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In a now-demolished farm house in Iowa I taught the older grandsons to make pasta carbonera. It is easy: while pasta (any type) boils in hot water, in a pan fry bacon and onion; throw the boiled pasta into the pan; break in a few eggs; mix the whole until the eggs are cooked; eat with wine (adults) or soda (kids).
This was the lunch food of Italian underground miners. It was probably the high point of the day, as it was the high-point meal for five boys and one girl in that cold, old farm-house in Iowa.
Recently an Australian journalist asked me about the grubbiest job in mining. I replied: front-face, underground miners. Just like those Italians who ate pasta carbonera.
The dark side of mining, and there is one, is the hard, grubby, dangerous work in deep underground mines drilling, blasting, mucking, and moving ore-laden rock.
They are called mining laborers, or labourers, depending on your spelling preference. In the USA and Canada they earn between fifteen and thirty dollars and hour. Much less in Chile, South Africa, and China. And they die regularly. My paternal grandfather was one and he died in a rock-burst before I was born.
The fact is that while we write about and revel in tales of junior mining exploration undertaken from luxury offices, the reality is that rock has to be broken and moved to liberate the gold and silver that make the money that makes luxury offices in high-rise towers possible.
Journalists and blogger seldom write of this dark side of mining. We never go below to do what they do; we never deign to don water-proof gear, and advance to the raw rock-face. Like those miners in Chile who got caught and trapped and rescued—a miracle.
It matters not whether you are at the mining face in Chile, Diavik, Ekati, a coal mine inVirginia, or a coal mine in China. It is the same: descend the shaft, walk to the face, and in the dark, drill holes, push in explosive, retreat for the blast, and go back to muck out the broken rock and ore.
We can hardly imagine this dark, damp, and dangerous existence. We wonder what sort of men do this. Maybe, like my grandfathers, they are simply men desperate to make a few dollars to support family. They have no education and no skills. This is the only way to make money. Toil and travail is their lot. A brute patience and simple endurance. It breeds a comrade, solidarity, a union spirit, and a disdain for the manager, engineer, and money-maker. They eat pasta, sandwiches, buns, fahitas, welch pies, and any other high-carbohydrate food. Screw the organic and vegetables—that is for the effete.
They live blackened by coal, dust, and oil. They die of lungs clogged by fine quartz particles. They smoke for the relief and care not for the consequences–for smoking in nothing by comparison with the fine dust of the deep mine front face.
I challenge somebody to write in detail and from personal knowledge about these men (for this is not women's work) and to go below in mines across the globe and document the truth of this dark, hard side of mining. I volunteer if somebody will provide the finance.
And if nobody does, then this piece is all I can offer to their honor. For the rest, let us not forget them in glorifying the other fun parts of mining and making money.


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Latest happenings have left me stupefied. It seems right out of the pages of an Ayn Rand novel that our nation is being run. By a bunch of bureaucrats who deserve to be hanged by their legs till they grow some brain (NO pun intended). I talk of regulations that are being foolishly introduced in all walks of life and the so called moral code of the society that is taking precedence over common logic.
Recently, a small paragraph in some wild corner of the newspaper read – Regulation to be introduced in the quantity of alcohol in various drinks (HUH?). And just a few days back, a new shock treatment was administered- post the rave parties' argument being faced by the city, the Mumbai city officials have announced that a license would be needed for the consumption of alcohol. Furthermore, following the re-enforcement of the Bombay Prohibition Act of 1949, any person who is caught consuming alcohol without permit would be fined 50,000 rupees ($900) or jailed for a period of 5 years.
Without spending much time trying to mask my words in a suitable gloss, I ask a question- Are the authorities insane?
Everybody knows the results of the original Bombay Prohibition Act of 1949. Illegal alcohol production in unhygienic places, combined with the 'illegal' consumption of alcohol rose to such an extent, bringing in something of a 'mafia', that the government was finally forced to amend the act in 1973, under which alcohol consumption was made legal, however, with the individual carrying a permit. And as time passed, as more and more stress is placed on development and more important things in this fast paced nation, all was good and forgotten. Until a few months back, when the police being headed by a new administration (albeit with a brain defect) began crashing into perfectly drug-free parties and detaining hoards of people under the pretense of the permit.
