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GREETINGS VIEW WELLNESS VIEW WATER VIEW ART VIEW BREW VIEW UNPLUGGED VIEW PERFORMING VIEW FOOD VIEW GRAB’N’GO INTER VIEW STAR VIEW BIG VIEW - 150 YEARS BIG VIEW - 150 YEARS 70’s MUSIC SCENE MAMA VIEW ONLINE VIEW SONGWRITING VIEW GRAFFITI USA VIEW JAZZ & BLUES VIEW COMEDY VIEW FIT VIEW AUTHOR VIEW BARGAIN VIEW ZEN VIEW ALL AGES VIEW MASK VIEW CLASS OF THE 60’s
There are good things happening, and in fact, this last month was one of the greatest ever. Becky and I joined the grandparent club, thanks to the amazing effort by our daughter Madison and her super supportive husband Ryan with the arrival of James Michael Leupp. It was truly the most magical day in our lives since the birth of our daughters. Through her delivery, they were safe, and we were safe and it made that first meeting and first touch even more miraculous. So many others out there have been going through the same thing, and we are there with you celebrating. Cheers to the other new grandparents and I am so happy to be a new member of this club. Let the spoiling begin! In our other parallel universe, much has changed, especially this month. We were all sheltered in place, then we started to open, then we blew it and now we are stuck in shelter purgatory. So many places are closed again, and we try to find as much safe haven as we do things to do and go to work and we try to find our balance, a balance that may not come for a while. But one thing we do know is if you keep a safe distance from each other, wear masks in public crowded places, we can change the outcome. It’s seriously THAT SIMPLE to get our infection rates down. This is the only way to change the curve and make it safe for schools and the workplace. It’s hard, and inconvenient, but we need to do it. Now that’s off my chest. This month, we continue our year-long series celebrating Modesto’s 150 Years. In this issue, we are featuring the 1970s. This was my decade and it is so crazy that I started the 70s in grade school and ended as a college student. So much happened in
Chris Murphy 1976 and 1979 James Michael Leupp & proud Grandpa Murf
those ten years and Modesto really changed and as we look back, it is hard to think that people said there was nothing to do and I hope you enjoy this look back. I know there is so much more to cover, but I tried to hit the super fun stuff. There are a few things in town that are bringing happiness and a sense of normalcy. Music brings us all together. We will continue our Virtual Live series this month and the ModStock festival will be all live cast on ModestoView so as many people can enjoy our local bands. Live music has returned to 10th St Plaza thanks to our friends at Ralston’s Goat, doing this in a safe distanced way. The outside dining is a huge help to our local restaurants and while the weather is good, we need to really support these local businesses that are doing it right. As other sectors open, we support those that are doing it right and keeping us and their workers safe. Our FoodView this month highlights many that are embracing Al Fresco dining as a way to get our community going and to stay in business. Now what? Well we need to be smart when we go out, we need to be smart at work to keep ourselves and our coworkers and friends safe, we need to care about each other. This is not the time to be an “It’s all about me” person, it is “all about us”. We are ALL in this together, no matter how cliché and trite that saying has become. Truly what we do, affects someone else and we need to support our local business now more than ever, and truly think what it means to live local. That is what ModestoView is here to do, celebrate the
good and educate the things we can do so that we all have a better community. I thank you for that. Be good to each other, your friends and family and treat all with respect and as equals. That is how we a great community. Let’s be that different community that is successful and let’s make this place we want our kids and grandkids to want to live. And I wish a special Happy Birthday to my dearest Becky, the new Grandma and look forward to even more exciting family times in the future. Thank you for reading. You all are the best. Chris Murphy Founder and Publisher, ModestoView chrism@modestoview.com
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Positive in Negative Times
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children and our community, Andy’s family created a fund in his name through the College Area Neighborhood Alliance (CANA) for the development of the children’s play area in Enslen Park. This fund will continue the work started last fall from the generous financial support of Boyett Petroleum, along with Valero Energy, proceeds from the 2019 Gala, the Beard Family Companies, City of Modesto Parks, Recreation and Neighborhood Department, and SMCC (Stuart McClanahan Construction) and Collins Electric. To help continue to Phase 2, 3 and 4, you may donate to the Andy Soderstrom Park Fund by sending a check to: MNI/CANA, Memo line: Andy Soderstrom Park Fund, mailing address: MNI, 920 13th St., Suite 1, Modesto, CA 95354
Or donate online at www.canamodesto.org/donate. Select “Andrew Soderstrom Park Fund”
WineDown Wednesdays GREAT SAVINGS ON SELECT WINES EACH WEEK What’s there to be positive about in a world of NO?
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Uncertainty leads to anxiety, stress and feelings of overwhelming emotion. The unknown, and loss are traumatic and heavy. Here are some ways you can boost your mood, naturally. - Science shows being around positive, happy people is contagious. We can socially distance and still get those vibes… or even virtually. Anyone who inspires you? Tune in, listen, feel their happiness and let it effect you. - Go for a walk. Increase your vitamin D. Connect with nature. Take yourself away from your screens. Love the body you are in. Let endorphins kick in, and feel the natural high. - Drink more water. It is a natural detox. It will cleanse the body, organs and blood. Up your hydration for better sleep, decreased feelings of stress and grounding. - Walk barefoot in the grass. This reminds us what it feels like to be a child, It gives us a grounding sense. Think back to happy memories in your youth outdoors while your toes are in the grass. - Digital detox. Pick up a book. There is something about opening a book, and hearing the pages turn that is soothing, - Muting social media accounts that cause you stress. Did you know there is a “mute” button? It’s true! You don’t have to unfriend anyone, just can temporarily mute them so you don’t have their content show up in your feed. (instagram- account - following - mute) - Tune in to a virtual fitness session. There are so many online these days. Did you know I teach feel good Pilates on Thursdays on the ModestoView Facebook page at 10am & 4:30pm? There are 30 sessions recorded already. - Tell people who have impacted you that you appreciate them. Verbal affirmation feels good for you to say it and for them to hear it. - Try meditation. Online, app-based, or just slow deep breathing can lower your heart rate and give you a feeling of control and stability. - Hug your family members, rub their shoulders, brush their hair. Did you know this a natural stress reducer? Physical affection is shown to lower cortisol levels. - Be creative. Paint, draw, mold clay, build, even grab your kid’s Legos or Play Dough. Being a kid again and using your creativity will draw on different parts of your brain, creating some nice feel good chemicals firing in your body. - Watch funny movies. Laughter is good medicine. It heals the body and mind to laugh. - Rest more. Nap if you can. Go to bed a bit earlier. Play relaxing music to soothe yourself to sleep. Add essential oils to your pillows or a diffuser in your room. - Have a pet? Spend quality time with your loved animal. Caring for an animal is a huge benefit to stress reduction and gives us a sense of purpose. Many shelters were emptied during quarantine. Is it time to adopt another? - Write down the things you are grateful for. You have them, I promise. Then tape it to your fridge. Remind yourself that good exists, you just need to look. Know this chapter of uncertainty is temporary. You WILL get through this. I’d love to hear from you on how you are keeping a positive mindset. DM me on any social media platform - Victoria Popoff FOLLOW US:
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WATER VIEW
Until the Last Drop
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Without enough water, the communities that have blossomed along the banks of the Tuolumne, Stanislaus, Merced and San Joaquin rivers will wither and mostly die. Without enough water, the salmon that have returned to those same rivers to spawn for millennium might cease to exist. Is there enough water for both? “Until the Last Drop,” a feature-length documentary produced by Modesto Irrigation District and Modesto’s Final Cut Media, dives into the issues surrounding the survival of these vital rivers. Videog-
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raphers went above, beneath and into our region’s rivers and across the fertile farmlands to learn about the problems that both demand and defy solutions. Making a documentary in the midst of a pandemic has been challenging. But videographers, editors and graphic artists have been putting the finishing touches on the feature-length film, now in postproduction with an expected release around Labor Day 2020. From university laboratories, to the Sierra Nevada, to Valley orchards and to sky-
scrapers overlooking San Francisco, “Until the Last Drop” follows award-winning journalist Mike Dunbar as he conducted dozens of interviews of many of California’s preeminent river scientists, forwardthinking farmers, informed conservationists, and water-use experts . Dr. Jay Lund, head of the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences and an engineer by training, sees solutions where others too often see only conflict. Assemblyman Adam Gray, the only elected official whose district includes all four rivers, wants to confront the state’s demands by meeting the needs of all, not just a select few. In the midst of a blossoming almond orchard, farmer Janie Gatzman explains how her trees will help raise her family. Dwain Zack, a walnut grower from Escalon, demonstrates the hydrogen chamber he hauls from row to row that tells him whether his trees are happy or thirsty. Julie Rentner, president of one of the state’s preeminent conservation groups, River Partners, shares the promise of restoration at Dos Rios Ranch Wildlife Refuge, where the Tuolumne River meets the San Joaquin. Dunbar also talked to irrigation district officials, scientists working on the river every single day of the year, and to those struggling to negotiate an agreement that will let farmers share enough water to help fish species without destroying their livelihoods. “Until the Last Drop” uncovers a true commitment to finding the best solutions using the best science to preserve these rivers while also protecting the Valley farms that help feed California and the world.
