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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
I didn't know Billy Jeff was that old.
Some old Photos for your enjoyment
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richhodg66
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Does kind of resemble slick willie now that you mention it.
Rockydoc
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Brake pedal on left, gear shift pedal on right. Just the opposite of an American Harley-Davidson. I wrecked a borrowed Triumph for that very reason---I approached an intersection at speed and when I applied the brakes, I only heard gears gnashing, no braking action.
richhodg66
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Florida's oldest confederate veteran, Billy Lundy with Military women at Eglin Air Force Base, Jan 1955.
richhodg66
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An iron man of the past in a diving suit. The suit’s name was ‘Iron man’ too. It had electric charging and pressure protection systems. New York, 1907
richhodg66
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Australian solidiers after their release from Japanese captivity from Singapore , 1945.
richhodg66
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A boy enjoys his ice cream as he sits on a sea mine, washed up on the beach at Deal in Kent, in the early months of 1940.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
First bike was a WW2 mil surplus Norton single. Took me awhile to transition over the the Jap shift left and break right idea.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Not only lack of food, malaria, berri berri, worms and lack of vitamin B.
gonna need a bigger oil can
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Back 1976 I joined My Dad's Masonic Lodge; Angelus Mesa #625. The Chaplin Was an old Gentleman named Milt Douse, I thought he was at least 70yrs old. Years later I was shocked to learn he was 4 years younger then My Dad (1920). He had shipped out to the Philippines in November 1941 an 17years old. He was in Hospital for 3 years after being freed. He never truly recovered.
L Ross
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I am appalled.
Doubt 'Billy Boy' was AF, none on Attu then. Uncle was Army comm. engineer there. Said it was C-C-C-COLD. I got the 2 105 cases he brought back. And his 'mummy' bag. Canvas outside, thin wool blanket, cotton inner sheet. Bought me a real sleeping bag as soon as I got enough $. Quit working for a company when they wanted me to go there for 6 mo.
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richhodg66
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An Ottoman supply train still resting where it was ambushed by Lawrence of Arabia
104 years ago on the Hejaz railway
104 years ago on the Hejaz railway
richhodg66
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Today in 1952 the first prototype B-52 bomber makes its maiden flight from the Boeing works in Seattle. Plans for the bomber had been started in 1945 as a huge propeller bomber for the ongoing war against Japan.
The design was altered to accommodate jet engines and a large bomb capability to accommodate free fall nuclear bombs.
The bomber started service with the US Air Force in 1955, making their first bombing runs in Vietnam in the 1960s. Due to upgrades in its airframe and electronics, the latest H class (built in 1963) should
still be flying well into the 2030s.
Pictured is a B-52 next to the B-17 Flying Fortress of WW2, there are just 17 years between the designs. In the background is a B-29 bomber also of WW2 fame.
The design was altered to accommodate jet engines and a large bomb capability to accommodate free fall nuclear bombs.
The bomber started service with the US Air Force in 1955, making their first bombing runs in Vietnam in the 1960s. Due to upgrades in its airframe and electronics, the latest H class (built in 1963) should
still be flying well into the 2030s.
Pictured is a B-52 next to the B-17 Flying Fortress of WW2, there are just 17 years between the designs. In the background is a B-29 bomber also of WW2 fame.
richhodg66
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Civil War veteran with his grandchildren circa 1900.
richhodg66
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A mediocre student who flunked his examination for West Point, Edgar Rice Burroughs worked a variety of jobs all over the country, among them a cowboy in Idaho, a gold miner in Oregon, a railroad policeman in Utah, and a department manager for Sears Roebuck in Chicago. By 1911, after seven years of low wages as a pencil-sharpener wholesaler, Burroughs began to write fiction.
"If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those (pulp-fiction) magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines."
He published "A Princess of Mars" under the title "Under the Moons of Mars" in six parts between February and July of 1912, in "All-Story Magazine." That same magazine put out his immediately successful "Tarzan of the Apes" in October of that year. Two years later, the hardback book appeared, and on January 27, 1918, the movie opened on Broadway starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan. It was one of the first movies to gross over $1,000,000.
The character of Tarzan was immediately popular, and Burroughs capitalized on it in every way possible, including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, movies, and merchandise. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon. Burroughs's California ranch is now the center of the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles, named after the character.
Burroughs was in his late 60s and was in Honolulu at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Despite his age, he applied for and received permission to become a war correspondent, becoming one of the oldest U.S. war correspondents during World War II.
"If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those (pulp-fiction) magazines, that I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines."
He published "A Princess of Mars" under the title "Under the Moons of Mars" in six parts between February and July of 1912, in "All-Story Magazine." That same magazine put out his immediately successful "Tarzan of the Apes" in October of that year. Two years later, the hardback book appeared, and on January 27, 1918, the movie opened on Broadway starring Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan. It was one of the first movies to gross over $1,000,000.
The character of Tarzan was immediately popular, and Burroughs capitalized on it in every way possible, including a syndicated Tarzan comic strip, movies, and merchandise. Tarzan remains one of the most successful fictional characters to this day and is a cultural icon. Burroughs's California ranch is now the center of the Tarzana neighborhood in Los Angeles, named after the character.
Burroughs was in his late 60s and was in Honolulu at the time of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Despite his age, he applied for and received permission to become a war correspondent, becoming one of the oldest U.S. war correspondents during World War II.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
The design history of the B-52 is great. Captured German data for a sweep wing airplane, German data for jet engines and American manufacture ability to make it work!
I grew up under the flight path of Wright Patterson AFB, so saw everything fly over my farm.