Back in the day… Men carried real watches… The one on the left is my grandfather’s Elgin pocket watch from the 1890s when he was a railroad engineer for Union Pacific. He carried that watch for over 60 years. The … Continue reading
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Who remembers when this was the cat’s meow… I’m an old fart, my first modem was a 300 baud one… sigh… ARPNET/Compuserve… And BBS… And the first computer I ‘owned’ was a hand me down IBM XT, upgraded with a … Continue reading
Back in the day, we had more squadrons in all services than we do today… Somebody (probably an Admiral), decided they wanted a photo op of all the squadrons… Front to back, VP-5, VP-16, VP-24 (Batmen!), VP-45, VP-49, VP-56 And … Continue reading
Setting the way back machine… Thanks to Tina for this one, she donated it to this old sailor… If you ever wondered how they learned semaphore in the Navy, this is one of the ways… Sending the letter Y on … Continue reading
Who doesn’t remember this??? Now the $64 question is, who originated it? And when??? … Continue reading
ASM826 sent me this one from back in the day… These are the Jeepneys lined up along Magsaysay in Olongapo, a bit later than when I was there… The street is paved in this picture! 🙂 And a jeepney is … Continue reading
One of those places that ‘literally’ was for the birds… Any guesses??? … Continue reading
From an old friend via the mil-email string… Occasionally, I venture back to NAS, Meridian, where I’m greeted by animposing security guard who looks carefully at my identification card, handsit back and says, “Have a good day, Master Chief”. Every time I … Continue reading
Back in the day, sailors had their bars… Sometimes a whole bunch of them… Olongapo City, back in the 1970s, over 200 bars… Sometimes it was just one bar… George the Crooks in the Azores… There were always places that sailors … Continue reading
Culled from an email thread back in 2007… I found this when I inadvertently flipped the received dates… There were about eight of us in the discussion, and it went on for about three days. It started as a discussion … Continue reading