"HIghway 61" Revisited Anniversary

"Once upon a time you dressed so fine/ You threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you?" Bob Dylan's landmark sixth album, "Highway 61 Revisited," was released sixty years ago, August 30, 1965. U.S. 61 is the highway from his hometown of Duluth down to "blues" cities like St. Louis, Memphis, and New Orleans. Wikipedia: "Critics have focused on the innovative way Dylan combined driving, blues-based music with the subtlety of poetry to create songs that captured the political and cultural climate of contemporary America." The opening of the final song, "Desolation Row", refers to a lynching that happened in Duluth in 1920. https://www.chimesfreedom.com/2016/06/14/theyre-selling-postcards-of-the-hanging-the-real-lynching-in-dylans-desolation-row/

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A Remembered Antique Mall

An old postcard for The Elms Motel in Greenville, IL, just off US 40 on the Dudleyville Rd. The place is gone now. But the motel building was an antique mall in the '80s and '90s. The inside walls between the rooms had been removed. Beth and my parents and I liked to shop there. We have a little 1904 World's Fair metal cup that we purchased there.

Landscape: Gauguin

 Paul Gauguin, "Tree lined road, Rouen" (1885)  

 

(1885)

Landscape: Monet

Claude Monet, "Street in Sainte-Adresse" (1867). The Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts.  

Landscapes: Maurice Cullen

Maurice Cullen, "Summer St Eustache" 1906. From: https://www.klinkhoff.ca/fr/viewing-room/57/works/artworks-5436-maurice-cullen-summer-st-eustache-1906/

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Landscapes: J. M. W. Turner

J. M. W. Turner, Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844). 

Here's a good article about it: https://www.datocms-assets.com/128928/1753723589-parashah-and-politics-47-shoftim-updated-1.pdf

Wizard of Oz anniversary

Although "The Wizard of Oz" appeared in a few theaters during August 1939, the movie was released nationwide on August 25, 1939. (In an obviously unrelated event, the war in Europe began just a week later.) Costing $2.7 million, the movie was MGM's most expensive production at the time. The New Yorker critic didn't like it, calling the film a "stinkeroo" So much for critics.  It has become the most-watched movie in history, especially since it began to be aired on TV, beginning in 1956.

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