Keyboard is giving me fits, so you get pictures… These were a series of billboards in/around Detroit a few years ago… Sigh… The good old days! When you could tell from 2 blocks away both visually and aurally what kind … Continue reading
Category Archives: TBT
Back to the old cars again, and this time, the FIRST Cadillac Eldorado… This was based on the 1952 Futurama show car, and the same year the Corvette debuted… $8000 in 1953 was damn near a house, if not MORE … Continue reading
Trains… Well, at least the back-end of one… An early 1900s Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe caboose… In front of it are two 1900s artifacts, one the old crossing sign, then other the arm with three lights on the left. … Continue reading
Back in the day, when I was travelling my ass off, some of us ended up on the same planes on occasion. The stories about what could/did happen were ‘hilarious’ and most of us had experienced at least a few … Continue reading
Haven’t done a car lately, and a side conversation today got me thinking about Hurst branded cars… Back in the 60s/70s, if you had a 4 speed, and could afford it, you put a Hurst shifter on it. Hurst also … Continue reading
Soooo, I’m out taking a walk and run across a yard sale… And what do I see sitting on one of the back tables? Can it be? Something from my childhood! I see a set of aluminum glasses and a … Continue reading
We’ve been here before… Under Carter… NOT A WARM & FUZZY FEELING….. The U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Hornet and Super Hornet strike fighters are the tip of the spear, embodying most of the fierce striking power of the aircraft carrier strike … Continue reading
Sigh… I had a car that got 8MPG and I didn’t care… I was making $1.25 an hour… Yesterday, I spent $70 filling the tank… Grumble… … Continue reading
Back in the day (early 1900s)… There were postcards… Gold’s Curio Store, Santa Fe, New Mexico, circa 1897. This was the first Indian curio business established in Santa Fe. The ramshackle old adobe building with wood carrying burros in front of and or … Continue reading
This one’s for Rev Paul… 🙂 Back in the day forty or so years ago… “Lovely” Adak, by the way… And from the mid-80s, an always ‘thrilling’ sight- Watching a Harpoon come off the wing, especially from the TACCO seat, … Continue reading