Title: ChiropracTIC History Saga Episode; Mission Possible ChiroFEST 2013; and Sottile and Gorman Interviewed Together
Episode Number: 170
Host:Dr. Thomas Lamar
Show Date:12/06/13
Run Time: 249:26
Description: It’s the Spinal Column Radio “Saga Episode.” Join Dr. Lamar and Logan for their last “regular” show as they “clear the countertop” to make way for the upcoming Finale Show. On this episode they step you back into chiropracTIC’s past with a boatload of exciting chiropractic history, and then step you forward into its future with ChiroFEST 2013’s Mission Possible. Plus they sit down with ChiropracTIC’s Principled Funnyman and Funnywoman, Dean Sottile and Sharon Gorman, for an unforgettable duo-interview that will have you laughing and taking notes at the same time.
History topics covered: DD Palmer’s Portland Chiropractic College with Nathan Cashion reporting on location; “A Journey for the TIC Like None Other” — The Searby Saga (the story of Mack and Dorothy Searby’s quest to study at the PSC); Gary Street and BJ’s Chiropractic Scrapbook; DD’s other son (BJ’s older brother) Frank Palmer’s gravesite rediscovered; BJ’s Parrot; Fred Barge’s Rats in a Dump; DD’s Mammoth Tusk; DD visits Seattle; BJ Palmer Mansion (featuring Todd Waters and Joe Ierano); BJ’s fascination with elephants; and more.
ChiroFest 2013 mini-interviews asking the question of all the event speakers, based on what they shared from the platform, “What is POSSIBLE with chiropracTIC?”: James Chestnut, Jeanne Ohm, Fred Schofield, Joe Borio, Liam Schubel, Deed Harrison, Brad Glowaki, Troy Dukowitz, Garret Gunderson, Heidi Farrell, Wendy Dick, Billy DeMoss, Matthew Loop, Dan Yachter, Cathy Colby, and Paul Reed.
Plus BTOC (Big TOR on Campus) Brett Jones with Jen Wilhelm, Two Spinal Column Reblogs featuring Drs. Fred Barge and David Jackson, Power of the Podcast, and listener feedback.
(Chestnut, Ohm, Schofield, Borio, Schubel, Harrison, Glowaki, Dukowitz, Farrell, Reed, Gunderson, Dick, DeMoss, Loop, Yachter, and Colby interviews recorded at the 2013 ChiroFest in Redmond, Washington. Interview with Drs. Dean Sottile and Sharon Gorman recorded at the 2012 California Jam in Costa Mesa, California).
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– more history on DD Palmer’s Portland Chiropractic School: (1) (2) (3)
Oregonian Building, Portland – first location of DD Palmer Chiropractic College. School was on the 2nd floor. (ca 1908)
D.D. Palmer with first Portland class which included John E. LaValley, John Marsh and Leroy Gordon.
Drexel Building, Portland, OR – corner of SW 2nd Ave and SW Yamhill Ave. Second location of DD Palmer Chiropractic College (ca 1909). School was located on 4th floor.
Nathan Cashion, UWS chiropractic student and host of Exploring Chiropractic, On Location in Portland at the former site of the DD Palmer Chiropractic College
James Chestnut, Jeanne Ohm, Fred Schofield, Joe Borio, Liam Schubel, Deed Harrison, Brad Glowaki, Troy Dukowitz, Garret Gunderson, Wendy Dick, Billy DeMoss, Matthew Loop, Dan Yachter, Cathy Colby, and Paul Reed.
Cathy Colby, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
James Chestnut, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Dan Yachter, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Matthew Loop, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Fred Schofield, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Liam Schubel, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Jeanne Ohm, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Deed Harrison, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Brad Glowaki, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Garrett Gunderson: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Paul Reed, DC, ChiroFest Founder: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Heidi Farrell: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Troy Dukowitz, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Wendy Dick: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Billy DeMoss, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
Joe Borio, DC: ChiroFEST 2013 Mission Possible with ChiropracTIC
DD collected wild game heads, BJ: bones… Lamar: animal vertebrae.
One of my favorite pics: patients’ no-longer-needed crutches hang from the wall in DD Palmer’s Ryan Block office.
Favorite pic of the garden: pond housed alligators in the summer, totem poles came from Seattle, and sign by the back door said: To See BJ! Pull Latch & String.
As I wrote in a recent Fresh Pick installment, I enjoy collecting stories and treasured memories from people who have a connection with Chiropractic’s early years — tales, which I often find escape our chiro-history texts. While these stories can sometimes be difficult, if not impossible, to fact-check, I still find that they allow me to be a better ChiroPicker. For they often provide missing clues — acting as that needed breadcrumb — to bring me (and I’m sure other chiro-historians) closer to unearthing other great discoveries.
Here’s another one of my favorites:
Dr. Gary Street joined up with the now late Dr. Merwyn Zarbuck to assist him in his twenty-five year quest for BJ Palmer’s scrapbook.
BJ, as you may know, wrote about his scrapbook in the Green Book series and stated it was not actually a book per se, but files upon files of anything and everything documenting chiropractic’s history from its conception.
The scrapbook contained notebooks, journals, newspaper clippings, publications, and letters.
And while BJ wrote about this compilation, he did not state where it was kept — which would have been a big deal, because the files were rumored to have occupied three floors!
Surely, a collection this large would be easy to find after a cursory search about the campus. But then again, the references to BJ as “The Little Builder” were not made in vain. He was constantly constructing additions at the Palmer School — acquiring neighboring properties for expansion to allow him to interconnect his buildings. Perhaps during these structural revisions the three-floor-scrapbook got “misplaced.” Continue reading →
Description: Join Dr. Lamar as he sits down for great conversation with chiropractic historian, Dr. Gary Street. While most might assoicate Dr. Street as being the “Chiropractic Medicare Specialist,” his love for chiropratic history and philosophy is hard for him to hide. Recorded On Location at the Fall 2010 New Beginnings Chiropractic Weekend in Long Branch, New Jersey.
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ON LOCATION in New Jersey
-20th Anniversary-
An Interview with Medicare Guru and Chiropractic Historian, Dr. Gary Street
New Beginnings Chiropractic Weekends
Fall 2010
Dr. Thomas Lamar sits down with Chiropractic Historian and Medicare Specialist, Dr. Gary Street.