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Well into Summer, and well into the pandemic age. Galleries and shows were recently open for a short time in July, with show openings, classes, that again are rescheduled, postponed or cancelled. Many of us have created masks or purchased them from artisan, crafter and artist friends. I have been wearing mine hoping we get reopened again safely. For me, that includes the visits here at my newly constructed home studio. I have worked on some projects for others, some for myself, but the usual output of sharpie sketches are few and far between with music and comedy venues closed. I have a box of “Open Mic” tee shirts, printed in time for the Stay at Home order, and not quite as applicable as comedians and performers doing their thing on Zoom or Facebook Live. I have posted online and have made a few art sales, and visitors show up in a mask, and a few paintings move to a new home. Life drawing sessions have resumed, with artists and model in masks. I have stayed home as I have had enough exposure to the outside virus-infected world. Art supplies are easy to order online. It is hard for artists to show with inside dining closed, so I have art up at Barkin Dog Grill for now. When inside dining opens again, the scheduled artist is Valentino Alexander. Valentino’s art can be seen through the Mistlin Gallery Storefront windows. Peering in the windows of Chartreuse Muse, Dragonfly Art for Life, is about as close as we get to Art Walk this month. I just hope we get the all-clear for Gallery events soon. Jordi Camps at Picasso’s at J and 10th is still doing outdoor art displays FOLLOW US:
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and is another good spot to view great art through the windows while having lunch. The Women in Art-Assemblage sculptures and “Women in America” featured exhibit at Mistlin Gallery, should reopen by August and complete it’s run to the end of the month. To expand viewing of this excellent exhibit, there is a planned Virtual Gallery Tour video. Check-in with the Central California Art Association/Mistlin Gallery Facebook page to stay updated on gallery hours, classes, and special events/ For direct contact, use ccaagallery@gmail.com Modesto Conservatory of Music, Art and Theater or MOCON down at Tenth and E Streets is open to Musicians and Artists with no service charges through August 30. Kaila Kindley is the founding member of the collaborative, and spacious space allows multi-artist room to work. www.modestoconservatory. com MOCON offers visual art space and Multi-level Audio and Visual for beginners to professional artists. Check out this interesting and creative venue. Dragonfly Art for Life, Chartreuse Muse still have class offerings going on, but helps to check in with the venues to see how August is treating their offerings. On my Artists of Modesto Facebook page, you can view photos from a new Outdoor set up at Stuff and Things Art Studio in Riverbank. Stuff and Things is an Art Studio and Community Service Provider that offers classes and events by Appointment Only. Contact them at stuffandthingsartstudio@gmail.com Support local artists. Get your updates on events around town at www. modestoview.co
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There is an old mining town up in Calaveras called Jenny Lind, named after the ‘Swedish Nightingale,’ one of the most highly regarded opera singers of the nineteenth century. Her U.S. tour from 1850-1852 was backed by circus master P.T. Barnum and launched a wave of “Lindomania” throughout the land. Lind never actually performed anywhere near the town which would adopt her name; in fact, she never visited California at all. I got to thinking about what I would rename Modesto to reflect the wealth of diverse music that’s flown from and through our city. How about Gaelynn Lea, CA? You’ll know Gaelynn if you follow the NPR Tiny Desk contest, she won a few years ago. She’s performed at the Kennedy Center and has headlined twice for me in a far more intimate setting, sharing her unique style of violin playing and haunting melodies. There’s Morgan James, who regularly sings on Broadway and with Postmodern Jukebox in addition to her career as an original singer-songwriter. She attended high school here and returns every so
often to deliver a hometown concert. California already has a Jamestown, and a Morgan Hill, so…how do you fancy Morgana, CA, like the sorceress from Arthurian legend? If you’ve ever heard Morgan sing, you know she’s cast some kind of spell on you. But if we want to look ahead to a future star from our local scene, we could give a nod to Modesto’s agricultural side at the same time and change our name to Darbyshire. My friend Darby Schmidt is an opera diva in the making, about to leave us to attend the prestigious Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, where the great Renée Fleming once studied. Darby made her professional operatic debut earlier this year in Opera Modesto’s ‘Mansfield Park,’ after singing with the chorus in their productions of ‘Carmen’ and ‘Madama Butterfly.’ She won a Kristina Townsend Memorial Award in 2019, placed second in the Schmidt Vocal Arts Competition (no relation) last year, and was one of ten high school students selected nationwide for the Metropolitan Opera Guild’s High School Singers Intensive 2020. Before Darby takes flight, she’s imparting the gift of her senior recital concert sponsored by Opera Modesto. August 1 at 7 PM, in a backyard setting near Dry Creek. If you read this in time, you can call Opera Modesto at 209-523-6426 to find out about tickets. If you don’t, you’ll have another chance when Darby returns over the holidays to star in a Christmas concert for me at Moon & Sixpence. The new season there is still supposed to begin in October, so stay tuned for lineup announcements. Intimate performances. Infinite playlist. MODESTO UNPLUGGED. www. modestounplugged.com
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A prolific writer named Kaye With words and phrases, she’d play Writing day and night With all her might She certainly has lots to say.
Here’s What’s Behind the Virtual Curtain: Gallo Center for the Arts Gallo Center Repertory Company The shows are directed by Jim Johnson with postproduction by Wes Page Local actors donate their time and talents.
