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
Category Archives: TBT
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
Haven’t done one of these in a while, but here is an original brochure from the 1953 Cadillac Eldorado, the first year of production… What they didn’t say was that all the hydraulics for the windows and top used a … Continue reading
How far we’ve come… In such a few short years… My mother and dad had very distinct memories of each of those… Kitty Hawk, Dec 7th and Sputnik. And they keep changing the names too… sigh I wonder who had … Continue reading
Getting old is NOT for sissies… You can tell when the weather is going to change, you’re expected to be grumpy (I LIKE that) and you’re not embarrassed to take an old gun to the range… Sitting here thinking last … Continue reading
Old gas stations… And some old brands that no longer exist… And some nice old vehicles too! … Continue reading
Another visit to the classic brochures… And the ‘classic’ Corvette… This last one was a billboard a couple of years ago in Southern California… Sigh… … Continue reading
And we’re back to the car ads… This one is pretty interesting, in that there were TWO versions of the Plymouth GTX advertising… The first one was the ‘generic’ one This one, however, was the one that was in all … Continue reading
100 years (give or take) of Bite Me! Pulled from Vintage Wings, HERE! Two the three-man crew of an A.E.G G.IV show off their shark mouth bomber in 1918. Desert Sharks of the Royal Air Force’s North African war plough … Continue reading