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Saturday, February 19th, 2011Jerry Uelsmann – Surrealism Artist Mentor Project
Sunday, November 21st, 2010
Tree House - 1982 - Jerry Uelsmann
Artist Mentor Project
Planted - 2010 - Robert Trudell
Home is a Memory - Jerry Uelsmann
Prison Flight - 2010 - Robert Trudell
Remembering Home - Black & White Film - by Robert Trudell
Power Line Dream Flight - 2010 - Robert Trudell
Dreaming in Color - 2010 - Robert Trudell
The Surrealist – Photographing Your Dreams – Joe Medina’s Photography 191 Assignment
Overview
Exploring one’s dreams and fantasies is powerful ground for creating visual art. This is a safe ground for self-exploration and leads to artwork that is more expressive and authentic than artworks that result from a more direct confrontation of “reality”.
Photo Assignment 2 Parts
1st Part
Make two photographs that copy works by 2 different surrealist artists. If possible replicate them as exactly as possible. Do not simply take one photography and try to copy the image. Take several shots, anywhere from 3 to 10 depending on the image you choose. Shoot til you feel like you “captured” it.
2nd Part
Take whatever pictures you want as long as they 1) effectively express a feeling or idea, 2) show some inspiration from your mentor’s.
Note: Influence does NOT mean photos that look exactly like your mentors. The influence could be and idea or technique that you totally transform in some way. Example: idea of tattooing a symbol on your forehead or another body part or the lighting or the pose, etc. ALSO, these photos do NOT have to be even the same subject matter, as long as you can show some influence of style or technique.
Surrealist Printing Techniques
At least 6 of the following darkroom techniques will be required:
1. Sandwich/double negative
2. scratched negative
3. collage (creating a collage from various photos or small pieces of photos: may combine with magazine pics)
4. combination print (photogram & negative enlargement printed together on one piece of photo paper)
5. texture screens (use screens – fishnet stocking, nylons, lace, etx. – under lens or over photo paper)
6. negative print
7. vignetting/ or masking
8. scratched print
9. toned print
Mentors
The following is a list of artists and writers who were part of – or strongly associated with – the Dada and / or Surrealist movements. You may select your “mentors” from any names on this list.
Artists
> Man Ray
Writers
> Louis Aragon *
> Paul Eluard *
> Benjamin Peret *
*founders of the Surrealist movement
later Surrealist Photographers:
Robert Trudell
Photography-191
22 November 2010
Surrealism Artist Mentor Research Paper – Jerry Uelsmann
Jerry Uelsmann inspired me with his surrealistic photographic scenes. I chose to reproduce his 1982 work, Tree House and Home is a Memory. I chose Uelsmann’s work to better understand the process of synthesizing a collection of photographic images to create a new reality. Tree House showcases an aged and crippled house growing out of or overgrown by a massive tree trunk with its articulated root system. A hillside of homes appears in the distant background. Home is a Memory reveals an overpowering eyeball looking over the large tree lined lawn leading up to a far set back home. A single crow sits on the expansive yard. I plan to search out similar pieces on both of these collections and capture them in both digital and film formats. I’ll assemble and edit the digital images in Photoshop and print both a black & white and 8-by-10 inch negatives to create photograms with. With the film, I’ll try to reproduce the multiple enlarger techniques used by Uelsmann.
United States citizen, Jerry Uelsmann was born in 1934 in Detroit, Michigan. Jerry started working in photography as a hobbyist and photographer’s assistant in High School. He attended the Rochester Institute of Technology in a 2-Year program to learn Portrait Photography which later transitioned to a 4-Year Science & Illustration program. He next attended Indiana University’s Audio Visual department and feeling disillusioned, switched to pursue a Master’s of Fine Art at the same institution. For equipment, Uelsmann uses an old Bronica, a Bronica GS1 and Mamiya 7 and says he’ll use the lightest equipment that’ll give him the largest negative using roll film. Jerry began and refined a process of combining multiple photographic negatives using several enlargers to form one image. He blends dream like scenes with picturesque photo realism. Jerry collects images like words in his camera and then assembles them like a language in the darkroom.
