A Walking Tour of Music Landmarks in New York City
Can’t Give It Away On Seventh Avenue: The Rolling Stones and New York City
When the Rolling Stones first landed at JFK Airport in June 1964, they hadn’t yet had a hit record in America, and no one even noticed their arrival. By the end of the 60s, they were mobbed wherever they went in New York City, packed audiences in at Madison Square Garden, and were the toast of the town on the celebrity scene. Fifty years later, the impact that Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and the rest of the band left on the Big Apple remains indelible. Christopher McKittrick explores the history of the Rolling Stones through the prism of New York, charting the parallel paths of the world’s most famous band and America’s most famous city.
A Tour Of New York’s Music Landmarks
Welcome back to Kissimmee to finish our Day Trip from our last week’s blog– with a monument and a park to view.
Hi and welcome back to Kissimmee, Florida
Let’s start with that Monument:
This monument was the brain storm of Charles Bressler-Pettis (1889 – 1954) who is said to have added the Pettis as part of a deal to inherit the money of his uncle Alphanso Pettis. Rumor has it that that same uncle also paid for his medical training —maybe to take care of the uncle–or looking for something to do while waiting for the uncle’s departure, as he had become the old man’s personal physician long before he finally departed this mortal realm at age 99 years. He also got married and spent several years touring Europe during this time before his uncle passed on.
After his uncle’s death he and his wife spent some time with her father in Florida and eventually moved here.
It was also during this time he became interested in rock collecting reportedly through a club he belonged to and got the idea to collect rocks from all the states—this got off to a slow start, but with the events of Pearl Harbor he had an even better inspiration for the monument and was getting rocks from governors, mayors from all over the country—including President Roosevelt and 507 bags of cement from local businessmen.
By the time of its completion and dedcation in 1943 it contained 1,500 stones and other objects and was labeled the World’s Most Unique Monuement.
It is 50′ high, an irregular quadrilateral step pyramid. Topped by a concrete earth, a bald eagle and an American flag.
Estimated weight 50 tons–not counting the 3.5 tons of embeded steel reinforcement beams.
All four sides are faced with multi-colored concrete panels holding an estimated 1,500 rocks embeded in the concrete.
Around the monument you will see donations of rocks or other items from the 2 states that weren’t around when it was originally built: Alaska and Hawaii–as well as Disney, 21 forgien countries—not to mention the corporations.
And there’s This: According to local lore, visitors who showed up while the Monument was being built had a chance to have their donations included, with their names — such as Henry and Harriet Gabel from New York, Rose and Fred Rapp from Indiana — etched into the Monument’s wet cement. The Weddles from Illinois made several contributions, including “Human Skull” and “Human Shoe.”
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Rumors are that when Bressten-Pettis passed away in 1954 part of his remains were placed in his birth place in Missouri and the rest are resting inside the monument.
CAPONE’S DINNER & SHOW
Maybe to top off your Kissimmee Day—-or your Rodeo day trip in June?
TRAILS & BIKE PATHS
And the Monument is only part of
Lakefront Park
Grassy waterfront park with walking paths, a fishing pier, picnic pavilions, and a shaded playground.
This public park is huge and you should figure out where you want to explore or park in advance like fishing & boating on the right end and playgrounds on the left end.
Kissimmee Lakefront Park at Sunset – VisitDavenportFlorida.com
ABOUT LAKE TOHOPEKALIGA
201 Lakeview Drive, Kissimmee, FL 34741
The ground was broken here on the site of the memorial on April 9, 1994, the 52nd anniversary of the fall of Bataan. It was sculpted by artist Sandra M. Storm, the memorial was completed and dedicated on May 20, 1995
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Since its completion, the Bataan-Corregidor Memorial has become the location of annual reunions of veterans who meet at the monument to honor and remember their sacrifice during World War II. Furthermore, as of April 9, 2003 the Bataan-Corregidor Memorial has become the centerpiece of the annual Filipino-American friendship day.
Bataan Death March: Japan’s WWII massacre
From there we walked out of the park
We hope you enoy your Day Trip as much as us
Where to Find 8 Wonderful Walks in Paris
Graphique De La Rue: The Signs of Paris
Author: Louise Fili.
$14.98
When viewed as works of art, signs can tell us quite a lot about the culture that created them. Reflecting on four decades of engagement with European style, designer Louise Fili presents these collections, each featuring more than 200 of her page-filling color photographs of eclectic, sometimes extravagant signs.
