Passing through a wooden field gate, we continue ahead up the slope with the Old
Gashouse, left, and Flasby Lodge, right and at the junction of routes a right-hand turn takes us past Woodfield Cottage and then Woodfield House.
"The
Gashouse Gang: How Dizzy Dean, Leo Durocher, Branch Rickey, Pepper Martin, and Their Colorful, Come-from-Behind Bali Club Won the World Series--and America's Heart--During the Great Depression."
Lawrence Gevry, retired police officer and a longtime photographer, was in a nostalgic mood on a recent afternoon, claiming Webster "
gashouse gang" status.
They also tangle with their rivals, the
Gashouse Gang, and catch tire thieves and gas bootleggers.
They're like a bunch of mavericks, like the
Gashouse Gang of the old Cardinals.
Planned to house 25,000 residents (and displacing 5,000 who lived in the rundown
Gashouse District the development obliterated), the architecture is plain (but not modernist), an arrangement of identical low-rise (the titular eleven storeys) brick apartment buildings without retail or city thoroughfare traversing the property.
and found ourselves touched by an Angel--a
gashouse gang of them.
The reader's primary experience of the poem at this point has been one of simultaneity: he has encountered a world where Ophelia can enter a London pub, and where the Fisher King can cast his line behind the
gashouse. This experience may have been aesthetically disorentating, he appropriate allusion to the stories of Ursula and Snodland creates a precedent by which the poem is to be understood.
In the last stanza, for example, the Fisher King, no longer fishing in the dull canal behind the
gashouse as he did in part 3, has the arid plain behind him and is fishing on the shore.
Motherwell stands out from his artistic peers like the preppie in the
Gashouse Gang--intellectual, refined, fastidious, sybaritic.
"I look at Jupiter In Velvet and I see a modern day version of David Bowie or even Paul McCartney" - Loren Sperry -
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