Uelsmann’s website gallery displays 4 eras of work, Early, Middle, Recent and Still Wet. The Tree House image I chose to recreate is in his Middle era and labeled Untitled, 1982. His Middle era extends for over a decade to 1996 ending with Stairs curving up to Bears from the sandy soil into a doorway view of the snow topped mountains. Of my favorites is a simple rocklike staircase leading to a large rock with a framed door and ascending manmade stairs in it.
The Recent gallery starts with open palms framing a large lake and high rising clouds and a single boat sitting restfully on the still water. Another image shows two hands cupping a lone broken egg filled nest offered up to a set of unattached floating angel bird wings appearing through a stone castle doorway. Eyes, lips, crows, water, trees and clouds are assembled with women, paths, pools and nests. Several images incorporate pieces or objects used in others. Recent images extend from 1996 to 2007
2008 to 2010 defines the Still Wet images. Items collected from the beginning till now reoccur in these prints as well. Boats, lakes, papers, books and sand resonate as Jerry assembles them with the tone of the language he defines with images. Circled chairs and floating papers echo the education system that revolved around his life. In one image a large aged hand in the clouds prepares to grasp an idol that floats within them. Does the idol represent something that Jerry’s alchemic hands worship?
Today, Jerry still loves the magic in photographic chemistry.
Maggie Taylor & Jerry Uelsmann – Lightroom Podcast Interview
Jerry Uelsmann – Interview by Chris Maher & Larry Berman
Jerry Uelsmann – Interview on PixChannel (hover over his name & click to view)
Renowed photographer speaks at Harn
Put my Lettuce on Top
Saturday, July 10th, 2010Yuma is more than place to leave the baby’s dirty diaper.
Carl's Jr., 1020 East 16th Street, Yuma, Arizona - (928) 329-1711
As I danced around Home Depot dizzy with hunger and harboring that “got to go” urge, I rushed my P-Trap purchase and headed to Carl’s Jr.
Carl’s Jr. Yelp Reviews, Carl’s Jr. Google Reviews
Just around the corner from the Depot on 16th Street, the Restaurant bustled with San Diego Interstate 8 Independence Day traffic. I carefully and quickly opened the outdoor aluminum door handle using my fingernails to avoid burning my hand on the building placed under the scorching summer sun load. I scurried into the restroom to discover the 2 stalls and individual urinal taken. A man was waiting his turn while a father helped his young son wash his hands in the sink.
I did a 180 turn to exit as another father and son entered the facility. I chose to place my Hawaiian Teriyaki Burger order and quell my other urge. Charging the $2.75 sandwich on my Discover Card, I salivated imagining biting into the pineapple, teriyaki sauce and thick beef patty.
Handed a #84 plastic triangle, the Order Girl instructed me to place it on my table and wait for the meal’s delivery. I sat facing the bathrooms anticipating an opening. It seemed as if every 15 to 30 seconds another person would rush in from outside and head into the packed Water Closet. Then, disturbingly, a lady exited the Women’s Room precariously holding her baby. She told her friend there were no changing tables and she’d need to change the baby’s diaper on the “seat” as she headed toward a nearby restaurant seat.
I avoided looking in her direction, not wanting to see the dirty diaper details. I started wondering though; I wondered if she meant her car’s seat or possibly the toilet seat and hopefully wished she didn’t mean my neighboring seat. I fearfully breathed through my nose, not wanting to inhale unfiltered feces though my mouth; I dreadfully imagined the unpleasant whiffs that would waft my way. Thankfully, no unsavory aromas emitted.
My burger appeared before any let up of toilet traffic. I removed the foil colored outer wrapper to find another paper wrapper snugly holding the burger together. While the buns stuck out of each end of the paper I could clearly see 1 of my generous burger bites would land my teeth in paper territory. I removed the wrapper confident I could hold it together with my hands. I have 2 strict rules when eating a burger. 1) Never but the burger down. 2) Eat faster than gravity.
My first bite shifted the sandwich like the recent 7.2 magnitude Sierra El Mayor earthquake shifted our town 2 feet South. Out of the bottom of the bun, 2.5 inches of sprung loaded salad dressing covered lettuce slapped the palm of my hand. Furious to find the crisp lettuce on the bottom bun side, I analyzed the effects of inverting my grip. There is something I love about the texture of crisp watery lettuce hitting the roof of my mouth. Seeing the charbroiled Dole pineapple ring and teriyaki sauce on the top bun side encouraged me to leave the top side on top. I felt I couldn’t mix and enjoy their flavors with the burger while biting them from the bottom.
