VanCOLA

"It's The Journey That Counts, Our Destination's The Same!"dad and mom

Each Page has different music on CHROME> if refreshed with F5

1985 Long Time No See......................Give Me A Shout!

................................ME and my Alter Ego.......................
GARY VanCOLA, REALTOR, PSC, QSC

Elliott & Co. Realtors / GMAC Real Estate

Marketing Coordinator, 12 years, RETIRED___________

Still have the $1.00 Purchase-Deposit Receipt for 1855 farm. 1970

And WITH THE FINAL NAIL THREE YEARS LATER 1973;
The BLACK NORTH EXPRESS: Black North Aquazeum Exhibit
Marine Fish Imports/Exports & Pet Supplies & Tack Shop

BLACK NORTH EXPRESS 1973

a bright idea; 10,000 gallon marine fish Aquazeum on display.

give me a kiss, Angel

Hobbies gone crazy; Fish, horses, showed dogs, animal supplies!

SWITCH GEARS: HAD ENOUGH SNOW = FLORIDA or BUST!!

OK, pay'n some bills, now back to creating a 4'x4'

TRIGGER HAPPY

55 years ago, sold my 2 Vettes for 1^st Work-van
and drove to Woodstock to sell my paintings!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woodstock-at-50-in-the-words-and-music-of-those-who-were-there/

"By the time I got to Woodstock", I was selling my paintings there.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HKdsRWhyH30
Saturday afternoon, the fences were crashed, no one was taking tickets! But on the way home traffic-crept. I stood atop my van window sill, reached-up, and popped this cardboard event “Parking sign” off a phone pole. Enjoyed it for 20+ years, wrote an interesting Bio & sold it w/untorn tickets: $1400 on eBay...

BACK TO THE FUTURE - I SOLD it on eBay $1400

Choka - 1969 - India ink on 12" x 12" canvas

WW-III - 1969 - multi-medium relief-painting 20"x20"

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,

I took the one less traveled by, has made all the difference... Mom took photo

1st sweet ride; mom's '62 T-Bird w/elec. HardTop-Conv. backseat-booth

1962 - dad's incredibly quick four-speed!...Harold Lloyd glasses

Iowa Chevy Convertible Collection

I traded my '63 red Split-window for this '64 Stingray, paid $2200 in '68.
Also had a '58 Roadster $1500.

But, but, sold both for my 1st work-Van...Yah, I know!...Who knew?
Today all 3 bring well-over $100k ea., retirement?....
...Especially the red '63 Split-window...grrr' damn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=MjOyNk2FOo4

SCHOOL'S OUT...BYE, BYE VETTES...TIME TO GO TO WORK!

55 yrs ago cut my hair, sold my 2 Vettes for a Work-van
and left for Woodstock to sell my paintings!
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/woodstock-at-50-in-the-words-and-music-of-those-who-were-there/

No Corvette, but still a Chevy and it'll make dreams happen-HOPE

My Authority Figure!

MY MUSE FOR A 5 PAINTING SERIES!

SPIRIT: painted Paleoman 55 yrs B4 WATCHMEN below

WHO ARE WE? - I sold "SPIRIT" painting at Woodstock!

YOU TALK'N TO ME?

Mom's custom built '66 Avanti, drove 30 years...

.................Hang'n out with some friends..................

Who will I be?.....Will I change anything for the better?

A LONG AND WINDING ROAD

We fashioned these 2 Glass-Art pieces from a poster I had as a
kid. I made the "Sheriff" for "W" on his 1st 100-days before 9/11!

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Has the entire world gone nutz?

The Answer's Beyond The Stars

Catholics, Hebrews, Muslim Chiefs,
Each need the Right, which one's the thief?
To steal a religion or cooped a faith
All seek the power to reign over Man,
Each lays claim and does what it can.

Then if only one's right which will it be?
But what about Lutheran, Hindu, Shinto maybe,
Or Buddhists, if Zen, the argument persists.
From temples of Aztecs, pyramids to the stars
Only one can be right it must surely be ours.

Ritual Mystics worship dogma and doctrine.
Agnostics and Atheists, Puritans akin,
One has the answer, only one sees the Light.
Each a stake in the game, it's just too absurd,
Too many to name which one has "The WORD?"

Lest we forget Plato, Hegel, Jung, Darwin,
Darwin to be sure. What if "TRUTH" hadn't
Arrived here yet or perished before time,
Would Yahweh, Allah, Jesus, any true GOD
condone a single LIFE taken in Its NAME?