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
Category Archives: TBT
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
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
Yes, I’m an old fart… EATING IN THE FIFTIES AND SIXTIES Pasta had not been invented. It was macaroni or spaghetti. Curry was a surname. A take-away was a mathematical problem. Pizza? Sounds like a leaning tower somewhere. Bananas and … Continue reading
40 years ago, this was a view we saw more than once… Number one in the bag, good X, heading south for Kef as the sun rose after another all night burner. h/t Jim E for the photo … Continue reading
Always a good sight! Especially after 7 hours of flying and ‘hoping’ the Nav knew what he was doing… Bonus points if you recognize it from this perspective… And this tool went in and out of ‘legality’ a couple of times … Continue reading
Some things us old farts remember… And you want to talk abou COLD, try using this in the winter… And how many rolls of these did you go through playing Cowboys and Indians? Back in the day, you had NO … Continue reading
Some memes and ads from ‘back in the day’… Enjoy!!! And for those of us who remember WLS, especially at night… From my senior year in high school!!! Did this more that a few times… @#$%% cheap ass timing gears … Continue reading
If you’re old enough to remember, you’re OLD… The menu is supposedly from the Downy, CA location in 1953!!! I don’t remember ever eating in a McDonalds until the early 70s… … Continue reading
Just in time for Christmas… Back in the day… Western Auto, Sears, Montgomery Wards, and I ‘think’ Woolworth all had pedal cars like these for roughly the same prices. This ad is from 1962! Today, those $20 pedal cars/tractors are … Continue reading