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By Chris Murphy There is a huge change happening in our world of dining. Outside is the new inside and our local restaurants are fighting hard to stay alive and there’s creativity in the streets and parking lots and even drive-throughs. With the closing of indoor dining, outdoor became the solution so tables can be socially distanced and people can stay safe. If you have been missing the amazing food from your favorite restaurants, now is the time to check out the street-side, curb-side, patio-side experience. Do you love the Chicken Cordon Bleu at Tresetti’s? How about the Ft. Knox Burger at Rivets? How about the Firecracker Pork Fusilli at Fuzio? Maybe you want a Porkstrami at The Food Fix or maybe a charcuterie board at Camp 4? There are so many delicious things at your favorite places that maybe you have missed. Parking lot for your car? Let’s rethink this. Some of your favorite places have converted much of their parking lots to covered dining. Park nearby and get a good outside walk. When you arrive, you can have your own bungalow at Wildfire, special table for just you. You can even have your own special table at Bauer’s Downtown 209, or Skewers. Maybe enjoy an Italian night with some great Chianti at the Chef ’s Of New York. There are so many other ways to enjoy, like drive at the A&W? Grab a giant slice of pizza at Stuart’s and sit on the sidewalk tables. If you really want to enjoy, there is live music on the patio at Ralston’s Goat. You can enjoy a great meal, support a great local business and support a local musician all at once, all while practicing safe distancing. With MoCertified guidelines in place, proper table distancing, and safe server guidelines, it is time to experience your favorite local food, served at the restaurant. What ever your mask beliefs are, check them at the door and think about other. Your servers will be protecting you too so you can enjoy your experience. Don’t forget, you can still enjoy Grab and Go and Curbside if you prefer to take your food home or eat in. Be comfortable, be safe and do what’s right for you and let’s make sure that we support the local businesses in our community. Here is the catch, the nice weather is only going to last so long. We all have to work together and be safe so we can bend the curve down so we can open inside before the winter. Please check out your local favorites, check out the new patio dining, and let’s do great food right. For more info and resources:
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This year has brought uncertainties and unknowns to say the least, but the moments we are living now help remind us to look to understand each other, listen to each other, and find ways to make our community and world a better place. The Modesto Peace Life Center, founded in 1970, is celebrating 50 years of activism, community outreach, and peace-making and we sat down with one of the founding members, Dan Onorato to learn more about the meaningful organization. Dan Onorato, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, moved to Modesto in 1969 after completing his Master’s Degree in Comparative Literature at UC Berkeley and accepting a job to teach English at MJC. In February of 1970, Dan was invited to a meeting to discuss the creation of a “one year long” center that would focus on non-violent community engagement and draft counseling in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement and in the midst of the Vietnam War. The meeting was comprised of a diverse group of locals: MJC students and staff, conscientious objectors, concerned citizens, and representatives from local religious groups that all wanted to help others in our community and encourage positive change during such a tumultuous time. Within a month, they found an old building at 15th & G Street, aptly referred to within the group as the “Leaning Tower of Modesto” that would be the first home of the Modesto Peace Life Center. Initially, the center was a place where young people could go for draft counseling. Dan said the point of the counseling was not to “get people out of the war”, but rather to provide guidance for those to help establish their convictions and – if they felt strongly enough about their pacifist convictions – help them get conscientious objector status. Over the first two years, they counseled and welcomed 600 people at the Peace Life Center. The day the draft turned into the lottery system, they had 100 people come for counseling and guidance in a single day. As the years went on and needs changed during the 1970s, Dan recalls the
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Center advocating starting to advocate for other issues such as environmental protections and peaceful foreign affairs. When I asked Dan how the Modesto Peace Life Center has decided which issues to take on and what has motivated them over the last 50 years, Dan explained “as needs arise, we face them”. The horizontal nature of the Peace Life Center means that the issues they address often are personal passions and convictions of one of the members that the whole team rallies around to support. Dan says it’s wonderfully “lucky that [the members] are all in a place and space” of understanding the importance of listening, non-violence, and compromise when it comes to planning both educational and activist events in the community. Through this collaboration and listening over the years, the Modesto Peace Life Center has started and cultivated many cornerstone events and traditions in the community. As a young woman who grew up in the educational system in Modesto, I have fond memories of the programs and events that the center has both started and supported such as the Peace Essay Contest, the Monthly Peace Vigil, Peace Camp, and the Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration. The Peace Essay Contest, started in 1987, is a prompt that is sent to
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all schools to pose questions to young people about how to solve world issues, both big and small, with non-violent solutions. The Monthly Peace Vigil is one of my favorites! When I was in high school, it was the first Wednesday of every month, and we would peacefully gather on the corner at Five Points with signs advocating for peace and equality in our community and around the world. While Peace Camp is an annual event in the Sierras at Camp Peaceful Pines that has hosted workshops, nature walks, crafts, and mindfulness practices every summer for the last 38 years! Lastly, but definitely not least, is the Annual Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration that has taken place for the last 26 years. Dan says it’s one of the Peace Life Center’s proudest achievements with the amount of interest, engagement, and reverence it brings to our community each year. With help from the City of Modesto and the support of MJC, they have brought many civil rights activists and educators to Modesto to discuss racism, inequality, and to remember the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Each year, a speaker is brought to give an evening talk at MJC’s packed full Performing Arts & Media Center. Before the talk, however,
the speaker spends the afternoon talking with students at the King-Kennedy Memorial Center. It was at this student-focused event in 2013 where I, along with many other young adults, was lucky enough to meet, listen to, and learn from John Lewis himself! For 26 years the commemoration has brought people like Yolanda King, daughter of Dr. King, Diane Nash, Bob Moses, Taylor Branch, Dolores Huerta, Danny Glover, Andrew, and many more. Today, the Peace Life Center, though adjusting to the new normal in a pandemic, still has many goals and projects that they are passionate about working on this year. They launched their own radio station KCBP Radio at 95.5 FM in 2017 with a group of volunteers to “highlight what’s local in music and the arts” to “enrich our community and region with unique programming that serves our local needs and interests”. If you would like to volunteer and even if you would like to create a radio program of your own, please visit www.KCBPradio.org/volunteer ! Given the hyper polarized environment we live in today, one of the main goals of the Peace Life Center that Dan communicated is the importance of listening and attempting to understand one another. Even when we disagree or seem to have opposite opinions on nearly everything, the Peace Life Center wants to remind everyone to listen to one another and to spread compassion. After all, “with friendship comes understanding”. For 50 years, the Modesto Peace Life Center has been there for the community through wars, international conflicts, recessions, environmental disasters, social movements, and national tragedies and does its best to help where possible and give voices to those who can best represent and promote non-violent, intersectional change. We thank the Modesto Peace Life Center for all that you have done and brought to this community over the half century. Congratulations on your milestone birthday and we wish you all the best of luck in the next 50 years! (Lastly, in true ModestoView fashion, we had to ask Dan: “Beatles or Stones?”. We could have guessed it, but Dan is in “Camp Beatles” just like me) If you would like to donate and learn more about the Modesto Peace Life Center, please visit: www.peacelifecenter.org The Modesto Peace/Life Center is dedicated to promoting nonviolent solutions locally to societal and global issues. We are a non-profit 501(c)(3) non-sectarian educational and activist organization welcoming all who share our vision. We work to nurture a “Beloved Community,” in which people of all races, nationalities, religious beliefs, and genders live in harmony to create a more peaceful, just, and environmentally healthy world.
