Rodney Bullock Posted January 27, 2011 Report Posted January 27, 2011 Well Rockwood we finally got the wonderful gift from the great north:( I can't go out or nothing. I'm stuck in the house eating cookies and drinking ginger ale. " I want to go out side, I want to go outside....in the snow:cool: Quote
Gary Manes Posted January 27, 2011 Report Posted January 27, 2011 When I was in the Army at Vint Hill Farms out near Warrenton, they did not even issue liners for our field jackets in the winter. Can you imagine??? Now they are probably issuing Eskimo Parkas. I always enjoy your postings!! You either have some great shots of your toys or of D.C. I REALLY miss my houe up on "S" St., N. W. That is the first house I actually had a warm and fuzzy feeling about. Quote
aero3113 Posted January 27, 2011 Report Posted January 27, 2011 Rodney,that's all you got????? We have 16.5 inches and it is VERY heavy snow to shovel. Quote
Don Coatney Posted January 27, 2011 Report Posted January 27, 2011 Well Rockwood we finally got the wonderful gift from the great north:( I can't go out or nothing. I'm stuck in the house eating cookies and drinking ginger ale. " I want to go out side, I want to go outside....in the snow:cool: What kind of cookies? Quote
moose Posted January 27, 2011 Report Posted January 27, 2011 Rodney,that's all you got????? We have 16.5 inches and it is VERY heavy snow to shovel. We got around 12", light and fluffy, but its stacked on top of 2 feet! Quote
Charlie Olson Posted January 27, 2011 Report Posted January 27, 2011 Well. last May (2010), on the Annual Route 66 Fun Run, PLYWOOD and I were caught in a severe snow/sleet storm. There was actually 1/8 inches of snow/hail/sleet on the ground. I was forced to put on long pants and socks. Quote
Joe Flanagan Posted January 27, 2011 Report Posted January 27, 2011 I REALLY miss my houe up on "S" St., N. W. That is the first house I actually had a warm and fuzzy feeling about. Gary, anywhere near the Woodrow Wilson house by any chance? I rebuilt the cedar closet in the president's bedroom when it got damaged by a burst water pipe. Also helped replace the wooden flooring in the drawing room. Nice place. Had to be watched over by an architectural historian, if you can believe that. Rodney, you're lucky you still have power. That was a wet, heavy snow. Some folks in Maryland are without power now since last night. Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted January 27, 2011 Author Report Posted January 27, 2011 What kind of cookies? Kebbler coconut chocolate cookies:) umm good. oh Canada dry ginger ale! Nothing mixed in. I just ordered some Papa johns pizza. You think they will get it here in 20 min....I hope so! aero3113 That would be to hard on my wife, she would have to shovel all that snow, it would hurt her. Quote
Gary Manes Posted January 27, 2011 Report Posted January 27, 2011 My house number was 1215 S, N.W. which is the same address as the Lincoln Threater which was behind one of Rodney's photos of his 1958 T Bird. Allot of well known black entertainers grew up in that nieghborhood. When everyone migrated to the burbs in the '60's everything went down hill. That is where they had the riots when I was in the Army out at Vint Hill. It had just about bottomed out when I bought my house in October of 1986. Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted January 27, 2011 Author Report Posted January 27, 2011 Gary, I spent alot of time in your old area as a kid. I would go to Ben's chili bowl and do my home work. There use to be a theater the republic I think it was called. I have done alot of movie work there as well. The area has been revitailized now. They have the metro there and a museum. The place is cleaned up with condo's everywhere. 14th street is rebuilt as well. You would not reconize the place now. The black solider's memorial is there as well. I really love thet part of town because it is not far from Howard U I would attend classes and on saturday I attended the saturday collage at DC teacher's collage. The car club that I belong to have a permenent meeting room at Howard U in the engineering building. We have a great link to the school becaue amember of my club went to Howard U. He was a Tuskegee air man. I have worked on his cars many times. Gary, your old house is worth about 900 to a million dollars now. Quote
Greenbomb Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 Charley, all I can say is "Oh, the humanity!!!!!" Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted January 28, 2011 Author Report Posted January 28, 2011 Gary, anywhere near the Woodrow Wilson house by any chance? I rebuilt the cedar closet in the president's bedroom when it got damaged by a burst water pipe. Also helped replace the wooden flooring in the drawing room. Nice place. Had to be watched over by an architectural historian, if you can believe that. Rodney, you're lucky you still have power. That was a wet, heavy snow. Some folks in Maryland are without power now since last night. Hey Joe, yeah we got power, if I didn't I would be at the hotel. It's to cold to be just "in the house" how is everybody and everything over in Alexandia? There are so many historic houses in DC I was in one house working and found out it was Carter G Woodsons old home. It looked like any other. Quote
Joe Flanagan Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 Rodney, we're good over here. Ford's Theater, where Lincoln was assassinated, is two blocks away from where I'm sitting right now (yes, I'm at work). The house where he died is right across the street. Up until recently, it was flanked by "massage parlors" run by Korean women. I think they've been shut down now. Ford's was completely gutted some years after the assassination and used as a warehouse. The National Park Service acquired it and completely reconstructed the interior. So if you go see it, you're not seeing the real thing. Mary Surratt's boarding house is also a short walk from here. She is the woman who was hung with the other conspirators for her alleged role in the assassination. It's a wood frame two-story house that now sits in the middle of Chinatown. In fact, the ground floor is now a Chinese restaurant. The upper floor is a residence. Robert E. Lee's boyhood home is a short distance from my house. It's a big, rambling clapboard thing, painted brown. Never went inside it but I will one of these days. Quote
