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P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 2865


  • From: Bob Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: P3D Re: PHOTO-3D digest 2865
  • Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 07:32:35 -0600

At 06:11 AM 7/31/98 -0600, you wrote:
>In P3D 2865, Bob Wier writes:
>
><< A bit of trivia - how was the "Howdy Doody" show named? I never knew, but
> with the current 100th anniversary of the Spanish American War, I learned
>that
> a common greeting on the street was "Howdy Dewey" (after our Naval officer).
> I'm assuming that "Howdy Doody" was a take-off on that... >>
>
>     Frankly, that sounds a little far-fetched to me.  I've always assumed
>it's an extension of the common greeting "Howdy-do," which in turn comes from
>"How do you do?"
>
>                             Jim Norman (who, as a kid, was always being
>teased about my big ears, red hair and prominent freckles -- but who was a
>Howdy Doody fan nevertheless)
>
>    
>

You could very well be right! Maybe Lawrence can comment. Considering the
"Howdy Dewey" phrase, that could well have been a play on the same "Howdy-do"
as you mention above. Thus both "Howdy Dewey" and "Howdy Doody" might stem
from the same phrase, but be otherwise unrelated (especially as they were
separated by some 45 years). 

And now, back to photo-3d. 

For view collectors: One of the most common views offered for sale on
ebay is "Box Canyon", keystone #8080 (or #8008 - I forget which). This
is located here at the south end of town. There are actually several
different views with the same number - one shows a family, the other
a single individual. In both, though, they are posed on a wooden walkway
leading back into the very narrow gap in the rock where the waterfall is
located. 

As of last Sunday, there was a major flash flood through the Canyon
resulting from a deluge in the basin above (a situation on a smaller
scale but similar to that which caused the devastating Big Thompson
flood of 1976 north and west of Denver). According to the newspaper,
major amounts of mud, logs, rocks, etc came over the falls, and
demolished part of the old boardwalk and viewing platform. Fortunately
there is (as of the beginning of the summer) a new metal walkway
which was constructed as the old wooden one is/was getting rickity.
For awhile the falls split into two parts (probably from debris 
in the channel above the falls) but as of now they have pretty
much returned to the "normal" course. However, the place is 
substantially changed. One report says "Before, you couldn't even see
into the canyon. Now you can see the whole thing. It opened up
bigtime."

An associated flood farther up the canon buried cars and campsites
(there is still a rental car up there in the mud, they say) but there
were no fatalities or injuries.

There area has taken a bit of a beating in the last year. Last winter,
there was a 200 year caliber avalanche which came down into the canyon that
has old growth timber (ie, 2-4' diameter tree trunks) still sticking out of
the snow.

I wonder if the price of those views will go up? (Nah - I've got 7 of
them, and nothing I already own EVER goes up :-)

--Bob Wier



--- Bob Wier

  --- wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---
     Rocky Mountain College
         Billings, MT
( currently in Ouray, Colorado)


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