I opened the bottom of the bun to reposition the lettuce under the bread. The self inflating leaves exploded like a life raft popping open off of a sinking ship. This ship of a sandwich started falling apart faster than the Titanic. Suddenly I had an 8-inch circular lettuce saucer spreading more dressing on my hands, a burger heading one-way and a pineapple ring heading the other. Fed up with the mess, I attacked the outer lettuce perimeter and in a high speed spinning motion rotated and consumed the pineapple & burger at the rate of 9.8 meters/second².
With sticky sauce covered hands I elbowed the restroom door open. I wanted to rinse my hands off before handling my business, but chose to enter the stall before another excreting train of men began. Finally relieved of all urges, I washed up and exited the facility.
A restaurant patron held the inner door open as I left Carl’s Jr and wished, “I hope you enjoyed the visit!”. An employee held the outer outside door open, probably to save the entering patrons from burning their hands.
AM-PM Arco Gas Station
I noticed the line of cars at the Arco gas station were I figured many of the steady stream of restroom customers came.
Carl's Jr Parking Lot Exit toward 16th Street & I-8
The place was busy enough to create a backed up line of cars onto the 16th Street & I-8 bridge.
As I exited on Redondo Drive heading North it looked like I-8 construction backed the freeway up for miles into California and extending to Telegraph Pass.
Driving off, I pondered the reason lettuce needs to be on top of the burger. I figured the 2 thumbs aren’t able to stabilize the slippery saucy leaves as well 8 fingers.
Next time I order my Teriyaki burger with no cheese, I’ll also instruct Carl’s Jr. to “Put my lettuce on top!”
Well, on 10/15/2010 there was a next time. I’m happy to admit I manned-up and ordered my lettuce on top. The cashier lady (Dawn H) seemed a little confused but graciously rang up my “Special Request” at no charge $0.00.
Man Up - Carls Jr. Special Request
I not only did I enjoyed the burger more, I felt fulfilled in setting out to do as promised.
Phone a Friend – The Secret Answer to Ping-Pong’s Popularity
Saturday, June 5th, 2010While we all may know the answer, many realize, but few recognize the power and popularity that phoning friends provides Ping-Pong. What condensed blurb do I share to increase the popularity of Table Tennis? Like a deer in the headlights, I couldn’t for the life of me answer my interviewer’s Question. I sat feeling like Sarah Palin in an interview with Katie Couric and remembering Tina Fey’s parody asking to “Phone a Friend” in help for the answer. I wanted to blurt it out, but instead I searched and searched and provided little more than a shrug, a shake of the head and a toss of my hands in the air.
I finally admitted I couldn’t think of one. I then went on, and on, and on about things I’d heard from others like it’s international following and how it brings cross cultural understandings and blah, blah, blah. Of course while giving this answer I was thinking of The Answer Man’s response on increasing the popularity of Hardbat. His answer to Scott Gordon is “Have Rob Trudell hire strippers as cheerleaders.“ I’ve spent hours imagining, demonstrating and following the attraction that bouncing breasts bring to the game.
Like many answers, the true answer came to me later that night after the interview; the answer touched me throughout my ping pong career. Phoning friends always worked for me. It’s more a pragmatic than a dramatic answer; it’s an answer that truly works.
Table Tennis takes 2 to make it right and building from that number is easy as pie. Whether it’s Luis Houed, and I playing Ping Pong at Phoenix’s Playa Bar or Jay Turberville at Tucson’s Maloney’s Bar, bringing 1 friend to the table attracts others. The Map to Popularity is simple, bring one and attract many. The guarantee is there is always someone to play with.
Luong Nguyen practices his Ping Pong Magic
In the desolate Yuma, Arizona desert Foothills, Luong Nguyen invokes “Phone a Friend” to conjure up another spell. I first met Yuma’s Top Player, “Lou” at a Yuma Army Proving Ground (YPG) Double Elimination Tournament. It’s with the Phone that Steve, the YPG Gym’s Morale, Welfare & Recreation Director, organizes the event. Steve maintains a list of Tournament Players and their Phone Numbers; he calls the players in for specially scheduled matches that progress over weeks until the Final Elimination Match is held and Trophies are presented. Luong contacted me directly to schedule our 1st YPG match and to check if he could get a ride back to the Foothills afterward.
