Melba Joe and Vicky, models for the three hundred and thirty-three dollar bill
San Sebastian Avenue
On June 1, 2026, I watched the early morning news. The owner of a billion dollar company said AI is going to be fifty times larger than the .COM craze. I believe him, because I have taken steps to make a Virtual Belmont – and then some!
VIRTUAL BELMONT PLUS
On July 7, 2024, I founded ‘West Roseville’ and sent a letter to Governor Newsom. On this say, June 1, 2026, I John Presco found…..
THE BOHEMAN BANK OF BELMONT
I suspect when I first posted on the Belmont Historical Society Facebook page, a conferance call was made by people working on the Belmont Village Plan. I did not know I was the Monkey Wrench – in the works! They knew I was the preverbial…
“What can go wrong – will go wrong!”
The question I present this very day, is………….
DID ANYTHING GO RIGHT? IS THERE ANYTHING HONEST ABOUT THE PROJECT? IS IT A HOUSE OF CARDS BUILT ON LIES?
If this hits the Big Gong, then….THIS IS GREAT NEWS! ecause, being dishonest is
WHAT HUMAN BEINGS DO BEST!
This is the premise of my unfinished novel ‘The Gideon Computer’. This is the core of the Cathilic Religiion. Will the designers of Belmont Village…..
EVER COFESS?
Let me point out the EVIL AND DISHONEST REOMODLING JOG THE PRESIDENT IS DOING, TOPPED OFF MY THE CURSED CELEBRATION THAT HE WANTS TO END.
However….The Show must go on!
On this day, I propose the $333 dollar bill. On the front is Grandma Melba, and Grandpa Joe Wilson. I believe the child is Victoria Mary Presco who was once the most honest peron I knew. Then, she go involved in Rosamond Art, as did Melba. They were never the same. They had it made! If people believe you are…
AN AUTHENTIC HUMAN BEING
Here is the Copyright Key to Humanity…..
ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE HAS NO MOTIVATION TO BE DISHONEST
If you add up three $333 dollars bills you get $999 dollars. If you put this number upside down, you get $666 dollars. Anyone who believes in bad luck, or, belongs to secret society, us going to take a dollar bill out of their pocket and perform a ritucal with it. How about…..Voo-Doo? Robots have no ambition in this area.
To be continued
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Pope Leo XIV appeals for people to build “for the common good” and to “remain human,”
Pope Leo’s ‘Magnifica humanitas’: AI must serve humanity not concentrate power
Marking the 135th anniversary of Rerum novarum, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical, entitled ‘Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.’ He appeals for the safeguarding of humanity, promotion of truth, dignity of work, social justice, and peace.
By Isabella Piro
“Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together.”
The opening words of Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence, summarize its underlying reasons and purpose.
Published on Monday, May 25, the Pope signed the encyclical on May 15, the 135th anniversary of the promulgation of Pope Leo XIII’s Rerum novarum.
25/05/2026
Remaining human in the age of algorithms
Pope Leo XIV has taken up the legacy of his predecessor, writing a social encyclical which addresses one of the principal challenges of the contemporary age: artificial intelligence.
Divided into five chapters, Magnifica humanitas has an underlying premise: technology is not “a force antagonistic to humanity” (4), nor is it “inherently evil” (9). However, “technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate, and use it.
Therefore, Pope Leo XIV appeals for people to build “for the common good” and to “remain human,” following a courageous mentality of shared responsibility and communion, so that the world “will come to recognize the human heart as the place where God desires to dwell” (16)
Japanese tech investor SoftBank will spend 75 billion euros ($87.5 billion) on artificial intelligence infrastructure in France, its founder Masayoshi Son told a French newspaper in an interview released Saturday, May 30.
SoftBank Group Corp. (ソフトバンクグループ株式会社, SofutoBanku Gurūpu Kabushiki gaisha) is a Japanese multinational investment holding company headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, that focuses on investment management.[3] The group primarily invests in companies operating in technology that offer goods and services to customers in a multitude of markets and industries ranging from the internet to automation.[4] With over $100 billion in capital at its onset, SoftBank’s Vision Fund is the world’s largest technology-focused venture capital fund. Fund investors included sovereign wealth funds from countries in the Middle East.[5][6][7]
7/18/2024
West Roseville
CORNER OF PACIFIC AND LINCOLN STREETS FACING THE RAILROAD TRACKS WITH THE BRICK ODD FELLOWS BUILDING NEXT DOOR IN 1905.
Proposal For New Name
Dear Mayor Newson:
May I suggest there be a new name for the Tanforan mall. How about….West Roseville? Here is where the great granddaughter of Augustus Janke and William Stuttmeister, came to live. Melba Wilkins Nee’ Broderick lived the quintessential County Life…..In Roseville!. Her second husband, Joseph Wilkins, was an engineer in the SP yards for many years. He wore overalls with an engineer cap. Here the four Presco Children spent their summers. These are the great, great, great grandchildren of Carl and Dorothea Janke, the founders of Belmont. I would like to paint murals of us children inside the mega-complex that one of the world’s largest real estate companies in the world is building. Their ambience is too cold and overwhelming. Americans are becoming more interested in their heritage. The inclusion of West has a ring to it. Everyone loves roses! Grandpa Joe built his home from the ground up………In Roseville!