Another 'Expert' in the field, a certain Mr. Anna Hazare recently added fuel to the fire that makes me cringe in anger. He made the controversial statement that those who drink should be tied to pillars and flogged until they become aware of the ill effects of their wrong doing and commit not to touch even a drop of liquor. SERIOUSLY? Let us see if Mr. Hazare gets the same kind of support now…
Isn't it common sense? You ban something, and people will definitely find ways to defy the ban. Now that becomes 'illegal'. And then the authorities spend more man power trying to bust these illegal ways. That leads to innovation in 'illegal' deals, which the authorities interpret in a wildly baffling manner (given their meager brains, we can't really expect anything else), which prompts more 'illegal' behavior. And that further leads to the authorities scratching their head in vain- What should be done to stop all of this? Introduce another ban! In short, these so called Authorities are writing their own end. Isn't it simple enough to be understood by a fifth grader? Don't place the ban in the first place! (but on second thought I wonder how many of those have actually passed fifth grade)
That brings me back to my original cause discussion. Who are they to impose regulations and restrictions? By what right? Under what moral code? A moral code defined by power hungry politicos? Or by the very same hoodlums who watch porn in the parliament house? Who is the government to try and regulate the extent of enjoyment that people can resort to? Aren't there worse issues that need addressing at the moment? What of the millions and trillions that are lost in corruption by these very ministers? And what of the fact that Kasab is still a royal guest and No viable progress has been made in the matter?! The list goes on and on and on and on and all this invariably leads to the classic war of the individual against the state. What are the duties of the state, and what are the rights of an individual?
As an individual, I who took birth on planet earth, have full right to do whatsoever that I please, as long as I respect the freedom of others. No one, not even the most 'powerful' of people have any right to stop my actions. On the other hand, the government, to whom I pay shitloads of taxes, must ONLY possess the task of protecting the freedom of its citizens. Everything else must be regulated by market forces and an unwritten capitalist policy. These are my thoughts.
Having said that, be it illegal or not, do not stop your actions because of stupid policies devised by an even stupider authority. Only remember always never to intrude upon the freedom of another individual. Let us care to hoots of the authoritarian and concentrate on taking our country ahead through our productive achievements, overthrow the so called 'moral code' and live life our way. Let us at some point in future, 'drink up' to our achievements, despite the tyranny of the forsaken government…
Signing off for a drink…

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It was just last year that David Rackoff won the prestigious Thurber Prize for American Humor for his essay collection Half Empty. One of the essays, another shoe, had the author ruminating about his battle with cancer and how there was chance he would have to have his left arm and shoulder amputated.
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Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall
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For those of us who remember the Paramount before its makeover in 1984 the present manifestation of the building leaves much to be desired. It seems like they ran out of money somehow and realized that there would be no cost-effective way, given the budget, to execute an authentic refurbishment and enhancement of the theatre as they had done in the case of the exterior and lobby. There were three or four shades of gray and bluish gray accented by gold and a complex system of indirect cove and pocket lighting with which pretty much any color of the rainbow could be produced in the auditorium. This made for a striking contrast between the painted color scheme and lighting. The giant hand-painted autumnal and romanesque murals on either side wall of the balcony were painted over with a solid light beige. The Paramount auditorium was originally something of a brooding, bejeweled cavern. Very tall and long in it's feel. Little of any of that feel exists today. There are numerous photos of today's rendition of the theatre on Google. The fact that the did save the building keeps hope alive that someday Rapp and Rapp's creation will once again appear.
Grand opening ads as Portland and Paramount can now be found in the photo section for this theatre.
The Heathman Hotel, which contains the entrance to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, was designed by Portland architects James W. DeYoung and Knud A. Roald. Knud & Roald also acted as supervising architects for the construction of the Paramount Theatre. 23 photos of the interior of the Paramountare in the DeYoung and Roald Architectural Plans and Photographs collection at the University of Oregon Library at Eugene, Oregon. The collection is open to the public, but can be viewed only in the Special Collections & University Archives Reading Room.
A November 2012 photo can be seen here.
Does anyone have any information on original Paramount theatres that are still open but perhaps had a name change such as this one? I've been searching for all the original's opened under Paramount-Publix and am wondering if there are more now under a different name. Arlene Schnitzer doesn't show up in a Paramount search and I'm not finding anything when I link terms together (ie Rapp & Rapp, Paramount, Publix,1930 era etc.) so any info on how to get at least get a list of originals would be great, thanks.
I am so thankful that the old paramount theatre still stands to this day.
When one looks at the large one of a kind maquee and all those lights
It gives a feel of what broadway was when the paramount and its
Sister theatre's such as the broadway theatre, the fox, and liberty theatre
To name a few lined broadway and gave a person the feeling of somthing
Magical. And when one looks at the old paramount building and its many
Lights that light up the night one truly gets a look and feel of a by gone era.
