Vintage News Articles & Finds

[Elmer Bud]

G `day BCW

That should have been 30 years -ago .

The live theatre business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side.”

lol . lol .

Whenever the flying system ropes were replaced there was competition over who would get how much rope to take home . So strong and useful every one wanted some .

Thanks for sharin

EB .

 

[billycw]

Weighing Charas

Weighing Charas - Kasjmir, India 1969

 

[billycw]

La Canapa / The Hemp

1950 65 Lira Italian postage stamp titled 'La Canapa' or the hemp with the region of Emilia-Romagna highlighted. Image depicts young lady during the Harvesting of Hemp.


quote from the 1914 USDA Report by Lyster Dewey

"The highest-priced hemp fiber in the markets of either America or Europe is produced in Italy,1 but it is obtained from plants similar to those in Kentucky. The higher price of the fiber is due not to superior plants, but to water retting and to increased care and labor in the preparation of the fiber.

Four varieties are cultivated in Italy:

(1) "Bologna," or great hemp, called in France "chanvrede Piedmont," is grown in northern Italy in the provinces of Bologna, Ferrara, Roviga,
(2) "Cannapa picola," small hemp, attaining a height of 4 to 7 feet, with a rather slender reddish stalk, is cultivated in the valley of the Arno in the department of Tuscany.'
(3) "Neapolitan," large seeded.
(4) "Neapolitan," small seeded.

The two varieties of Neapolitan hemp are cultivated in the vicinity of Naples, and even so far up on the sides of Vesuvius that fields of hemp are occasionally destroyed by the eruptions of that volcano."

 

[billycw]

Jerry Rubin, left, and Abbie Hoffman, right, sit bound and gagged during a news conference they called in New York on Tuesday, March 24, 1970 and in which neither said a word. In center background is Rosemary Leary, wife of LSD advocate Dr. Timothy Leary. Rubin and Hoffman were convicted last month of crossing state lines to incite to riot in 1968, part of the Chicago Seven.

From Jerry Rubin's Cook County Prison Journal 'We Are Everywhere' - 1971

From Jerry Rubin's Cook County Prison Journal 'We Are Everywhere' - 1971

 

[billycw]

'Marijuana raid' - 1951

Los Angeles California Marijuana raid, October 31, 1951. Sheriff's Secretarty Sonia Simone and Lieutenant Ray Huber posing with evidence including marijuana stuffed womens nylons.

 

[geneva_sativa]

Heh heh, stuffed into womens nylons . . .

when the seller was telling the buyers that his herb had good legs, they may have mistakenly thought he was referencing the duration of the high

 

[PDX Dopesmoker]

Stocking tek

 

[billycw]

"This photograph by Cor Jaring is from 1971 and shows the boat ‘De Witte Raaf’ (the White Raven) moored straight opposite the local Amsterdam police station of Kattenburg, selling marihuana plants, for one guilder each. We see Kees Hoekert at the left and on the right (with a spade and ‘klompen’) Robert Jasper Grootveld. It is a playful subversive enterprise under the name “Lowland Weed Company.”

the boat ‘De Witte Raaf’ (the White Raven)

Marijuana plants on the White Raven

Kees Hoekert & Robert Jasper Grootveld “Lowland Weed Company” 1971

 

[billycw]

French Magazine 'Actuel' May 1972, La Drogue

 

[heady blunts]

great to have you posting again billy. always love the new content!

 

[billycw]

Appreciate it Heady, never know when you have to disappear in some bush's for a bit

 

[billycw]

"Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."

- Mark Twain

The Sultan's Favorite

In Turkey exist a dish that has escaped antiquity. Although the name changes from table to table the core of the recipe is the same. Chicken usually marinated in a yogurt base, cooked with potato's, tomatoes, vegetables typically over rice. The dishes truly special nature hides in its secret ingredient... Hashish!

Amedros menu in Istanbul, Turkey


While the recipe from place to place changes, it made me think how I would prepare this ancient dish. This is how I would make it...



Turkish Sultan's Dream Chicken

Step one, marinading the chicken...