Steve suggested once I met some local players, I’d find other places to practice and play. Steve was right. I surveyed Yuma for table tennis action and found nothing more than lonely tables in empty gyms. There are tables at the Arizona Western College Recreation Center, the National Guard Armory, the Army YPG Gym and Yuma Marine Corp Air Station. I also saw online the Criminals at Yuma Union High School organized some sort of club.
Luong later invited me to play at Chuck Keller’s house with it’s dedicated Table Tennis Room and Sauna. While the room has an air-conditioner, I think Chuck turns it off to prevent the wind from blowing the ball around. I had a chance play Luong’s son, Liem and meet his other son Sam. Luong coached the 2 for 2 years after they discovered the game and expressed an interest in improving.
Tuesday's with Chuck (Keller)
Tuesday’s with Chuck
Chuck called me one morning and asked me to commit to practice with him twice a week. I’ve committed to practice every Tuesday and am open to more sessions when I’m in town.
Minnesota Rick
I’ve met and challenged Rick from Minnesota.
Samuel Nguyen
I played a deuce game with Sam.
Liem Nguyen
I’ve warmed up and loosened up with Liem.
Robert Trudell - Backhand
Now I remember the importance of a Phone Call and the power it wields.
Ping Pong Phone a Friend Numbers - Un tipo suave. - Desert Table Tennis Outpost Listing
Ping Pong is fun and I know it’s popular; if you want to experience the Secret Answer to Ping Pong’s Popularity, just Phone a Friend.
1996 Desert Table Tennis Outpost Double Elimination Tournament
Yuma man inducted into Table Tennis Hall of Fame
The 3 Dimensions of Rob Trudell
Cocopah Wild River Family Entertainment Center
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010
Cocopah Wild River Family Entertainment Center Entrance
Deal or No Deal? As we entered the Cocopah Family Entertainment Center, Daniel asked why it was called the Wild River. I suggested it’s name stemmed from the Colorado River which once flowed untamed and un-dammed through the area. A rushing river fit the theme and feel of the Wild River Arcade; the adjacent Cocopah Casino’s tight slots contrasted the Fun Center in damming it’s flow. Clara, Debbi and Fern dropped $40 each into the One-Armed-Bandits. They told Daniel & I of the solemn silence that rang though the building as they heard no celebration, no joy and no excitement from their fellow gamers.
Cocopah Casino & Resort
The day started with me meeting Debbi & crew at the Quechan Casino Saturday Buffet. Surprised to find a packed parking lot I pulled the Lincoln LS into a slot as far from the entrance as could be found. Debbi chose Valet Parking and dropped her Cadillac SRX off at the shaded Hotel Resort entrance. At 2PM on 15 May, 92 degrees and a blistering sun chased the Winter visiting Snowbirds away. We wondered where the bustling crowd came from. A VIP Member line snaked from the Hotel Lobby into the Convention Center. The Slot Machines chimed away with intoxicating C-note sounds, enticing it’s addicted followers to play another weekend.
Quechan Casino & Resort Parking Lot
Clara saddled up, smokes in hand, to get her fix with the other gamblers. Debbi, Daniel, Fern and I opted out of the Blackjack tables in exchange for a seat at the Ocotillo Buffet international culinary food adventure. Debbi fell in Linguine love, Daniel suckled on the succulent Roast Beef in Mushroom Gravy, Aunt Fern agreed to the Corn on the Cob though it doesn’t agree with her and I covered my tiny plate with Asian Orange Chicken (陈皮鸡(陳皮雞; Pinyin: chénpí jī) and a side of Green Beans. In my book, the coffee is the best; perhaps they siphon it off of the Food Court’s next door Starbucks urn. Our drink server couldn’t bring my 2nd cup fast enough. When I purchased the $32 meal ticket, the clerk asked if I’d like to add a tip on the Discover Card bill. I refrained from adding a tip as well as refrained in informing her that I do not tip at Buffets. Okay, I did leave a $1 tip at the Mandarin Garden buffet the other night.
