#john astor

[blondebrainpowered]

The Addams Family - Christmas with the Addams Family, 1965

[dosartistas]

(vía Colonizing the Cosmos: Astor’s Electrical Future — The Public Domain Review)

“The Combat of the Dragons”, by Daniel Carter Beard, for John Jacob Astor’s A Journey in Other Worlds (1894) — Source.

[dadsinsuits]

John Astor

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Brooke Breazeale bet me 5 pounds of chestnuts I couldn’t find 20 pounds of acorns. So I had to show her up.

I rigged a bag-on-a-hanger and a broom and, ahem, cleaned up.  Boy, are our squirrels gonna love that pile!

Over near where I now work (woohoo, 5 weeks down and 500 more to go!) are acres of massive oak trees that drop the most gorgeous, plump acorns. The “mast” have pale yellow flesh and I find myself wanting to chaw down on a few of the lovely specimens. Of the local tribes of the Willamette Valley, the Kalapuya, who claimed this area before Lewis & Clarke and John Astor showed up (John Jacob Astor is the namesake of Astoria — and a member of the Waldorf Astoria family hotel chain), used to harvest these seeds, shell them, leech them to remove the testas (which contain bitter tannin), and then mash them up to make meal for flatbread. I have considered replicating their process, but, alas, Dave’s Killer Bread is a lot more easily come by…

If you’re not familiar with the Willamette Valley — it’s the reason the Oregon Trail was created.

Enjoy you rambunctious tree rats, you.

Twenty pounds of acorns Brooke Breazeale bet me 5 pounds of chestnuts I couldn't find 20 pounds of acorns. So I had to show her up.

[thehistorybufftitanic]

John Jacob Astor IV in 1909. He was the wealthiest person aboard Titanic.

Bain Collection - Library of Congress

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Inside John Jacob Astor’s residence in 1912, New York. Mr. Astor would die in the same year at the Titanic sinking.