Turkish medicated Marinade for Chicken

4 -6 chicken breasts
1 cup plain yogurt
1 tablespoon paprika
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon or 1 tablespoon ground cumin
1⁄4 teaspoon cayenne pepper (to taste)
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 lemon, juice of
6 tablespoons olive oil (2-4 tablespoons being medicated)
1⁄2 teaspoon fresh ground black pepper
1⁄2 cup grated onion


1. Combine all ingredients in a non-reactive bowl.

2. Add chicken, cover & refrigerate at least 12 hours or overnight.


Step two, preparing the dish...

Turkish Sultan's Dream Chicken


Ingredients

½ cup olive oil
1 large yellow onion, sliced (about 1 cup) Coupons
3 cloves garlic
5 ripe tomatoes, cut in half
1½ teaspoon salt
4-6 Marinated chicken breast
1 large Russet potato, sliced
salt and pepper to taste
crusty bread or rice for serving

Instructions

Sauce:
1. Heat the olive oil in a large, deep skillet over medium high heat.
2. Add the onions and garlic.
3. Scoop the juices, seeds, and flesh out of the tomatoes into the pan. Simmer the mixture for 5 minutes or until everything is soupy-like and softened and very good smelling.
4. Place the scooped out tomato halves over the sauce, open side down. Simmer for a few minutes until the tomatoes have steamed and softened.
5. Break them up in the pan and simmer for another 5-10 minutes to get all the flavors real nice.


Blend:

Transfer to a blender or food processor, puree until mixture reaches your desired consistency, and stir in the salt. Taste and adjust to you liking.


Chicken and Potatoes:

1. In the same pan, add one more quick drizzle of olive oil and add the marinated chicken and potato slices. Sprinkle with salt and pepper and seasoning. Saute for a few minutes on each side until they are browned.


Finish:

Add the sauce back to the pan, cover, and simmer for 10 minutes or until the chicken and potatoes are fully cooked. Serve with crusty white bread or rice.

 

[billycw]

Alexandria gazette,
November 01, 1895
Article Title: After Eating Hasheesh


"At the same time I felt creeping all around the region of my heart a tickling pressure, to squeeze out, as it were, with gentle force, a laugh which burst forth with noisy violence."

Alexandria gazette, November 01, 1895

 

[billycw]

Hot air balloon rides and Ferris wheel's at the 1893 Chicago Worlds Fair


I've talked about the Hemp and Cannabis at the Worlds fair's and specifically have posted about the roof artwork in the agricultural building at the 1893 Chicago Worlds fair...

"a blacksmith for iron, a sculptor for stone; a man holding a coil of rope, for hemp..."
-Edward Simmons describing his 1893 worlds fair mural


Some more found treasures from the same 1893 Chicago Worlds fair caught my eye.

Pennsylvania Pavilion in the agricultural building 1893 Worlds Fair


"In Kentucky's pavilion leaf tobacco, corn, wheat, hemp, grasses, and blue-grass seed form the bulk of the exhibits, all of which are [352] worked into structural forms or otherwise skillfully arranged."

-from the 'Worlds Columbian Exposition of 1893: The Book of the Fair'


An exhibit at the Field Museum exhibition 'Opening the Vaults: the Wonders of the 1893 Worlds Fair' in Chicago, IL has an interesting item on desplay...

A big bag of 'Cannabis Seeds'...

Now I can't find exactly which exhibit these seeds came from and/or most likely being sold from but they were indeed from the 1893 Worlds Fair.

Cannabis seeds from the 1893 Worlds Fair in Chicago


If anyone happens to have a photo of Kentucky's Pavilion in the agricultural building from the 1893 Worlds Fair I would love to see it...

 

[billycw]

Doughboys lighting up in Cochem, Germany - 1915

 

[billycw]

"We all are Children,
Just grown up!"

Postcard sent in 1910

 

[billycw]

"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."

