IMG_0713 c Family Affair by Groovyal - Taken @ Burnt Branch Cemetery in Cross Plains, Texas
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IMG_0713 c Family Affair by Groovyal - Taken @ Burnt Branch Cemetery in Cross Plains, Texas
One child grows up to be
Somebody that just loves to learn
And another child grows up to be
Somebody you'd just love to burn
Mom loves the both of them
You see, it's in the blood
Both kids are good to mom
Blood's thicker than the mud...
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A few years ago, my wine making neighbor who totally built his house and winery himself, up and put the place on the market and moved to Colorado to be near his family...
I had heard rumors that the new owner used to play for and was the musical director of the later version of Sly and The Family Stone, a BayArea band from The City who played at the original Woodstock festival in 1969...Interesting...Well, we got invited over last week for a band rehearsal and birthday party for Vet Stone, one of the original singers of SFS...Seems that half of the surviving members had put together an off-shoot band a few years ago and the others, including my neighbor are building their own version...
The vocalists including Vet & Rosie Stone...
R.I.P. Sylvester Stewart, aka Sly Stone...
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TV Star Sweepstakes: Vintage Magazine Contest Page - Family Affair (Golden Magazine) 1969
*Appeared In: The Golden Magazine, Vintage Magazine Issue Vol. 6 No. 10 Oct. 1969 (Golden Press)
Unknown artist, 2018, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA, relief
1951 Mercury Lead Sled
I found the information below on this car from Motor Trend magazine.
Rich Spanovich's light green '51 Merc custom was a father-and-son project that took several decades to complete.
Spanovich's 13-year-old son Rick was with him when he towed the Merc home to Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, from the used car lot where he'd bought it. You could still buy '51 Mercs from used car lots in 1973.
This car was bought to fulfill a dream to build a Merc in the style of the Barris brothers. Due to other car projects and other distractions, it was several decades before that would happen. In 2002, Rick—who had followed the lead of his father and built several customs of his own—turned his attention to the Merc. When he was done, the body had been modified with shortened rear quarters and lengthened doors—plus a hood grille shell and front fenders borrowed from a '50 Merc. Rich had planned for a DeSoto grille, but plans changed to a combo of '47 Olds grille pieces, hardware store rack teeth, and dummy spot housings. Side trim came from a '53 and '54 Merc. The taillights are from a 1951 Buick. Rick sprayed the PPG Rock Moss Green paint.
The stock chassis was retained, with drop spindles, de-arched springs, and lowering blocks used to put the Spanovich's custom 5 inches lower than stock. Mopar caps cover the 15-inch steel wheels, wrapped in whitewall Firestone/Coker rubber.
More of that light green paint shows up on the Chevy 350 small-block. The senior Spanovich assembled the engine, which is aspirated by a four-barrel carb crowned with a custom dual snorkel air cleaner. The TH350 transmission and a 2.41:1-geared Camaro rearend back up the small-block.
The interior is mild and modest. Upholsterer Margie Winters used two tons of Naugahyde to finish the stock bench seat—evergreen for the outsides and oyster for the rolls 'n' pleats inserts. Stewart Warner gauges were added to the '51 dash. Lokar provided the shifter. One modern amenity—a CD player—is installed covertly in the glovebox.
Lowrider Coalition
Mom, Dad, and I are at Auntie Willow and Uncle Demon's Wedding today. Dad is the photographer.
photo credit: Clementine Rosca
Sony CyberShot DSC-RX 100
Carl Zeiss Vario-Sonnar T* 1.8-4.9/10.4-37.1
