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"The Jolly Roger"
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A beach bar where the pirates go.
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Watch this space
for future postings!
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"Memorial Stadium ~ Champaign, Illinois"
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Home of the University of Illinois football team, the Fighting
Illini.
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"The Beachcomber's Place"
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"Aunt Sonya's ~ Champaign, Illinois"
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Now razed, Aunt Sonya's was a gathering place for fans of the
University of Illinois Illini for many years.
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"The Elite Cafe ~ Urbana, Illinois"
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An Urbana landmark, now gone.
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"The Chair"
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A Friday afternoon fantasy ~ one of my first forays into the
wonderful world of color.
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"Seven Chairs'
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Seven inviting beach chairs.
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"Beached House on the Dune"
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Jimmy Buffett had a song called "Beach House on the
Moon." This one is, perhaps, not so far away.
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"Beach Chairs"
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A Friday afternoon fantasy ~ one of my first forays into the
wonderful world of color.
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"The Troubadour"
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The Troubadour in
West Hollywood was a gathering place for many people in the Southern California
singer/songwriter music scene of the mid-60s to the mid-70s. Among the
frequent patrons in those days were Jackson Browne, Don Henley and Glenn Frey
and other members of the Eagles, Warren Zevon, Linda Rondstadt, J.D. Souther,
James Taylor, Tom Waits, and Jim Morrison and the Doors. I will be doing more
drawings of other sites like the Troub in the upcoming days.
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"The Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel"
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Another location important to the people in the Southern
California singer/songwriter music scene of the mid-60s to the mid-70s, now
razed and replaced with a shopping center. Janis Joplin died here;
frequent residents included Warren Zevon, Van Morrison, Tom Waits, and Jim
Morrison. The Tropicana was part of the inspiration for
Warren Zevon's song "Desperadoes Under the Eaves" ~ he called it The
Hollywood Hawaiian Hotel.
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"The Tiki Bar is Open"
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"The Turtled Sailor"
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"The Eagle and the Child"
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I have been a fan of J.R.R. Tolkien ever since
I read "The Lord of the Rings" when I was 13. This image is of a
pub called "The
Eagle and Child," which was for many years the meeting place of
the Inklings, a literary group that included Tolkien and C. S. Lewis.
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"It's Five O'Clock at
the Somewhere Lounge"
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This item has a print run of ten.
E-mail me for information.
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"The Cocktail Flags Are Up"
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Inspired by the music of
Larry
McKenna
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"The Hammock Club"
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Another one for Jim Morris
fans. Inspired by his song "The Hammock Club."
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"Old West Main Street"
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"Under the Tiki Moon"
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