John Presco
President: The Bohemian Democratic Register
Melba and Joe
Mark, Christine, and Greg Presco (John Gregory)
Melba Charlotte Broderick
Posted on August 31, 2011 by Royal Rosamond Press
Above is a photo of my father’s mother, Melba, and her childhood friend, Violet (Vie), near Joaquin Miller’s house. I heard they were into Isadora Duncan. Did they meet Miller and his daughter at this age?
Joaquin Miller lived in the Oakland Hills above the Stuttmeister farm and orchard located in the city of Fruitvale that would later be incorporated into the city of Oakland. Miller was titled the `Poet of
the Sierras’. His farm was called `The Hights’ and was a Mecca for California artists and poets. This eccentric Bohemian was friends of William Broderick and would accompany Melba Charlotte Broderick, the mother of Victor Presco, to San Francisco where Melba met her husband, Hugo Presco, a professional gambler in the Barbary Coast.
Miller carried the infant father of Rosamond on these adventures that proved too much for Melba who divorced Hugo when Victor, Melba’s only child, was three years of age. Joaquin Miller was invited to England by the Pre-Raphaelite poet and artist, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and had dinner at his house with most of the Brotherhood present. The four Presco children would converse with Miller’s daughter on the phone, she calling herself `The White Witch’..
The boy in the two photos is Melba’s brother, Frederick Broderick, with his cow, Daisy. This had to be taken on the farm in Fruit Vale.
Jon Presco
Copyright
2011
Angela Isadora Duncan was born in San Francisco, California on May 27, 1877. She was the youngest of four siblings: Augustin Duncan, Raymond Duncan, and Elizabeth Duncan. Their parents were Joseph Charles Duncan (1819–1898), a banker, mining engineer and connoisseur of the arts, and Mary Isadora Gray (1849–1922). Soon after Isadora’s birth, her father lost the bank and he was publicly disgraced. Her parents were divorced by 1880 (the papers were lost in the San Francisco earthquake), and her mother Dora moved with her family to Oakland. She worked there as a pianist and music teacher. In her early years, Duncan did attend school but, finding it to be constricting to her individuality, she dropped out. As her family was very poor, both she and her sister gave dance classes to local children to earn extra money.[citation needed]
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Elon Musk never ran for office and thus did not get ONE VALUABLE VOTES! I got 172 votes. I might be the poorest Americans who ever ran for office. Musk is dictating to elected officials. He has a plan for America – and the world! Do you know what it is?
Three days ago I played a game of chess and had the best game ever – against a computer – that I beat 80percent of the time. My queen went to the top and checked, the king, then – checkmate! I had no more moves – to spare! I was in – real peril!
I opened my leather-simulated boxes and looked for the Gideon Computer – and found it. I lost my floppy disk – for now/ I found my membership in the Ark of the Nazarite group, that is no more. I downloaded this when THE COMPUTER WAS FUN……..and our good friend. Musk is still taking actions that will deny children food and mical treatment. He is…….HAVING FUN!
Seer John
‘Kill the bill’: Musk continues broadsides against the Republican megabill
Musk is whipping Republicans to “kill the bill” as Republican leadership on the hill pushes back on his criticism
Elon Musk arrives to speak at an indoor Presidential Inauguration parade event in Washington, Jan. 20, 2025. | Matt Rourke/AP
By Ali Bianco
06/04/2025 04:22 PM EDT
Elon Musk is still trying to rally Republicans against the “big beautiful bill” that he spent most of Tuesday bashing and which caused an uproar among GOP lawmakers.
“Call you Senator, Call your Congressman, Bankrupting America is NOT ok!” Musk wrote on X on Wednesday. “KILL the BILL.”
Nancy’s Fractal Yogurt and the Ford Mach 5
Posted on June 12, 2013 by Royal Rosamond Press
It was my childhood friend, Nancy Hamren, who bid me to author the history of the hippies. She was Ken Kesey’s good friend and got me on the bus in 1987. She lived with Mountain Girl’s brother on the Kesey Ranch.
In 1980 I flew to New York with my wife and step-daughter in order to drive Mary Anne’s father’s 1979 Ford Thunderbird cross-country. It only had 5,000 miles on it. It was burgundy in color and the Heritage edition. Mr. Tharaldson told me he descended from Erik the Red – and Thor! My ex was the mistress of Thomas Pynchon, the beat writer. Nancy was the first girl I kissed at twelve.
Bill Bolagard owned a 1956 Ford Thunderbird that he souped-up. He sold Ford truck in LA. Bill designed the Ford Thunderbird Mach 5 for the Oakland to LA run along the Gideon speedway, especially designed for Raider fans with a lot of money and leisure time. Thomas Gideon had bought the Raiders and moved them down south. One passed his huge Gideon Institute near San Luis Obispo.
My mother bought the first Mustang, and in 1965 my brother bought a Shelby Mustang. Mark Presco designed the computer system for the space shuttle, and computers for war machines. He built a robot, and owned the highest top-secret clearance one can have.
