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  1. @southsouth Take a look at replies to me -- they are all there.
  2. Fascinating. I knew the name dated back, but I never imagined so far. Thanks all!
  3. Pleasant things to smell in #SF, from 1948 textbook for San Francisco schoolchildren. twitpic.com/9r2met
  4. Is #Facebook over 30? Skidmore College published "The Face Book" in 1981. When did Harvard's start? twitpic.com/9r2l2q
  5. OK, yet another animal pic, but we have coyote pups growing up in our neighborhood park: richmondsfblog.com/2012/05/29/pho… #naturecultureinterface
  6. @LAScanner I like Future St., off San Fernando Road.
  7. Old film countdown leader that's been downloaded by esteemed @internetarchive patrons 130,000 times: archive.org/details/Countd…
  8. Canada cutting archives & library funding & trashing some collections: cbc.ca/news/canada/ot…
  9. USS Alaska steams under the bridge #ggb75
  10. Here's what's now sailing into the Golden Gate twitter.com/footage/status…
  11. Found on the street in San Francisco's Richmond District. twitter.com/footage/status…
  12. Lots of Golden Gate Bridge #archival films downloadable from #Prelinger Archives here: #ggb75 archive.org/search.php?que…
  13. @HollyHelms @billcorbett Many more at archive.org/details/prelin….
  14. Reformed #spelling at Harvest Urban Market, San Francisco twitter.com/footage/status…
  15. Fred Turner: "to those who are cool, more cool is given." Characteristic and consequence of technocommunal thinking.
  16. Turner: 1960s geodesic #domes (made from triangles) literally aimed to escape "square" thinking; consciousness thru #design
  17. Fred Turner: some 750,000 people living on #communes in late 1960s.