Odd Looking Apartment Complex, Somerton, Arizona
Debbi decided to try her luck at the Cocopah Casino for the first time. A couple weeks prior, I discovered they had the Alley & Arcade next door for 9-year-old Daniel and I to play in. I prompted Debbi to drive us past the Casino and to the San Luis Rio Colorado, Mexico border crossing. On our way we noticed these odd looking red, white and blue buildings on the entering edge of Somerton, Arizona. They turned out to be Apartments. Clara and Fern were impressed with the fence running through San Luis between Mexico and the US; they weren’t impressed in it’s ability to curb illegal immigration. Remembering Reagan’s Berlin call, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” left us all felling World openness was going in reverse.
Palm Tree - A Tree Trimmer's Hazard
Clara remarks how she understands the dangers Palm Tree Trimmers face when she notices these unkempt trees. A few weeks ago a Mesa, Arizona trimmer was smothered to death under the weight of these heavy fronds.
Bowling Alley - Cocopah Wild River Family Entertainment Center
I brought my 16 pound bowling ball, 2 lb. Nike left-handed shoes, 3 lb. bag and a misplaced 1998 8mm ping pong training tape. The ball & all provided more exercise than entertainment. I lugged it around the arcade as Daniel dashed from game to game. I better understand how the “ball & chain” hinders prisoners from even trying to escape.
The Fast and the Furious - Super Bikes
Daniel starts out on Sega’s “The Fast and the Furious Super Bike” (High Res Video). (Low Res Video)
Deal or No Deal - Card Swipe
“Deal or No Deal” – 1st Game Single Swipe (High Res. Video) (Low Res Video) “Deal or No Deal” -2nd Game Double Swipe (High Res. Video) (Low Res Video)
Skee Ball
Skee-Ball (High Res Video), (Low Res Video)
Big Bass Wheel
Big Bass Wheel – Ticket Bonanza (High Res Video), (Low Res Video)
Bowling Ball Bag Ticket Holder
Bowling Ball Bag Ticket Holder
Jungle Zoo Shoot-em Up Game
Jungle Shootem Up (High Res Video), (Low Res Video)
Let's go Jungle Tour - Jungle Safari
Let’s go Jungle Tour – Jungle Safari (High Res Video), (Low Res Video)
Ghost Squad
Ghost Squad (High Res Video), (Low Res Video) Ghost Squad Part 2 (High Res Video), (Low Res Video)
Time Crisis 3
Time Crisis 3 (High Res Video), (Low Res Video) Time Crisis 3 Part 2 (High Res Video), (Low Res Video)
Air Hockey - Dad (Rob Trudell) vs. Daniel Trudell
Air Hockey – Dad vs. Daniel (High Res Video), (Low Res Video)
Zoo Shooting Gallery
Zoo Shooting Gallery (High Res Video), (Low Res Video) ZooFari (High Res Video), (Low Res Video)
Slam a Winner
Haunted - Booby Trap - Pow
Speed Demon
Pac Man Wild
Ticket - Prize Exchange Counter
Ticket Counter - Counting Machine
Ticket Counting Machine (High Res Video), (Low Res Video)
Ticket Station
Ticket Redemption
Ticket Redemption - Toy Exchange
Yuma Fun Factory – Shot in the Air – Shot to the Ground
Wednesday, April 14th, 2010As Daniel screamed around the Fun Factory Go-cart track, “Help, I’m going to die; don’t kill me, don’t kill me!, little did we realize the imminent death of the facility itself was closer than our own.
Go-cart Ride Video
I nailed a little girl in the rear and she squealed off toward the railing as we passed. As my wife reviewed the video event footage she commented on the “No Bumping” rule emblazoned on the cart’s fender.
When I stumbled and mumbled around how everyone from our Company’s night at the races did the same, she referred me to the NASCAR racing term of “Rubbing”. Following standard racing rules, I committed no bumping foul “because rubbing is racing” (otherwise known as “cus rubbin is racin”).
Before tooling around the Racing Course, Daniel and I baptized ourselves in the Bumper Boat waters. Nervous about winter water temperatures, I abandoned caution for near certain Wet T-Shirt nipple effects. I stowed the new Sony Cyber-shot HX5V/B Digital Camera in the Lincoln LS to insure its dry passage though the moistest of Fun Factory times.
Fun Factory Bumper Boats
Dowsed by waterfalls and soaked by squirt-gun cannons, we chased and bumped around the bay in gas powered round Norton Utility like looking yellow and blue buoy rafts.
Familiar with Yuma’s Historic Landmarks and Western old town feel, the mini-golf course and building décor captures the community with the cleverest of designs. Looking at the Water Tower building components shows how standard plumbing supplies can transform into a small town realistic looking facsimile.
