DECEMBER
12, 2004 --
As
2004 comes to a close, LPR reminisces -- posting once again, some
of the -- hundreds? -- of photos that have appeared during the
year at this ... phlogsite (for photo blog?).
It would have been more alliterative, perhaps, to have said "LPR Looks
Back," but mindful of what happened to Lot's wife for doing that, LPR
thought it would be
prudent to use "Reviews" instead.
Last January, LPR went to Brooklyn for photos of Mayor Bloomberg and,
since then, has concluded -- nothing personal intended -- that there should
be a law barring billionaires from being mayor of New York City.
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| January
27, 2004 - New York CIty Mayor Michael Bloomberg greeting
the crowd after his speech at the VFW Post in Brooklyn. |
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| January
27, 2004 - New York CIty Mayor Michael Bloomberg speaking
to a VFW crowd in Brooklyn. |
In February, LPR
got photos of Hugh Jackman on New York's 46th Street, and many photos
of Senator Kerry at a post-Wisconsin primary rally, And also of a
Wisconsin farm. Since then, both the Jackman and Kerry shows have closed. The
farm, presumably, continues.
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| February
2004 - Hugh Jackman, star of “The Boy from Oz” signs
after a performance. |
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| February
2004 - Hugh Jackman signing after a show. |
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| February
2004 - Senator Kerry addresses supporters. |
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| February
2004 - LPR’s take: “and I ain’t whistlin’ crackers!” |
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| February
2004 - A farm somewhere in Wisconsin. |
Here are photos
from March, when LPR snapped one of the Godzilla buses that will
consume New York streets, and a horse-drawn carriage that points
to the eternal equine spirit.
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March
2004 - One of the behemoth buses now in use in the Bronx
and Manhattan.
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March
2004 - One of the horse drawn carriages in the vicinity
of Central Park.
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April
2004 - Sign installed on I-84 eastbound, just before Exit
68, less than 15 hours after the UConn women won UConn
its second NCAA basketball championship – – in
two days!
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April
2004 - A champion’s smile - Diana Taurasi, returning
to Gampel for the welcome home rally despite her invitation
to try out for the U.S. Olympic team.
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April
2004 - UConn men’s coach Jim Calhoun, pausing at
a door to Gampel Pavilion for the LPR camera, NCAA 2004
championship plus two days. Great job, coach.
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In April, LPR
went to Hartford for the rally of the two NCAA basketball champions,
the UConn women and the UConn men.
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April
2004 - Diana Taurasi thanking the fans.
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April
2004 - Coach Calhoun waving as it is announced he will
throw out the first ball at Fenway Park the next day.
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The following
day, UConn men's coach Jim Calhoun, was in Boston to throw out
the first ball at Fenway Park on Patriots'
Day, April 19 -- (the day of the Boston Marathon) before a Red
Sox -Yankees game. It would seem that
Coach Calhoun brought his winning ways to Fenway, in view of the
Red Sox World Series win, six months later -- their first in 86
years.
And the day after, LPR was given an
exclusive photo op at Fenway Park. LPR does not claim that it changed the luck
of the Red Sox. Still, LPR has yet to be invited into Yankee Stadium and see
what
happened to the Yankees, in 2004.
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Fenway’s
graceful grandstands.
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Close
to first base at Fenway.
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LPR has, of course,
taken photos outside Yankee Stadium and here shows the photo of Miss
USA Shandi Finnessey petting Shana, before a game with the Red Sox,
last April.
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April
23, 2004 - Miss USA Shandi Finnessey outside of Yankee
Stadium.
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April
23, 2004 - Petting Shana.
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April
2004 - Jeff Greenfield outside of Yankee Stadium. Danny
Machiavello, second from the right.
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Another outside-the-Stadium photo shows CNN's Jeff Greenfield -- and, on the
right, Yankee security supervisor Danny Machiavello, before he was activated
for duty in Iraq, a few weeks later. May God protect Danny and all our people
in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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April
2004 - Tim Robbins at the opening day Broadway Show League
softball game.
Note
Dec. 2004 - Tim Robbins -- actor and Broadway Show League
player
(and, by the way, an Oscar winner in 2004).
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April
2004 - Alec Baldwin.
Note
Dec. 2004 - Alec Baldwin -- actor and Broadway Show League
opening
day ceremonies participant.
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April
2004 - LPR is convinced that northbound West Side Highway
motorists look straight ahead, certainly not to the right.
LPR does not, however, know the amount of the fine on conviction
of driving while looking at a billboard siren.
Note Dec. 2004 - This motorists' distraction (isn't any billboard a
motorists' distraction?) was replaced not long after this photo appeared
in
LPR -- darn it.
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