DECATUR– Rock Springs Center will provide a series of nature photography classes in February.Introduction to Digital
Photography for Wildlife and Nature will be 6 to 8 p.m. Feb. 1, 8, 14 and 22 and is free of charge. Decatur Cam Club member Joe Norton will be the instructor. Ruth and Vaughn Jaenike Access to the Arts Grant Applications open Participants will learn how to utilize digital electronic cameras with hands-on guideline and some cameras will be readily available for students to utilize if they do not have their own. For best results, strategy to attend all 4 sessions.Register by twelve noon the day before the very first class at MaconCountyConservation.org. My Town: Clint Walker’s memories of Coles County as pulled from the archives Cosmic Blue Comics From the Nov. 22, 1992, Journal Gazette, this picture of Cosmic
Blue Comics in Mattoon; where I spent essentially every Saturday afternoon for about two years. That
small back room you see simply off to the right of the Coca-Cola indication was where they kept the numerous, and
I mean lots of, long-boxes of back
concerns. I still own my bagged copy of”Tales of the Beanworld “problem No. 1 that I discovered back there. Unfortunately, this place is now simply a”greenspace”. Mattoon Game Pictured, Shelbyville’s Bob Murray from the June 2, 1982, Journal Gazette, showing his supremacy over the TRON arcade video game at the “Carousel Time” arcade at the Cross County Shopping mall, later on to be the Aladdin’s Castle, soon afterwards to be not a thing any longer. I spent practically every Saturday at
that game, maybe with
that specific same hairstyle. No overalls, however. I was more of an”Ocean Pacific”sort of kid. Icenogle’s Pictured, from the Nov. 28, 1988, Journal Gazette, Icenogle’s grocery store. Being from Cooks Mills, we didn’t frequently store at Icenogle’s … however when we did, even as a kid, I knew it was the way a supermarket is supposed to be in a best world, and that’s not even if they had wood floors, comic books on the publication rack, or
plenty, and
I suggest plenty, of trading cards in wax packs. Cooks Mills I had long considering that moved far from Cooks Mills by the time this Showcase item about Adam’s Groceries ran in the June 13, 1998, Journal Gazette, but there was a time when I extremely well might have been among those kids because photo; for if it was summer season, and you had a bike, and you lived in Cooks Mills, that’s where you
wound up. At
last report, they still had Tab in the Pepsi-branded cooler in the back. I’m seriously considering asking my cash guy if I might manage to resume this location. Mister Music Pictured, from the July 16, 1987, Journal Gazette, this advertisement for Mister Music, previously located in the Cross County Mall. I wasn’t purchasing records at that age, however I would eventually, and that’s where it all went down. If you do not think it sounds”cool”to hang out at a record shop with your friends on a Friday night, a piping-hot driver’s license fresh in
your wallet, you ‘d be
right. But it’s the very best a geek like me could do. Wherever you are today, owners of Mister Music, please understand that a Minutemen album I found in your low-cost bin changed my life. Sound Source Guitar Toss Picture of the author as a young man, ready to throw a guitar through a target at that year’s Sound Source Music Guitar Throwing Contest, from the April 18, 1994, Journal Gazette. Check out my grunge-era hoodie, and yes … look carefully, those are Air Jordans you see on my feet. Addendum: regardless of what the cutline says, I did not win a guitar.Pictured, clipped from the online archives at JG-TC.
com, an image from the
April 18, 1994, Journal Gazette of Sound Source Music Guitar Throwing Contest winner, and present JG-TC staff author, Clint Walker. Vette’s Here today, gone tomorrow, Vette’s Teen Club, from the June 20, 1991, Journal Gazette. I wasn’t “cool”adequate to hang out at Vette’s back in it’s “prime time,”and by”cool enough”I suggest,”not proficient enough in car park battles.”If just I might get a fracture at it now. FutureGen FutureGen: Completion of the beginning, and eventually, the start of the end, from the Dec. 19, 2007, JG-TC. I want I had been paying more attention at the time
. I probably should
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