Fun Factory Mini Golf Course
Clever design doesn’t always pay the bills and those I visited the Fun Factory with express sadness in its 12th April temporary closing announcement. I heard they employed 200 people that were notified Sunday night not to return.
The 2009 May opening provided Yuma with a needed shot in the arm, with an exciting entertainment spot and this April’s closing feels like a shot in the belly. On my first visit, I dreamed of owning the place and wondered how I could transfer some of its elements to my house.
Baptized by the Fun Factory Waters
I drove by the Fun Factory alongside the I-8 Interstate Freeway last night and the brilliant Fun Factory light still shown with its US and Arizona flags flying at full staff. Good luck to those in reviving it from financial woe; good luck to raising our spirits once again to join those high flying flags with a new reopening.
Tour del Ming
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009I walked around the neighborhood to take a couple more recent photos of the Ming’s properties.
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- Repaired Cottage Windows – 468 S. Orange Ave., Yuma, Arizona
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- 468 S. Orange Ave., Yuma, AZ – Repaired Windows
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- 502 S. Orange Ave., Yuma, Arizona – Ming Apartments
Yuma Weather Station
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009Here’s my GM Desert Proving Ground – Yuma Weather Station
Arizona State Historic Property Inventory – A.B. Ming House
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009Page 21
Allen B. Ming - Director Commercial Club
“Another early large property owner was F. S. Ming. Ming came to Yuma from New Jersey in 1904 and quickly acquired a considerable amount of property in the Conservancy area. The Ming Apartments, at 502 S. Orange Avenue (Y.B013),and several other vacant lots were in his possession.
Ming Apartment - 502 S. Orange Ave
The Ming Apartments, built in 1920, is a stucco over wood frame structure with common Bungalow characteristics. It houses three families and sits on a corner lot at Orange and Fifth Street.
Frank Ming was proprietor of the Southern Pacific Hotel, and was famous for the slogan he adopted from the Pilot Knob Hotel: “free meals, every day the sun doesn’t shine.” Ming was also active in citrus farming and served as Mayor of Yuma in the 1920′s. He pursued an active social life, maintaining memberships in several fraternal organizations. Withe the aid of his brother, Allen B., he built the Del Ming Hotel at 300 Gila Street (Y.M011, National Register #Yu.106).
Arizona State Historic Property Inventory
Page 49
Property Name
A.B. Ming Residence
Location
468 Orange Avenue
City
Yuma
County
Yuma
Owner
Lillie T. Stevens
Owner’s Address
468 Orange Avenue
Yuma, AZ 85364
Form Completed by
Yuma County Historical Society
Address
240 Madison Avenue
Yuma, AZ 85364
468 S. Orange Ave., Yuma, Arizona - April 1978
Photo by
P. Callahan, Date 4/1978 Yu139
View Front elevation from east
Present Use
Residence/Single Family
Acreage
less/acre
Style or Cultural Period
Bungaloid and Neo-Colonial influence
Significant Dates
Built 1906
Physical Description
The A.B. Ming Residence is a one-and-a-half story frame residence. Its massing is assymetrical and plan irrigular. Overall the building measures about 28 feet in width by 70 feet in depth. The roof consists of a large bellcast gable with an offset gable extension on the front facade. Roof and gable surfaces are covered with wood shingles; exterior walls are finished with clapboard. A porch follows the recessed configuration of the front facad. The principal entry is located off the south end of the porch. Special features of the building include a Palladian window, a corbeled chimney, and spindlework in the front screen door.
Statement of Significance
Built in 1906 by W.E. (Billy) Marvin, the huse at 468 Orange Avenue is significant both archetecturally and for its several distinguished owners. Marvin was a Rough Rider, County Supervisor, and real estate agent. He sold the property in 1908 to Fred Fleishman. The house remained with the Fleishman family until 1922 when it was purchaced as the home of Allen B. Ming. Mr Ming served for many years as County Assessor and was prominent in civic affairs. Architecturally the building combines formal characteristics of the Bungaloid and Neo-Colonial styles. The building retains most of its original character and is in excellent condition.
Verbal Boundary Description
Block 118; Lot 6; Yuma Townsite
Arizona State Historic Property Inventory
“Historic Building Form”
Identification
Survey Area Name: Century Heights Conservancy
Historic Name: Allen B. Ming Home
Address/Location: 468 S. Orange Ave.
