An interesting clipping from 1925

Sunday at First Lutheran will be an All Chopin concert - this harmonizes with this article from 85 years ago, March. Linnea Gord performs Chopin.

LEDGER, MARCH 22, 1925

Robert Weisbach Studio Program for KGB

Upper row, from left to right: Mildred Rosenberg, Josephine Peers, Mrs. R.K. Haskell. Lower row, from left to right: Maxine Knuppe, Linnea Goode, Elsie Carlson

Studio nights have become one of the most populat offering from KGB, The Ledger broadcasting station and it is with pleasure that KGB presents on Monday evening a studio program arranged by Robert Wiesbach, pianist-composer and teacher of the piano.

Mr. Wiesbach is one of the pioneer teachers of Tacoma and is a most schlarly musician and a composer of rare attainments. The program, as arranged for Monday evening, presents his advanced students and will prove of great interest to all lovers of good music.

The tentative program is as follows:

Polonaise in A Major............Chopin

Miss Linnae Goode

To Spring..................................Grieg

Miss Maxine Knuppe

Mazurka Elegante......

Miss Mildred Rosenbach (age 13)

Octave Etude in F.............Hendricks

Jesse Curtis

Prelude from Suite.............Debussy

Miss Josephine Peers

Staccato Caprico..............Vogrich

Miss Margaret McConville

Allegro de Concert.....Granados

Miss Elsie Carlson

Rhapsodie in B Minor.....Brahms

Mrs. R.K. Haskell

Romanza in F Sharp......Schumann

Etude in D Flat.......Liszt

Miss Winnifred Davis

Monday evening preceding the musical program arranged by Mr. Weis-

(end of clipping) Linnea Gord acted as an accompanist, a choir director (in Swedish, dirigent) for her heritage group's Swedish-Finnish choir - and as dance band piano player for their band, The Gord Family Orchestra. This was an avocation. She worked for fifteen years as a secretery in Tacoma, married at thirty-four. They had two daughters, one was myself. Linnea Gord was a life-time member of First Lutheran Church.

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Comments on Planning

Today I emailed in comments on the Mobility Master Plan. Here is a photo of one flowering tree where there were two flowering trees. One had to be taken out to allow the flashing yellow light post. Should matter that the Urban Forest and the Mobility sections harmonize.

Steve's Gay Nineties

Today while looking around in South Tacoma where the Planning Commission's proposed zoning changes would be - I visited the old Steve's Gay Nineties - I found that at the old Steve's Gay Nineties there now is a Subway.

The old Steve's had it's own cable car. When you click to see the cable car, the photo shows the cable car being delivered to Steve's.

The Goldberg Project

At First Lutheran Church on Sunday (tomorrow) March 7, will be The Goldberg Project. If you click on the project name, you can see a video about the second graders whose art will be displayed at the project on a screen. My appreciation of church art is represented here in a grade school write. The article with the video refers to an earlier performance at PLU - Tomorrow's performance is at First Lutheran Church near Wright's Park.

This photograph shows two trees beyond the foreground madrona - a madrona the park removed, and a large tree, I think a hemlock, on private property, that was removed recently. The madrona was marked with a sign, the other tree was removed without notice.

This afternoon the flowering trees beside the construction of the new Safeway store on Proctor stand out in clear relief. They are not fenced for protection, if they are protected it is an informal direction to "Look out for the trees." Yesterday afternoon I attended a Planning Commission Public Hearing. Here I am describing some of the brief comments at the event, about thirty people commented. The Mobility Master Plan was to be important to bike riders and pedestrians. I have used a bike in Tacoma since 1990. At the door I picked up a copy of The 2010 Annual Amendments for the Comprehensive Plan and Land Use Code (495 pages).

The Pyramid

I was interested in the pyramid on page 121. It seems to me it should always be presented tilted at an angle to prevent extreme status reversals. The pyramid: "The City of Tacoma will use this model as a conceptual tool for elevating pedestrians, bicycles and public transit in the planning and design of streets...it gives recognition to the city's most vulnerable users." Street design will reverse an anti-human approach that one speaker, David Hiller, of Cascade Bicycle Club, described in this way - "As if cars, not people, were the only valued constituents."

Changes to the South Tacoma Neighborhood:

Seven people spoke about these changes. Bruce Peterson, a South Tacoma business owner, also mentioned he was a third generation South Tacoma resident. One or two speakers mentioned plans for the South Park historical district.

Steve's

I think a great South Park historical district could see once again Steve's Gay Nineties, a well-liked restaurant of many years which featured a dining room with booths with buggy wheels and can-can girls during the weekend. They had a nice Sunday buffet. My parents took my sister and myself to the buffet. It had a bean recipe I never found anywhere else but always remembered. In truth, I now have the bean recipe, which was easy to adapt to be vegetarian.