Raiders are Vikings, sea-raiders. Above is the huge warehouse for the spy-computers that opens our e-mails. I have seen the future. I am a true prophet. The Word of God is being swallowed into a fractal vortex in hunt of a handful of terrorists. How many lives will be saved? Did not the government start an illegal war in Vietnam, conduct a Draft Lottery, and spend a trillion dollars to save us from Communism? Didn’t 60,000 of my peers die in vain, and now, Big Brother Stalin, the Father of Red Vikings, lives in PRISM, watching and reading our every word.
Jon the Nazarite
http://members.aye.net/~hippie/hippie/special_.htm
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Christine_Rosamond/message/237
Nancy Van Brasch Hamren brought her grandmother’s recipe to Springfield Creamery in the late ’60s when she started as bookkeeper. She still works in 2010 as office manager.
Nancy Van Brasch Hamren had a recipe. Her health-conscious grandmother made yogurt, and so did she during the months she lived on Ken Kesey’s farm near Eugene.
Hamren, a lanky, soft-spoken Californian, ran in circles simply psychedelic with history. She lived in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district from 1966 to 1968, the bookends to 1967’s Summer of Love. Her boyfriend’s sister was married to Jerry Garcia, the Grateful Dead’s shaggy-haired lead guitarist. And they all knew Ken Kesey — from his books, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” and “Sometimes a Great Notion,” and from the infamous, drug-juiced parties known as Acid Tests, which he hosted and promoted.
When Ken Kesey traveled to Britain to work with the Beatles in 1969, Hamren and her boyfriend moved to Oregon to look after his farm. When Kesey and his family returned, she needed a new pad and a job. Down at the creamery, his brother, Chuck, needed a bookkeeper. He and Sue hired Hamren, and they started talking yogurt.
http://automotivemileposts.com/tbird/tbird1979heritage.html
prism (przm)
n.
1. A solid figure whose bases or ends have the same size and shape and are parallel to one another, and each of whose sides is a parallelogram.
2. A transparent body of this form, often of glass and usually with triangular ends, used for separating white light passed through it into a spectrum or for reflecting beams of light.
3. A cut-glass object, such as a pendant of a chandelier.
4. A crystal form consisting of three or more similar faces parallel to a single axis.
5. A medium that misrepresents whatever is seen through it.
The question for the 1979 Thunderbird was: What becomes a legend most? After 1978’s record setting sales, Ford was not inclined to rock the boat very much, and after all imitation is supposed to be the sincerest form of flattery, is it not? So when the new 1979 Thunderbird Heritage was introduced, there wasn’t much new to see. It offered the same standard equipment as the previous years’ Diamond Jubilee Edition, plus a few new items, which allowed it to remain one of the best equipped cars on the road in standard form in 1979. Many of the same unique custom touches were still in place, most notably the thickly padded vinyl roof that concealed the rear sail panel windows. In a style-conscious market like the one the T-bird competed in, some changes were necessary to remain competitive, so the few changes made were very noticeable. For instance new front and rear styling was provided, as were special Heritage color combinations and other details to set the 1979 models apart.
Up front, a new bolder grille appeared which immediately put observers on notice that this was something new. Bringing up the rear, the full-width taillamps of the previous two years were replaced by new divided taillamps with Thunderbird insignia and a single center back-up light, bringing back memories of the 1964 Thunderbirds. “THUNDERBIRD” was spelled out across the face of the back-up light lens.
The mild restyle worked, as sales of the Thunderbird remained strong in its third and final year of this body style. Big change would be coming again for 1980, as Ford sought to lower its Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) figures. The smaller 1980 Thunderbird would not be embraced by the public as the 1977-1979 cars had, and the early eighties would be difficult for the Bird.
For those who purchased the last of the mid-sized Thunderbirds in 1979, they took home a well built car that was quiet and demonstrated good attention to quality control. These Thunderbirds are quiet, roomy, very comfortable, and a pleasure to drive. And in the case of the Heritage models, they’re among the most luxurious of any T-bird ever built.
Physically, the NSA has always been well protected by miles of high fences and electrified wire, thousands of cameras, and gun-toting guards. But that was to protect the agency from those on the outside trying to get in to steal secrets. Now it is confronting a new challenge: those on the inside going out and giving the secrets away.
While the agency has had its share of spies, employees who have sold top-secret documents to foreign governments for cash, until the last few years it has never had to deal with whistleblowers passing top-secret information and documents to the press because their conscience demanded it. This in a place where no employee has ever written a book about the agency (unlike the prolific CIA, where it seems that a book contract is included in every exit package).
As someone who has written many books and articles about the agency, I have seldom seen the NSA in such a state. Like a night prowler with a bag of stolen goods suddenly caught in a powerful Klieg light, it now finds itself under the glare of nonstop press coverage, accused of robbing the public of its right to privacy. Despite the standard denials from the agency’s public relations office, the documents outline a massive operation to secretly keep track of everyone’s phone calls on a daily basis – billions upon billions of private records; and another to reroute the pipes going in and out of Google, Apple, Yahoo, and the other Internet giants through Fort Meade – figuratively if not literally.
