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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Same here with the bolded stuff. A long time ago.
More than a bit, IIRC. That was in the summer of 1974.Raises hand... That structure can and will sway a bit.
In high school my mob of idiots used to do a thing we called the Washington Monument Uprun. In them days of yore you could just take the stairs to the top. They're very broad and deep, so to walk up them isn't like a staircase in your house. The rise is shallower and the steps are much deeper from front to back, so it sort of requires a step and a half on the tread before you take the next step up. And there are landings. The walls have lots of carved memorial stones we didn't stop to read. We would take eight of us (usually in a friend's '59 Dodge Pioneer, which could hold the entire Count Basie Orchestra in the front and back seats), down there of a humid summer's evening and commence the uprun. We did run up the whole thing, not really racing each other, but just to do it. We did it in '68 and '69. In '70 we were still tired from '69, so we didn't do it. At the top we were sweating like a fish on election day, so we took the elevator back down, gasping for breath. There were other, innocent people in the elevator with us crazy teenagers, looking at us, y'know, the way we would look at a bunch of dumb kids today. Then the speaker in the ceiling of the elevator car started a recording about the Monument and we all just roared, making the other people look at us even more strangely. That set us off even more. Back to the car, fire it up, crank up the Sears add-on A/C to full blast and back to dear old Falls Church, VA and Hot Shoppes Junior for Royal Burgers.
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Great place from my younger days...and not too far from the Wilson BLVD Sears store (since you mentioned that add on AC) we all went to prior to Landmark being built.
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Did the Empire State Building and the Statue of Liberty, including the arm, with my oldies in 1957. Too young to know better.
I like the feel of soft and silky fur-as I vaguely remember.I don't think they're as furry these days. They can be, mind you, but often they aren't.
Back in high school we called ourselves the Freaks! This was before I saw Freaks!
When our family went to D. C. (probably around 1970, or so) we all took the elevator up. Our parents took the elevator down.
Also, in 1974 (same trip as STLooi) we visited Barringer Crater. Our parents had no idea where my brother, sister, and I disappeared to after a while..... Some other visitors pointed to us at the bottom of the crater walking towards the mine.
We had climbed down the side of the wall; it was a trip seeing the rim 560 feet above and all around us. 
You should check out Moro Rock at Sequoia Nat'l Park. Only about 350 steps (cut into the granite outcropping), but the view at the top is phenomenal! The second time we did it was a midnight hike during the Perseid Meteor shower in August '87, just after doing an after-hours five hour "trip" of Crystal Cave.
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Used to be, I could buy clam dip in the dairy section. Not seen in years? decades? Today I make a pint, and pick up some ̶c̶r̶i̶s̶p̶s̶ chips. The ones fried in lard.
Not sure what happened to clam dip. I remember buying it also. I guess the demand fell off, and was replaced by onion, or ranch dip. ????
Here’s what happened to clam dip. One company corners the market, then when they go out of production, everyone looses.
Same happened with all the record/CD/DVD stores. Not many remain. Vinyl record stores seem to be making a comeback in the neighbourhood. One big retailer remains.
The Death of Commercial Clam Dip
BTW, those Cape Cod kettle chips are really good. Available in some grocery stores. Classic Products - Cape Cod Chips
Same happened with all the record/CD/DVD stores. Not many remain. Vinyl record stores seem to be making a comeback in the neighbourhood. One big retailer remains.
The Death of Commercial Clam Dip
BTW, those Cape Cod kettle chips are really good. Available in some grocery stores. Classic Products - Cape Cod Chips
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Yes. Oddly enough that didn't bother me very much. When the car did that ratcheting thing I jumped a little.
You can feel it moving.Invalid Link Removed
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The concoction I call Time Travel Juice is equal parts Blackhaus and brandy, served neat. This fine recipe is courtesy of a bartender at the WTC. The ride up is impressive. Hm. Not visited that memory in a while.What I'm looking at through this lens of time are incredibly fine colleagues.
If I'm going to choose my own lens of time to drop in on, though, it's after hours in Milan. This is teh besto. A stroll back from work for a cold beer and light snacks before we all chill for a few hours. Then come 10:30 or 11 it's dinnertime
There was a law that no building in Milan be taller than the Duomo. I believe that's not true now. What is good is cocktail hour on the roof of my residencia. On a good evening after a rain, the Alps are there, so close ...
I have a good motorcycle bud in Ferrara who posts his rides on youtube. Most of them are towards the Alps. Beautiful.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYVENzptEE4jMTh-GMXVb4A
I came out 67 yrs ago.
It must have been difficult back then with societal morays and all.
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