Presley plays Danny Fisher, a New Orleans teenager struggling to graduate from high school while working in a sleazy French Quarter club to support his family. He’s also characterized as a troubled youth with a dangerous temper and feelings of shame and resentment toward his meek, unemployed father (Dean Jagger). When Danny’s gift for singing provides him with a potential career break (and the requisite excuse for Elvis’s production numbers), his involvement with a ruthless gangster (Walter Matthau) and his sultry, alcoholic moll (Carolyn Jones) soon threatens both his future and his family. That story line, with Danny torn between a budding romance with a good waitress (Dolores Hart—-Continue down the page to find our what and where she went on to star as and in-—-and the bad moll, Ronnie (Jones), proves as effective as it is predictable, hardly surprising given its source in an early Harold Robbins bestseller.
https://www.quotes.net/movies/king_creole_6243
Out and about in the UK
Check out
‘Coventry Doom’
Explore over 700 Years of History – Ashridge House
https://www.ashridgehouse.org.uk/explore-ashridge-house/
Snowhill Manor in Gloucestershire
https://www.picturesofengland.com/England/Gloucestershire/Snowshill/Snowshill_Manor
Southampton, UK
and a detour to the Netherlands
Incredible Castles in the Netherlands You Can Stay In
Imagine being a pilgrim to the Temple of Time on the Via Borgia in Medieval Rome.
Phil Cousineau
The Art of Pilgrmage
being a pilgrim: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/12/13/via-francigena/
Temple of Time: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/medieval-world/romanesque-art/beginners-guide-romanesque/a/medieval-churches-sources-and-forms
Medieval Rome: https://www.tours-italy.com/discover-your-italy/rome-travel-guide/medieval-history
3 Tips on Coping with Uncertainty
Check out Hot Yoga Virtual classes
https://www.hotyogasanford.com/?
How to Tie-Dye T-Shirts—and the Rest of Your Closet
https://www.gq.com/story/how-to-tie-dye?
Hollywood Starlet To Cloistered Nun: 1960’s This was the Good Waitress with Elvis in King Creole
From Hollywood Starlet To Cloistered Nun: The Conversion Of Dolores Hart
Farringdon House
https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/sofka-zinovieff-faringdon-house
“Tall and willowy” writer Sofka Zinovieff inherited Faringdon House in Oxfordshire at the age of 25 (Mad Dogs and Englishmen by Martha Alexander—-Discover Britain June 2020)
from her eccentric, bisexual uncle, Robert ‘The Mad Boy’ Heber-Percy, partner of the owner of the house since 1918,
the 14th Lord Berners, Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson (1883 – 1950). He would don a pig’s head he when drove his Rolls Royce in order to scar the locals near his Oxfordshire Home https://www.experienceoxfordshire.org/
He also kept a pet giraffe and would dye the doves on his estate many vivid colours. His dogs roamed the house and gardens wearing strings of pearls.
Guest to the house included artist Salvador Dali https://www.biography.com/artist/salvador-dali
and writers Aldous Huxley
http://somaweb.org/w/huxbio.html
and Gertrude Stein https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/why-wont-the-met-tell-the-whole-truth-about-gertrude-stein
the house was recently placed on the rental market at a price of £12,000 per month ($15,400, €14,200 or درهم56,700 per month) through Knight Frank.
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MOMENTS OF ZEN
https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=219148772705981
American Prohibition Museum Trivia
https://www.instagram.com/americanprohibition/
https://spacecoastlaunches.com/blog/3-unexpected-ways-to-experience-a-rocket-launch/
The White Tower
http://www.englishmonarchs.co.uk/tower_london_7.html
…actually pale grey, of Caen stone, though it was originally whitewashed—Was completed by 1097. It was sited almost straddling the extremity of the Roman wall, traces of which can still be seen in the Tower’s grounds (notably at the Byward Tower, just south-east of the White Tower), and although later superficial modifications have somewhat lightened its aspect, the impression is still of formidable military strength. In form it is of the rare, very English (rather than French) type o castle known as a ‘hall-keep’ , and larger (107 x 118 ft in plan) than any in England except Colchester, roughly square, its floors are each divide into three compartments, and each of the four angle turrets has an ogee cap (later and much less severe in mood, it is these, plus the enlargement of the windows on all except the south front, that modify the aggressiveness of the tower’s original expression). It is, though, unmistakably a fortress, literally a keep and Londoners must have always felt it over their shoulders as a presence of external authority.
