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Post by timothylane on Oct 11, 2019 17:15:50 GMT -8
I notice what vaguely looks like an urban area above a hill on the right (and on the other side of Puget Sound). I take it that's what you're referring to. There was nothing I could see that pointed to Seattle (or its suburbs) as opposed to some other community, but then it was barely visible.
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Post by lynda on Oct 12, 2019 5:42:37 GMT -8
Yes, Timothy, Seattle is in the upper right. You may not be able to enlarge the photo, but if you could you would see the tall buildings rising out of the green hills like Oz looming at the end of the Yellow Brick Road.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 12, 2019 7:50:36 GMT -8
Gibbnonymous, maybe next time I’ll bring my Nikon DSLR camera with the telephoto lens and see if I can photograph that general area and then you can point it out.
I don’t remember the fire lookout tower. I think the first time I was ever up there was in the 2000’s. And what an interesting story of your father’s connection with the tower.
Gibbnonymous, any chance of you taking a photo of the old Frank Sinatra place (“Twin Palms”) in Palm Springs while you’re there (or near there)? It’s at 1148 East Alejo Road.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 12, 2019 8:25:17 GMT -8
Here’s Sinatra’s Tamarisk home in Rancho Mirage. Here’s some of the story behind that home. And this may have been the house (not “Twin Palms” in Palm Springs) that he had renovated for an anticipated visit by JFK: That’s at 70588 Frank Sinatra Drive in Rancho Mirage. Gibbnonymous is even closer to this one where she is in Palm Desert. Here’s an early house of Sinatra I didn’t know about: Frank Sinatra Residence, Bowmont Drive, Trousdale Estates in Los Angeles. It was torn down in 2006 for yet another bland Mediterranean villa.
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Post by timothylane on Oct 12, 2019 10:02:45 GMT -8
It must be nice to have the money to afford all those houses, and the furnishings, and the staff to take care of them. I don't think that's how I would have used that money (all I would need is enough money to provide bookshelves for all the books I had or wanted to have -- though maybe that would have required as much space as Sinatra had).
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Post by lynda on Oct 12, 2019 11:16:47 GMT -8
I can see Green Mountain out of my living room windows, so it is very likely a zoom photo could locate my neighborhood. My neighbor's old farmhouse is a tall white beacon on our hillside, making it a handy locator for me.
Here in California, we are renting in a community that just happens to be accessed from Frank Sinatra Drive. I'll see if I can locate his house on my way to Trader Joe's today! Although it is busy outside the gate, it is like a ghosttown in this golf community. They are in the process of the annual scalping and reseeding of the fairways, so I think the golf course is closed right now. No complaints from me...we've had the beautiful swimming pool to ourselves for the most part. It will remain unheated until next week, but I prefer it cold for lap swimming anyway!
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 12, 2019 14:59:38 GMT -8
Gibbnonymous, take a look at this photo which is a telephoto shot from one of the lady’s iPhone 8s. Click on the picture to get to the larger one. Then you can enlarge it a little by clicking the magnifying glass icon in the upper right. I see a tall white building to the right of the foreground tree.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 12, 2019 15:06:02 GMT -8
You will gain a lifetime membership at Reviews-and-Things for a photo of his house in Rancho Mirage at 70588 Frank Sinatra Drive. You will get honors beyond that if you can snap a photo of his Twin Palms house in Palm Peach at 1148 East Alejo Road. Either photo will at the very least make you our site’s official photojournalist. More of a Paparazzi, really. But a gal’s got to start somewhere.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 12, 2019 15:10:36 GMT -8
Gibbnonymous has just sent me this photo. We’re getting close to the holy of holies….sort of. It’s just a drive up the road to Big Frank’s compound on the golf course.
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Post by timothylane on Oct 12, 2019 15:16:14 GMT -8
I see something white through the trees, but nothing like that to the right.
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Post by lynda on Oct 12, 2019 18:09:02 GMT -8
We have so many trees! It really is amazing. To find my house, the best I can tell after studying the photo, go straight up from the corner of the chain link fence, and just above the top of the next low mountain is my neighborhood. That's the best I can do. It's like where's Waldo?
My sister and I went out in search of Frank's Palm Springs house. I know we got close, but, let's just say we had communications issues regarding directions and had to cut our losses and head back. It really hurt to not complete my mission. The sign is small consolation.
The full moon was rising over the stately palm trees across the fairway as I chased a little gecko around the living room, and now, the air is still and warm as the stars begin to peak through the deep blue veil. In the distance, a freight train rumbles across the valley. Tapping out this message in an upholstered chair I brought out onto the patio, the evening seems perfect. And the gecko patiently waits.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 13, 2019 9:01:21 GMT -8
Then the white building I was pointing out must be a church or the old fire station in Manette.
Regarding directions, you should be able to use Google Maps or various phone apps that use GPS to get you wherever you want to go. Just type in the address and it will give you turn-by-turn directions.
It sounds wonderful there in Palm Springs or Palm Desert.
There once was a desert-sized gecko Who sun-bathed all day on the deck-oh To break the monotona Took a trip to find Sinatra But with two women driving found zippo
Please don’t take me to the Harvey Weinstein Female Victimhood Family Court for that bit of misogyny.
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Post by timothylane on Oct 13, 2019 9:10:47 GMT -8
I suspect two women driving would be a problem, if they were doing it at the same time. Same thing with two men or a man and a women. Elizabeth did most of our driving because she liked doing it. I was the navigator, being handy with maps (especially after I started wearing reading glasses). We generally got where we wanted to go.
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Post by lynda on Oct 13, 2019 13:09:57 GMT -8
My technology is from the wrong decade. Maybe the wrong century! Not having internet access on either of our phones, I took several screen shots of Google Maps. Due to missed turns and misscues, I had to "recalculate" several times. However, I looked it up again when we got back, and I think we just didnt go quite far enough toward the big mountain looming on the west end of the desert. I consider your request for Sinatra documentation important enough to return and make another attempt next year.
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 14, 2019 7:53:59 GMT -8
I’ve only relatively recently got into GPS for driving. But having tried it, I would be like Karl Malden and never leave home without it.
And thanks for what you did achieve in gathering Sinatra memorabilia. (Carmobilia?) As Rick said to Ilsa in Casablanca, “We’ll always have the street sign.”
And to wrap things up, Gibbnonymous, all I can say is that you didn’t find it Your Way:
And now, with Palm Springs near And so a race to make certain With camera, and rented car That Frank did live on fairway flirtin’
You tried, and got a sign And traveled for each and every one of us Not more, you got not much more You did it Gibbnonymous
GPS, she should have it too But then again, I shouldn’t gibe her She did all, that she could do And found it not, a woman driver
The sisters planned a charted course Along the drive so named eponymous But found nil, no not much more They did it Gibbnonymous
Yes there were rhymes I surely blew When I writ out some poetic poo But through it all, I would often yap “Find the damn place, and take a snap”
Not techie at all They both took a fall And did it Gibbnonymous
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Post by timothylane on Oct 14, 2019 10:29:37 GMT -8
It took me a bit to get the parody, but then "My Way" isn't my favorite Sinatra song. (That would be either "Strangers in the Night" or "It Was a Very Good Year".)
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 14, 2019 15:07:34 GMT -8
Those are two very good songs.
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Post by lynda on Oct 15, 2019 18:52:17 GMT -8
I Did It No Way
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Post by Brad Nelson on Oct 16, 2019 14:55:43 GMT -8
I'm still hoping that you'll come through in the end, Gibbnonymous. I have....well... Intro: Next time you’re down In the desert unbound There’s a lot be shown So snap aroundJust what makes Gibbnonymous blanch And think she can’t find Frankie’s ol’ ranch Anyone knows this Gibb, can’t Find snow in an avalanche 'Cause she’s got myope She’s got myope She’s got no GPS and thus can’t cope So anytime you’re needin’ Frank ‘Stead of drawing blank, just remember the tech Oops, there blows another road trip, blech! Oops, there blows another road trip, blech! Oops, there blows another road trip, blech! Once there was a silly old Brad Thought he knew his way to the Man No one could make the Brad, sad He kept playing The Man ‘Cause he was no dope He was no dope He had hot Eva Gardner In his mind hope So anytime you’re seeing Brad Instead of being bad, just remember the fad Ooops, there goes another parody, egad! Ooops, there goes another parody, egad! Ooops, there goes another parody, egad!
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Post by timothylane on Oct 16, 2019 15:15:39 GMT -8
It took a while before I got that one, too, even though "High Hopes" is a more familiar song than "My Way". Incidentally, Sinatra did a version of it in 1960 as a JFK campaign song -- "everyone" is supporting him because of his "high hopes". He did NOT include the "apple-pie-in-the-sky hopes", for reasons you can probably guess.
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