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Back in the day… And we bitched when the price went up…  The day before beer had been .35 cents! They were in the process of ‘changing’ the machine… sigh Beer machines in the barracks… The ‘brand selection’ depended on … Continue reading

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Are you old enough to remember what this is, and where it was used??? If you’re an old fart like I am, it’s…easy… I knew them as ‘convertibles’, and my aunts in Texas both had them on their sleeping porches. … Continue reading

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Haven’t done one of these for a while… So, back in the day… This one comes with a few memories… Cafe Acores, George the Crook, Fast Eddies, Matteus Rose, goat cheese and fresh bread, beautiful filigree silver and gold jewelry… … Continue reading

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Haven’t done one of these in a while… Back in the day, this is how we let everybody know we’d gotten the ‘job’ done! Used to piss off certain COs, but what the heck, our maintainers loved it! It was … Continue reading

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Aviation version… There are things you just DON’T expect to see at little country airports… These were spotted at Lampasas Airport in central Texas! Navions in the wild!!! Two of these are being worked on, one getting a new engine, … Continue reading

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Some ads from ‘back in the day’, pre 1900… When morphine, cocaine, and other things were legal to put in various tinctures, tonics, and drinks… Including Coca Cola! Yes, Coca Cola originally had cocaine in it in the 1890s… This … Continue reading

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What is it??? And if you know, where was it normally used??? Answers are below the fold… And for something a little different- Mark Felton’s 16 minute video on the ‘real’ Kelly’s Heroes that stole over a ton of Nazi … Continue reading

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Sigh… The end of an era… Now folks like me truly are dinosaurs. Sixty years ago VP-30 got their first P-3As. And on 23 June, the last ASW variant P-3C UIII left NAS JAX for Davis Monthan and the boneyard. … Continue reading

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Another throwback picture from an airshow at NAS Moffett Field… I ‘think’ this was 88… The top of the Hangar 1 is 198 feet, and the average hot air balloon is about 70 feet. IF I remember correctly, they were … Continue reading