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Saturday, August 31, 2013
Four Historians Take on 'The Butler's' Racist Depiction of Reagan- Breaking News from Newsmax.com
Lee Daniels - Picking Hanoi Jane as Nancy says a lot about this film. Boycott, I say!
SamKat
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Four Historians Take On 'The Butler's' Racist Depiction of Reagan
Four Ronald Reagan historians have slammed the portrayal of former President Reagan in the movie "Lee Daniels' The Butler," saying that the 40th president's "attitudes toward race" as shown in the movie are completely inaccurate and false. The movie has come under fierce criticism from Republican and veterans groups who have called for a boycott of the film.
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Four Historians Take On 'The Butler's' Racist Depiction of Reagan
Four Ronald Reagan historians have slammed the portrayal of former President Reagan in the movie "Lee Daniels' The Butler," saying that the 40th president's "attitudes toward race" as shown in the movie are completely inaccurate and false. The movie has come under fierce criticism from Republican and veterans groups who have called for a boycott of the film.
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Daytona Beach - Boardwalk Clock - Jim Zeisler of Portsmouth Ohio ... Thx Pidge F!
Good job, Jim Zeisler, Pidge's brother! Jim and Pidge were born in Portsmouth, Ohio and lived four houses north of the Kegley clan on McConnell Ave. Jim looks just like his dad did back in our day.
Portsmouth should have some sort of similar landmark, maybe with P-O-R-T-S-M-O-U-T-H-W-A-L-L for the Clock numbers. We are very proud of the Floodwall murals which show more than two thousand years of history on over two thousand feet of floodwall.
SamKat
Daytona Beach - Boardwalk clock
http://www.news-journalonline.
Hour has come to fix the Boardwalk clocktowerPublished:
Sunday, August 25, 2013 at 5:30 a.m.Daytona
Beach does not have an official timekeeper, but it does have
Jim Zeisler. Zeisler, a retired Ohio firefighter, clock aficionado and vice
president of the Daytona Beach chapter of the National
Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, is the guy who,
twice a year, when Daylight Saving Time begins and ends,
ascends 30 feet in a cherry-picker bucket and sets the hands
on the four faces of the Boardwalk's clock tower.The
clock hands are made out of titanium and bolted on with
stainless steel bolts to resist the wet, salty sea winds.
Zeisler removes and repositions each one to put the hour
right. It's not like spinning the hands around your
kitchen's Kit-Cat clock dial.At
this hour, though, Zeisler is alarmed at the clock
tower's overall condition and told the Daytona Beach
City Commission about his concerns Wednesday night.“I
don't think it's structurally sound,” he said.
“I've been up there more times than you can count on
your hands and feet ... and it needs help.”Built
as a make-work New Deal project and dedicated on the Fourth
of July 1938, the clock tower substitutes the letters
“D-A-Y-T-O-N-A-B-E-A-C-H” for the 12 hours on the dial.
It's been a defining local landmark and an image on
hundreds of postcards ever since. Along with the Bandshell
and pier, it's been a symbol of the city's signature
beachside district.The
whole clock tower project cost $268,000 to build, which
would be $4.5 million in today's
dollars.
The
local NAWCC chapter has been maintaining the clock's
insides over three decades now. Club members undertook major
overhauls to the clock's electric motors in 1989 and
2008.But
even though the insides are running fine now, the outside is
not so good, according to Zeisler.“The
structure is pitiful, but it runs,” he said.And
a quick look at the structure backs him up. Some stones are
blackened with mold. The water in the fountain at the base
of the tower is milky and nothing you'd want to dip your
legs in even on a hot August day. Stones are loose.
There's algae in the fountain and pigeons perch on the
tower's sculpted scallops.And
then there's the matter of the weather vane.If
you look at the model of the Boardwalk in the Halifax
Historical Museum — and you really should, the whole place
as it looked in the 1930s is rendered in brightly painted
clay and looks like a scene from a Wallace and Gromit movie
— you will notice a weather vane atop the clock tower.
This surprised me since I didn't remember seeing a
weather vane there.But
according to Ziesler, the weather vane, with an eagle
perched majestically atop, came down in a storm in the
1970s. And even though the column that the weather vane
rested upon now has chunks missing, he hopes to see a new
one go up.Warren
and Ruth Trager, who have long been active in preserving the
area's heritage, already have donated $500 toward a new
weather vane and have pledged another $250 toward topping
the project in style.“Before
we can really put the weather vane up, we've got to put
some work on the structure itself,” said City Manager Jim
Chisholm.But
the good news is that the city now is planning to do
something about
that.“What
we're learning is that any pre-World War Two coquina
structure needs continuous monitoring and maintenance,”
said Deputy City Manager Paul McKitrick.In
addition to recent renovations to the coquina Bandshell,
McKitrick noted the city recently spent $100,000 to restore
the coquina walkover at the base of the Daytona Pier.“If
it could look like the Bandshell, we'd be thrilled to
death,” said Zeisler.And
he's encouraged enough by the city's response that
he's looking forward to the day when that will
happen.