David Piper
London: Architecture Sculpture Painting
Caen stone: https://dorsetbuyildingstone.weebly.com/pierre-de-caen-caen-stone.html
whitewashed: https://morningchores.com/whitewashing/
1097: http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/timeline/normanbritain_timeline_noflash.shtml
The Roman Wall: https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/Londons-Roman-City-Wall/
Byward’s Tower:
https://www.wonders-of-the-world.net/Tower-of-London/Description/Byward-tower.php
White Tower
http://www.medart.pitt.edu/image/England/London/Tower/WhiteTower/london-white-tower.html
hall-keep: http://www.castles-of-britain.com/keeps.htm
Colchester https://colchester.cimuseums.org.uk/visit/colchester-castle/history/
ogee cap: https://www.wentworthstudio.com/architectural-terminology/
Mysterious Hand at the Tower of London
https://londonist.com/london/secret/seen-the-entombed-hand-at-the-tower-of-london-no-one-knows-what-it-is
More of our Key West Walking Tour
We continue on Wall Street to Tift Alley
Tift Ice House
Shell Warehouse
https://www.inspirock.com/united-states/key-west/the-shell-warehouse-a1273121353
This use to be where ice was stored after it was shipped in by steamer. until Key West finally started to make its own ice in 1890.
If you remember from the last Blog Tift was one of the Wrecker who made their money off salvaging wreck on the reef.
continue on to
Tift’s Warehouse
https://www.waterfrontplayhouse.org/
Now the Waterfront Playhouse
located at the entrance of Mallory Square on the right
This was where CMD Porter based his anti-pirate fleet in 1822,
and Lt Matthew C. Perry surveyed Key West Harbor.
This former warehouse was built around 1850 to store the wrecker’s salvage until it could be auctioned off. It is another of Tift’s buildings. It is now a theater.
Continue on to Mallory Square
Mallory Steamship Ticket Office
http://www.keywesthistoricmarkertour.org/marker/454
Hospitality House
Wandering Around the Hospitality House at Disney’s Old Key West Resort
The building is Gray Greek Revival and was a ticket office of
The Southern Express Company and later the ticket and freight office for the Mallory Steamship Line and in 1961 it became the Old Island Restoration a preservation organization. It is now part of Disney’s Resort here
Come back Tues to continue on thru Key West
Classic aloha – Elvis Presley in Blue Hawaii
The Best Hawaiian Shirts In Movie And TV
https://us.zavvi.com/blog/features/the-best-hawaiian-shirts-in-film-and-tv/
Hawaiian shirts in film and TV
https://www.theguardian.com/media/gallery/2009/jan/06/hawaiian-shirts-in-film-and-tv
Why Hawaiian shirts — or Aloha shirts — have a strong Chinese link and a colourful past
Why Hawaiian shirts — or Aloha shirts — have a strong Chinese link and a colourful past
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/world/why-hawaiian-shirts-or-aloha-shirts-have-strong-chinese-link-and-colourful-past
As you all know I was planning a trip to England—scheduled to leave on 4/30 arriving on 5/1 . The tickets are in limbo with a hope that we can go in Sept this year or next year….I have cancelled all my hotels—5 of them and the day tour trips—luckily I had not made train reservations yet.
One of the places we were going to go was Tintagel in Cornwall
and here’s why:
We were staying at
King Arthur Arms Inn
https://www.kingarthursarms.co.uk/
a family run inn with a pub, good food and a 4 star B&B
Includes full English breakfast, free Wi-Fi, Free parking and Free loyalty card for extra discounts.
and so I could keep you appraised of my travels.
And why Tintagel?
Tintagel Castle
Once at the end of a neck of land that was the sight of dwellers back to ancient times the neck to the place was destroyed by the ocean during a storm several hundred years ago. For years they have been reaching the ruins here (dating from Normans but digs have found so much more) with a couple of very steep stairs and a bridge at the bottom, since my last visit there they have put a bridge across where the ridge of land use to stand. And legend says that Arthur, the Once and Future King was born here.
Lots of pictures and related sites to explore: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/tintagel-castle/history-and-legend/
King Arthur’s Great Halls
Once a private home it has been turned into a —should I say Shrine—no it is more living than that with it’s 72 stained glass window portraying the people an places of the legend of Arthur and his Round Table.
Some pictures: https://www.inspirock.com/united-kingdom/tintagel/king-arthurs-great-halls-a2122350615
Easy Coast Path Access
a walk along the ocean always wonderfu;
Great Pictures: https://www.visitcornwall.com/things-to-do/walking/south-west-coast-path
St. Materiana Church
on a hill above the village and built by the Normans in 1080 it is still in use as a church
History and Pictures:
https://www.britainexpress.com/counties/cornwall/churches/tintagel.htm
The Old Post Office
Really a rare, late 14th c and a rare adventure of a medieval ball-house that was used for many things since including a post office.
H&P:
https://www.britainexpress.com/attractions.htm?attraction=1900
Celebrate Earth day–50th Anniversary on line
https://www.teamsierra.org/everycorner?
Shop from Home
https://www.cottagegiftshopinlongwoodfla.com/
GO ON SAFARI WITH YOUR KIDS!
check out Pergamon
Museums, Libraries, and Galleries Are Offering Free, Printable Coloring Sheets
https://www.travelandleisure.com/attractions/museums-galleries/museum-coloring-pages-free-download
And Finally
Steve’s Weird House –
Seattle’s Strangest Home & Private Museum!