The paramount theatre building and its outstanding marquee shows us
A little reminder of the magic of broadway from the past.
Nice photos,every big city must have a PARAMOUNT,check out the PARAMOUNT in Nashville,Tennessee on C.T.it was razed in 1979.
Thanks for the info.
I agree that it is a very nice job.
The vertical sign is a reproduction, dating to 1982, according to the new book by Gary Lacher, Theatres of Portland. It is really stunning, particularly at night. The original said PORTLAND, was later relettered PARAMOUNT, and the replica was created to look like the sign as originally lettered.
Is that the original vertical sign or a reproduction?
Thanks for the photos.
This is the longest of long-shots. As you can see from the post by Ron3853 above, on 09/17/69 a movie called DEADLY SWEET opened at the Paramount. I am doing research on this obscure movie, and am hoping against hope to find someone who saw it at the Paramount. If you saw it, or if you know someone who did, or if you could trace down someone who did, I would really like to hear from you. You may read my essay on the movie at http://rjbuffalo.com/1967a-he.html
Many thanks!
Warren, yes. You are surely correct. The beige went on when the city took the place over in the mid 80s. I worked at The Oregonian a block up Broadway. I last saw the theatre in 1988. I'm sure they've gone in by now with even more beige to touch up the wear and tear.
I have a few dim memories of the place before they subdued it. Its colors were just raucous in places, and in all ways different from what exists today (except for the stonework). I hope to hell that someone made a good color inventory, and took pictures, before they powered up the spray guns. It deserved at least that much respect.
It's wonderful that it was saved. I believe it's the last remaining movie palace left in Portland, which once had its fair share of them.
Unfortunately, the exuberant colorful decoration indicated in the BW shots linked above (shoeshoe14, Aug. 23, 2005) has been brought to its knees by hundreds of gallons of beige paint. This paint could be scraped off some day, and I hope it is. But for now the place is a monument to misguided "good taste."
My images of the PORTLAND THEATER
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There were originally 3,036 seats. It had an organ which was a 4/20 Publix 1 opus 1831 similar to the Seattle Paramount Wurlitzer. The instrument was shipped from the factory in January 1928 and the installation was supervised by Wurlitzer employee Harry E. Carruthers.
The theater opened on Thursday March 8, 1928 at 7:00pm. Liborius Hauptmann directed the Portland Grand Orchestra in selections from Faust. Following the overture came a short novelty film and the Paramount News. As the velvet curtain closed, a white spotlight caught the ivory and gold Wurlitzer as it rose from the pit with Ralph Hamilton playing "Organs I Have Played." After the console had slowly sunk from sight, Alex Hyde and the Portland Stage Band appeared to accompany "A Merry Widow Revue" direct from the New York Paramount Theatre and produced by Frank Cambria. This revue consisted of six acts… then the curtains opened on the feature picture which was "Feel My Pulse," starring Bebe Daniels, William Powell, and Richard Arlen.
The Portland Theatre was designed by C.W. and George Rapp and was built by the Association of Publix and Loew under the direction of West Coast Theatres. After about a year, the theatre was renamed the Paramount. The Wurlitzer console was presided over by such well-known artists as Oliver Wallace, Stanleigh Mallotte, and the popular team of Don and Iris Wilkins, among others. As a matter of fact, the organ was used regularly well into the 1930's.
The Paramount Theatre building still exists and was acquired by the City of Portland in the early 1980s. After extensive refurbishing, it reopened in 1984 as the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, home of the Oregon Symphony. The City owns the building which is part of the Portland Center for the Performing Arts. The marquee was restored to the original theatre name: "Portland."
At that time (1972) I was working at the Paramount. Several concerts played there around that time including the BeeGees, Captain Beefhart and the touring company of Jesus Christ Superstar among others. The theater was still primarily a film venue with a concert about once or twice a month. The last major film to play there was the 70mm run of Ryan's Daughter. After that there was a string of horror and black explotation flicks which lasted a few more months.
Concerning the timeline of this theater as a concert venue, The Grateful Dead performed here on 7/26/72.
The "Paramount" did if fact open as the Portland Publix. The name change to Paramount came only a few months later as Paramount studios started to rename their theatre to Paramont. This happened all over the country, not just in Portland.
It should be mentioned that 70mm equiment was install for the roadshow of Cleopatra and many of the films you listed above were sold on a hard ticket basis including My Fair Lady, Funny Girl, Paint Your Wagaon, Dr Zhavago and I believe Camolet.