For anyone who enjoys walking, the City of Light offers countless examples of inventive restaurant, shop, hotel, street, and advertising signs. Classic neon café signs are juxtaposed with the dramatic facades of the Moulin Rouge and the Folies Bergère, while colorful mosaics cheerfully announce hotels, department stores, fishmongers, even public toilets. Hector Guimard’s legendary entrances to the Paris Métro stations are matched with a large metal snail atop an escargot establishment, and elsewhere, oversized hanging shears indicate a knife and scissors maker.
Colonial Revival
Blt 1894
500 Oak Ave
Sanford, FL 32771
It was donated to the county by the widow of the orginal owner and was a hospital from 1920 – 1955.
The Higgins House Bed and Breakfast
420 Oak Ave
Sanford, Fl 32771
Higgins House is a Victorian Bed & Breakfast in Historic Sanford, FL with 19th Century Queen Ann ambiance, just blocks from Downtown Shopping & Nightlife.
Rejuvenate your spirit at
JACK LONDON STATE HISTORIC PARK
Always a heavy drinker, Jack probably died of physical ailments related to alcoholism, but some scholars believe he commited suicide. In any event, after his death at 40, he was buried on th grounds of his estate–which is now the Jack London State Historical Park in Glen Ellen, California.
Where Are They Buried?
How Did They Die?
Tod Benoit
GET A FEEL FOR JACK LONDON’S VIBE
St Davids Walk: City Centre【4K】
St. David’s
Population 1,669
Smallest of Britain’s 69 cities
Legend says that St. David, the patron saint of Wales spent a bit of time on a cliftop near here. David, a missionary, spent his time preforming miracles, eventualy being named the Archbishop of Wales and going on to find a multitude of monasteries all across England and yeah Wales too.
Places: St Davids Cathedral
St David’s Cathedral
Complete with a medieval shrine to St. David
dating to the 12 c . It was restored in 2012. Note the tower gatehouse, last of the14c walls of the city.
ST DAVIDS BISHOP’S PALACE, WALES | Walking Tour | Pinned on Places
St. Davids Bishop Palace
Across the Alun RIver from St. Davds is this palace that was rebuilt in the 14th c of purple stones. which is now ruins.
Rhygyfarch: poetry and protest in medieval Wales
HUNT THE CORGI TRAIL
ORIEL Y PARC GALLERY AND VISITOR CENTRE
National Park Visitor Center and exhibition space. Showing exhibitions for the National Museum of Wales Collection.
St. Non’s Chapel and Well
St Non’s Chapel
Birthplace of St. David’s. Standing stones and a centre offering Yoga retreats as well as a holy well.
You can walk the coast along St. David’s pensula (Pembrokeshire Coast Path).
CARREG COETAN ARTHUR, NEWPORT PEMBROKESHIRE: Small cromlech/dolmen situated in the town of Newport.
Including: Carreg Coetan Arthur Burial Chamber
A Neolithic tomb with links to Arthurian myth
THE BISHOPS, ST DAVIDS
on Cross square with a beer Garden overlooking the cathedral and live music, good food and a log fire at night
Bedlam! Madness on the Streets of London (a Tour)
“Panopticon: design devised by the philospher and social reformer J. Bonthan. The “Panopticon” or all seeing eye was intended for ‘any sort of establishment where persons of any description are to be kept under inspection” and ensured that all patients, or prisoners, remained perpetually under surveillance. The cells were constructed in a way that there could be no place to hide.
Bedlam: London & It’s Mad
Catherine Arnold
The Madness of Bedlam
More Kissimmee: These pictures are of art work and other things we passed along the way on our return to Broadway and the train station.
An alligator formed of a wire frame and stones within
Don’t know
and of course stores
The Invisible Emperor: Napoleon on Elba From Exile to Escape
Author: Mark Braude.
Having overseen an empire spanning half of Europe and governed the lives of some 80 million people, a defeated Napoleon Bonaparte was exiled to Elba, less than 100 square miles of territory. But in less than a year, Napoleon charmed his captors and escaped the island with just of over a thousand supporters in tow, landed near Antibes, marched to Paris, and retook the Tuileries Palace—all without firing a shot. Not long after, thousands of people would die fighting for and against him at Waterloo. With novelistic relish, Mark Braude dramatizes this strange exile and improbable escape in detail, offering sharp new insights into a largely overlooked moment.
Traces of Napoleon on Elba Island
Ok as the sun sinks down on the horizon I’ll say good night—next week am gonna do another day trip that you might enjoy if you live or are visiting Florida—keep an eye out for it.
Have a great Holiday.
But don’t forget who and what this holiday honors:
The brave die never, though they sleep in the dust, their courage nerves a thousand living men. — Minot J. Savage
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