- Pancake Day
- First Multi-Stage Rocket
Posted on 01/31/2009 11:05:16 PM PST by JustAmy
Thanks for the pancakes, snugs. :) I think I-HOP (International House of Pancakes) is offering a free short stack to anyone from 7 am to 10 pm today at all their locations - but they are accepting any donations anyone wants to give to Children’s Miracle Network.
Thank YOU, Miss Sweet Kitty! Hope yours is a beautful sparkly day, too. :)
I googled woolworth and found this interesting tidbit. It would appear the generation of social climbers destroyed it:
“Of course, in those days the Stanford Shopping Center was more like a neighborhood mall than the regional
luxury center of chic that it would later become. The Stanford’s early incarnation -— which included a
hardware store and a Purity supermarket -— welcomed Woolworth’s as one of its own.
“By the 1980s, however, the Stanford Shopping Center had experienced some serious upward mobility.
While still a profitable store and the ideal place to pick up some AA batteries, underpriced shampoo or a
pack of gum, Woolworth’s had increasing become an anathema to the Stanford Shopping Center’s new
market strategy. In 1986, Rosemary McAndrews, the overseer of Stanford’s march to boutiqueville, said
that Woolworth’s no longer “fit the Stanford image.” Indeed, Woolworth’s did seem a bit out of place
alongside Tiffany’s, Bloomingdale’s and Pottery Barn for Kids.
“Actually, by the 1990s, Woolworth’s was struggling all over the country. Its market niche had been usurped
by the bigger all-purpose stores like Walmart and Target which offered more brands, more square footage
and a lot more parking. Additionally, as supermarkets and drug stores expanded to sell more than just food
and medicine, Woolworth’s value declined.”
http://www.paloaltohistory.com/woolworths.html
We had a wonderful Woolworth’s store in the town we lived
in when we were stationed in Germany. I felt like I was
“back home” when I walked in! LOL!
LOL! I was thinking the same thing - in fact, I was even going to check the year some of those things were invented, when I returned from running errands.
But, I DID like the part about the ‘immoral president’ - so posted it anyway.
#4004 Sorry! Formatting was sooooooooooooo messed up!
LOL! Been there, done that!
If only we could always see in preview exactly the way it's going to look when actually posted. :( I always cross my fingers and hope it's going to post the way I see it in preview when I use Lists - unordered or ordered.
I like to turn off my own commands where I want them turned off, not where FR thinks they should be turned off anyway.
My favorite part, too. :) Lest ANYONE ever forgets that sorry excuse for a president.
Yes, that was the line in the ODB Devotional that came at me with force!! LOL... Polly
Good afternoon, GeeBee, I hope you've had a wonderful day and can enjoy your just desserts. Or unjust desserts; obviously it's the dessert that's important.
:-)
There may still be some in Europe. I’m pretty sure Woolworth is still in UK.
In melancholy pondering...
Age of Bitterness
The once razored black steel soul of the warrior rests
in an dusty oiled sheath on a shelf, to beat time’s tests
And the once proud tall warrior has aged into just a man
who has had to watch as his willing sacrifices be ban
All he willingly gave, for his country and hearth to pay
is now so easily belittled, by those who value not I say
The old warrior quietly aches for his younger days you see
when all of life had values, now diluted in apathy’s sea
He walks often in Memory’s Hall, recalling honor bright
and recalls those better times, then when politics held right
Now in this sad new age of too bright gilded glitter cheap
he watches all of value, fall before the lies as evil reaps
There are now oh so few warriors, who even try to care
and he fears the bright world of his heart sad to fare
He aches in his weary body and soul, as emptiness kills
and the joyous wonders of his life, becomes but swill
Old friends pass on, and now everything changes so
all he struggled for, is now priced too cheap you know
Pity the old warrior who didn’t fall in honor that day
he has to see all ruined, by those who care not so fey
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This was emailed to me today, and it is so inspiring, I had to share it with everybody:
“Apparently many people across the world recorded street musician’s different versions of the same song: Stand by me, sung by Ben E. King. And with the recordings they have done a “mega mix”, in that they have fused parts of each recording, the result is precious.
We have here the music of Santa Monica, California; of New Orleans, Louisiana; of Amsterdam; a group of American Indian percussionists, Mexico; a Russian violoncellist; a choir of South African women, and more people of Barcelona, Caracas, the Congo and Rio de Janeiro. I repeat they are all street musicians.
How much art there is the world?”
http://www.youtube.com/v/Us-TVg40ExM&hl=es&fs=1
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