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2015 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2015 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: A San Francisco cable car holds 60 people. This blog was viewed about 290 times in 2015. If it were a cable car, it would take about 5 trips to carry that many people. Click here to see the…
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This is how I remember it
Entry 9 I am sure every family has their logic about when and how to increase their family. In the early 1950’s things were going well for the entire country. We pretty much thew up our hands and said, ‘this whole war thing is not working for us’ so we just quit fighting in Korea…
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This is how I remember it
Entry 8 After a short musical interlude. 1950 was a fascinating year. It was filled with things planned and things not planned. Planned: All of those young couples who were married at the end of World War II started having babies. The entire country along with it’s educational systems forgot about these kids until the…
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See you in the funny papers
A wonderful comic from The Oatmeal. It’s going to be ok. http://theoatmeal.com/comics/plane
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One of Gary’s Pictures
One of the hobbies I have played with for a few years now is Photography. I take hundreds of shots hoping to find the magic one. I have about 30,000 picture files on an external hard drive. I never throw-away a picture. Most of my pics are now sporting events here in Big Bear. Haley, Ryan…
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This is how I remember it
Entry 7 And now for a short musical interlude: When Patton’s army did all they could, they started sending GI’s home. My Dad hitched a ride on the QE ll along with hundreds of other returning vets. While somewhere between Europe and the US, he received a telegram. Decades later when he began messing around…
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This is how I remember it
Entry 6 Carl Rossbach did not have a problem finding a job in a city close to Detroit. He didn’t want to be too close to the big city with all of it’s people and hustle/bustle. He finds a job at Hoover Ball and Bearing close to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He…
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Another picture from my favorite photographer
Denise took this at Moonrise State Beach in Encinitas California. Another one with her HTC M19 phone camera Good composition. Good colors. Interesting subject.