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Special thank you to our friend Al Golub for the amazing photos. As a photographer for the Modesto Bee, he had a unique opportunity to showcase Modesto in the 1970s along with his friend Ted Benson. Check out his online galleries at www.golubphoto.com
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Muhummad Ali - Photo by Al Golub
“Oh and as I watched him on the stage. My hands were clenched in fists of rage” - American Pie, Don McLean The 1960s essentially, figuratively and literally ended with the Rolling Stones burning down the Summer of Love at the nearby Altamont Raceway on December 6 1969 while war raged in Vietnam. The younger generation was now awake and active and the 1970s would present a different America and Modesto USA would be the source of some society changing people and events. Modesto had gone through a decade of change, many of our old landmarks were gone and grand plans to convert 10th Street to a mall had been scrapped. As Modesto expanded its boundaries, new high schools would be built, and a new generation of post 60s teenagers would be getting guitars as the draft continued. Teens would later register for selective service, or not. As the war in Vietnam raged, groups of counselors created the Modesto Peace Life Center to help our youth navigate these global issues. The true peace and love of the previous decade would really become part of our culture in the 70s, as we learned
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that “I’m ok You’re Ok” could solve our life problems. There was a new feeling in town, the Beatles were gone, McCartney and Lennon were fighting while George Harrison created the first big benefit for a cause with the Concert for Bangladesh. The innocence of AM radio would give way while the sounds of Laurel Canyon were taking over the airwaves reaching into our own local radio stations. The social agitation of the 60s would introduce a new mellow peaceful easy feeling and we would say “Far Out Man”. As KFIV continued to rock the hits, a whole new era of FM radio was broadcasting creative new progressive and innovative music from stations like KSAN and KSRT.
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Toward the end of the 1960s, the concept to turn downtown Modesto into a mall was abandoned along with plans to build a performing arts center and a new Masonic Hall. 1970 ushered in Modesto’s Centennial, with many residents donning the bearded 1870s look and this was the first big time that Modesto would look back through its history. Mayor Lee Davies was elected in 1967 and would serve until 1979 when Peggy Mensinger would be elected as Modesto’s first woman mayor. The Modesto Junior Chamber of Commerce was really active and put on many of the Modesto’s big events like the 4th of July Parade and the 4th Festival in Graceada Park. Mayor Davies would get involved in saving the McHenry Mansion with Julio Gallo Foundation in 1976. In 1972, Modesto would open the 4th public high school, Fred C Beyer High. Two main things made this school stand apart, 1) air conditioning 2) Daily Demand Modular Scheduling. As a Beyer grad, I took advantage of both. The opening of Vintage Faire Mall in 1977, would deal a crushing blow to downtown Modesto with the large retailers moving out. Some had already moved out north on McHenry and new stores like Mervyns and Gemco would draw many away from downtown. The Strand Theatre was closed in 1971, and only the Covell and the State remained. The State became a Mexican theatre and the Covell would become
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an adult theatre with Rocky Horror on the weekends. The Hotel Covell and the Hughson hotel were both closed at the time. The Fable Room, later Dazzles Underground would remain open for the rock of the 70s. If you spend any time on You Grew Up in Modesto or Modesto Now and Then Facebook groups, regular subjects about the 70s include the high school cinnamon rolls, best Mexican restaurants, cruising in the 70s, favorite teachers and, restaurants we miss like El Faro, Lotus, and Carmen’s. This is probably the best place to go to ask a Steve Prefontaine historical question, other than the McHenry - Bettmann Archive Museum. in the world of track and field. The sport of recreational running began to grow world wide an the sight of a new shoe, with waffle soles would make its way on to the tracks and streets of Modesto. Cross country would become more popular as local teachers like Leroy Light of Somerset would encourage kids to run, and creating the 100 mile club. Modesto native Mark Spitz would win seven gold medals in the 1972 Munich Olympic games. Modesto native Joe Rudi would lead the Oakland A’s Modesto found itself at the forefront of recycling with the hard work of UC Berkeley to win three consecutive World Series in 1972, 73 and 74, in the process performstudent and activist Cliff Humphrey who ing some of baseball’s all time great plays. discovered Modesto on the 1970 “Survival Wrestling was a big pastime in Modesto Walk”. As he passed through Modesto, until the late 70s at the Uptown Arehe saw the potential for a local market of na. The Modesto Reds would play in Del recycled newspapers, cans and glass. Later Webb field until 1974 when they would that year, he relocated Ecology action to become the Modesto A’s with a new affiliaModesto, which soon became the first city tion with Oakland for the 1975 season. in the country to offer collection of postconsumer recyclables. Read the whole story The Sportsman of Stanislaus Club, then an all male club, would invite many of the by Lee Davis at www.modestoview.com/ sporting worlds great designview-curbside-recycling/ athletes to speak at the Modesto club, including Mohammad Ali and During the 70s, the Modesto Relays later many others. Notable known as the California Relays would in Ali’s visit was visit attract world-class athletes since 1942. to the King Kennedy During the 1975 event, the legendary Steve Prefontaine would win the 2-mile event only Center, where he would spend a great deal of 5 days before he would die in a car crash. time hanging out with Throughout the history of the Modesto the community and Relays, world class athletes would compete fielding many queson the fast synthetic MJC Track often as an Olympic warm up, records would be set and tions. the vision of Tom Moore would stand tall
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American Graffiti and Cruising
Our Classic Car Culture began after World War II, the advent of the open highway and the drive in and “Draggin’ 10th in the 50s and 60s. Modesto’s George Lucas captured those early innocent days and released a film, with a $750,000 budget and a month to film, all at night. American Graffiti was released in 1973 to low expectations with an unknown cast. Months later, it would become a cultural phenomenon, ushering in an age of nostalgia, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Grease, Sha Na Na, Lenny and Squiggy and even Mork from Ork. American Graffiti’s story about a night in Modesto was a hit, both on screen and on a soundtrack, and financially paved the way for George’s next project that would absolutely revolutionize film, science fiction and pretty much everything. While we all hung out at Bonanza Books & Comics, riding our 10-speeds around town, playing Putt-Putt, and cruising, George Lucas was filming his long time dream project Star Wars in Tunisia. Graffiti night was the thing to do and the cruise on McHenry would grow to thousands of cars by the end of the decade, many of these moments captured by then Modesto Bee photographer Al Golub.
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Modesto’s population is 61,712 Modesto Peace Life Center founded Modesto celebrate its centennial April 22, Modesto celebrates the first Earth Day Modesto became the first city in the USA to offer curbside recycling Memorial Hospital opens on Coffee Rd - 1971
The new Stanislaus County Library opens on I street. The old library would become the McHenry Museum Muhammmed Ali speaks at the SOS Club and visits the King Kennedy Center
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Star Wars
Photo by Al Golub
1977 changed film forever. There were big disaster films like the Poseidon Adventure, Earthquake, thrillers like Jaws and epics like the Godfather, and other science fiction films like Close Encounters, but Star Wars changed EVERYTHING. From the opening seconds of the film, Star Wars shook film and the industry and still has not let up. If you think about it, Star Wars has nearly consumed Disney. Wow; all from the creative mind of George Lucas. Not bad for a Downey 1962 graduate and MJC Alumni. Star Wars had two gala premiers, one “Lemonade” premier and then the “Champagne” premier in the evening. I, and my friends could only afford the matinee premier, but we were there, the first three kids in line, at the Briggsmore Theatre on that great day in July 1977. (photo courtesy of the Modesto Bee) It still blows my mind how this has changed the world and how much more Modesto could do with this, but we have an official May the 4th Day celebration, and we are building a Graffiti USA Museum, so we are on the right track.