I recall a news report when the old Paramount vertical sign was taken down so that it could be used as the basis for the replacement Portland vertical sign, the Paramount sign was so heavy that it caused damage to the sign company's crane.
Part of the history of a great movie theater is the films that played there. Listed below are most films which played at the Paramount Theater in Portland, Oregon from 1960-1970. The dates listed are all Wedenesdays of the week the film opened, as in those days, most new films started on a Wednesday instead of Fridays as they do now. Research is from microfilms of The Portland Oregonian (1964-68) and Variety (1960-70).
12/16/59 L'il Abner/Counterplot
01/06/60 Happy Anniversary/Timbuktu
01/13/60 The Wreck of the Mary Deare/Libel
01/20/60 The Amazing Transparent Man/Get Outta Town
01/27/60 Samson and Delilah/Ulysses
02/10/60 On the Beach
03/30/60 Heller in Pink Tights/A Touch of Larceny
04/06/60 Visit to a Small Planet/Circus Stars
04/20/60 The Bridges of Toko-Ri/The Country Girl
04/27/60 House of Intrigue/Web of Evidence
05/04/60 The Fugitive Kind/The Music Box Kid
05/18/60 Kidnapped/In the Money
05/25/60 The Gallant Hours/The Boy and the Pirates
06/01/60 Five Branded Women/Walk Like a Dragon
06/08/60 The Angry Red Planet/The Plunderers of Painted Flats
06/15/60 Macumba Love/Take a Giant Step
06/22/60 Circus of Horrors/The Fighting Wildcats
06/29/60 The Apartment/Gunfighters of Abilene
07/13/60 The Bellboy/Tarzan the Magnificent
07/27/60 The Rat Race/Chance Meeting
08/17/60 Elmer Gantry/Cage of Evil
08/31/60 It Started in Naples/Prisoner of the Volga
09/07/60 All the Fine Young Cannibals/Davy
09/14/60 Private Property/A Question of Infidelity
09/28/60 Under 10 Flags/The Boy Who Stole a Million
10/05/60 For Members Only/Mating Time
10/19/60 Heroes Die Young/Sex Kittens Go to College
10/26/60 Dial M for Murder/Strangers on a Train
11/02/60 Ten Who Dared/The Hong Kong Affair
11/16/60 A Breath of Scandal/New Orleans After Dark
11/23/60 G. I. Blues/Legion of the Doomed
12/14/60 Cinderfella/Police Dog Story
12/28/60 The Facts of Life/Operation Bottleneck
01/18/61 Swiss Family Robinson/Mysteries of the Deep
02/22/61 The Misfits/Frontier Uprising
03/08/61 The World of Suzie Wong
04/05/61 All in a Night's Work/Blueprint for Robbery
04/12/61 The Absent-Minded Professor
05/31/61 Vera Cruz/Apache
06/07/61 Look in Any Window/Unwed Mother
06/14/61 One-Eyed Jacks/Foxhole in Cairo
06/28/61 By Love Possessed/The Cat Burglar
07/12/61 The Ladies Man//Night Ambush
08/09/61 Nikki—Wild Dog of the North/Dondi
08/16/61 On the Double/Deadly Companions
08/23/61 Not Tonight, Henry/Next to No Time
09/20/61 Armored Command/The Serengeti Shall Not Die
09/27/61 Question 7
10/04/61 The Lovers/Not Tonight, Henry/Blond Blackmailer
seized by the law
10/11/61 Paris Blues/The Flight That Disappeared
10/18/61 Greyfriar's Bobby/The Boy Who Caught a Crook
10/25/61 The Lovers (returned after winning legal challenge)
11/22/61 Blue Hawaii/It Takes a Thief
12/13/61 The Train/Blonde Sinner
12/20/61 Pocketful of Miracles
01/17/62 The Happy Thieves/Deadly Duo
01/24/62 Siege of Syracuse/Hey, Let's Twist!
