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Tim Grobaty

Long Beach
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50 years on Pine Avenue

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By Tim Grobaty
| Long Beach Post
Pining for the past To mangle a quote from Heraclitus, “Nobody steps on the same Pine Avenue twice.” Like a river, it constantly changes, rushing from glamour and crazed busy-ness to squalor and a somewhat sinister quietness and to a myriad combinations in between. I’ve been working on or very near Pine, Long Beach’s original Main Street, for half a century. In the mid-to late-1970s it was well past its prime but had yet to hit rock bottom.
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My home’s in the heartland

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By Tim Grobaty
| Long Beach Post
I figure I’m at least half Iowan; 50 percent Hawkeye — certainly enough to qualify as part-farmer. I’ve done enough farmwork to be an expert on agriculture. While visiting the old family farm in Belmond, Iowa, I’ve slopped the pig barn, inoculated piglets, chased a cow around a pasture waving my arms and shouting cowboy phrases and generally suffering through below-zero temperatures.
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Ignoring some free advice

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By Tim Grobaty
| Long Beach Post
At my own peril The LVN who’s been visiting me a couple of times a week told me I need to go to a cardiologist because my blood pressure is as high as the Himalayas, but I don’t want to because a cardiologist is going to find out how good my insurance is and will say, “Let’s try something different with this guy.
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