tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post3505643407809831908..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Arthur Rothstein: Butte, NightUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-41862419714183367112010-09-03T04:37:42.195-07:002010-09-03T04:37:42.195-07:00Charlie,
Well, both Arthur Rothstein and Jack Ker...Charlie,<br /><br />Well, both Arthur Rothstein and Jack Kerouac were New Yorkers, not cattle ranchers.<br /><br />Of course, Rothstein's Montana portfolio, like John Vachon's Montana portfolio, is loaded with ranch and cattle scenes, silos, grain elevators, feed and general stores, & c.<br /><br />(You may recall this bit of Vachon's <a href="http://tomclarkblog.blogspot.com/2010/07/wisdom.html" rel="nofollow">Wisdom</a>.)<br /><br />But Rothstein was a city boy, and of his Montana work, I think the Butte night street scenes are the best work.<br /><br />As to Kerouac, I don't know that there was much variety to the view above the top of the bar.<br /><br />(The piece from which the excerpt is taken, by the way, is an account of his quest for "the ideal bar", which he believed he had discovered in the M&M Bar in Butte.)<br /><br /><br />Zev,<br /><br />Oh, golly, then we must really be in trouble. (All I've ever gotten from the road are bruises and lacerations.)<br /><br /><br />Curtis,<br /><br />Your dream reminds me of my waking state, it's this house that's parked just around the corner, and I don't want to look. (But I'm not much of a psychologist.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-79363767577203624482010-09-02T11:35:52.837-07:002010-09-02T11:35:52.837-07:00Each of these images is now burned into my memory....Each of these images is now burned into my memory. The Skill Ball photo was in my dreams last night. I was sitting with a friend in his (apparently new) car just out of the frame of the picture. It was a very large Rolls Royce, which he told me that he had purchased that day for $56,000. He said it was all the money he had, that he was in pretty desperate straits, but that he thought it was worth it. Then he asked me to buy the car from him.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-45466394841071404962010-09-01T18:07:16.043-07:002010-09-01T18:07:16.043-07:00in america, only the road is loyal.in america, only the road is loyal.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-35048227887290610612010-09-01T18:05:16.008-07:002010-09-01T18:05:16.008-07:00the exuberant innocence
of Jack Kerouac
but is Mo...the exuberant innocence<br />of Jack Kerouac<br /><br />but is Montana about<br />night scenes in Butte?<br /><br />or as Ed Dorn asked<br /><br />Is the sky bigger in Montana?Elmo St. Rosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01588245143022651357noreply@blogger.com