Urban Forest Comments:

I did not favor some of these comments. Citizens expressed some concern that caring about what happened to trees could be too restrictive - Ruth Doyle - expressed concern that trees and builders would find conflict, and D. Hamber - regarding trees, D. Hamber was uneasy that policy quickly becomes regulation. In truth, the Wright Park Tree Project gives the lesson that tree Replacement involves tree removal. Trees come to a time in their life-spans when their years have been lived out. The trees at Wright Park that are to be removed are marked with an explanation for the planned removal, and new trees are planted to sustain the presence of the arboretum.

Thirty percent of Our Trees Lost

However, Jody Atkins expressed deep concern that in recent years in Tacoma we have lost thirty percent of our trees. Scott Hansen wished even more nature included in the mobility master plan, wants the Puget Creek Trail system, a very forested trail, worked into the plan.

Health

In a similar way, Diane Evans - of the Pierce County Health Department, supports the Urban Forests along with the Mobility Master plan, because community gardens with tomato plants or fruit trees can be tools along with walking and bike riding in the struggle against the health concern - obesity.

For Our Trees

Linda Meade - urged that Tacoma plan carefully For our Trees

and Cat Mchahey spoke about how a cluster of oak trees was cut down last month by a developer, and how their neighborhood missed those trees. We do know that trees that are gone are deeply missed.

Tacoma Mobility Master Plan Comments:

Members of the Tacoma Wheelmen's Club, the Cascade Bicycle Club, Transportation Choices Coalition all spoke requesting that the Mobility Master Plan be approved. I believe one speaker pointed out that less attention was applied in the Mobility Master Plan to the needs of disabled citizens than would have been appropriate. They wanted more attention in the Master Plan to the needs of the disabled.

Years back I once repeated the comments of others in a letter urging our elected officials to act - my own experience of that situation felt untrained, and the believable comments seemed good to me. Of course I credited them. In the same way I can forward the comments I heard yesterday afternoon in the Council Chambers at the Municipal Building in that way to the Planning Committee. I can leave out the comments I did not favor. Perhaps I can find other points in the large book before March 12th.

Comments will be accepted until March 12th.

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Thoughts on City of Tacoma Mobility Master Plan - sections on

Prerequisite, Pork Chop Refuge Island, Trigonometry,

Haiku, The True Slab, and Globalization

1. PREREQUISITE

I browsed the shelves years back to find

A study of shapes called topology stands

between Geometry and Trigonometry.

Topology stands as Trigonometry's prerequisite.

Topology prepares us to determine cubic measure

in a coffee cup with a handle.

Topology prepares students to determine

cubic measure in

a Triangular Slab with Rounded Corners.

2. PORK CHOP REFUGE ISLAND

Without the blessing of Topology,

Master Plan can only call it Pork Chop Refuge Island.

A pig walked along toward slaughter

who inspired a wealth of pig animal literature.

A swine fell over a cliff in the New Testament

filled with devils from mad humans.

There was a Pork Chop Hill

from the Korean War.

There was a Leg O' Mutton Sleeve -

the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Tragic Fire.

But this triangular slab of cement

with rounded corners

is, in the Mobility Master Plan

a street barrier.

3. TRIGONOMETRY

After that moment browsing I put the book

called Topology back on the shelf.

Vivid thoughts of Trigonometry

pulsed through soul, heart, and brain.

The Other White Meat. The British usage

of French for Animals served on the plate.

My boomer development, split-level,

high school out on Christmas Tree Lane.

My two university diplomas.

4. HAIKU

Out of the great sky

came like a recollection

A Little Snowflake

5. ONION PIG - THE TRUE SLAB

Our true slab is local history.

When grandmother and grandfather were young,

A Stadium woodshop project

was a chopping board shaped like a pig.

Because one reserved this

for chopping onions, it was

always referred to as The Onion Pig.

The Master Plan can require all

irregular slabs with rounded corners

to truly be shaped like a real pig

in memory of the Onion Pig -

and all Woodshop Projects.

Onion Pig Memorial Refuge Island -

6. GLOBALIZATION

Our newly invested reality - post-ethnic,

a feature of Globalization:

If we Are Globalized and Post-Ethnic,

will not this Pork Chop be chopped

up into little meat features

in some cuisine that can in no way resemble

Frontier Steak House of our imagination,

Frontier Steak House of the Wild West.

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Valentine Cymbal

The Gord Family Orchestra went to Sweden and Finland in 1938. What wonderful dance band songs they played on the Lancastria as the Suomi Band for the Excursion to Finland.

A Happy Valentine's Greeting for the Orchestra and the wonderful Scandinavian Dance Band Music.