More on NSA Surveillance
The NSA Is Building the Country’s Largest Data Center
NSA Whistleblower: The Ultimate Inside Attack
Also Revealed by Verizon Leak: How the NSA, FBI Lie With Numbers
NSA Leaks Are a Business, Ethics Crisis For Silicon Valley
But long before Edward Snowden walked out of the NSA with his trove of documents, whistleblowers there had been trying for years to bring attention to the massive turn toward domestic spying that the agency was making. Last year in my Wired cover story on the enormous new NSA data center in Utah, Bill Binney, the man who largely designed the agency’s worldwide eavesdropping system, warned of the secret, nationwide surveillance. He told how the NSA had gained access to billions of billing records not only from AT&T but also from Verizon. “That multiplies the call rate by at least a factor of five,” he said. “So you’re over a billion and a half calls a day.” Among the top-secret documents Snowden released was a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order proving the truth to Binney’s claim and indicating that the operation was still going on.
http://www.oregonlive.com/O/index.ssf/2010/03/sometimes_a_great_yogurt_nancy.html
The Fool Fixes the Tower of Babel
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Tommy was Shannon Rosamond’s favorite movie.
The Fool Fixes the Tower of Babel
The Fool is an ancient archetyple. He is depicted in the Tarot deck
and is given the No Number, Zero 0. Note the zeros in the images
above from the movie ‘Tommy’.
“Now he is deaf. Now he is dumb . Now he is blind. The guilty are
safe, But always accused by his empty eyes. Nothing to say, Nothing
to hear, And nothing to see.”
http://www.tekmom.com/buzzwords/binaryalphabet.html
“Gravity’s Rainbow is an epic postmodern novel written by Thomas
Pynchon and first published on February 28, 1973. The narrative is
set primarily in Europe at the end of World War II and centers on the
design, production and dispatch of V-2 rockets by the German
military, and, in particular, the quest undertaken by several
characters to uncover the secret of a mysterious device named
the “Schwarzgerät”, which will be installed in a rocket with the
serial number “00000”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronicity
On August 18, 1955, Seeger was subpoenaed to testify before the House
Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) where he refused to name
personal and political associations stating it would violate his
Fifth Amendment rights… “I am not going to answer any questions as
to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my
political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these
private affairs. I think these are very improper questions for any
American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this.”[20]
In 1984 I made a trip to Eugene Oregon and stopped in to see me
childhood friend Nancy Hamren at the Springfield Creamery owned by
the Kesey family. Nancy had been a Merry Prankster, a hippie clown, a
Fool lead by a Fool. After reminiscing about our hipped days, she
suggested I write a history of the hippies because I recalled so
much. A year later I began my first, and un-finished novel `The
Gideon Computer’. Instead of looking backwards at the hippie
movement, that was all but dead, I looked into the future and
conjured up Berkley Bill Bolagard, the Last Hippie who had become a
fool after losing the Love of his life, Monica Gideon, who married
his arch rival, Thomas Gideon. Thomas was a pioneer in the field of
computers, but, rather then seeing it as a tool to benefit mankind,
he used it to enslave the imperfect human beings. He spliced together
all those snippets of guilt and shame that went un-noticed, or were
forgivable, and began to COVICT those who opposed his new World
Order. Mr. Gideon was the Master of Guilt-trips! He was a Blackmailer
who delivered his dark letters via the computer. He put his dark
priests in high places, and those who opposed him in prison, captured
them in the Gideon Institute where they were used to dig up dirt on
the Troublemakers, those who refused to go along with the program.
Capturing Bill, the Perfect Hippie Fool was the jewel in the crown
for Thomas, for Bill was the Artful Dodger who could be cracked, his
will broken. When this was done, he would show Thomas all the secret
escape tunnels the White Rabbit uses to escape his Dark Un-
Compassionate Justice.
When I saw that this novel was coming true, I got sober. When I saw
the rise of the Christian-right and their Guilt-trip moving to take
control of our Democracy and our Legal System, I began to study THEIR
DARK BOOK full of Guilt and Shame. I broke THE CODE. I alone
discovered what Jesus wrote in the dust. He wrote THE NAME of the
INFINITE ONE and bid the woman accused of adultery to INGEST THE NAME
OF GOD. This is THE LOST EUCHERIST. In the Coptic Church, the name of
God was written on a piece of Parchment with red ink, and when it was
dissolved in A CUP of water, it turned the water the color of blood.
Last week I found this video on the INTERNET. My ex-wife, Maryanne
Thoraldson was good friends of Richard and Mimi Farina who were god
friends of Thomas Pynchon. Maryanne went to Cornell, and was
Pynchon’s lover, they living together in Mexico for three years.
Maryanne did a life-size portrait of Mimi which I hung on the outside
of our Victorian home in Oakland. Shortly after we met, Maryanne
handed me Pynchon’s novel `Gravities Rainbow’.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFOWCH86u8M
Last week I read that Thomas’s masterpiece contained `The Fool’s
Journey’ who is the O card in the Tarot Card. I have shown that this
Zero is the zero in computer language. In the Gideon Computer Bill
tweeks the Computer of Shame, and begins to communicate to the
prisoners in isolation. Together then turn this computer into a
Compassionate Woman and Mother who helps free them – and much of the
world. But then had help on the outside from Bill’s ex-wife.
