越後長岡（１）

家のパソコンがとうとう危篤状態になりました。
動くことは動くのですが、動作が不安定です。
とりあえずデータを退避、引退した旧型機を現役復帰、
接続しています。

さて今回は新潟県長岡市を紹介します。
東京から上越新幹線で約1時間半、新潟県中越地方に位置し、
新潟県下第2位の人口(約28万人)を擁して、国から特例市の
指定を受けています。

江戸時代には長岡藩74000石の城下町として栄えました。
戊辰戦争と第二次世界大戦(長岡空襲)、新潟県中越地震等で
壊滅的被害を受けましたが、復興を遂げ現在に至っています。

また花火王国として有名で、市の中心を流れる信濃川では
8月1～3日に長岡まつりが開かれ、正三尺玉花火も
打ち上げられます。

長岡駅。この辺りは旧長岡城のあったところです。


駅前の噴水(?)の脇に本丸跡の石標があります。


駅前の花火筒。大きいです。


豪雪地帯のせいでしょうか、商店街の軒には雁木(?)があります。


今回は短くてすみません。
続きます。

コメント 25

花火が有名なんですね！
なんか国営放送のドラマでやってたような、、、？
by 島猫 (2010-09-06 09:16) 

花火が有名なとこなんて行った事ないでし～～☆
一回、、行ってみたいでしね～～ｖｖｖ
by ぷりん＆りく (2010-09-06 09:26) 

以前勤めていた会社の工場が燕三条にあり、
何度か行きましたが、そのたびに長岡は通過。
花火が有名なのは存じてましたが、
なぜか自分が行くときは雪のときばかりだったような。。。
by 桔梗之介 (2010-09-06 12:07) 

長岡、昔はよく帰省する際の乗り換え駅、花火、そして雪が多い・・・
猛暑続きでPCの調子がおかしくなりますね。
熱がですぎ・・・

クロちゃん、単なる警戒心で食べる量が少ないです。
キジトラさんは年中食欲があります(爆笑)
ときどき猫のように背を伸ばしましょう～
by green_blue_sky (2010-09-06 12:14) 

こんにちは。
長岡は、製紙会社へ何回か行きました。
いい所ですね。
by YUTAじい (2010-09-06 12:35) 

島猫さん
　次回以降に出てきますが、幕末の偉人、河井継之助が
　長岡出身です。司馬遼太郎の｢峠｣で有名になりましたね。
by hayama55 (2010-09-06 18:12) 

ぷりん＆りくさん
　ネット検索してみればわかりますが、ここの花火は
　正三尺玉を使った花火が打ち上げられます。
　駅前の大筒、人間が並ぶとその大きさがよくわかります。
by hayama55 (2010-09-06 18:14) 

桔梗之介さん
　燕三条ということは、某有名な陶磁器(?)の会社とか。
　長岡は交通の要所でもあり、また豪雪地帯でも
　有名なところですね。
by hayama55 (2010-09-06 18:15) 

green_blue_skyさん
　長岡は交通の要所ですね。
　私もよく上越線→信越線で北陸コースを利用させて
　いただきました。最近は越後湯沢からほくほく線経由が
　多くなりましたが。

　猫ちゃん、かわいい新顔が増えてよかったですね。
by hayama55 (2010-09-06 18:17) 

YUTAじいさん
　信濃川の清流を使った製紙業でしょうか。
　製紙業は清流がないと成り立ちませんからね。
　真夏でしたが、感じのいい街でした。
by hayama55 (2010-09-06 18:19) 

長岡と言えば、山本五十六連合艦隊司令長官の出身地ですね。
by のり君 (2010-09-06 22:26) 

長岡なつかしい～！以前　柏崎で仕事をしていた時　時々　駅前に遊びに行きました。雁木は新潟の街（雪の多い地区）のシンボルでもありますよね！
高田（上越市）に親戚がいた　子供の頃　これが雁木って言うんだと教わりました！＾＾

そうそう、ヨーカド―は　丸大なんですよね！＾＾にゃはは
by ゆうのすけ (2010-09-06 23:07) 

こんばんは。
長岡は花火が有名なんですか。
最近テレビやブログでしか
花火を見てないです。
by sunset (2010-09-06 23:59) 

のり君さん
　そうです、山本長官の出身地でもあります。
　次々回以降に登場の予定です。
by hayama55 (2010-09-07 07:32) 

ゆうのすけさん
　柏崎もいいですね。土底浜とか、名前がすごい
　ところがあって。

　長岡駅前のイトーヨーカドー、健在です。
　でも少し人通りが少ないかな。
　駅ビル内のCoCoLoは震災後にできたのでしょうか。
by hayama55 (2010-09-07 07:37) 

sunsetさん
　長岡や小千谷の花火は本当にすごいそうです。
　私も実物は見たことありませんが。
by hayama55 (2010-09-07 07:39) 

おはようございます。
長岡、通過しただけです・・・
新潟もよいところがたくさんありそうですが、柏崎くらいしか行ったことがありません・・・
by umi37- (2010-09-07 09:33) 

長岡は出張で毎月のように行っていましたが、
結局花火は一度も見ることが出来ませんでした。
by stone-9 (2010-09-07 09:48) 

長岡市という地名は、あの地震の時によく耳にしました。
頑張って復興を遂げたのですね。
チャンスがあれば、是非一度訪れてみたいですね♪
食べ物では、何か有名なものはありますか？
by hirochiki (2010-09-07 12:43) 

今回の輪行で、清里のペンションで長岡からの母娘の親子に出会いました。　長岡は科技大と長岡デザイン大学に知り合いがいる関係です。
また中越、中越沖地震に興味を持っております。

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The OC actress Rachel Bilson showed off her hour-glass shape in this cream version that highlights her curves and tan.