-Dorthy in the Wizard of Oz

The Wizard of Oz - poster for the 1902 musical

 

[billycw]

"We smoke it and it reminds us of different things.
We remember the miracles of the world.
We remember those far and near.
We remember"

– Basotho Cannabis Smoking song, from C.J. Bourhill's report from 1913 called 'The smoking of dagga (Indian hemp) among the native races of South Africa and the resultant evils'

"Fumando a Fatal Liamba" i.e 'smoking cannabis' in Angola from the 1881 book 'De Benguella ás terras de Iácca; descripção de uma viagem na Africa central e occidental' (From Benguella to the Iacca lands: description of a trip in Central and Western Africa) by H. Capello and R. Ivens.


Smoke Session's

The age old tradition of gathering together for a smoke session may be able to trace its roots from the people of South Africa...

In some of the earliest reports from South Africa, Cannabis plays a large social role. Cannabis also called 'dagga or liamba' among other names was consumed at social gatherings in which the men would gather to smoke and sing.

During these smoking gatherings, folk songs dating back before the elders would be sung to pass down history. Some of these songs, like the example above, were indeed about cannabis.

In some areas these traditional smoking sessions continue to this day...


Basotho traditional songs
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A late-19th century postcard depicts Angolan laborers smoking cannabis in a water pipe

 

[billycw]

"Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful;
they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul."

-Luther Burbank

 

[billycw]

"We don't need no education
We don't need no thought control
No dark sarcasm in the classroom
Teachers leave those kids alone
Hey! Teachers! Leave those kids alone
All in all you're just another brick in the wall
All in all you're just another brick in the wall"

-Pink Floyd, Another Brick in the Wall

The Illustrated Police News. Volume 21, Issue 541 - 3/10/1877


This little story from the 1877 Illustrated Police News paper is an example of the power of Hemp in the wrong hands...

Hanging, beating, whipping... History tells us the Authorities really love to use Hemp...


Children Severely Flogged

"Two ragged and helpless urchins, named John Levitt and Frank Rafferty, aged eleven and nine years old respectively, were brought up in custody charged with stealing two pigeons, the property of Mr. John Rhodes of Knottingley, Yorkshire, England on the previous Thursday. It appears from the evidence of the prosecutor, that on the day in question he had two pigeons that were valued at 3/6d taken out during the day.

On being apprehended by the police who found one of the pigeons at the house of Levitt's parents, the juvenile prisoners first denied stealing them, but afterwards confessed their guilt.

Mrs. Levitt said she was the wife of a labourer and had four children. She had recently been very ill and during her sickness the boy had not behaved very well. Rafferty's mother informed the bench that she was a hawker, and had eight children all of whom attended the Church Sunday School.

In addressing the parents of the boys Mr. Peel said "its a serious thing to bring up children in the way that you are doing and you don't know what it might lead to. We must punish them and we must send them to a reformatory, but we now order them to receive ten strokes each with the birch rod."

The punishment was not, however, inflicted with a birch rod as ordered, but with a number of strong willows plaited, about four feet in length, which were fastened together at the extreme end with a piece of hemp cord. The backs of the destitute, miserable and helpless urchins were bared from the shoulders to the calves of the legs.

They were than stretched upon a wooden table with a police officer at one end holding down the head and arms, whilst another member of the force officiated at the other end by holding down the legs and feet.

Whilst held in this position Police-Sergeant Grimshaw wielded the heavy weapon across each of the prostrate forms, taking Rafferty who was the younger of the two, first. The ten blows dealt in his case were excessively severe and the piteous cries of the helpless child during the first two or three strokes were heart-rending to hear. After these, however, he was unable to scream, and at the conclusion he was unequal to the task of readjusting his rags, and reeled against the back of a seat in a fainting condition.

Levitt was next stripped and placed upon the table in the manner described,but for some reason unkonwn the blows in this case were dealt with less severity, and the miserable youngster was enabled to scream with increasing piteousness, until sometime after the tenth lash was inflicted.

This is the second case of child flogging ordered by the West Riding Justices during the past two months."

Illustration from The Illustrated Police News. Volume 21, Issue 541 - 3/10/1877