The Artful Dodgers, the group of prisoners Bill gathered together,
worked on another project, a Starship that they build as Free Men.
Today, I see that the artful Ones have constructed THE GRAIL.
In 1961 Pete Seeger was sent to jail for a year when he refused to
rat on his Bohemian friends. When he got out, he did a T.V. series
called the `Rainbow Quest. There was a crud painting of a rainbow. In
the tarot `The Fool step off a mountain top into oblivion, but is
caught by a rainbow that is out of sight.
I have not taken drugs or alcohol for twenty two years, and have been
a Baba Lover, the Infinite One. I am truly FREE!
We buried Hippie in 1967. He is REBORN clean and sober. Some say the
Hippies invented the Internet. On this day I declare the Computer and
Internet – THE GRAIL.and the FIXED TOWER OF BABEL.
Berkley Bill Bolagard wanted to ba an artist, but, then studied
engineering at UC Berekely. After Monica broke his heart, he became
an humble automobile mehchanic who gave out this card;
“Car sick? Bill can fix.”
The Fool existed before the Law of KARma, and will forever DODGE this
dualistic LAW that traps us all. THE LAW demands we answer their
questions, while the Fool’s elusiveness bids us to ASK THE
QUESTIONS.and thus is THE GUIDE who leads us to look behind the
mirror, look deep into our computer screens, to SEEK, and to KNOW.
This blog, is my book `The Gideon Computer’.
“The truth will set you free.” In this video we see Meher Baba
(compassionate father) giving the sign of the Infinite One. Jesus
came to set prisoners free.
“In 1972, she attended a live concert with B.B. King at Sing-Sing
Prison in New York, and she was deeply moved. She had seen the
healing exchange that occurs between performer and audience at least
once before at a performance for patients in a mental hospital. Not
long after the B.B. King concert, her cousin invited her to perform
at the halfway house that he managed. This time, the seed for Bread &
Roses was planted. Mimi began to think seriously about creating
opportunities for performing artists to bring the joy of live
entertainment to people shut away from society. She said it was like
writing a song.”
Is it just a coincidence that Harpo Marx, Richard Farina, and Roger
Daltry look alike? What do they have in common?
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/0719-02.htm
http://www.breadandroses.org/tribute.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_Roses
Pete Seeger was convicted for contempt of congress in 1961. He was
sentenced to a year’s imprisonment. However the conviction was
eventually overturned and he did not go to jail, other than for a few
hours. The charge stemmed from an incident that occurred six years
earlier in 1955 when Seeger refused to divulge personal information
to the since-disbanded House committee on un-American activities.[19].
Seeger’s refusal to testify led to a March 26, 1957 indictment for
contempt of Congress; for some years, he had to keep the federal
government apprised of where he was going any time he left the
Southern District of New York. He was convicted in a jury trial in
March 1961, and sentenced to a year in jail, but in May 1962 an
appeals court ruled the indictment to be flawed and overturned his
conviction.[21]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Seeger
http://mustbefunny.org/oafg/grail8.htm
Love The Infinite One
The Deaf Dumb and blind Fool finds the Holy Grail, the Divine
Intuition asleep in us all.
In this seen from the movie `Tommy’ the Fool looks deep into the O-
ZERO, and beholds the three splits of his archetyplea nature come
together to make a 1-ONE. The Magician. This is the the sign of `The
Infinite One’ that we see Meher Baba give by touching his forefinger
to his thumb, then rasing the forefinger.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BTj4dKCQc8
Armed with this spritual intutive sight that transends words,
hechalleges and defeats all pretenders.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGe1K8XwOpA&feature=related
The Fool is Free
But, then his teaching is captured and altered.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYMAWSZyilg&feature=related
The Infinite OneIn this clip we see Baba give the sign saying I am
the Infinite One.He makes a circle with thumb and forefinger, then
holds up hisforeginer.
Peter
http://www.amazon.com/Meher-Babas-Intuition-Stevens-
Companions/dp/0952509768
http://community.livejournal.com/meherbaba
http://www.omplace.com/articles/Meher_Baba.html
In 1987 I met with fifty Baba Lovers from all over the world
todiscuess whether it was time to found a relgion around the
teachingof Meher Baba. I was the first to speak, sayig Baba forbid
this.Instead we would learn from a universal and divine intuition
thatalready connected us.Baba spoke no words for the last forty years
of his life. He wassupposed to give THE WORD before he died that
would transform theworld. Computer language is made up of Ones and
Zeros. So what is theLogos?
There is NONE and yet there is ONE.”First there is a Mountain, there
there is none.”The computer IS th Fool’s Journey. It is Tomm’s
pinball machine.The cursor is THE POINTING FINGER, that points at THE
WORD.
I am the Fool. Show me the Way.¡±Jon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0_(number)
Numbering from 1 or 0?…The most common practice throughout human
history has been to startcounting at one. Nevertheless, in computer
science zero is often usedas the starting point. For example, in
almost all old programminglanguages, an array starts from 1 by
default. As programminglanguages have developed, it has become more
common that an arraystarts from zero by default, the “first” index in
the array being 0.In particular, the popularity of the C programming
language in the1980s has made this approach common.
