Freeoples Thread 313

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[ValerieUSA]

Tuly? What's that?

[sweetliberty]

These are from the one in Manitou...a model of the narrow gauge railraod set in historic Manitou Springs and Cripple Creek.

[Servant of the Nine]

Does anybody think Condit was surprised when Chandra's body turned up and do you think he's sweating now?

Didn't he and swervie give up sweating at the same time???

You mean that you don't know Condit?
Someone notorious who hasn't wandered through your living room in their underwear at 3:00AM. You're slipping, Nully.

You are also stuttering.

So9

[Rowdee]

Howdy....yep, it is fun to check out the names. The story about Chuck Kane was cute, I thought, and being acquainted with him enhances it.

[Cuttnhorse]

I grew up by the tracks in Sacramento and we kids were always hanging around the levee. We used to ride our bicycles to the tracks and talk to the engineers when they were waiting for a green light. We would ride to the local store and buy them cokes and they would let us sit in the steam locomotive cabs...geez, always had a soft spot for trains. I still remember the Mallets pulling Donner Summit.

[sweetliberty]

"Have you seen the tape of the Merry Pranksters Acid Road Trip?"

No. Didn't know there was one. Read the book though many years ago.

[Argh]

Yes, it's true - my weekend was tuly mediocre. *LOL* At least it wasn't macabre.

If you'd like a gross, disgusting, and pointless weekend, I'll send you my address.

[Darlin']

LOL. tuly ?

I may leave again... LOL, ever since I walked in the door a couple of hours ago, the phone hasn't stopped ringing and my mailboxes are full. grrrr.

[sweetliberty]

"Someone notorious who hasn't wandered through your living room in their underwear at 3:00AM."

Maybe he wasn't wearing any.

[Servant of the Nine]

At least it wasn't macabre

At least it wasn't till Nully started confessing, and Lisa told about her old boyfriend Charlie Manson.

California is far stranger than fiction.

So9

[Cuttnhorse]

We are all distracted by the price of gold and mining company stock prices...we are all hoping to cash in options and retire!!!!...or possibly just go home.

[Darlin']

Swerve, ~.~ Smooch

[Servant of the Nine]

Have you seen the tape of the Merry Pranksters Acid Road Trip?

No. Didn't know there was one. Read the book though many years ago.

Http://www.IntrepidTrips.Com

So9

[.38sw]

Good for you. Sounds like it's time for a little bit of peace at the homestead.

[sweetliberty]

Oh not necessarily just to boys. I LOVED trains when I was a kid and had a cousin who let me play with his electric train. Of course, I never got one of my own because it was not thought to be appropriate for a girl. I also used to just love watching them pass by and would always wave to the guy in the caboose who, of course, always waved back.

Yeah, I know what you mean about that expression. I just love it. His whole face just lit up watching them. Here's another from Manitou that captures that same kind of look.

[ValerieUSA]

I was born in Sacramento -- but we moved to Washington state when just before I turned 3. I drove there a few years ago and saw the capitol building - it's really beautiful.

[ValerieUSA]

What an offer -- I'm sure I'm way too late to be the first to refuse, but I'm not yet desperate enough to accept. *LOL*

[Cuttnhorse]

Oh not necessarily just to boys.

My wife thinks model trains are great...I think if I brought a train set home she'd have it running first. (Except she has this maddening habit of reading instructions!!)

[Rowdee]

I really don't know if they had a wire service or telegraph line back then! I believe the road going over the pass into Montana was only a dirt road til 1959! Let me tell you--that would have been one miserable bitch to drive! Its only been in the last 3 - 4 years they widened that road out in some really BAD places!

I also got a kick out of the use of 'dress of type', rather than 'class of type' or 'point of type' or 'face of type', etc.

The style of writing is certainly interesting....and I like the tidbit of times gone by--the things that really happened in this little podunk corner of the world. Issues relating to the era of WWII, and certainly any references to problems during the Depression aren't endemic to just the big cities, for example.

Loddy....back in the mid 80s, when I lived in Montana, I was telling some friends over there about my brother living here; that we had come to visit; and went out to eat at the Salmon River Coffee Shop. These friends chimed in with the Coffee Shop having some of the best pies in the United States! One of these friends has never driven in her life...and yet can tell me all bout the menu AND the pies here!! Seems as though they had attended a GOP event in Nevada and had ridden a chartered bus, which stopped to have lunch on the way down [on the way home, they stopped for dinner]. Anyhow, they said they always tell anyone who talks of coming through Idaho that they should stop there and eat.

Alas, the 'coffee shop' has changed hands and I can even tell the difference in the food.

[ValerieUSA]

Lisa must have gone into more details with you in her Charlie Manson story than the rest of us are privy to....