Pedal Fest 2015

I attended a thing called PedalFest at Jack London Square in Oakland. It was a celebration of the bicycle. It was interesting:

Met Nelson Vails-1984 Olympian and the first African-American cyclist to medal

PedalFest was cool and I loved the creative spirit in the bicycles.

Music Monday: Sounds of the Last 20 Summers

I am going out on a weird limb here. I am going to freestyle it here on this Music Monday and play my favorite songs from the list that Billboard has determined were the among the top ten charted songs during their individual summers over the last 20 years. I have a pool of 200 great songs to come up with the seven I love the most

And this one always gets me from the Summer of 96 and it was the most popular summer song that year:

Hope you enjoyed this sampling of the popular songs of the last 20 years.

Strolling Through California's Great America

I am not an amusement park person. I don't really like roller coasters and things like that. Once a year for work I have to go to California's Great America in Santa Clara. California's Great America has been around almost 40 years as a theme park . This year I decided to take pics as I was walking around:

They do have a water park inside that is cool:

 

And Planet Snoopy:

 And people just singing in the streets:

As far as theme parks go-California's Great America is good and those who are not into rides, there is enough to look at and do to enjoy the day.

Welcome to Copperfield's Books

Copperfield's Books is a small independent chain in the North Bay. They have about seven stores. It is another great place that has cool books and author events. I went to the one in Downtown San Rafael:

And they do a little cafe to enjoy:

And I did get one book there:

Copperfield's is a great book store with a friendly staff and you can spend a lot of time looking around:

The Walt Disney Family Museum

I went to the Walt Disney Family Museum and really enjoyed it. It is museum about Walt and how he built his company. The artifacts in the museum end with his death in 1966:

Some of his Oscars, they have every one on display

One of the Alice comedies. His first successful film series.

One of his drawings-ca. 1917-1918

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit promo poster

Steamboat Willie animation drawing-1928

Earliest know drawing of Mickey Mouse - 1928

Birds of a feather artwork

Snow White Story Sketch

Mickey Mouse's from the 1930's

Jiminy Cricket character model statue -1940

WWII promo poster

1955 autopica car from Disneyland

The original concept for the Fantasyland Castle-1955

Epcot concept art

Original story sketch from Mart Poppins (1964)

The Walt Disney family museum is a great place to see how Disney built is company.

Music Monday: Songs About Work

We are having songs about work on this Music Monday:

Hope you enjoyed some songs about work.