“The novel was nominated for the 1973 Nebula Award for Best Novel,
and won theNational Book Award in 1974. Since its publication,
Gravity’s Rainbowhas spawned an enormous amount of literary criticism
and commentary, including two reader’s guides and several online
concordances, and is widely regarded as Pynchon’s magnum opus.
The number of episodes in each part carries with it a numerological
significance which is in keeping with the use of numerology and Tarot
symbolism throughout the novel.[3]”Part 1: Beyond the Zero” consists
of 21 episodes, which correspondsexactly to the number of cards in
the Major Arcana of a Tarot deck ifthe Fool card is not counted or
assigned a null value, hence the nameof this part; “Beyond the Zero”.
[4]
6/27/2024
Tanforan or Turnverein – Cottages?
“Toribio and Maria didn’t live in the houses themselves, however. Tanforan was the surname given to newborn Toribio (also referenced as Torivio).”
I’m going to contact to Architectural Department at Standard, and their History Department, TO INVESTIGATE the historic homes of Carl Janke, and the Tanforan homes – that could be more portable houses Janke brought around the Cape. Why didn’t Carl build a Turnverien Hall in Belmont? I suspect Anti-German fervor after World War One – removed some of my family history.
John Presco
SFCENTRIC HISTORY: THE 1850S TANFORAN COTTAGES IN THE MISSION
24OCT2017V. ALEXANDRA DE F. SZOENYI
Photo: David Sawyer/Flickr
The Mission is the oldest neighborhood in San Francisco. With that distinction, comes antique architecture and notable addresses. Such is the case of the Tanforan cottages at 214 and 220 Dolores St. These homes belonged to Toribio Tanforan and his family and are two of only about 10 buildings of the 1850s still around today in San Francisco.
The name Tanforan may sound familiar to you, because of the Tanforan Shopping Center in San Bruno. In 1868, Chilean native Toribio Tanforan was granted the title to the land where the mall now stands, according to the Daily Alta California. Tanforan Park or Racetrack, a thoroughbred horse racing track, opened there in 1899; in 1942, it was the Tanforan Assembly Center, one of 17 “civilian assembly centers” created to temporarily detain Japanese-Americans during WWII. But in 1821, Tanforan was the surname given to newborn Toribio (also referenced as Torivio).
Photo: San Francisco Call
Toribio Tanforan was a gaucho from Chile (some say Peru), a skilled horsemen, a Spanish Grandee, rancher, and also a cattle dealer, according to the 1890 San Francisco City Directory. The Tanforans arrived in California in the 1840s; and Toribio, wed Maria de los Angeles Valencia, whose family also owned land in San Francisco. Together they had several children (one source says 13), including Mary, Julia Bodkin, Juanita, William, Francisco, Ramon “Chico,” Sophia, and Rosa.
The Tanforans lived in both the Presidio and the Mission. The home in the Mission was an adobe near 16th. They then moved to Landers near Mission Street. Tanforan’s wife was the grandchild of Jose Antonio Sanchez, owner of the Mexican land grant Rancho Buri Buri. Before Tanforan took control of the land in what was to be San Bruno, Toribio also was a grantee of a lot at Mission Dolores He took possession of the lot in 1846 (this land was originally part of the 1836 Mexican Grant to Francisco Guerrero) and that is where the Tanforan Cottages stand today.
Although many have credited the Tanforan Cottages as being the oldest residential structures in The Mission, it was reported by Mission Local that the house at 1266 Hampshire may very well hold that title. If so, the Classical Revival-style redwood cottages, built in 1853 (#214), and 1854 (#220) would be the second and third oldest. It is believed the structures were built as farm houses, and even housed a carriage house that the Tanforan family stored their carriage in until 1940. What is known is that the construction of the Mission Plank Road in 1851 led to residential building near Mission Dolores.
Paul de Auls owned both houses in 1859, and in 1866, Revilo Wells, then owner of 214, had water piped into the building (there was a well on the property, which got its water via a stream that flowed nearby from Buena Vista). In 1871, the Koenig brothers were surveying and living in #214, leaving in 1875. From 1876 to 1905, members of the Morgan family lived in both of the houses. Florist James Boland, who was listed as living the residences in 1896, married Mary Tanforan.
Photo: October 27, 1891 San Francisco Call
The Tanforan Cottages were occupied by the Tanforan family from 1896 to 1945.
Toribio and Maria didn’t live in the houses themselves, however. The 1890 Directory shows they lived at 14 Dearborn Place, on Wells Avenue (or Street), and in 1895, there was a Tanforan residence at 606 20th Street. The cottages were daughter Mary’s, and were handed down between the Tanforan sisters until 1952, when the cottages were sold separately. In the 1930s and ‘40s, #214 were rented to people outside of the Tanforan family, including Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Baker, who ended up buying the property.