Rocky Horror Picture Show In 1975, a clever musical science fiction film was released without much success. In 1976, it was rereleased with a new poster to the midnight movie circuit. Across the USA the midnight performances became a must-do event, with dressed up audiences, shouting back at the screen, tossing toast and celebrating first-timer virgins. The Covell theatre in downtown Modesto was an early location in this trend and is recognized in Rocky Horror history. Many local Modestans have performed the roles of FranknFurter, Brad, Janet, Magenta, Riff Raff and even Dr. Smith. This was later moved to the Prescott twin and later the Vintage Faire Theatres.
Muhumad Alli - Photo by Al Golub
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Fred C Beyer High School opens with the first graduating class to complete four years would be in 1976 for the USA Bicentennial. The mascot was the Patriots Modesto is named as an All American City Ernest and Julio Gallo appear on the cover of Time Magazine. Gallo Winery is now the largest privately owned winery in the world Modesto native Mark Spitz wins 7 gold medals at the 1972 Munich Olympics, all in world record time Streets of San Francisco premiered on TV, with Michael Douglas as a detective from Modesto Ward Stine becomes conductor of MoBand
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Nancy Young begin working at the Modesto Downtown Improvement District George Lucas releases American Graffiti about the cruising era in Modesto Briggsmore Avenue gets completed.
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Roller & King opens behind K–Mart
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Cesar Chavez marches with 10,000 people to Modesto to stand up for farm labor rights
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Fleetwood Mac plays the Ice Arena Photo by Al Golub McHenry Mansion was purchased by Julio R. Gallo Foundation and then donated to the city of Modesto to become a museum.
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May - Vintage Faire Mall opens at Standiford Avenue at US 99 July - Star Wars opens with a special double gala at the Briggsmore Theatre and featuring a new Dolby sound system. Heat Wave Skateboard Park opens
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East Area Rapist (recently identified Golden State Killer) strikes….. OJ Simpson speaks at the SOS Club Peggy Mensinger elected first woman mayor of Modesto - 1979 George Gardner becomes conductor of MoBand Modesto Certified Farmer’s Market begins Civil rights leader Julian Bond Photo by Al Golub speaks in Modesto
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There are so many things that made the 70s unique. Dittos, Famolares, feathered hair, Farrah Fawcett, Burt Reynolds, Starsky & Hutch, the surfer look, Chevy Vans, Trans-Ams, Datsun 240Zs and of course the Datsun King Cab with mags like I had. Mork and Mindy would bring us rainbow suspenders, we wore bell bottom jeans with hiking boots, Nike Waffles and Addidas County sneakers with really cool ski sunglasses. Tickets were cheap for the Valley Sporting Goods “party” Bus that would take skiers to Dodge Ridge. Cool mod stores like The Council, the Market Place and International Imports at the mall, would sell cool black light posters and other edgy items for the day. And then there is Roller King. Opening in 1974, Roller King is one of Modesto’s most missed hangouts as everyone skated through the pop and disco years and nearly everyone has a Roller King memory and the over 21 crowd danced at the Sports Page. Bob and Dean would start selling Vintage Hot Tubs and Stu Kurland sold waterbeds and the 70s were in full groove and John Coito was there drawing all of the caricatures.
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Wherehouse Records, Records By Twilight, the Record Factory, Mother’s, and Eucalyptus were the places to get new music. Montgomery Wards had the Ticketron outlet, Record Factory had the Bass outlet and most of us waited for the new Paul McCartney and Wings, Eagles, Heart, Frampton, Doobies and Elton John records to come out. Sun, Pacific and Tower Stereo sold the big systems and House of Sound and In-Dash put the car stereos in and the Jensen Tri-Ax speakers in the back. Ovation guitars were the choice of high-school balladeers and for local bands, a gig at the Vintage, Fable Room, the Holiday Inn, Carmen’s, Uptown Arena, California Ballroom, the Ice Rink and the Armory were the hot spots with regular gigs by Avenue, Homegrown, Axis, Silvermoon, Brimstone, Raven and others. In ‘77 and ‘78, a new sound was coming from bands like the Clash, Cars, Elvis Costello, Ramones and Blondie. This would begin to influence local bands as we went into the 80s with Collage, the
Photo by Al Golub Lights, Vandles, and more. The mid-seventies brought a lot of musical talent to Modesto. Bands like Fleetwood Mac and Sammy Hagar & Ten Years After played the Ice Rink. Montrose and Commander Cody played the Uptown Arena and Elvin Bishop played the Armory. But the really big events were Mountain Air and Day on the Green. Mountain Air, a Rockin’ Chair Production, was our event, just up the hill in Sonora and had amazing line-ups and was a multi day event. There are millions of stories about travel to and most often from the event after 2 days of partying as well as encounters with many of the bands at local watering holes. Mountain Air would continue into the 80s after being sold to Bill Graham Productions. Needless to say, so much more went on but we only have so much space. Whoever said that there was nothing to do when we were growing up? Please add your thoughts and memories to this at www. modestoview.com and we can add more
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Before the early 70s, skateboards were mostly wood with big clay wheels. In the mid 70s, urethane wheels, wider trucks and a flexible body would really improve traction and skateboarding exploded. The GT and the yellow Banana attracted a lot of kids to skateboarding. Early Modesto areas were suicide hill in Davis Park that would soon give way to more expert skaters, adopting local pools, ramps and then Heat Wave Skate Park was built in 1977. Marc “Squid” Johnson was one of the early employees and skated there from opening to closing in 1979. Heat Wave, constructed in Beno’s parking lot attracted skaters from all over the USA. Even after it closed, many skaters would carve the big bowls at night. Marc has written the definitive history of Heat Wave and it can be found online at www.modestoview.com Local skate groups, like the Rumble Pool Crew have been memorialized in many skate publications and websites. https://gonesk8ing.wordpress.com/2010/08/28/the-famous-rumble-poolskate-crew/ FOR MORE MODESTO INFO: www.modestoview.com
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Homegrown The 70’s, like any decade, didn’t really kick into gear until, say, 1973. Call it the hangover effect. Cultural changes, much like personal relationships, need a couple of years to shake off some of the old baggage and get into the new groove. Musically, the ‘60s, after shedding its’ old folk and pop stylings, began experimenting in great earnest. Electricity offered a whole new language of expression, with distortion and feedback and the ability to bend the lighter gauged strings with vibrato and sustain the note indefinitely, and suddenly a new instrument was realized in the process: the recording studio itself, and the search for the sonic holy grail began and rock and roll took on a life of its’ own... California’s central valley has always had live venues. Always. All those Portuguese and Mexican dance halls that line the old highway 99 were homes to packed audiences craving big bands in the ‘40s and western swing coming right behind(Bob Wills pretty much owned this valley in the late ‘40s and well into the ‘50s). The ‘60s brought a “teen scene” and discotheques(Purple Turnip on 10th St., the Twilight Zone on Mchenry) and nightclubs. A flush season of entertainment in smaller towns depends upon the entrepreneurial spirit of the times and the mid-to-late ‘70s saw Modesto flourishing with venues and bands due to the local promoters and their abilities to take a room and make it happen. Bill Barr’s Rocking Chair Productions led the way(Mountain Aire anyone?), followed by countless individual booking agents(Guiding Light, Scorpion and Lee Blevins Productions come to mind), all trying to make a buck and rock the house. Ahhh, the venues and a certain Bill Slayter was at every one of them. The Vintage and the Fable Room were literally next door to each other(one downstairs, both where 1010 10th St. is now), the California Ballroom down the street on 6th St.(still there), Carmens’ San Blas Room in McHenry Village, the Tree Frog Inn at the end of Orangeburg, Jack Phillips’ Sports Page(later Stage One, the Rock Shop, now Crocodiles) in the Prescott Shopping Center), the Lonesome Cowboy Saloon out on Sisk Rd. and The Club in Turlock. It was all brand new, shiny and explosive and the possibilities were limitless. A time and a place full of awe and wonder and everybody wanted on board, before it all kind of got done to death over time: now there are game shows to compete for rock stardom, now the revolution is always being televised. And the bands! On any given night(usually 5 nights a week, too) you could see the new wave stylings of Collage(Tim Lechuga, Mike Ferris), the slick dance party that was New York Connection(VMI’s Darin Morris), the Milkhouse Boys(Motown’s’ favorite at the time as Bruce Vella and company did both “Free Bird” and: The Devil Went Down To Georgia” flawlessly), Silvermoon formed in 1976 by Barry Day Drums and Vocals, Rick Barnes FOLLOW US:
