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sgt1372

#Jazz #Blues #LPs #Vinyl

I don't frequent #RecordStores very often anymore but I was in #Martinez today & happened to notice a small record store there.

I browsed thru their 3 small bins of jazz LPs & found the 1984 #MosaicRecords release of the #PortOfHarlemJazzmen which includes the 1st recordings ever produced & released on an album by (the to be named) #BlueNote records founded by Alfred Lion in 1939.

The sound quality on the album isn't great because it's mastered from the acetates used to cut the original 78's during 2 sessions in 1939. If you're into listening to "vintage" jazz music, that's par for the course but the poor sound quality does not detract from listening to #SidneyBechet play a soulful version of #Summertime on the B-side of the LP.

I could have bought a copy off of #Discogs but part of the fun of collecting LPs is going #BinDiving & I consider this a great #LP find!

However, I am now thinking about buying the a Japanese re-issue of the original album for comparison.

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Dr. Professor Fred Rococo

Arguello, Noe, Vallejo, Martinez, Peralta; if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you know these names. In 1892, they were the surnames of well-known women, descended from the Spanish settlers of California. Their families left their legacy as place names. Please enjoy this old newspaper article, and do check the ink portraits of the women mentioned, in the linked original.

fastestslowguy.blogspot.com/20

Our First Families - Daughters of Spain 18 Dec 1892, Sun The San Francisco Examiner (San Francisco, California) Newspapers.com
#californio#California#history
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Scout

I found a cool thing.

This map of #ContraCostaCounty, CA is from 1938!

It appears the Sacramento North Railroad line is where #BART was eventually constructed. And the Southern Pacific Railroad line is now the Iron Horse Trail.

#EastBay
#Orinda #Moraga #Lafayette #WalnutCreek #Concord #Pacheco #Martinez #Alamo #Danville

davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/d

www.davidrumsey.comThomas Bros Walnut Creek, Concord, Lafayette, Orinda, Danville, Alamo, Moraga, Pacheco, and Adjacent Areas, California.Title is from the cover. There is no title page. Date is estimated. 1st "road" atlas of California. According to Tom Lennon of Thomas Brothers Map Co. in Los Angeles, this atlas is rare; they have five copies of it in their L.A. office, and he has never seen any other copies. He thinks the original issue was very small. Bancroft has no copies, but does have a copy of Thomas Bros. Atlas of Western Cities and Towns (no date but library note says acquired in 1937) which duplicates some of this atlas's material (smaller S.F. map, larger color Pasadena map) and adds more on cities in adjoining western states. Lennon said this atlas was "a put together thing by George Thomas." He also said there was an Atlas of the San Francisco Bay Area by the company, produced for the World's Fair of 1936. Maps are printed with and without color. Bound with three illustrated promotional pamphlets advertising various scenic areas of California.
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Chuck Darwin

A little past noon Wednesday, the U.S. Senate confirmed #Angela #Martinez to be a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona on a 66-28 vote.

⭐️Martinez is the 200th of President Biden’s judicial nominees to be confirmed by the Senate,
⭐️and it is a milestone that the administration and Senate Democratic leadership is
— and should be
— celebrating.

Earlier Wednesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee also held a committee hearingon five other district court nominees
— seeking to increase those Biden appointee numbers further.

(234 judicial nominees were confirmed during the Trump administration .)

lawdork.com/p/two-hundred-judg

Law Dork · Two hundred judges, more nominees moving, and a shadow docket billBy Chris Geidner
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