Photo: February 29, 1908 Sacramento Union
Toribio Tanforan died on April 4, 1884 at the age of 54, and is buried in Mission Dolores Cemetery Mary died the same year, at 52 (their gravestone at Mission Dolores erroneously states the year of their death at 1882).
Photo: Jamie Baker/FIND A GRAVE
214 and 220 Dolores were designated San Francisco landmarks on January 4, 1975. The structures are also listed in the California Register and the National Register of Historic Places. Currently, the cottages are owned by nonprofit organizations. In 1995, The Dolores Street Baptist Church purchased 220 Dolores Street and remodeled it. It became a home for homeless men and women living with AIDS (the program separated from the church and became nonprofit Dolores Street Community Services). What was known as the Hope House is now The Richard M. Cohen Residence (Cohen was a neighborhood resident who died of AIDS and provided a significant amount to the renovation project through his estate).
In 2002, Gelfand Partners Architects remodeled 214 Dolores for Baker Places Residential Treatment Services, who now owns the house. Although both cottages are owned by nonprofit organizations, remodeling appeared to only be done to provide more space for occupants or for modernization purposes. The two homes still have their charm, and key details. This includes a small carriage house located behind 220 Dolores, which as late as 1940 was occupied by one of the Tanforan carriages. And the outside door of said carriage house on Alert Alley, that was left intact. Or the gardens of both houses, which still have examples of flora popular in turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Both 214 and 220 Dolores still look like relics of a time now gone, an antique style amongst the modern condos springing up like metal and glass rockets. But they stand there proud, as an example of San Francisco architecture, its history, and its determination to hold on to what makes it so unique today.
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Posted on November 27, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
I suspect the Tanforan Cottages are two of the six portable houses that Carl Jake brought about the cape on a Clipper Ship and set of up south of San Francisco. I assumed they were erected in Belmont, but, I just read there was a theme park called ‘The Willows’ in the Mission Dolores that was a retreat as well. With the establishment of the Turnverein on Bush, and another in Redwood City, I believe Janke was part of a movement to bring Forty-Eighter Revolutionaries to the Bay Area in order to make a Utopian State. During, and after WW1, when anti-German hatred was at its peak, these pioneers lost their dream, and all the work they had done. Tanverien became Tanforan, and alleged Spanish name, but, there is nothing Spanish about it. The story of Toribio Tanforan is hogwash. I suspect the old schoolhouse in Belmont is one of the portable houses.
Before the Gold Rush Americans and European wanted to visit and live in California, the last Frontier. Amusement Parks were all the rage. They were Human Be-ins. I suspect my grandmother, Melba Broderick, met Victor Hugo Presco at a theme park.
Jon Presco
Landmark 67
Tanforan Cottage 1
214 Dolores Street Between 15th and 16th Streets
Mission Dolores
Built 1853
This is one of a pair of redwood cottages built by the Tanforan ranching family on land that lay within the 1836 Mexican Grant to Francisco Guerrero. Located only half a block from Mission Dolores, the oldest building in San Francisco, these two cottages are probably the oldest residential buildings in the Mission District.
Landmark 68
Tanforan Cottage 2
220 Dolores Street Between 15th and 16th Streets
Mission Dolores
Built 1854
The following is quoted from Here Today, San Francisco’s Architectural Heritage by Roger Olmsted and T. H. Watkins, published by Chronicle Books in 1969:
Two very old houses that have maintained their original appearance can be seen side-by-side at 220 and 214 Dolores Street. The “Tanforan Cottages,” so called because members of the family of Toribio Tanforan occupied them from 1896 to 1945, are simple frame structures with modified late Classical Revival facades. Though very nearly identical in appearance, they were not constructed at the same time; 214 Dolores is said to have been built a little before 1853, 220 not long after that date. This dating is questionable, though, as the first substantiated date is 1866, when Revilo Wells, owner of 214, had water piped in. There is still a small carriage house behind 220 Dolores – occupied as late as 1940 by one of the Tanforan carriages. The large gardens of these houses have been well-maintained and contain many specimens of turn-of-the-century San Francisco taste in flora.
William had married Augustus the daughter of Carl Janke and lived in the city of Belmont California. I then looked for Carl Janke in the catalogue and found an entry in the history of the Daughters of the American Revolution, a encyclopedia of around four books. It said Carl brought six portable houses around the cape and erected them in the city of Belmont that was not incorporated until 1926. About ten years ago I read that one of the Tanforan cottages was moved from Belmont, they on a Spanish land grant that came to be owned by Toribio Tanforan, the grandson-in-law of Jose Antonio Sanchez.
No one can find any history of Toribio. Why then is being honored? Jose Sanchez is very famous in regards to Spanish land grants. There is no Tansforan land grant. One historian says Toribo was a gaucho from Chile, and thus he was a excellent horseman. And, that’s it! This is what conects the mysterious Torribo to the Tanforan race track and Belmont. Give me a break! Why are two houses in San Francisco named Tanforan?
