Is it a ’60? And is it a Chevy???
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The Santa Fe RR at the South Rim…1966
The Santa Fe station at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon in 1966. Regular runs were still being made from Williams to the South Rim.
From the James O Stiles, Sr Collection
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Herb Ringer… ‘On the Road in a Lincoln Zephyr. 1943′
Herb returning to Reno with his parents, Joseph & Sadie after a weekend in Hope Valley.
Camping at Hope Valley with friends.
Fast-moving freight.
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Poking Through the Ruins #3 Moab: 1922 & 2005
The Intersection of Main & Center Streets in Moab. 1922 & 2005
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Moab Affordable Housing? A Zephyr Solution— ‘McBonderman House’…15,000 square feet for the homeless, & acres and acres of bottom land for the biggest community veggie garden in the Four Corners!
From our archives: July 2009
For the Homeless in Moab, and those trying to find solutions for the homeless, consider this idea…
McBonderman House
There was a time, in the very recent past, when Moab, Utah welcomed and easily accommodated a diverse population. Its citizens represented the entire spectrum of American Life. The wealthy had their bigger homes, the vast middle class
lived more modestly, but the lower income working class Moabites could find affordable housing as well. Whether to buy or rent, it was an easy task to make Moab home.
It’s what’s called a “community.”
Of course, to many, all that is gone. A greed-driven economy that extends far beyond the city limits created a new Moab, while its weak, impotent politicians, and a mostly listless apathetic public practically slept through the transformation. Now, barring a long-term collapse of the world economy that drives prices back down (What was Cactus Ed’s mantra? “Our only hope is catastrophe!”), the way Moab is now is the way it is likely to stay.
Except more so.
But when it come to “affordable housing,” perhaps the solution is right under your noses. What is affordable housing after all? A roof over your head. A kitchen to open a can of beans. A bathroom with a toilet that flushes (if you want REAL luxury). What more do you need? For the people who only ask for these simple necessities, perhaps a new Moab resident can offer some aid and comfort.
David Bonderman! Step forward and lend a hand,
Mr. Bonderman, is “a prominent venture capitalist and major financier for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance.” He invests all over the world. He owns power plants in Texas and goes after the coal in Malaysia. He owns an airline in the United Kingdom that claims “Climate Change is Bullshit.” He is also Moab’s wealthiest part-time resident and the owner of Moab’s biggest home. At about 15,000 square feet (not counting out buildings), calling his new digs a “McMansion” doesn’t do it justice. It’s about the size of an airport terminal in a medium sized city.
And it’s a fair bet that Mr. Bonderman will spend very little of his time there. Some close to the billionaire have indicated he has yet to spend a single night at his Moab Palace. Fortune magazine noted a few years back that he spends most of his waking life in his Gulfstream jet, racing around the globe, from deal to deal. And then he also has that mansion in Aspen…
So…why waste all that space?
A lot of Moabites in need of affordable housing could be accommodated at Bonderman’s palace. He’s not there…what the hell does Dave care? I’m sure he has some caretakers in residence who can keep an eye on the place and make sure everyone is picking up after themselves.
This could be the classiest flop house of all time.
And all that land that surrounds his castle? Let’s open that up to the public too. Mr. Bonderman can parcel out all that fertile bottomland to anyone in Moab who wants to grow a garden but hasn’t the space to do it. Bonderman could be known as the man who saw suffering and tried to stop it. Who reached out to the poor and the needy. The man who did the right thing.
The Grand Canyon Trust has already called him “one of the great conservationists in America today.” Now he has the chance to be one of America’s great humanitarians as well.
McBonderman House.. The Bonderman People’s Farm…it’s an idea whose time has come.
—Stiles
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Poking Through the Ruins #2…… FDR’s ‘Four Freedoms Speech, January 6, 1941, Seventy-one years ago
Franklin D. Roosevelt “Four Freedoms” Speech – January 6, 1941
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation. That kind of world is the very antithesis of the so-called new order of tyranny which the dictators seek to create with the crash of a bomb.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt,
excerpted from the State of the Union Address to the Congress, January 6, 1941
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Poking Through the Ruins…#1
This is the first installment in an open ended series—”Poking Through the Ruins…The Way it Was.” It’s intended to be a collection of images, essays, sound and video clips, historical documents, interviews and whatever else strikes our interest, and yours.
We welcome your comments and observations…JS
Death Valley, 1979.
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(From MSNBC) Feds Propose Allowing Wind Farm Developer to Kill Golden Eagles
Feds propose allowing wind farm developer to kill golden eagles
“The federal government is proposing to grant a first-of-its-kind permit that would allow the developer of a central Oregon wind-power project to legally kill golden eagles, a regulatory move being closely watched by conservationists.
“The Interior Department’s Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday released a draft environmental assessment that would allow West Butte Wind Power LLC to kill as many as three protected golden eagles over five years if the company fulfills its conservation commitments.”
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“WHY DO LIBERALS KEEP SANITIZING THE OBAMA STORY?” (from The Atlantic)
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WHY DO LIBERALS KEEP SANITIZING OBAMA?
An excerpt from The Atlantic:
“Telling the story of Obama’s first term without including any of it is a shocking failure of liberalism. It’s akin to conservatism’s unforgivable myopia and apologia during the Bush Administration. Are liberals really more discontented with Obama’s failure to reverse the Bush tax cuts than the citizen death warrants he is signing? Is his ham-handed handling of the debt-ceiling really more worthy of mention than the illegal war he waged? Is his willingness to sign deficit reduction that cuts entitlement spending more objectionable than the fact that he outsourced drone strikes to a CIA that often didn’t even know the names of the people it was killing?
“These are the priorities of a perverted liberalism.
“Chait’s essay suggests an ideological movement that finds the ACLU and Center for Constitutional Rights indispensable, but only when a Republican is in the White House. One that objects to radically expanded executive power, except when the president seems progressive.
“I want to be reassured that liberalism is better than that.”
Conor Friedersdorf – Conor Friedersdorf is a staff writer at The Atlantic, where he focuses on politics and national affairs. He lives in Venice, California, and is the founding editor of The Best of Journalism, a newsletter devoted to exceptional nonfiction.
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