City/Town: Yuma
Owner: Shinault, Raymond
Owner Address:468 S. Orange Ave., Yuma, Arizona 85364
Historic Use: Residence
Present Use: Residence
Building Type: House
Style: Bungalow
Construction Date: 1906
Architect/Builder: W.E. “Billy” Marvin
Integrity: Minor Alterations
Condition: Good
County: Yuma
Survey Site: Y.C003
USGS Quad: Yuma, AZ
T 8s R 23w S 21 / NW 1/4 of the SE 1/4
UTM
Description
Stories: 1 1/2
Dimensions: (l) 28 (w) 70
Structural Material: Wood Frame
Foundation Material: Unknown
Wall Sheathing: Clapboard with corner boards
Applied Ornament: None
Roof Type: Medium bell cast gable with..
Roof Sheathing: Wood Shingle
Eaves Treatment: Boxed cornice, rectangular wood palladian vent on right..
Windows: 1/1 DH, wood frame
Entry: Off-Center with wood screen door and panel wood door with single light
Porches: Open, with shed and gabled roofs with wood posts and no rail
Storefronts: Not Applicable
Notable Interior: Unknown
Outbuildings: Wood frame guest house with DH windows in good condition
Alterations: Side boarded window
468 S. Orange Ave., Yuma AZ - May 1986
Photograph: Linda Laird & Associates
Date: May, 1986
View: W, 3/4
Negative Number: R:L F:5
Additional Description/Analysis (annoted form): Eaves contd: sid pediment and enlongated diamond shaped fixed windows and wood shingles on central pediment.
Roof type contd: single interior chimney, and corbelled chimney.
Prom Occup contd: County Assessor, who with Frank Ming, built the Del Ming Hotel
Significance: Other (specifiy) Architecture
Historic Associations (be concise):
Prominent Occupant/Historic Associations: Marvin was a Rough Rider, County Supervisor, and real estate agent. He sold to Fred Fleishman in 1908, then sold to Ming.
Relationship to Local Development: Relates to elaborate residential development in Yuma
Cultural Affiliations: None
Engineering/Structural: None
District/Streetscape Contribution: Individually listed on the National Register
Discussion as Required: Contributes to the historic fabric of the block face. This building is stylistically similar to eastern shingle style houses of the same period.
Context: Residential Street
Bibliography/Sources: Phone directories: 1905 – 1923; Tax Assessors’s Rool: 1890 – 1954; Interviews with: Estelle Dingess, Rose Marie Sanguinetti Gwyn, Mary Lorona, George Snow; Doan, May G., I Woldn’t Trade Those Yesterdays; Westover, William H., A Biography of E. F. Sanguinetti; Winsor, Mulford, Unpublished monograph on Jose Marie Redondo; Yuma Chamber of Commerce, The Gate City of the Great Southwest; Yuma Chamber of Commerce, Yuma County Arizona; Newspapers; Arizona Sentinel, The Sun Yuma, Yuma Daily Examiner; City of Yuma building permits 1913-1935.
Listings in other Surveys: Yuma Multiple Resource Area Nomination (Yu.139) Listed
Surveyor: Linda Laird & Assoc.
Survey Date: June 1986
Date Form Completed: August 1986
Hanging Laundry in a Dust Storm
Saturday, July 18th, 2009I did my laundry today and before it was ready to hang on the clothes line, I noticed a brownish tint in the air and some howling.
Spread Eagle Shirt Flapping in the Breeze
Checking out the window I saw a vicious dust storm. The news reported 70 mph winds and recommended staying away from windows.
I was just worried I might get a little grit in my underwear if I hung it on the line. The other concern was having my unmentionables flying into the neighbors yard.
The security doors are banging, my electrical box is flapping in the breeze and branches are bouncing off the window.
The dust cleared up some, so I went to hang my darks on the line. It was still windy and I thought the clothes could easily launch in the air even after clipping them down. I felt more comfortable after the 2nd clip locked on place.
One of my red plastic clothes pin’s handles broke off. I’ve left the pins outside on the line and I guess the sun has both faded the red, white & blue colors (not so much the white) and degraded their strength. Perhaps I should bring them in when not in use. The spiders also like wrapping their webs around them.