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Brimstone Guitar and Vocals Ken Daniel Bass/Vocals and Lori Salsa on Vocals, Raven (featuring the Grimaldi brothers), Buster Cherry(Mark Mascenti, Fred Eichel, Dan Rogers and Phil “Pops” Anderson) brought the swagger of the Stones while the Lights took their power pop all the way to the number one slot in the valley in 1980 due in no small part to the openness of radio at the time. Rock 104 ruled the commercial airwaves with DJs that took requests and answered the phones and promoted gigs and bands. If you could put your own record out chances were good somebody would play it(Tracy’s KSRT, KYOS in Merced, Rock 104, etc.) and you had the shot. Keep in mind that this is all before MTV, satellite technology, the internet, digital, etc.. Since this is being written during a global pandemic in the wake of the COVID-19 virus, it offers us an opportunity to reflect on a time when political correctness hadn’t yet raised its’ ugly head, when a true sense of community was a given, right up there alongside common sense, where self-expression wasn’t about anger and entitlement but about love and peace. Naive to a fault to be sure, but still, a step away from the boundaries and cages we create for ourselves.
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Is that Freedom Rock? Turn it Up!
By Middagh Goodwin
It is a scientific, social-political and economic fact that the greatest decade of music was the 1970’s. If you think, otherwise you are just wrong. Ok it is my personal opinion(but you know I am right.) Musicians were much freer to experiment with what they were creating not just live but in the studio. The studio became an instrument or “band member” and allowed artists to expand their audio vision. Sure there was disco and yacht rock, but there was reggae, funk, punk, experimental electronic, new wave, ska, metal and so much more. It is 2020, and unfortunately, artists have, once again, in my opinion, become stagnant. Boundaries are not expanding; artists are not experimenting, and nor the creation of new genres. I expected by now, four months into being “quarantined” that I would hear so much new music. Even if it was just demos of things
that are to come, maybe you all have been just practising, creating or writing new material and will be releasing it in the next quarter of the year. In the 1970s a band or musician could release an album or single, and if it was good, they could get it played on locally owned radio stations. Fans would call in and request it and just like the Lights a band could have a #1 record in the region. There may not be many independently owned radio stations these days, but that should not stop you from getting your music out there for people to hear. Send your music to musickcbp@gmail. com and mamarecords209@gmail.com to be played on KCBP 95.5 FM Modesto Community Radio. It is so crucial in this downtime that artists regardless of their medium, create not just their art but how they share it with the rest of us. Make sure to update all your social media and stay connected with your friends and fans. If you do not have your music online, why are you waiting? If you already have a Bandcamp, Soundcloud or on Spotify, kudos to you, but make sure it stays updated and fresh. Also, make sure you stay connected to any promoters, venues, event organizers that you have worked with so that you are on their radar when we are back to normal. For everyone who is doing this, you will be so much better prepared when we can all gather again in mass.
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Somebody Scream! This year ModStock sponsored by Robert’s Automotive celebrates ten years. Normally Darin Morris’s VMI School of Rock would host the event at Graceada Park on the last weekend of Summer with 50 plus youth and probands performing. This year due to the global pandemic ModStock is going virtual and will be broadcast on the ModestoView page August 8th and 9th. Most bands will be performing one at a time at the VMI building with others streaming remotely. For a full list of bands and set times check out the ModestoView Facebook event page.
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What did the song of Summer sound like? Did we even have one? Who could have predicted that the Summer of 2020 would feel like whiplash? While we made small progress to curtail the spike for a few months, those “bad actors” we were warned about, failed to commit to precautions, for the good of the whole and at press time we are ground zero for Stanislaus County and a leader in the state of California for cases of Coronavirus and hospitalizations. With another lockdown and severe restrictions on the horizon, we cannot expect live music to return-ethically or safely anytime soon. Which brings me into the perfect segue into Live streaming. The ModestoView will continue hosting live-streams on the ModestoView Facebook page until we move into phases that include inperson performance securely. This is a very clever alternative- you get to see a concert in the safety and comfort of your current space. This also creates a wonderful opportunity for musicians, especially full-time musicians who are now zero time musicians, to earn some revenue. Traditionally the artists let you know how you can tip virtually online with an attached payment link and/or an address you can reach by mail. If you have not participated in these please consider watching livestream music and showing a monetary gratuity. There was no real bailout or aid package for musicians. For a really great show with a special artist, tune in on August 18 at 6 pm and hear Marirose Powell perform for the first time since Winter. Marirose is a Frontline Nurse Practitioner who runs the emergency room at Dameron Hospital in San Joaquin County who is currently working in tandem with a Naval emergency response team in overflow conditions because of the COVID-19 spikes in this area. Let’s rally our support in appreciation for her contribution to our health and safety and together let’s enjoy some common time in reverie.
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Recordings by local musicians have dropped and you can show your support by tuning in and listening. “The Grand Romantic” by Seven Year Sleep can be found on iTunes, Spotify and Google Play. Youth band-Abandoned has a cover single of “Dog Days” on YouTube that they are really excited about as this is their very first recording experience. Fan favorites and one of the most successfully consistent acts around our area, Us4love brings us “Living Alright Now” on Bandcamp and us4lovemusic.com. Continue to keep hope alive. Continue to take your health into your own hands. Continue to be mindful of others’ health. Continue to shop local. Continue to be anti-racist. Continue to cultivate hope. Against all odds, we are managing through this Summer of Isolation and will hopefully, “Fall” into a more constructive and bountiful Autumn. On a personal note, I’d like to congratulate Lorena Loftis on a meaningful run as the owner of Deva Cafe for nearly two decades. She fed us more than food, she gave us more than a venue for music, she created civility and love and we wish her all the best in this time of retirement. Stay tuned for music news when the new owner, Heather Pearl Elkins opens on August 1. For information on streaming opportunities please send inquiries to pcdenterprises@yahoo.com
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GRAFFITI USA VIEW
By Chris Murphy
Time to Start Our Engines...
