The Coulter family moved to Lakewood, Ohio, from Wayne County in the early 1900s. They opened a drug store and restaurant at the corner of Detroit and Sloane in 1907.
Walter Coulter was born on September 9, 1918. He grew up in the family business. His proficiency in the kitchen made him a natural candidate to be a cook in the army.
Walter married Helen Kennedy on September 20, 1941. Their three children were born in 1943, 1955, and 1965.
Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine by Joe Hagan
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
The life that Jann Wenner lives is a caricature of the Baby Boomer generation: hope and idealism in the ‘60s fostered by pot, LSD, and the Beatles. Then cynicism in the ‘70s in the wake of Watergate and Vietnam. The ‘80s brought cocaine and the lure of easy money on Wall Street. Then booze and glamorous vacations in the ‘90s and beyond.
Joe Hagan gives all that in Sticky Fingers, along with fabulous tales of Hunter S. Thompson, Tom Wolfe, Cameron Crowe, Annie Leibovitz, John and Yoko, Mick Jagger, and a cast of A-list celebrities. One thing that’s missing is any sense of an interior life. You get the sense Jann Wenner doesn’t have one. And you might be right.
A bio of Jann’s long-suffering wife Jane might have the gossip and glitz plus some actual emotion. Would be interesting to find out.
Are you continually getting a 404 warning after vagrant up?
The following line in your vagrantfile should do the trick:
Vagrant::DEFAULT_SERVER_URL.replace('https://vagrantcloud.com')
Thanks to Val on github for the tip.
I’m getting ready to upgrade to Bootstrap 4. Meanwhile, here is a screenshot of how the home page looks today:
Then old Abe was triumphantly elected. Bully for Abe.
–Francis Pettibone, December 21, 1863
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Do Not Sell at Any Price: The Wild, Obsessive Hunt for the World’s Rarest 78rpm Records by Amanda Petrusich
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Entertaining study of the people who collect extremely rare records: who they are, how they do their collecting, what motivates them, and of course the music itself. The book is part history, part sociology, part psychology, and part music criticism.
Petrusich explored a broad range of sources – human, textual, and musical – for the book. She even learned scuba diving to explore the Milwaukee River near the site of a historic record factory (Paramount) where employees allegedly dumped records and cylinders in the 1930s.
While the cast of characters is colorful and entertaining, the music is what the book is ultimately about. The gospel recordings, the country blues – artifacts of what Greil Marcus called the old, weird America. Highly recommended.
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