Oh my that picture is awfully small. Lol. If someone could dig up a better picture it’s called "the mikado 2nd and last act" by pughe.
Soze
Interestingly, the 2nd act of the mikado contains the song a more humane mikado. This is the song friar puck talks about in his letter to editor.
Thank you so much, Soze!! I can’t wait to dig into this!
Here is a picture of the roosevelt mikado I remember. The "puck" I remember turns out to be the name of the building this lithograph was made in. The company that made the lithograph, who also built the building, was J Ottman Lithographic company. The reason why it was called the puck building was due to the puck statues adorning the building. Puck magazine, a satire magazine, started and finished in this building. The last owner of puck magazine was William Randolph Hearst.
The Zodiac killer movie? Now that’s weird!
Soze
Just saw this on Wikipedia:
"Years after its conclusion, the "Puck" name and slogan were revived as part of the Comic Weekly Sunday comic section that ran on Hearst’s newspaper chain beginning in September 1931 and continuing until the 1970s. It was then revived again by Hearst’s Los Angeles Herald Examiner, which folded in 1989."
Maybe that’s what inspired the letter writer to call himself Friar Puck?
You can download it in various sizes from here.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File … 647271.jpg
“I don’t know Chief, he’s very smart or very dumb.“
You can download it in various sizes from here.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File … 647271.jpg
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
I’m looking through a St. Helena yearbook.
Anyone want to contemplate the possibility of twins? That’s an angle I’ve never seen. (I don’t think it’s them.)
I’m looking through a St. Helena yearbook.
Anyone want to contemplate the possibility of twins? That’s an angle I’ve never seen. (I don’t think it’s them.)
Interesting! I’m game.
Thank you trav for posting the image.
I wasn’t that impressed at first, but the more I think about it, the better the chance that these are from Zodiac.They are much more on point than the letters that sent Mike Rodelli toward Kjell Qvale, which to me were always a little weak. Those letters were kind of general sixties culture clash.
BTW: where did Shepard and Hartnell live?
I am surprised that no one here knows the answer to your question? Bryan was from Troutdale OR, Cecelia was from Loma Linda Ca. The reason she was buried in St Helena, was she told her mother that if she died that was where she wanted to be buried, because it was so beautiful there. ( The family also had friends in Napa. )
For whatever reason, I don’t get notified every time there is a reply made, even though I checked the "Notify me when a reply is posted"? I have to check from time to time to see what is going on.
North County TImes
Oceanside Calif.
April 24, 1997A local junior hockey tournament has a mascot named Friar Puck. Interesting due to the location.
While researching the Friar Puck connection, I’ve definitely been looking mostly at the work of Fuseli. But, I think the hockey angle definitely needs looked into a little bit. I wonder what local hockey teams were around then? I’m thinking community, high school (St. Helena and Napa), etc.
North County TImes
Oceanside Calif.
April 24, 1997A local junior hockey tournament has a mascot named Friar Puck. Interesting due to the location.
While researching the Friar Puck connection, I’ve definitely been looking mostly at the work of Fuseli. But, I think the hockey angle definitely needs looked into a little bit. I wonder what local hockey teams were around then? I’m thinking community, high school (St. Helena and Napa), etc.
I noticed the line in Nicks Oceanside article : The "glaring" hockey stick-wielding cleric named Friar Puck.
I googled and found this.
Waverley Magazine – Volume 4 – Page 133 – Google Books Resultbooks.google.com › books
1852 – American literature
… fair play,” and, braklishing a heavy rifle like the quarter-staff of a Friar Puck, … the old miser spread his skinny fingers over the glittering treasuré, and glared …
Friar Puck has been around for a very long time, sort of like Zodiac? If the writer was the Zodiac, I think choosing a character like Friar Puck is fitting.
Feb 2nd 2006 the Napa Valley Register had a obituary for Lawrence A Collision. He was one of the coaches who started the junior Ice hockey program at Berkeley Iceland.
In 1969 he met Charles ( Sparky) Schutz who had just built the world class ice rink in Santa Rosa. His favorite tournaments was "Snoopy’s Senior world hockey tournament".
This is that same ice rink where Maureen Sterling and Yvonne Weber were last seen before being murdered Feb 4th 1972. (Both girls were only 12 yrs old)
That name has nothing to do with hockey or a hockey puck.
"Friar Puck" is a play on words of the character Friar Tuck from the Robin Hood stories.
Puck (aka Robin Goodfellow) is a mischief-maker from Old English forklore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(folklore )
That is where the etymology of the phrase "a puckish sense of humor" comes from.
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I don’t believe in monsters.
That name has nothing to do with hockey or a hockey puck.
"Friar Puck" is a play on words of the character Friar Tuck from the Robin Hood stories.
Puck (aka Robin Goodfellow) is a mischief-maker from Old English forklore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(folklore )
That is where the etymology of the phrase "a puckish sense of humor" comes from.
But it makes sense a hockey fan would use the name.
That name has nothing to do with hockey or a hockey puck.
"Friar Puck" is a play on words of the character Friar Tuck from the Robin Hood stories.
Puck (aka Robin Goodfellow) is a mischief-maker from Old English forklore.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puck_(folklore )
That is where the etymology of the phrase "a puckish sense of humor" comes from.
This is a great find by Essa but been saying it’s about Robin Hood and more searches thinking otherwise ain’t going to add anything. Heck the Robin Hood TV show came out in 1955 the time these letters was sent. I still think Zodiac sent these letters!
