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[CZ93X62]

In 1969 and 1970 some Air Force types were known to enjoy a beer at "The Boobie Trap", down in San Berdoo. Wonder what ever happened to that tall long-legged Italian beauty? Bet she's been married to a stock broker since '71, raised three very intelligent kids and has a passel of grandkids, maybe some great-grandkids.

One of several such joints along both 3rd Street and Waterman Avenue, which roughly bordered the north and west edges of the now-re-purposed Norton AFB. Most of the exotic dancer joints closed when NAFB closed; after the AF left, the Crips and Bloods moved in--San Bernardino became too dangerous (!!!) for the joints to operate. Their words, not mine. Those places went to Colton, and one or two might still be in operation.

Most of what I know about these places I learned from witnesses I dealt with as part of assisting on a homicide case where one of these girls was murdered in my county. I can assure you--the dancers are likely the least-scandalous element of the entire culture. The case dynamics rank highly on my list of darkest circumstances I dealt with in my 28 years of social proctology. The case remains open to this day, but there is little doubt about who the killer is. He disappeared within a few months of the victim's funeral, and whispers received obliquely cause me to believe the matter was handled.

 

[462]

Waterman is vaguely familiar, now that you mention it.

 

[popper]

Went to a strip club once, called the Jewel Box, KC,MO. Guys put on a pretty good show until!! Was with a HS buddy and we were visiting 'dives' around 12th & Vine. Some had pretty good music but we were kinda 'suspect'.

 

[CZ93X62]

Waterman is vaguely familiar, now that you mention it.

Waterman Avenue is a main north/south arterial street that runs the entirety of San Bernardino. It extends south into Colton and Grand Terrace, and north of S.B. as SR 18 (Rim of the World Highway) to the Crestline and Lake Arrowhead mountain towns. Tax and U.S. Census records place my settler/ancestors' first home at "#104 Waterman, San Bernardino" in 1870 and 1880.

San Bernardino has always been something of a wide-open hell-roaring place.

 

[popper]

I guess the old Jack Benny trolly went through Covina/Cucamona. We'd go from Long Beach/Seal Beach to some roadside C/W bar in S.Bernadino just to get out of L.A.

 

[CZ93X62]

I guess the old Jack Benny trolly went through Covina/Cucamona. We'd go from Long Beach/Seal Beach to some roadside C/W bar in S.Bernadino just to get out of L.A.

There was an old Pacific Electric right-of-way from downtown L.A. to San Bernardino that Southern Pacific took over when the Red Cars went belly-up after WWII. As a kid I saw SP locomotives moving freight on it near my grandmother's house, and we often saw switch engines pulling small consists right down Rialto Avenue well into the 1960s. Much of that right-of-way was dismantled by the late 1970s, and a lot of it serves as bike paths and hiking trails currently.

I'll venture a guess about Popper's San Bernardino's C/W watering hole--Bob & Bernie's Branding Iron. In later years, Colton had The Mule Lip Saloon. Both places were about as good a place as there ever was in that carjacker's theme park I grew up in.

 

[JonB]

A Company wants to come to Glencoe and start Mining
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http://www.glencoenews.com/content/colorado-tech-company-eyeing-place-glencoe
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This link doesn't include the full article. I get the paper version and near the end of the article, they state this company will use up to 10% of Glencoe's electricity capability. We have a Municipal power commission and we have a few sources of our own generation, so our commission can negotiate real good rates with the main power company (Xcel...it use to be NSP). BUT, part of our negotiation is that Xcel can cut us off during high demand times, which then, we have to fire up our antique Diesel generators (decommissioned ship motors) that we bought from the US Government 60+ years ago. I wonder if our Generators will run the Data mining operation?

 

[Mitty38]

I just realized we could cut and paste the entire last page of the "H4350 for sale cheap" and it would fit right in here.

 

[RicinYakima]

Probably not. A little town of Qunicy, WA, is home to several data mining operations and cloud homes. They can do that because the Rock Island Dam that used to power two counties and an ALCOA smelting plant cut everyone else off except when they have excess power to sell.

 

[462]

Can it be that the American future is one in which electricity is allocated on an every other day or odd/even house number basis?

 

[RicinYakima]

Happened before with gasoline when a year before it was selling for $.35 a gallon, remember.

 

[popper]

Bitcoin data mining must have 27/7power for bit block to work. We have several medical data banks that have same requirements.

 

[462]

Happened before with gasoline when a year before it was selling for $.35 a gallon, remember.

Yep! Up at 5:00 am, drive to the nearest gas station only to find 19 cars ahead of me, then wait for the gas station to open at 7:00 am.

A year or so later, gas prices exploded to $1.25 per gallon, I was recently single and barely able to put $5 in the truck.

 

[462]

Cow magnets. Who'd'a thunk?

 

[RicinYakima]

Always hated those when I was a kid and would have to go get them and wash them off.

 

[L Ross]

Always hated those when I was a kid and would have to go get them and wash them off.

At least your Dad let you wash them off. Think about the poor kids.

 

[Mitty38]

We called them cow patties used to have contests to see who could throw them the farthest. If you could find one just the right size and shape you could chuck it like a frisbee.
But make sure you have your mouth closed during the throwing especially if it's a bit soft and the wind is blowing.

 

[462]

It's time for cookies. Oatmeal chocolate chip? Peanut butter?

Some sort of pie might be even better.

 

[Joshua]

I cheated tonight. Bought a frozen Marie Calendar’s Razzleberry pie. While not homemade, I’ll wager it tastes better than a cow pie!

Cow magnets are great for getting steel out of your eye ball! No joke, we kept one in the first aid kit at a fab shop I used to work at.

 

[BBerguson]

It's time for cookies. Oatmeal chocolate chip? Peanut butter?

Some sort of pie might be even better.

Yes, oatmeal chocolate chip! I’ve modified the toll house recipe so that it not only taste better, but the cookies are actually good for you. No, I’m not kidding! Starting with the Nestle toll house recipe I reduce the flour to 1.5 cups, add 1 cup of ground flax seed, replace the butter with coconut oil, 3 eggs instead of two, 1 cup of ground walnuts and 4 cups of oatmeal. Best cookies I’ve ever had.