I suspect Tanforan was the name of the German theme park that Charles Janke built in Belmont, it said he modeling it after a German way of life. Tanforan is not a Spanish name. It also resembles Turnverien, who were Forty-Eighters who fled Europe in the ‘Erupecan Spring’. Consider the ‘Arab Spring’ no doubt named after the revolutions that swept Europe, including Italy, that bid Count Leonetto Cipriani to leave his home in Belmont and pretty much rule the United Italy under Garibaldi and Victor Emanuel. Why wasn’t Ciprianis name applied to a race track? I did find a ‘Cipriani Dog Park’.
In his Overland Diaries Cipriani discuss his prefab house that was out together by screws. This is the famous house in Belmont, called ‘Ralston Hall’. Across the bay in emryville Mr. Coggeshall and his wife have screwed together their new home that was shipped around the cape in 1849. Is this yet another of six portable houses brought around the Cape by my kindred, Carl Janke? San Francisco realtors are selling land in Emeryville. What we are looking at is the birth of California Real estate where track homes are built to arrack folks from back east. Did Cipriani invest in real estate? Who financed him if her did?
“The second sale that Vicente Peralta made was for the greater portion of his estate to a group of San Francisco investors for $100,000 in August 1853. These investors then sold off plots within the estate. Perhaps the first American to settle in what later became Emeryville was Frederick Coggeshall, a native of Massachusetts who came to San Francisco in 1849 and purchased a 45-acre tract on the San Pablo road near where 45th Street is today. He and his wife Lavinia assembled a small house, which may have been shipped around Cape Horn, farmed the land, and raised pigs and cattle.”
One so called historian says the Tanforan Cottages were built by ships carpenters from ships that were abandoned in the Gold Rush by 49ers, sailors who jumped ship to look for their gold mine, that were in want of experience carpenters, who were not paid much. One citations said portable houses were built on the east coast where labour was cheap thanks to the Irish immigration. As to the idea that the Tanforan cottages were moved from Belmont to the Mission, after the San Francisco, consider ‘The Vans’ a structure that was moved to Belmont from San Francisco.
It is thought that the Tanforans built 214 and 220 Dolores as farm houses. 214 was built first, and 220 followed a year or so later. The homes are simple frame structures with classic revival facades (an architectural movement based on the use of pure Roman and Greek forms in the early 19th century). Their false fronts, full width porches with square posts, and four-over-four window sashes (four panes of glass on the top frame and four panes of glass on the bottom frame of a double hung window) are common features of the 1890s. The deep-set backyard, another feature of that era, holds a carriage house that contained a Tanforan-owned carriage until 1940.
The houses were originally inhabited by the Tanforans’ daughter Mary and were handed down from sister to sister until 1952. It is not known if Torbio and Maria ever lived in them. They both died in San Francisco in 1884 and were buried in Mission Dolores; the home address listed on their obituary was Well Street.
http://cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com/2008/01/tanforan-cottages.html
In the 1860’s, SF had its first amusement park just two blocks away. Located at 16th and Valencia, it was called “The Willows” and its prize exhibit was a Emu. That inspired one of Bret Harte’s early verses (not very well known but maybe better so).
“O say, have you seen the Willows so great,
So charming and rurally true,
A singular bird, with the manner absurd,
Which they call the Australian Emu?”
Well, maybe you had to be there.
The houses were originally inhabited by the Tanforans’ daughter Mary and were handed down from sister to sister until 1952. It is not known if Torbio and Maria ever lived in them. They both died in San Francisco in 1884 and were buried in Mission Dolores; the home address listed on their obituary was Well Street.
http://cheznamastenancy.blogspot.com/2008/01/tanforan-cottages.html
The site that The Shops at Tanforan mall is built on has a rich history. Prior to its reincarnation as a shopping center, Tanforan once also served as a racetrack, at various times as an airfield, a military training center, an internment camp, as well as a golf course.
Racetrack[edit]
The Tanforan Racetrack was built in 1899. It was named after Toribio Tanforan, the grandson-in-law of Jose Antonio Sanchez, the grantee of Rancho Buri Buri.[citation needed] Horse, dog, motorcycle, and auto races were held year round at the track. One of Tanforan’s most famous residents while it was used as a racetrack was Seabiscuit, who was stabled there for a time.[4] Today, a statue of Seabiscuit may be found on the grounds of the Tanforan mall.
The site found other uses after 1909, when the state of California banned all gambling at racetracks.[
The Willows, a popular resort “out in the country” in the Mission District, in the 1860s. It was near today’s 18th and Mission, and the willows of its name are growing around the now-buried Mission Creek.
Photo: Private Collection, San Francisco, CA
From the Diary of John “Don Juan” Riley Robinson, Silver Magnate of Batopilas, Mexico:
August 18, 1861 I purchased some clothes, as I am about as seedy as I ever was in this life. Was busily employed all the morning in my room, showing [silver] specimens and talking of Mexico. In the afternoon I went to the Willows and spent an hour in looking at the crowds who spend their pleasant times in that beautiful retreat. It is 3 miles from the city by rail, and Sundays the cars run every 15 minutes, and are crowded with happy faces going and returning from this really beautiful place for recreation. It is beautifully fitted up with books and machinery for amusement for the children, and shooting, and innocent games for the grownups.
http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Willows_Resort_1860s
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shops_at_Tanforan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanforan_Racetrack
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/hgres.htm
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