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Comment on Read About Me – and Stairways – in Sunset Magazine by Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:14:07 +0000

Thanks, Hali – that’s very kind of you!

Comment on Read About Me – and Stairways – in Sunset Magazine by Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:11:42 +0000

Hi – the 2010 Big Parade is tentatively scheduled for May 21/22; please visit the event’s Facebook page for updates.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114691891890076

Comment on Read About Me – and Stairways – in Sunset Magazine by Dan

Dan — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:09:58 +0000

Hi – the 2010 Big Parade is tentatively scheduled for May 21/22; please visit the event’s Facebook page for updates.

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=114691891890076

Comment on Bob Inman is a Stairway God. by Chris Johnson

Chris Johnson — Sun, 02 Jan 2011 19:19:56 +0000

Can’t seem to figure out how to buy Bob’s book from him. I see it on Blurb, but there’s shipping. Do you have a link for him?

Thanks

Comment on Read About Me – and Stairways – in Sunset Magazine by Tracy

Tracy — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:16:59 +0000

When is the 2011 Big Parade?

Comment on Read About Me – and Stairways – in Sunset Magazine by heidih

heidih — Fri, 31 Dec 2010 02:10:24 +0000

I may be a blind woman- but where is the info on the 2011 parade? I adore stairways and am exploring some cool ones that I think are County sewer related.

Comment on Read About Me – and Stairways – in Sunset Magazine by Hali

Hali — Sat, 25 Dec 2010 03:16:32 +0000

Hi Dan,
I read about you in Sunset, and now I am obsessed–not with you , but with the stairs in Los Angeles. I had no idea stairways like the ones described in the article and here on your blog even existed, and I am definitely intrigued. Whether or not you see yourself as the “poster boy,” you have definitely inspired me to get out and explore.

Thank you!

Comment on More Chiquita Trouble in Colombia by Sam

Sam — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:05:26 +0000

I was a NTM missionary, as well as a good friend of Steve and Tim. I know and love the families of the two men and I was present when they were taken hostage by the FARC. I was disappointed to read about the payments that Chiquita made to the FARC. I have also had friends that worked in the management levels of the Chiquita company. It’s dusturbing to think that the money extorted from them might have been used to arm the men who attacked us and changed our lives forever by their actions. I previously held these men, from Chiquita, in high esteem. There was one in particular, that befriended me in Panama, whom I would still count as a friend. While we were still numb from the FARC hostage-taking at our base camp in January 1994, and were living in cramped conditions, not unlike refugees, in the nearby town; we watched in horror as Colombian television aired the video from a couple of banana plantations where the FARC had entered a remote village on the edge of the plantation, gathered-up all of the workers, then executed them in a wholesale fashion. The video showed the bodies lying in heaps, bloating in the sun. We did not miss the similarity to our own recent experiences. We all felt very fortunate to be alive at that point. Could the Banana company have yielded to the FARC extortion tactics with an eye to preventing more massacres like that one? That is my expectation. Clearly, many more have been harmed over time as a result of the FARC terrorism but I expect that the intent of the payoffs was to save lives.

Comment on Banana (High) Price Watch by Steve G

Steve G — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 23:23:36 +0000

I’m guilty of occasionally purchasing bananas at $0.90, or close to that. But it is easier to pick up a banana at or near work than to eat the mush that used to be a banana I brought in my lunch sack.

Comment on Photo of the Week by Record-Shattering Banana Price Battle in LA! – Dan Koeppel's Blog

Record-Shattering Banana Price Battle in LA! – Dan Koeppel's Blog — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 02:08:59 +0000

[...] at 19¢ each, the price comes out to about a half buck a pound (according to my banana price/weight index.) But there are even cheaper ways to get bananas in L.A. At the city’s Grand Central Square [...]