r/Humboldt

Anybody know if Golden Gait Mercantile in Ferndale is Maga affiliated?

I like to know where I’m spending my money, especially here in FD

I don’t want to be too much of a downer about this event but boy, something has got to change. Wait in line to get in. Wait in line to get drink tokens. Wait in line to exchange your token for a 6oz pour. Realize you don’t want to keep waiting in line for such a small pour so you get in the other line to exchange some tokens for a 16 oz cup. Spend more tokens to fill the cup. Lines, lines, lines. That’s really all there was. I guess there was the polka band and yea, you can walk around the park and look at the animals and but you’re always going to come back to this one spot to stand in line again. I’m not a cider drinker but the lines for cider were insane; easily double the length of the long lines for beer at one point.

The first year I went, there were a lot more beer vendors and they were scattered around the park so it was more like a scavenger hunt trying to find them all. The lines were shorter because the whole crowd was more spread out. I get that they can’t have loud music in the park as a point of interest but the one bear exhibit isn’t really enough to entertain all of those people, especially when you can finish your 6oz pour by the time you get from the beer tent to the bear area. My group did the skywalk which is always nice but I’ve done it plenty of times at this point.

It’s a neat idea and I know it supports the zoo but I don’t think I’ll be back next year. I hope they make an effort to organize and lay the space out better in the future.

If you got to the 4 way stop first, you don’t need to yield to cyclists. Bikes are legally treated the same as cars in these situations. The first one to arrive at the stop sign goes first.

As a cyclist myself, while I appreciate what might be a polite gesture, the confusion this causes is actually pretty dangerous. I‘ve nearly had my life ended twice in the last year because some joker thought it would be funny to “yield“ to me, then attempt to strike me with their car when I passed in front of them. I’m not talking about distracted driving, I’m talking about someone who intentionally tried to hit me. Thankfully the first incident I only got clipped while the other narrowly missed.

It’s impossible to tell between a driver acting in good faith, and some psycho who gets off on terrifying random strangers. So please, just take the right of way and go. You don’t have to go out of the way to be courteous. Just be safe and abide by the law.

It's still rough, and needs some refinements, more details but I'm building a collection of stories from newspaper archives and other records of the time and people to listen to while I prospect for gold along the Trinity around Willow Creek.

"The Loveliest Spot in California" is the introduction to a first draft of the story of the Sugar Bowl Ranch & Mine and the people who lived there. The narrator is fictional, some interactions guessed at, the rest is fact as the papers of the times presented them.

https://sugar-bowl-stories.jameswhite70.chatgpt.site/

Willow Creek Stories

Hi there, I have always been intrigued by the barbershop experience. I am a woman with a short Mixie (pixie mullet) cut looking for a trim. Any recommendations for a barbershop that is open to cutting women's hair (preferably not super expensive as well)?

Thank you!

hey everyone!

i just moved to the area and was curious about the local music scene! looking for some folks to jam with and hopefully get something going :)

i’m 25, play keys and guitar. gear-wise, i have a yamaha YC-20, crumar electric piano, yamaha DX7, and a few other mid-70s synths.

some of my biggest inspirations are:
yellow magic orchestra
joão donato
neu!
ween
stevie wonder
les rallizes dénudés

and plenty more lol. down to meet other musicians, experiment with sounds, and see what comes out of it!

Just wanted to give a shout out to the folks arranging this and who were out there today. We weren’t able to make it but drove past. Appreciate all the animal lovers and the people standing up for the critters of Humboldt. All living organisms deserve to be free and happy, it feels really good to live around so many people who feel the same way.

Protesting can be thankless work, so just wanted to make sure someone said, ‘Thank you’.

...please consider doing your fireworks anytime before 2, 3, 4, in the morning on weekdays. I know its super fun to make things go boom but some of us have pets / infants, and dont give a shit about hearing your big bangs. I probably sound like a vibe harshing boomer, but there are so many other times / places you can choose to launch your literal canons.

Hey Humboldt,

Besides Redwood Raks in Arcata, do we have any spots that can be rented out for an evening for a birthday dance party? Looking in the Eureka/Arcata/McKinleyville area