Jim Zeisler, with the National
Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, holds two of the
large titanium clock hands before he installed them in 2010
in this file photo. Last week, Zeisler urged the city to
renovate the Bandshell’s clock tower structure.
The clock tower on the Boardwalk
as it looked in 1961.
>
Portsmouth should have some sort of similar landmark, maybe with P-O-R-T-S-M-O-U-T-H-W-A-L-L for the Clock numbers. We are very proud of the Floodwall murals which show more than two thousand years of history on over two thousand feet of floodwall.
SamKat
Daytona Beach - Boardwalk clock
http://www.news-journalonline.
Hour has come to fix the Boardwalk clocktowerPublished:
Sunday, August 25, 2013 at 5:30 a.m.Daytona
Beach does not have an official timekeeper, but it does have
Jim Zeisler. Zeisler, a retired Ohio firefighter, clock aficionado and vice
president of the Daytona Beach chapter of the National
Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, is the guy who,
twice a year, when Daylight Saving Time begins and ends,
ascends 30 feet in a cherry-picker bucket and sets the hands
on the four faces of the Boardwalk's clock tower.The
clock hands are made out of titanium and bolted on with
stainless steel bolts to resist the wet, salty sea winds.
Zeisler removes and repositions each one to put the hour
right. It's not like spinning the hands around your
kitchen's Kit-Cat clock dial.At
this hour, though, Zeisler is alarmed at the clock
tower's overall condition and told the Daytona Beach
City Commission about his concerns Wednesday night.“I
don't think it's structurally sound,” he said.
“I've been up there more times than you can count on
your hands and feet ... and it needs help.”Built
as a make-work New Deal project and dedicated on the Fourth
of July 1938, the clock tower substitutes the letters
“D-A-Y-T-O-N-A-B-E-A-C-H” for the 12 hours on the dial.
It's been a defining local landmark and an image on
hundreds of postcards ever since. Along with the Bandshell
and pier, it's been a symbol of the city's signature
beachside district.The
whole clock tower project cost $268,000 to build, which
would be $4.5 million in today's
dollars.
The
local NAWCC chapter has been maintaining the clock's
insides over three decades now. Club members undertook major
overhauls to the clock's electric motors in 1989 and
2008.But
even though the insides are running fine now, the outside is
not so good, according to Zeisler.“The
structure is pitiful, but it runs,” he said.And
a quick look at the structure backs him up. Some stones are
blackened with mold. The water in the fountain at the base
of the tower is milky and nothing you'd want to dip your
legs in even on a hot August day. Stones are loose.
There's algae in the fountain and pigeons perch on the
tower's sculpted scallops.And
then there's the matter of the weather vane.If
you look at the model of the Boardwalk in the Halifax
Historical Museum — and you really should, the whole place
as it looked in the 1930s is rendered in brightly painted
clay and looks like a scene from a Wallace and Gromit movie
— you will notice a weather vane atop the clock tower.
This surprised me since I didn't remember seeing a
weather vane there.But
according to Ziesler, the weather vane, with an eagle
perched majestically atop, came down in a storm in the
1970s. And even though the column that the weather vane
rested upon now has chunks missing, he hopes to see a new
one go up.Warren
and Ruth Trager, who have long been active in preserving the
area's heritage, already have donated $500 toward a new
weather vane and have pledged another $250 toward topping
the project in style.“Before
we can really put the weather vane up, we've got to put
some work on the structure itself,” said City Manager Jim
Chisholm.But
the good news is that the city now is planning to do
something about
that.“What
we're learning is that any pre-World War Two coquina
structure needs continuous monitoring and maintenance,”
said Deputy City Manager Paul McKitrick.In
addition to recent renovations to the coquina Bandshell,
McKitrick noted the city recently spent $100,000 to restore
the coquina walkover at the base of the Daytona Pier.“If
it could look like the Bandshell, we'd be thrilled to
death,” said Zeisler.And
he's encouraged enough by the city's response that
he's looking forward to the day when that will
happen.
Jim Zeisler, with the National
Association of Watch and Clock Collectors, holds two of the
large titanium clock hands before he installed them in 2010
in this file photo. Last week, Zeisler urged the city to
renovate the Bandshell’s clock tower structure.
The clock tower on the Boardwalk
as it looked in 1961.
>
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