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June 21, 1942: the Japanese submarine I-25 fired seventeen 5.5-inch projectiles at Fort Stevens on the coast of Oregon. Because of incorrect charts, the Japanese thought they were attacking a U.S. sub base. The attack left a few craters but the only damage was to a baseball backstop.


This minor Bombardment of Fort Stevens contributed to the 1942 full-scale West Coast invasion scare. Thereafter, rolls of barbed wire would be strung from Point Adams, near the mouth of the Columbia River, southward in case of an invasion. The wrecked British barque Peter Iredale that ran ashore October 25, 1906 was entangled in the wire and would remain so until the war's end. Wreckage is still visible today, making it a popular tourist attraction as one of the most accessible shipwrecks of the Graveyard of the Pacific.




JFK Orders "One of Those Blue Pills"


June 21, 1967: The Summer of Love arrives.

From the next day’s San Francisco Chronicle...

At dawn on June 21, another enormous crowd gathered to usher in the official start to the season with a summer solstice celebration at Golden Gate Park. But even as the “Summer of Love” formally commenced, the scene had already started to spoil. By July, San Francisco was overwhelmed with the new influx of visitors, including a burgeoning population of teenage runaways. And the district’s latest occupants brought a harder edge. TIME noted that “[m]ost of them—perhaps 80%—are steadily high on drugs ranging from LSD to such synthetic stimulants as Methedrine, Dexedrine and Benzedrine, which are known collectively as ‘speed.’” The siren song that took over top-40 radio that summer, Scott McKenzie’s “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair),” proved to be a death knell, and by the fall, many of the summertime pilgrims returned home. On October 6, members of the district’s remaining counterculture community, tired of the commercialization and publicity of their alternative lifestyle, marched along Haight Street for a “death of hippie” funeral service. Written on the side of their faux coffin was the phrase “Hippie, Son of Media.”

When the “Summer of Love” Took over San Francisco

U.S. top 40 for June 21, 1969:




Snapper Matt's (@s_nappe_r) Drone photo of Horatio Nelson’s statue on top of Nelson’s Column at Trafalgar Square, London. (authorised by the Met Police) Nelson’s Column was erected to commemorate Admiral  Nelson's victory over Napoleon in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805; a battle in which he died. Building of the monument started in 1840 and took 3 years to build. It’s 170 ft tall, around 52 metres.




Room 237


The overlooked sibling of the more-popular hallway carpet from The Shining. Mega huge wallpaper by Louie Mantia


Kamandi comic book character created by artist Jack Kirby and published by DC Comics. The comic series Kamandi: The Last Boy on Earth, which ran from 1972 to 1978. He is a young hero living in a post-apocalyptic future. Following the Great Disaster, humans have backslid to savagery in a world ruled by intelligent, highly evolved animals.




Former special envoy Angelina Jolie sporting a Totenkopf belt buckle in a major Hollywood summer release about the British aristocracy raiding tombs in 2001. Re-watching Tomb Raider and noticed the belt buckle with skull & crossbones. Skimming through the movie posters & publicity shots I then noticed how the belt buckle was softened and the crossbones removed (different belt buckle) in the advertising.



"Looks like another threat to world peace... send the envoy."






A London punk band did a song & sketch about the orange bandits.
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