01/31/62 Flight of the Lost Balloon/The Day the Sky Exploded
02/07/62 Qustion 7
02/14/62 Too Late Blues/Lost Battalion
02/21/62 Sergeants 3/Hell Drivers
03/07/62 Pinocchio
03/28/62 Knights of the Round Table/Ivanhoe
04/04/62 The Outsider/Blast of Silence
04/11/62 Splendor in the Grass/Fanny
04/18/62 The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence/Brushfire
05/09/62 King of Kings (popscale)
05/23/62 The Rose Tattoo/The Proud & the Profane
05/30/62 Escape from Zahrain/The Matchmaker
06/13/62 Big Red/The Living Desert
06/27/62 The Road to Hong Kong/The Nun and the Sergeant
07/18/62 My Geisha/Air Patrol
07/25/62 The Delicate Delinquent/The Sad Sack
08/15/62 Hatari/Safe at Home
09/05/62 Tales of Terror/The Dead One
09/12/62 Tarzan Goes to India/The Tartars
09/19/62 Karamoija/Ritual of Love
09/26/62 Convicts 4/The Frightened City
10/03/62 Pressure Point/Summer of the 17th Doll (Season of Passion)
10/10/62 Almost Angels/Lady and the Tramp
10/31/62 The Manchurian Candidate/The Valiant
11/21/62 Girls! Girls! Girls!/Story of the Count of Monte Cristo
12/05/62 Portrait of a Sinner/Playgirl After Dark
12/19/62 In Search of the Castaways
01/23/63 The Longest Day
04/10/63 The Miracle of the White Stallions/The Brave One
04/24/63 I Could Go on Singing/Mary Had a Little
05/01/63 The Hook/Escape from East Berlin
05/08/63 Hercules and the Captive Women/Battle Beyond the Sun
05/15/63 Mondo Cane/Stark Fear
05/22/63 In the Cool of the Day/Rififi in Tokyo
05/29/63 Dr. No/Five Miles to Midnight
06/05/63 Poor White Trash/Cash McCall
06/12/63 Call Me Bwana/Hero's Island
06/26/63 Cleopatra
03/18/64 Wuthering Heights/Our Very Own
03/25/64 The Seven Faces of Dr. Lao/Flipper
04/01/64 God's Little Acre/I Want to Live
04/08/64 Mail Order Bride
04/15/64 Voodoo Village/Girls of the Night
04/22/64 Night Must Fall/Murder at the Gallop
04/29/64 Act One/Gypsy
05/06/64 Advance to the Rear/The Defiant Ones
05/13/64 The Best Man/The Bramble Bush
05/20/64 The Horror of Party Beach/Curse of the Living Corpse
05/27/64 Rhino!/The Golden Arrow
06/03/64 Witches' Curse/The Flesh-Eaters
06/10/64 The Three Lives of Thomasina
07/01/64 The Unsinkable Molly Brown
09/16/64 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
11/18/64 My Fair Lady
10/06/65 Mary Poppins (why did this take so long to open in
02/09/66 The Great Race
03/02/66 Made in Paris/The Hill
03/23/66 The Spy With My Face/To Trap a Spy
04/06/66 Doctor Zhivago
02/15/67 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (another film that opened
way late in Portland – why?)
03/15/67 The Mikado (3/15-16 only)
05/10/67 Hawaii
11/15/67 Camelot
06/05/68 War and Peace
06/12/68 Speedway/Day of the Evil Gun
07/03/68 The Odd Couple
11/20/68 Funny Girl
05/28/69 A Fine Pair/Twisted Nerve
06/04/69 Baby Love/A Bullet for the General
06/11/69 Fraulein Doktor/Waterhole #3
06/18/69 My Side of the Mountain/Hello, Down There
06/25/69 True Grit/Where's Jack?
08/27/69 Stiletto/Woman Times Seven
09/17/69 Sweden, Heaven, and Hell/Deadly Sweet
10/01/69 The Italian Job/Ace High
10/08/69 Blow-Up/Lolita
10/22/69 Mondo Hollywood/The Devil's Mistress
10/29/69 Paint Your Wagon
05/27/70 The Adventurers
07/08/70 The Out-of-Towners/Norwood
09/16/70 Cherry, Harry, and Raquel
09/30/70 The ABCs of Marriage
10/14/70 Diary of a Mad Housewife
Films from 1971-1975 will be posted as soon as research has been completed.


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Imagine coming to the park on a beautiful day like today, only to find this!
It just happened to my friend Laurie Katz who found this disturbing graffiti on the main sign to the children's playground at Beachland park just now! It must have happened over-night because Laurie and I were just at the West Hartford park yesterday with our children.
Katz, who is Jewish, is outraged by the graffiti and called West Hartford police right away!
"The cops were great. They came right away," my friend told me. "However, I just came here to play with my daughter who now has been exposed to this awful part of humanity. How do you explain this to a four-year old?"
Both Laurie and I have noticed more and more graffiti at the park lately but nothing like this.
"I mean, this is a hate crime," Laurie said. "They won't get away with it."
Indeed they won't! To the idiots who did this. don't mess with these West Hartford Moms! We're onto you!


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