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Obit of the Day: Rock Store Star
In 1961 Ed and Veronica (“Vern”) Savko bought a dry goods store in Cornell, California called the “Rock Store.” Vern ran the store for ten years while Ed drove a bread delivery truck. On the weekends, Ed would drive his Harley-Davidson around the area and park his bike under a large oak outside of the store. This became a signal to other riders that the Rock Store was motorcycle-friendly. It quickly became a motorcycling mecca.
Ed Savko, who died at the age of 86, found himself surrounded by Harley-riding celebrities starting with film legend Steve McQueen. Savko and McQueen would ride together and then come back to the Rock Store for a bite to eat. Eventually other celebrities known for their two-wheeling enthusiam became regulars including Jay Leno, George Clooney, and former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The Rock Store is still open for business and run by the Savko family.
On a sad note, Ed Savko died only nine days before his and Vern’s 65th wedding anniversary.
(Top image shows Ed and Vern in 1979 and copyright of the LA Times. The bottom image shows the couple circa 2011 is courtesy of cycleworld.com)
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There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
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“New York State Senator Eric Adams and his colleagues honored Trayvon Martin on Monday by wearing hoodies to the March 26, 2012 Senate legislative session in Albany.”
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Trayvon’s blackness wasn’t something he could hide, so it wouldn’t have mattered whether he’d worn a hoodie or a t-shirt that fateful night. It mattered that he was black, and it mattered that the person who shot him had a vendetta out for black men before Trayvon ever set foot in the neighborhood. It matters that in 2012, there are more black men in prison today than those who were enslaved in 1850. It matters that blacks, in particular black men, are overrepresented in the criminal justice system and underrepresented in colleges. It matters that the black unemployment rate is nearly double that of unemployment for the general population. It matters that blacks are less likely to be screened, diagnosed, and treated for preventable diseases, less likely to own homes, less likely to receive research grants, and more likely to retire in poverty than their white counterparts. It matters that blacks are less likely than whites to abuse drugs, but more likely to be convicted of drug crimes. None of these statistics are due to a genetic predisposition to violence, poor health and underachievement, instead as a direct result of the disenfranchisement of blacks that has occurred in this country for more than 200 years at the hands of slavery, Jim Crow Laws, discrimination, and the institutionalized racism in our schools, banks, businesses, courts, and prisons that has torn apart our families and fractured our community. Just like Trayvon Martin, race mattered for Amadou Diallo, Oscar Grant, Sean Bell, Emmett Till, and hundreds more we will never know the name of who died because of their skin color
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the tart: Yes, it's political. Yes, it's legal bullshit. But stop ignoring that it's ALSO racial.
This wouldn’t be the first time someone took an issue that ACTUALLY IS about race and tried to transform it, and made it about something else. Ask PETA. Ask SlutWalk. Ask OWS. Ask American Atheists. Ask anyone who quotes MLK, Jr. or Malcolm X. Slavery and the Civil Rights…
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Rainbow in Los Gatos, Ca