We have the keys! It is time to start the engines. It’s time to rock and roll and build the Graffiti USA Museum located near downtown Modesto on historic US99. A group of local businesspeople and car and history fans have gotten together to create a place to celebrate our Graffiti, Car and Music culture at the corner of Coldwell and historic US 99, aka North 9th Street. It will bring to life a night in 1962, immerse the visitors in the sights and sounds of the Graffiti USA experience. Guests will be able to walk the “10th Street”, check out KFIV radio station, check out the stores of the time, see a movie at the Drive In and even eat in a classic diner. We will celebrate our Legends of the Cruise and will create a place that will attract classic fans from around the world and build an educational center that will excite the next generation of little cruisers. This interactive museum experience will tell more of the stories that created the Graffiti days. The Graffiti USA museum needs you, your donations, your ideas, you collectibles and possibly even your cars. We are looking for community minded people to help up build this museum and make it a reality. Hopefully soon, there will be a new building to house this museum and we need you. The Graffiti USA Classic Car Museum is a 501(c)3 corporation and is now ready to bring this to life! The museum will celebrate our love affair with the automobile, celebrate the 10th and 11th streets that were home to Modesto’s cruising experience. Isn’t it past time that we bring our history to life, create this place for the people of the entire world to come visit? You can help us tell our story, change our future and become the Graffiti USA center of the universe. Drive by and take a look at 610 N 9th St. Modesto, Ca 95350 Please visit www.graffitiusemuseum.com and see what is happening and to make a tax-deductible donation. Please join and donate today at www.graffitiusamuseum.com For more information - info@graffitiusamuseum.com It’s Graffiti Summer all year long in Modesto USA. The classic cars gather every Friday night at the A&W at the Cruise in. This is a great way to properly distance, listen to Rock and Roll. Join the new Pharaohs and celebrate our Graffiti history and fun.
JAZZ &BLUES VIEW
And so it goes, I am doing my thing seeing my patients in primary care with the Fiesta De Mascara, the festival of masks with a lot of stress on top of the usual issues of sickness and health. Please take a minute to reach out to the vulnerable and those that are not doing well, imagine being homeless right now. Times are tough but they will get better, but we need to take care of ourselves and each other right now. We will weather this too but in the meantime stay safe but live your life to the fullest. Well, the show must go on folks and we need to be creative to keep the music and life going forward. A lot of business are having outside seating to accommodate folks and keep everyone safe. Café Urbano is back in business and we will be doing shows outside and keep the music going. We need all our fans to come out in this difficult time to get on with life as ah; unusual!. On the calendar for Café Urbano August: Sunday 2nd Texas Funk with Roberto Gloria, Blue Monday Band with Josh
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Rosenblum and Andrew Rosenblum guest artists with the band, Sunday 16th the return of Chris Cain Band, and Sunday 23rd Eric Benson turns 63!, Jazz Geezer Birthday party with Barry Finnerty and Blue Monday Band. Please be like Alpha Beta and tell a friend” Ralston’s Goat back at it with live music in the bar with seating out in the open air to accommodate the new restrictions to keep everyone safe, Dave Dow throwing down the Jazz jam every Thursday 7 Pm hosting with special guests weekly. There are a lot of my fellow musicians and artists that cannot do their “day job” right now so please support online performances so they can weather this situation. Since the gigs are on hold, I will give a little taste of what some of my Blue Monday Band members are about.
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FIT VIEW Fitness In Place By Efren Martinez With gyms and fitness studio establishments closed once again so many are looking to alternatives. When it really comes down to it gyms aren’t the only option. For some reason we’ve come to believe that in order to get fit we need a gymnasium or a variety of special equipment. Not today! Sure being outdoors has always been my personal preference to get my workout in but actuality all you really need, depending on your size and height, is roughly a 6x6 space. I have found I can get a very hard workout in my own 6 foot bubble that includes a cardio workout. Mind you if you’re over 6 feet tall you may need an 8x8 square bubble to maximize your fitness in place workout and that’s OK. Another plus for this fitness in place space is that you can do all your fitness without any kind of expensive exercise equipment machines such as a treadmill, elliptical, spin bike or dumbbells. It’s all done in the simplest form by using gravity and your own weight along with a jump rope. Knowing that one size doesn’t fit all in our fitness levels I’d invite you to jump online and search a calisthenics workout that may be the right fit for you. Below is one I put together that can be adjusted for beginners to the advanced. Friends please, if you are a beginner in fitness always check with your doctor to make sure you are healthy enough to start any kind of exercise program. Note! This fitness in place 45 minute workout below is not only doable on your patio, living room or in your garage but one that will kick your fitness Astronauts.
Calisthenics Exercises in 45 minutes • Stretch and Loosen Up: Start with warming up your core and muscles by stretching easy for 5 minutes. • Jumping Jacks and Deep Knee Bends: Warm up for 5 minutes. (Various sets of 12) for 5 minutes. • Skip Rope: This is an extreme cardio workout only equal to running. 5-10 minutes depending on your fitness and ability. • Push-Up: Works the chest, triceps, and shoulders while strengthening the core in a plank. (Various sets of 12) for 5 minutes. • Plank: Builds stability and strength in everything below the chest and above the glutes. (Various sets of 12) for 5 minutes. • Lunge: Builds strength and mobility in the lower body. (Various sets of 12) for 5 minutes. • Burpee: Getting down and up off the ground is useful to practice and also does wonders for your heart. (Beginners, try half burpees: no push-up, no jump.) (Various sets of 12) for 5 minutes.
