What about the doublemint twins?
This is Philip and Helen Wrigley signing the papers that established the Catalina Conservancy. I love it when rich people do something nice. I wonder what position they might have taken on the stables. They’re dead aren’t they?
Lone Tree Trail: I’m on top and I like it. The other island is San Clemente island. Its owned by the US Navy.
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It’s been awhile since I’ve heard the name Mel Ramos. I see he’s still churning out those naked playmate types. I thought he was dead.
Aren’t the Wigley’s buried somewhere in that monument? or is that earlier Wigs.
GUM, dammit, they got it all with GUM! Makes me a little crazy and a whole lot jealous.
Ha! Gum photo – that’s so great! I have never done the hike to the top. My very lucky son has landed at the airport twice but I don’t think it has such a good 360 view. You sure did a lot in a weekend.
I’ve got a California islands must read for you – The Legendary King of San Miguel – the Lesters of Rancho Rambouillet by Elizabeth Sherman Lester (my mother-in-laws cousin). They had a ranch on the island and other than Mr. Lester’s tragic end – a great read.
(liked your comment on reason for cranky DMV empl. :)
Beautiful. Love the sound track.
Great view! Lived here all my life and never been to Catalina. Really need to go.
Looks like MH has taken over this latest blog post of yours.
What a beautiful spot. Makes me long for my favorite place, an island mountain top with the most spectacular view of the Caribbean Sea. I have gone back there countless times in my mind. Those must be the new double mint twins, can’t quite put my finger on it, but something about them makes me think I would have remembered them from past adverts. Rich philanthropists, the nicest kind, too bad there aren’t more.
PA, heres something informative to add to the conversation.
“Up until WWII, chewing gum was made of a substance called chicle mixed with flavorings. Chicle is a latex sap that comes from the sapodilla tree (native to Central America). In other words, chicle is a form of rubber. Just like rubber bands don’t dissolve when you chew them, neither does chicle. Chicle is a good bit softer than rubber bands and happens to soften more when it gets warm in your mouth. If you freeze chicle with ice, it gets very stiff — chicle hardens and softens over a pretty narrow temperature range.
Gum bases are mixed with sugar and other flavorings to make chewing gum.
After WWII, chemists learned how to make artificial gum bases to replace chicle. These gum bases are essentially synthetic rubbers that have the same temperature profile as chicle. Gum bases (either natural or artificial) are mixed with sugar and other flavorings to make chewing gum. When you chew it, the rubber releases these flavorings into your mouth”
Hell or highwater I hope we can go for a walk next Monday. Did I mention I can chew flavor releasing rubber and walk at the same time?
Ahem! the twins are too naked if you ask me. Get those girls some g-strings. (I know I lost a few visitors with my nude sculptures of public art in local plazas and far away centers.)
John E.:Yup, Mel Ramos is gag worthy but he seems to have survived through the politically correct 90’s. Now he looks dated and comical (and yet I take it he’s still selling, at least the red dot on the web site would indicate so). Blogger Grrrly Blather noticed the “girls” bore a striking resemblance to Sarah Palin
AH: did you read J.C.’s break down on the ingredients of gum? Will Susan try this in her kitchen? It’s not right.
Tash: I was at the P library last night looking for the “King of San Miguel” didn’t have it. I’ll try L.A. next (did get J Smith “Alive in LaLa Land”) I’ve heard of the Lester family. USelaine’s great grandfather was shipwrecked on the same isle…her words (Everybody lived. He grabbed his charts and sextant, piled the crew into the lifeboat, and arrived, after a long night, in Santa Barbara. The ship was the Watson A. West). About the girls of Mel Ramos: I kept the PG version up on Sunday but when I discovered (wordpress tells you this stuff) people were not opening the doublemint link…well, it’s not wise to ignore my links
Petrea: Not to loud? Try as I might, I can’t seem to get behind going through the Cannon manual and learning things like how to control the volume. I had to eliminate a video (that was pretty good) due to my heavy breathing.
Keith: both you and USelaine. Go in February, stay at the Hermosa (cheap) the trail head starts behind Gower Gultch camp ground.
CO: how so?
D: no, just Mel’s version of them. Actually a rapper (?) recently did a remix of the doublemint jingle. I was hoping to find a mp3 file of the original jingle. No luck. It was either Frank Loyde Wright or Rudolph Schindler who had a home that was up for sale in Catalina. The land was purchased and the home torn down. This was the same period where the Neutra in Rancho Mirage, was purchased and razed by some rich carpetbagger. Read here…
http://www.architectureweek.com/2002/0424/news_1-1.html
J.C.: I feel better for having known you and gum no longer appeals to me.
Mary: O.K. the poison oak is nearly healed.
Is… is the background on the… um under the pack of gum in the first frame a…
(whisper) Kotex pad?
Allways with wings?
Something about otherwise naked people wearing shoes is creepy.
According to AdAge.com the gum song is one of the top ten jingles of the century:
1. You deserve a break today (McDonalds)
2. Be all that you can be (U.S. Army)
3. Pepsi Cola Hits the Spot (Pepsi Cola)
4. M’m, M’m good (Campbell’s)
5. See the USA in your Chevrolet (GM)
6. I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener (Oscar Meyer)
7. Double your pleasure, double your fun (Wrigley’s Doublemint Gum)
8. Winston tastes good like a cigarette should (Winston)
9. It’s the Real Thing (Coca Cola)
10. A little dab’ll do ya (Brylcreem)
I tried but couldn’t find anything but this and that song about Catalina.
MH: (whisper) yes and (whisper) no, thanks to NAFTA they’re imported from Mexico
Elaine: you just haven’t met the right guy
MG: may I higher you as my editor? Return visitors, check out the hot links on #7 and CATALINA.. brilliant
Doublemint gum–is that really art?