"Where in North America?" --- Section IV

[Mark Sedenquist]

What is that? Where is it?

(Photo by Gerald Thurman)

[CalOldBlue]

Quick work!

[CalOldBlue]

My original thought was the Old Faithful geyser, not THAT one, but the one near Calistoga. The surroundings aren't right though.

Is this thing a geyser?

[Mark Sedenquist]

Is this thing a geyser?

Yep, it's most certainly a geyser and not a pump-operated water feature.... It's not located in either Wyoming or California....

Mark

[CalOldBlue]

http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/hot.htm

[Mark Sedenquist]

Yeah, you're getting wise to the notion that I might be using images from places profiled on RTA.... This is known as "Old Perpetual Geyser" in Lakeview, Oregon and it shoots a plume of hot water into the air about every 90 seconds or so. In the wintertime it's pretty darn neat -- goes about 60 feet in the air and the hot water crystalizes as it falls back to earth if it's cold enough!

Mark

[CalOldBlue]

I figured if it isn't CA or WY, then the most likely place for a geyser in NAM is someone along the "ring of fire"; started in Oregon first... and there you were!

Try this one. These lovely gardens are part of a triple-threat attraction.

What is it, where, and what are the other two things this place is known for (aside from the gardens)?


Photo: Don Casey

Unless someone surprises me, you WILL need clues!

[Mark Sedenquist]

This one looks easy to me....the Japanese garden at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, California. And if so, the

"other two things this place is known for..."

would be these two paintings?

Thomas Gainsborough's "The Blue Boy" (1770) and Thomas Lawrence's "Pinkie"

There's a lot more to discover at the Huntington Library -- their gift shop is worth a visit all by itself.

Mark

[CalOldBlue]

Yes. The two things I was thinking of were the artwork/galleries and the library.

Visited on a trip down to Pasadena to visit daughter (nursing grad student at CSLA) and son-in-law (genetics grad student at USC; a tough tough thing for an Old Blue to have to deal with).

I'd been here previously in the 70s; gardens are amazing, esp. the desert garden.

Photo: Don Casey

The artwork, as you note, is also notable. Aside the pieces you cite, there is at least one John Singer Sargent (Linda's favorite artist):

Photo: Don Casey

And lastly, the library section (what this is named for) has various and sundry Gutenbergs, Shakespeares, etc.

Here's a first folio Shakespeare open to Hamlet:

Photo: Don Casey

The Huntington was founded by Henry E. Huntington, nephew of Colis P. Huntington, one of the Big Four who established the Central Pacific, the corporation that drove the Pacific side of the Transcontinental Railway (and eventually morphed into the Southern Pacific). The other three, for the record:

Leland Stanford: the political force of the group; became Governor of California (and also founded a junior University in Palo Alto among other things)

Mark Hopkins: the money man of the team; was a merchant in Sacto (with Huntington)... (there's a hotel named for him in SF)

Charles Crocker: the engineer/driver of the group (also founded Crocker Bank with became Crocker-Anglo Bank which was merged with Wells Fargo). The old Crocker Bank on Montgomery near Market in SF is still a working branch of Wells, and a marvelous piece of architecture: worth a peek inside. Check out the ceiling; THIS is what banks SHOULD look like. Trivia: Deming NM is named for his wife.

The railroads made these guys insanely rich, and part of that money helped nephew Henry (although he shone in his own light; ran Newport News Shipbuilding in VA at one point). Huntington Park in Newport News is named for him, as is Huntington Beach in CA.

[CalOldBlue]

Identify this computer room (part of a tourist attraction):


Photo: Don Casey