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A surplus of geekery by :: Fred Abercrombie

KYEO: Chicken Stoop & Norman Greenbaum’s Petaluma For The Soul

Keep Your Eyes (and Ears) Open. Never know what you’ll see.

Spotted this chicken-filled stoop while cruisin’ around Petaluma. Coincidentally, just a block away from the ol’ Must-Hatch Incubator Co. building. Did you know the egg incubator was invented here? It’s one of the reasons we were known as The World’s Egg Basket. (And you thought we only invented the world sport of Wrist-Wrestling).

“Got chickens in the houses. We got chickens in the trees. Chickens in the pots of all the Petalumees …

Norman Greenbaum “Petaluma” from Petaluma

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3 Responses

  1. BeeDub says:

    I’ve seen that chicken house! also, saw the turkey house over the weekend: a whole flock of wild turkeys sunnin’ themselves on a rooftop on Mission Dr. – odd sight.

  2. BeeDub says:

    Hey man, did you pick up that album at a yard sale by chance? You know it’s goin’ for minimum $92 online?

    “I’m out in Petaluma… spendin’ my days…”

  3. Had no idea it goes for so much. I pulled the photo from the web. Some guy actually ripped the LP straight from vinyl, with all the crackles and pops: http://rapidshare.com/files/18596346/norman_greenbaum.rar.html

    I guess Norman actually lives in Petaluma(?)

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