads