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Ventura Nationals

Ventura Nationals 2012

upcoming Classic Car Shows

Some upcoming events!

X The Band at the Canyon Club

I went to see my favorite punk band X, at the Canyon Club with my friend and co worker Dawn.  Exene has been ill, so we really wanted to get a chance to see her while she is still at it.  I saw them 12 years ago at the Ventura Theatre, and  it was an awesome show.  For any of you not familiar, X is not your typical punk rock, they are known to be the punk for the thinking musician, rather than the screaming hostile delinquent.  They are produced by Ray Manzarek, the keyboardist from The Doors.  I was prepared for them to not really deliver, trying to not get my hopes up, but super excited none the less.   We were all sort of hanging around a bit bored by the opening act, kinda people watching- uncomfortable.  You know that disjointed feeling at a group event when you are all hangin out gawking at each other nothing in common, nothing to say to one another.  Then Exene comes out and everyone is suddenly fully stoked, followed by the great John Doe, Billy Zoom.  Oh yeah, that's why we are all here!  The moment they started to play, this intense group euphoria set in.  We were all united somehow, each remembering how much their music had touched us.  Familiar, sounds rekindling old forgotten memories.  We were all young again that night.  Let me fully assure you, THEY ROCKED!   

Vintage Happy New Year!

Happy New Year  All!  WOW 2012.  Hopefully we figure some things out, accomplish a lot, and above all remember to enjoy one another.

Vintage OKeefe & Merrit Stove

I just found this pic of a 1953 ( I believe ) O Keefe & Merrit Stove.  I have one just like it, I have hopefully just managed to save up enough to get it refurbished.  The guy from Pacific Stove works was telling me that a lady from Montecito  bought a Wolfe stove ten years ago.  The stove needs a thermostat, Wolfe
doesn't make one and there are no alternatives that he knows of for it.  So basically this" top of the line" very, very expensive stove is trash in ten years!  That's some expensive scrap metal.  My stove resided in my kitchen for a few years.  I moved out for a while and my ex husband's friend rented the house, he was at the time the executive chef at Austen's @ The Pierpont.  Although the oven didn't work and it badly needed repair, he told me that it was the best rangetop he had ever cooked on, because the action for the burners was so sensitive that it allowed for perfect temperature control.  Like my 57 Belair, I figure it if I put some money into it and take care of it, it will be around for another 100 years and be worth more than I payed for it in the first place.  Sounds like good economics to me, and meanwhile I get to cook on a stove that's so hot I wish it had a spin cycle!

Vintage Kitchen- Check Out this site

http://bigchill.com/site/fridges/kitchen-photos