Yup. I was on Yorktown in 66. Got to take the wife and daughter to see it-and the sub and destroyer Laffey-in 2000.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Ha. My old boss told me what it's like to earn his dolphins, and again when he served on a new sub.
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And right in the middle of that Dublin charm? The golden arches. Sheesh.
The Germans have two words for eating: essen and fressen. People "essen" and animals "fressen". So, of course, the street from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange to the Alte Oper (old opera house) with all of the American fast food joints is referred to as the "Fressen Meile", the animals eating mile.
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There once was life after death for pay phones. A guy I knew who worked for Bell Telephone back when they were removing pay phones from use was in a meeting where they were discussing the fate of 80,000 pay phones. They decided to landfill them. This guy steps up and says "I'll take them." And Bell gave him 80,000 pay phones for free. What did he do with them? He put them in prisons and jails where cell phones weren't permitted. Made a fortune!
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And Ampeg on the backline.
Big fan of Robert Cray! I was at his show at Navy Pier in Chicago (I lived across the street) that was recorded and released on DVD.
I've toured the USS Bowfin at Pearl Harbor. Mrs. Dog wouldn't go, she heard others talking about how close and claustrophobic it was inside. And we had just got off the Battleship Missouri with its tight insides.
Yeah, well, none of the Navy ships were designed with crew comfort as priority #1. Ain't no "Love Boat" style cruise ships.
People complain that if you took away all the pay phones, homeless folks wouldn’t be able to make calls. I still see them in some locations. What I see a lot less of are TAXI phones.
The wagon was a much better effort than the coupe. The gas tank was better protected, and the german Ford OHC was a lovely little engine.I had a '72 Pinto station wagon that looked just like this (except for the roof racks). I really liked it. It was the first small car out of Detroit that felt good to drive (I'd spent the previous year in Germany driving on their autobahns with great handling cars). I remember especially liking the manual transmission. Smooth. Tight. Fast. I never got rear-ended, so can't speak to that aspect.
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They were still built to early '70's Ford standards, unfortunately. The shifter (on an Auto trans!) came off in his hand, the cold-start performance was horrifying, and the dealership told him that it was his fault for not buying a proper, full-sized car. In the end, he finally had to take it to a performance shop to get it running right, which voided his warranty.
That was a pity, as the dealership charged him for oil changes that they didn't actually bother to make. At 24,000 miles, it turned out that it was still running on the run-in oil, which came out looking like muddy water- no viscosity left.
Hollywood movie cameras are much smaller, these days...
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Drove one...once.Let me tell you about a Chevy Vega...
Rode the scooter a little this AM. 75 when I left the house at 8:30. A little humid but not bad. An hour later it's 85 - I'm done. This time of year it's ride early and home by 10am.
I have become more selective on rides and probably less tolerant of temp extremes not that getting older makes any difference. In 2013, I rode about 1,100 miles in two days with temps well into the 90s. I'll never do that again! I let the destination get in the way of the journey.
I have become more selective on rides and probably less tolerant of temp extremes not that getting older makes any difference.
In 2013, I rode about 1,100 miles in two days with temps well into the 90s. I'll never do that again! I let the destination get in the way of the journey.
True, but not when they were making all o' those sub flicks in the late 40's-early 50's.
It could have been a good car if they hadn't cheaped out on stuff. I thought it was a good looking car with a lot of the 2nd gen Camaro styling cues particularly the front end ('71-'73). Not a fan of the '74 and later. Pretty comfortable and handled fairly well for a compact.
The one I borrowed to go get a part for my not running van was bare bones. It belonged to a neighbor who worked on cruise ships outta Miami. He'd drive it to the port and be gone for a week. It was never stolen or broken into. In fact, he didn't lock it.
Our 16 yr old dishwasher just died. Tried all the reset steps, turn pwr off/on, etc. Oh, well. No complaints about getting that much use with no problems. Got lucky that it wasn't running and full of water.
Off to the appliance store!
Off to the appliance store!
Let me tell you about a Chevy Vega...
A buddy and I dropped a 30 over 283(302) with 12.5:1s into a notchback with a turbo350 trans. Rich crashed it with me riding shotgun at about 100. Knocked the front end slap off a C10 pickup. I got a buncha stitches in my head, I was the only one hurt. Besides the Vega, of course. He was dead.
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