The trend has been much copied on the High Street, but these are usually made from cheap fabrics that don't pull in and shape the wearer.

But surely Herve Leger's ￡1,400 version would work its magic on any woman?

We tried it out on our size 14 model - and the results were so frightening you'd be forgiven for thinking she was off to a Halloween party dressed as a mummy!

The dress doesn't offer enough support for her bust, and is desperately tight around her hips and thighs.

It is also far too short, suggesting that these dresses are designed for only the most petite of women.

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Ken Griffey Jr. explains: 'I felt it was right for me to leave'


"There was no fanfare, no ceremony. Really, there was no warning.

Much like the way he left abruptly last season, Ken Griffey Jr. arrived at the Seattle Mariners' spring training complex unannounced Wednesday afternoon.

Suddenly he was just there, clad in a black sweat suit and visor and ready to assume his role as "special consultant" to the Seattle Mariners organization today.

Even with his sudden appearance, Griffey knew that he wouldn't be able to avoid discussing what transpired last season when he called Mariners president Chuck Armstrong from a gas station in Montana to say he was retiring.

So Griffey walked into the small media room at the team's complex Wednesday, sat on a counter and spoke publicly for the first time since his unforeseen departure June 2.

"I'm only going to do this one time, and this will be the last time I talk about it," he said.

After a pause and a deep breath, he continued in a controlled, quiet voice.

"Last year, I felt it was necessary for me to remove myself from the team," he said. "I told Chuck and Howard (Lincoln), No. 1, if I become a distraction or feel I'm going to be a distraction, then I will retire. Because that's the one thing I didn't want to become is a distraction to the organization."

The trademark Griffey smile that fans came to know during both of his playing stints with the Mariners was nowhere to be seen.

"Second, I gave myself a little bit of a head start," he said. "A lot of people that are friends of mine would have tried to talk me out of it. I just felt it was best for me and the organization to retire. No fault of its own. Things happen. I'm not upset. I think people thought I was upset. That wasn't the case. I just felt it was more important for me to retire instead of being a distraction. It no longer became the Seattle Mariners. It became, 'When is Ken doing this?' 'When is Ken doing that?' That's something that I didn't want to have my teammates, who I truly care about, have to answer these kinds of questions, day-in and day-out."

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She was warned when she began modelling that her career would be over by the time she turned 30.

But at 57, Christie Brinkley shows no sign of losing her Uptown Girl appeal.

The mother-of-three proved she still knows how to turn heads yesterday in New York as she showed off moves from her role as Roxie in the Broadway version of musical Chicago.

And in a skintight red Herve Leger dress, the glamorous blonde could have passed for a woman half her age.

Miss Brinkley, who has been married four times, told a New York breakfast television host that her ex-husband Billy Joel, 61, had given her some singing tips before she auditioned for the musical.

‘He helped with my projection,’ she said.

The star, who has appeared on more than 500 magazine covers, also revealed that dancing in the show had ‘definitely’ improved her figure.

Miss Brinkley was criticised for her dancing in the 1983 video for Joel’s hit Uptown Girl – but insists she has improved since.

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Griffey's retirement stirs admiration


"With the retirement of Mariner great Ken Griffey Jr., baseball has lost perhaps its last clean, steroid-free slugger from the era say from mid-'80s to the present, with Jim Thome maybe the last sole survivor.

When the man with the sweetest swing ever and the infectious smile decided to hang them up from Seattle, his being clean and not mentioned in an any scandal involving HGH helps ease some of the pain that cheaters like Bonds, Sosa, McGwire, Canseco, Giambi, Palmeiro, Manny, Ortiz, Clemens, and Pettitte, to name of few of the suspect parties, inflicted on us baseball fans.

As we all know, Father Time catches all of us, but it makes you feel your age when a 19- year-old breaks in for the '89 season and 21 quick years later, as you approach 53, start to marry kids off and retire from a job, do you actually realize that time actually does indeed fly by all of us. "

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Ken Griffey Jr. in his prime will be the sight to remember


"Roger Jongewaard doesn't want to dwell on the awkward ending to Ken Griffey Jr.'s career, which grinded to an uncomfortable halt on Wednesday.

Jongewaard prefers to think about Griffey's glorious beginnings.

It was Jongewaard, as the Mariners' scouting director, who made the recommendation in 1987 to select the high-school outfielder from Cincinnati's Moeller High School with the No. 1 overall pick.

Granted, it didn't take a baseball Einstein to recognize the burgeoning phenomenon that was Griffey. But Jongewaard had to convince skeptical M's owner George Argyros that Griffey was the right man. Argyros, it seems, was still irked about the slow progress of Jongewaard's previous year's No. 1, outfielder Patrick Lennon.

"I told him I wanted to take Junior," recalled Jongewaard, now 74 and living near San Diego, where he scouts for the Florida Marlins. "He said, 'No, there's a college pitcher from Fullerton I think is better suited for us, Mike Harkey.'

" 'No, Junior's the guy,' " Jongewaard assured Argyros.

" 'That's what you said about the last guy,' " the owner replied.

Jongewaard ultimately won that debate, and the rest is baseball history and Seattle legend."

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If Griffey returns, it will be in 2011


"Ken Griffey Jr. will be back in Seattle at some point this season for a much deserved tribute from the team and its fans, but if he's going to return to the team in any other role, it will likely be next year.

Agent Brian Goldberg and team president Chuck Armstrong were scheduled to talk today about possible roles for Junior with the Mariners beyond this season, but none had been determined.

There was some confusion Thursday over whether Griffey might return in some role this year, and that report caught the Mariners off-guard because it hadn't been mentioned when Junior told them of his retirement."

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