Gary Manes Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 Rodney, They had just finished up the work on the metro and the Lincoln was active. The condo's were still talk when I left. Ground breaking was suppose to be two years before I left. I loved the area too. I knew it had tremendous potential. I use to walk over to Popeyes for lunch off and on, and as you will know it is on the edge of campus. There was a Roy Rogers up one block on the other side of the street. All the big name entertainers, who are still left, always mentioned going to Ben's on their first day in town when I would see them on T.V. doing personal interviews. Bill Cosby was a regular, but I never got to see him there. He used to get behind the counter and help. He is just about my favorite commedian. He plays up Ben's every time he is in town. You may have never noticed, but if you walk across the street and look at the building you will notice that it was a nicolodien in a previous life. You can feel your arteries start to clog before you even open the door!!! I paid $80,000 for the house in 1986 in pretty rough shape. I was about 90% finished when I left. I almost cried when I walked out the last time. But, I think I found a good buyer which would continue my renovations, and not rip it out into something modern. Thanks for the update on the ole neighborhood. Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted January 28, 2011 Author Report Posted January 28, 2011 Rodney, we're good over here. . Up until recently, it was flanked by "massage parlors" run by Korean women. I think they've been shut down now. . Hey, they better not! I got an appointment for 2:30. JOE! How did you find out. Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted January 28, 2011 Author Report Posted January 28, 2011 That's funny, I never saw Bill Cosby there either. I did see alot of the rich and famous there as well. I have been to the lincoln when it was old and when it was renovated. I actually went to the booker T and the Republic. I even when to the Howard theater for shows as a kid. Your right the club next door from Ben's and Ben's were nicolodian is'nt that amazing. If you go inside Ben's walk almost to the back and turn around you can see The upstairs. Quote
55 Fargo Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 Okay Were gettin some snow too, 4-6 inches by Noon CST, and windy conditions after that. Here is lookin toward road in front yard, with Ole Rockwood crammin into the pic. Quote
Young Ed Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 Fred is that a custom made hat??? Quote
Joe Flanagan Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 Rodney, You not only have to reschedule, you have to reschedule in another neighborhood. How do I know? I happened to notice ads in the sports section of the Washington Post for these really sketchy "spas" with names like "Happiness Spa," and such-like. They were at the back of the sports pages and the addresses were all around 10th St. I realized that 10th St. was just around the corner from me. Gene Weingarten, a columnist with the Post did an article where he showed up at one of these places and--just to be a wiseguy--decided to ask for a legitimate massage. Played like he didn't know anything was going on there. It was really funny. I think they kicked him out because they thought he was a cop. There was a lot of shady stuff going on in that neighborhood, as you know. And with the Wizards and Capitals stadium (what's it called these days? MCI center? Verizon center? Nameless corporate entity center?) being built, all that stuff has gone away. Do you remember when 14th St. was "14th St."? You could see the flashing lights coming over the bridge from Virginia. Quote
55 Fargo Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 Fred is that a custom made hat??? yah, at work, as we work at Rockwoood Prison, we had ordered these hats about 20 of us. I gave myself this handle, at my beginning on here, have been tempted to change it many times since, but I have been Rockwood on here for so long, why bother now..........LOL Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted January 28, 2011 Author Report Posted January 28, 2011 (edited) Joe, I remember when 14th st was nothing but a blue light district. My young hoodlum friends of mine use to go window shopping. We would bumrush a place and see all we could before the guy would gather us up and kick us out. Those were some good days. There use to be a Mcdonalds on the corner. My best friend and I thought if we could get a job there we could see all the working girls. The guy gave us a job on the night shift. It made me sick:mad: I got sick of all the coffe cups with all the lip stick on them. Then the guy said we got off at 4:00am well when a truck came in we had to unload. sometimes we did not get out til 7:00am and get this that's not overtime:eek: 2 weeks and I was out of there, my mom laugh so hard I was draggin home when she was leaving for work. She increased my allowence to 40 buck and I never though about working no more:rolleyes: The good old days "shoe , shoe shine use to cost a dime, a nickle could buy you plenty a penny was a fare to take you anywhere. troubles we didn't have any" Edited January 28, 2011 by Rodney Bullock Quote
Joe Flanagan Posted January 28, 2011 Report Posted January 28, 2011 I'll bet you saw some sights there. I remember I was parking my car on 14th St. one time and a girl walks up to me wearing nothing but a man's dress shirt and a pair of high heels. She was carrying a bag of Popeye's fried chicken and the grease was soaking through the bag. She says to me, "If you want to watch the girls, honey, come in here." Then she goes into this place that had peep booths. She was good looking enough, but the greasy chicken really put me off. Remember Doc Johnson's? Casino Royale? The "O"? Quote
Rodney Bullock Posted January 29, 2011 Author Report Posted January 29, 2011 Omg, Casino Royal I have not been thown out of a better place:eek: A tear is falling down my face. I wonder if Doc Johnson is still alive, I know his products live on and on and on. Quote
PatS.... Posted January 30, 2011 Report Posted January 30, 2011 We had a week long Chinook raising temps to mid 50's f, but winters back!!! http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20110129/CGY_Messy_Roads_110129/20110129/?hub=CalgaryHome (video in middle of page) Quote
james49ply Posted January 30, 2011 Report Posted January 30, 2011 Geeze and I was complaining that we only got up 68 today:eek: Quote
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