THE SUNDAY MALIBU NEWSPAPER January 18, 2004, Page 2

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" height=34 BGCOLOR="#EEEEEE" TEXT="#080000" background="0f908333.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#262626" FACE="Stencil" ><A HREF="january_18__2004_headlines_january_18_2003.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="WALT KELLER RUNS AGAIN?!"><U>TODAY'S HEADLINES</U></A></FONT><B>       </B><B>THE SUNDAY MALIBU NEWSPAPER  JANUARY 18, 2004   Page 2</B><B> <!-onMouseover Link CSS Script-© Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com). For full source code, installation instructions, 100's more DHTML scripts, and Terms Of Use, visit dynamicdrive.com--><style></style>  </B></div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=391 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="01808593.jpg"> <div>  <!-onMouseover Link CSS Script-© Dynamic Drive (www.dynamicdrive.com). 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Jan. 17, 2004. Special to The Sunday Malibu Newspaper.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sierra Sue was quite a character. She had a short life, 20 years against Mr. Hope's 100 -- and her 20 years were caged at Lake Tahoe. She was the product of a creative mind of the owner of the Tahoe City World. That was a paper published weekly in Tahoe City, at the north end of Lake Tahoe, where the lake was (usually) at a level of 6,000 and some feet. I think.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I last saw Tahoe in 1975, as I drove my old car from Carson City in Nevada to Santa Cruz on California's coastline. Santa Cruz: the Malibu of the north, because it's a colder beach. But that's another story, some day.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sierra Sue was great for misquotes. She was the type who'd watch, for example, the moon landing, "one step for man," and then she'd toss in her own ending; one time, it came out "which I missed because it wasn't in my direction." I guess you had to be there, perhaps to know that Stub (creator of Sue) had paid his dues at the San Jose Mercury sports department, had moved forward to join Henry J. Kaiser's public relations department - and even sold a car! - (My dad bought one from Stub, but that's another story too) - Stub gave me a paperweight, a small ignot of aluminum with the raised letters PERMANENTE on the top.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>I later did some film work for the Kaiser Aluminum firm at its reduction works outside of Spokane, Washington. Still later, I did some work for the security department of Kaiser out of their Oakland offices - again, more stories in the bag. But today I chose Sue because while I don't remember her wise cracks, I remember her.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>"She" would heckle Tahoe "historian" Dave, who wrote some mighty wild "TALES OF TAHOE (in two volumes yet)," about early sports in the mountains, football with boulders insead of pig skins, and so forth. And why is this interesting? Well, it probably isn't. If you didn't live around Tahoe in the 70s, you'd not remember how clear the water was at the northern end of the lake. South Tahoe septic tanks hadn't overloaded the ground quite yet; but the south Tahoe waters were not safe to drink, and you couldn't see your hand in front of your face. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>It may not have REALLY been that bad, but on the other hand I've walked in San Francisco fog where you couldn't see your hand -- and I've tried looking down from the docks of south and north Tahoe. Up north, you can see old boat mooring anchors 60 feet down. South, that day, I don't think I could see 60 INCHES into the water.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Sue fought obscurity of the water, as she fought other developments of Lake Tahoe: losingly. She had a lot of fun, and finally Stub retired for his third? time. He moved his wife to Grass Valley, and passed away to rest in those green foothills of the Rockies.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Dave, the historian, has also passed from the scene. I was reminded of Dave, and Stub, when Dave's wife Mitzi passed away as well. I've avoided adding their last names, to avoid peppering this column with repeat after repeat of the name we all shared: STOLLERY. Dave, David John Junior, has a son -- but that's another story as well. And instead of Malibu sand transplanted to the Rockies, young Davey is around here somewhere. But - well, yes, "that's another story."</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>"THE SPONTANEOUS SPECTATOR" </B></div> <div> <B>© 1972, 1992, 2002, 2003, 2004 Edward W. Stollery II</B></div> <bR> <div> Reprint rights please contact the author</div> <div> <A HREF="mailto:edstollery@yahoo.com" TARGET="_top" TITLE="mailto:edstollery@yahoo.com"><U>edstollery@yahoo.com</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="85" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#FFCC99 > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="85"><div> <A HREF="page_2__in_other_news13_m.htm" TITLE="THE SUNDAY MALIBU NEWSPAPER January 18, "><U>up on top</U></A></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></div> <bR> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="2"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1370" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="2" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.tahoecam.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.tahoecam.com/"><U><B><IMG SRC="10fad320.gif" border=0 width="173" height="50" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="http://www.tahoecam.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.tahoecam.com/"><U><B>Live Camera</B></U></A><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Comic Sans MS" ><B> </B></FONT><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" ><B>(06:00 - 17:45 PST)</B></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="266" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFFFFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#000066" FRAME="BOX" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 140 WIDTH="262"><div> <IMG SRC="10d82870.jpg" border=0 width="130" height="135" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 212 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="http://www.tahoechamber.org/visitorscenter.html" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.tahoechamber.org/visitorscent"><U><B>In the Tahoe Visitors Center:</B></U></A></div> <div> <B>Cultural History of Lake Tahoe</B></div> <div> <B>Interesting Lake Tahoe facts</B></div> <div> <B>Knowledgeable staff</B></div> <div> <B>Lodging reservations</B></div> <div> <B>Brochures</B></div> <div> <B>Entertainment information</B></div> <div> <B>Activities & recreation info</B></div> <div> <B>Maps & guides</B></div> <div> <B>Shop for souvenirs & memorabilia</B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="1" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" WIDTH="253" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#FFFFFF" BORDERCOLORDARK="#000066" FRAME="BOX" RULES="NONE" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" BGCOLOR=#0066CC > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 276 ><NOBR><div> <A HREF="http://www.keeptahoeblue.org/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.keeptahoeblue.org/"><U><B><IMG SRC="111dd0d0.jpg" border=0 width="221" height="269" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></U></A></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 351 WIDTH="249"><div> <B>'Lake Tahoe is losing the clarity of its cobalt blue waters at an average of over one foot per year. 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Oh yeah, I stopped by the Blues Night at the Palm Hilton, but I wasn't wearing my slide shoes so I didn't feel like throwin' down. My friend 'M' - Ms. Mehuman Johnson, jumped up there with her guitar and, I mean,</B><I><B> threw down! </B></I><B>There was a pretty good house band.</B></div> <div> <B>The room is gorgeous! 6 big video screens...I'll go back next week and find out the band's name for you. The bartender was whipping up some of the most awesome N.Y. style </B><I><B>dry </B></I><B>vodka martinis...Don't know how I got home...I do remember closing Harrah's with the twins playing piano on the last show....This column will have to continue next issue...I drank about 25 of those bad boys...I'm going through flashbacks....I wish you a happy Martin Luther King Day .....on Monday I'm going to stay in bed until Tuesday...Must be getting old when 25 martinis can do that to me...Not going to count the 5 slamdunk tequila & champagnes I had before I got there...No, I was cool...Maybe that girl put somethin- Nah, why would she do that? 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