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BARGAIN VIEW August Has Arrived By Monica Barber
August has arrived, sneaking up without notice! This late afternoon Ms. M is donning a fabulous pink gingham mask while taking advantage of the Al Fresco dining situation in Downtown Modesto. She’s decided to grab a bite to eat at Churchkey and support local. It’s amazing how quickly our area adapts to change and that is hopeful. Don’t worry, there are ways to safely support the community that will be easy on the wallet. Start the month with a lot of music. The 10th annual Modstock returns as a virtual offering. On August 8th and 9th, the favorite local event will stream live from the ModestoView Facebook page. There will be over 50 bands performing over two days featuring the VMI artists alongside the area’s professional local acts. facebook.com/modestoview If you miss going to the movies then you aren’t alone. Maybe you can’t enjoy the experience but you can bring a bit home with you. The State Theater has brought back their curbside popcorn sales, Popcorn Fridays. Sales are every Friday from 3:30 to 6:30 pm. Cars can pull up to the theater to make a purchase. Popcorns prices: Large $7.50, Medium 6.50 and
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Small $5.50. Additional concession items are available. Keep an eye out for upcoming virtual releases and drive-in dates. Info: thestate.org Dining out is a favorite pastime and many restaurants in the area have taken notice. Currently, there are multiple Al Fresco and takeout dining options in the downtown Modesto area, with curbside options as well. Coffee shops Preservation Coffee and The Queen Bean remain open for pickup and limited outside seating. Take a look at the DOMO Partnership Restaurant guide for a list of eateries and options. domopartnership.org/covid19 You can’t keep the culture from the people. To do their part in giving to the community, Modesto Symphony has organized free monthly virtual offerings to share performances to share during the months they will be offstage. Every month a new recital will be offered on their site in addition to past recitals. For more information head over to modestosymphony.org/offstage For those bored of the playing the same games for game night, The Stanislaus County Library has created a free and fun diversion for the whole family with a series of Virtual Escape rooms. The Library staff has created escape rooms to test you as a group or individual. Every month, new rooms are added and current offerings include a Library, Narnia and Fair themed rooms. Guidelines and information can be found online: stanislauslibrary.org/escape_rooms.shtm Stay Safe and Enjoy
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various local stations including Modesto’s only rock & roll station, KFIV where he By Wes Page became Program Director. He later became Director of Operations of Media Services at Modesto Junior College. But his passion for radio remained. Back in 2004 John and I became charter members of the Modesto Radio Museum board that was started by the late Cal Purviance, a beloved local radio broadcaster. Our goal has always been to have a “brick and Mortar” museum where we could display equipment that we have in storage and let On June 20, 2020 I lost my best friend visitors relive the excitement of the golden and the Modesto Radio Museum lost its age of radio. Presently our museum is president, John Chappell. He was quite a strictly online; modestoradiomuseum.org guy. He was a teacher, a mentor and most Recently John and I were given a tour of of all, he was a friend to everyone. the proposed Graffiti USA Classic Car He was a radio DJ in the 60’s and 70’s at Museum building by Chris Murphy. We
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ZEN VIEW By Mary Layton
“Necessity is the mother of invention” is a saying that popped into my mind the other day. Our lives have changed so much and keep changing week to week as we have gone through reopening of businesses to having them close again. Seems like in these uncertain times it really is imperative to have a good attitude, to keep going, to be resourceful, creative and willing to deal with new regulations and requirements. It isn’t always easy and comfortable but we may discover new frontiers, new possibilities and actually reinvent ourselves because it is just plain necessary to do so. And so as in Star Trek, out of necessity, we “boldly go where no-one has gone before. “ I am by nature a shy person but I understand for the first time that necessity is the thing that makes even the most timid soul bold. For example using Zoom and seeing myself and others on a screen was a struggle initially. Having to learn the ropes of a new technology, seeing others including myself on camera felt strange at first, to say the least. But I do remember the thrill when I overcame my fear and the wonderful reward to see people I hadn’t seen and communicated with in a while. While I’m still not very comfortable with this new possibility I get that as with everything else that is new, the more you use and practice it, the more fluent you become in it. I have to make the best of it.
Now is the time to jump over my own shadow. Knowing that millions of other people are going through this ‘new normal’ makes it easier. We are now basically all beginners. And it is a comfort to realize that even though we are more separate physically than before as we are doing our business or homework from home, we are learning to connect beyond the distance and get the work done. The necessity for social distancing has made its way into countless situations and a lot of them are truly devastating, like not being allowed to visit loved ones in the hospital or nursing homes as well as the restrictions on wedding celebrations and funerals. And the list goes on. There are many terrible losses but also many good things that our new reality has brought us. May be some of us have become more playful, entertaining ourselves at home, spending more time with loved ones, or having time to write and create new things, fix stuff on our own and learn something new. I think at this time it would be beneficial that we all look after each other and assist one another wherever possible. Do what is necessary. We have more time now to reflect on our lives, and decide what is a luxury - not essential - and what is. The pandemic has been terrifying especially for all those brave people who are fighting and serving daily at the frontlines in hospitals, nursing homes and schools, gas stations and food distribution places, etc. I feel truly grateful to these people. As a society we are undergoing huge changes. We are forced to wake up. As Gillian Anderson, actress and writer says: “Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action and perseverance and facing your fears.” For more info go to : taichii4modesto. com or call (209)572-4518
became excited about the possibility of having our small radio museum within the walls of the larger Graffiti USA museum. To that end, John conducted his first Zoom meeting of our museum board just 2 days before his passing where we discussed fundraising options. We hope to make John’s vision come true. We elected former K5 jock, Radio Rick Myers as our new president. Our dream lives on. There will be a Celebration of Life for John once we are able to safely meet in large groups. Stay tuned. If you wish to make a donation to the non-profit 501 (c) (3) Modesto Radio Museum in John’s memory, you may send your check to:
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ALL AGES VIEW
This year has been a whirlwind so far and it’s crazy to think that we only have five months left! As we reach almost four months since the shelter-in-place order, you might find yourself running out of activities to keep you occupied. So, I wanted to share some of mine with you. As I have mentioned before, I have picked up gardening. I started with a few bulbs that are now beautiful calla lilies. This sparked my interest and I continued
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One of the things that is keeping us all sane is the access to our public parks during COVID. The outdoors, the fresh air and the ability to keep distanced makes our parks the go to space. The East LaLoma Park needs you as the playground was removed a few years ago, and the LaLoma Neighborhood Association has been raising funds for tow years, and they are almost there. The cost to install as increased due to COVID and how much our volunteer efforts can support, to they need to raise an additional $10,000. This is such a small last step to get the the new playground built, in a new safer spot right next to the pavilion and parking. Please donate at the LaLoma Go Fund Me page at or send your donations to the LaLoma Neightborhood at the MNI addresss
to plant more and more. Next was lavender, bougainvillea, and a blueberry plant! More recently, I have purchased a greenhouse and grown herbs and vegetables as well. I make sure that I dedicated a small portion of every day to this. Cleaning and going through our belongings has also been a major project for my family and I. As we finished, we found ourselves with a surplus of books that we no longer needed. So, I put them in my bike basket and dropped them off at the Free Little Libraries around my neighborhood. I loved this idea and I cannot wait until I get the opportunity to do it again! This is such a great way to get out and get to know your community while still being safe. A hobby I have yet to pick up but has become very popular in these past few months among my friends is small businesses. I have friends that are selling baked goods, succulents, and jewelry. This is by far one of my favorite ideas to keep yourself occupied. If you do not have time for this, don’t worry! You can show your support by reaching out and purchasing or promoting their products.
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Don’t blow it Modesto. People, the science is simple and it is common courtesy. You may not like wearing a mask or won’t, but it is clear that transmission of COVID, or any other viral infection for that matter, is reduced if you are wearing face covering. Virus’ need a carrier and that is usually some sort of water from talking, coughing or sneezing. The mask will limit the spread of water droplets that carry the virus both on the exhale and inhale. It’s not that hard. Protect yourself, your family, friends and your coworkers and let’s keep Modesto safe.
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MAMA Virtual Live Weeknights MAMA Virtual Live will continue every Tuesday and Thursday at 6 pm on the ModestoView Facebook page until local live music is a regular occurrence once again. Over the last few months, we have had some wonderful performances and that is not going to stop now. Starting the month off we have the Galvans on the 4th, Dreama Diaz performs on the 6th, Rudy Ramos and Third Sol join us on the 11th, Candice Lamb on the 13th, the always amazing Marirose Powell will perform for the first time since the pandemic on the 18th, the Not All Right Band streams on the 20th, Dominic Del Curto once again joins us on the 25th and Jeff Moore finishes out the month on the 27th. Tune in on Sunday the 2nd and watch True South and Friday the 7th to see Dave & Drew perform. Also streaming on the ModestoView page in August is the 10th annual ModStock on the 8th and 9th with 50 youth and local probands performing. Check out the MAMA Virtual Live event page for more information.
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