Thanksgiving 2011
November 25, 2011
Hungry eaters beginning to enjoy their Thanksgiving meal, 24 November 2011.
Seated: Dr. Catherine J. Nichols, District Superintendent
Standing: Northview High School seniors Christina Alvarez, Leon Wong, and Tien Kieu; Principal Mark Sims
First Interstate Bank Tower Fire 1988
February 27, 2011
Burnt Glass from the First Interstate Bank Tower Fire
(2.0 cm x 2.5 cm x 0.6 cm)
When the 62-story First Interstate Bank building, at 707 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, opened in 1973, it was the tallest building west of the Mississippi River. At 10:30 p.m. on May 4, 1988, a fire broke out on the 12th floor and, over the next three hours and 45 minutes, spread upward to the 13th through 16th floors. The building had no sprinkler system. Floors 12 through 15 were destroyed as was half of the 16th floor. A maintenance worker was killed when elevator doors opened onto one of the burning floors; 40 firefighters were injured fighting the blaze. I found this small (3/4" x 1" x 1/4") piece of burnt glass on the sidewalk on 6th Street (along the northeastern side of the building) two days after the fire.
Stallings Family—East
January 27, 2011
Front row (left to right): Jacob Matthews holding Luke Matthews; Lindsey Stallings.
Back row: Michael Stallings holding Miles Matthews; Kami (Stallings) Matthews; Sierra Stallings; Dave Stallings; Kalenn Stallings.
University of Evansville Campus
August 23, 2010
Olmsted Administration Building in the center, Shanklin Theatre and Hyde Hall to the right. Photo taken by Wendy Stallings in May 1998.
Siebert Hall
August 10, 2010
Ohio State campus, 184 West 11th Avenue, Columbus. For information, click
here.
With Hartmut Gehrmann
March 21, 2010
Hartmut Gehrmann (right), bartender at Sudpfanne in the central train station in Kiel (Schleswig-Holstein), was “host” for our Sunday afternoon gatherings during my sabbatical at Uni-Kiel in the winter of 1996.
Gary Kreps Receives 2008 ELQ Award
February 23, 2010
Gary A. Kreps (center), College of William and Mary, received the E. L. Quarantelli Award for Social Science Disaster Theory. The award was presented at the Disaster Research Center (DRC), University of Delaware, in July 2008. Sharing the moment with Gary are DRC Co-founders and former Co-directors Russell R. Dynes (left) and E. L. (Henry) Quarantelli (right). Photo courtesy of Sue McNeal.
Bizarro, February 14, 2010
February 20, 2010
© 2010 by Dan Piraro
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