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Posted on 06/11/2003 1:07:09 AM PDT by Radix
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Are you feeling alright?
We HAVE to make a mess for my joyous return!
...It's amazing how time flies, with the retro craze, many old-fashioned favorites are experiencing a rebirth. How many of these do you remember?
1. Candy cigarettes
2. Wax coke-bottles with colored sugar water inside
3. Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles
4. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
5. Blackjack, Clove, and Teaberry chewing gum (How about Beech-Nut, Beeman's Pepsin Gum, or those big sticks of Bazooka Bubble Gum? As a past bubblegum conoisseur, I have to say that I always considered Fleer's DubbleBubble to have a much finer flavor than Bazooka. I was always disappointed when the only kind available was Bazooka)
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers (We now have milk delivery from a small creamery in the next town. The milk is un-homogenized--the cream rises to the top--in glass bottles. Their motto: "A taste of the past")
7. Party lines
8. Newsreels before the main feature
9. Butch wax
10. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Drexel-5505)
11. Peashooters
12. Howdy
13. P.F. Flyers
14. 45-RPM records
15. S&H Green stamps (or any other premium stamps)
16. Hi-Fi's
17. Metal ice cube trays with levers
18. Mimeograph paper (or stencils? or machines? or ink in tubes?)
19. Blue flash bulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Rollerskate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers (like the GOLDEN HAWK!)Or Kaisers? Frazers? Crosleys? Hudson Hornets? ...sigh...I'm OLD...)
25. Wash tub wringers
26. The Fuller Brush man (still have a few of these, but they only make house calls by appointment)
27. Reel-to-reel tape recorders (had one of these. Awesome!)
28. Tinkertoys in the cardboard tube
29. The Erector Set (wasn't this a suggested wedding present for some old geezer who married a much younger woman?)
30. The Fort Apache Play Set (Or, Little Suzy Homemaker?)
31. Lincoln Logs (also in a cardboard tube)
32. 5-cent packs of trading cards...with that AWFUL flake of evil-tasting bubble gum with them
34. Penny candy
35. 35-cents a gallon gasoline (or the gasoline price wars, when you could fill up everybody's cars for a dollar--for all of them)
Hope you enjoyed this little stroll down memory lane. Now, where did I put my Roy Rogers coloring book and my Dale Evans paper dolls??
The guys got so worked up over their pancakes, they went through here like a hurricane. I'll be back later this afternoon to see how the Canteen Cleanup is coming.
IE just quit twice AGAIN!!!!! I may be sent around the bend if this keeps up. I think I can really use these guys help. Thanks for sending them.
What's Sun? It's what provides the light on these majestic masters of the Sonoran Desert found in and around Tucson, AZ.
Bethy can't clean it up because she didn't go shopping yesterday with your credit card.
I can't do it either because I didn't go shopping either. The Goddess can't do it because she's a Goddess and that's totally beneath a Goddess. Ma can't do it because she's always yelling and screaming and cooking. I guess she works as well. (That's what she always tells us she's doing..Who knows!) Bentfeather can't do it because she's too busy writing beautiful poetry. Radix can't do it because he's a Pancake Specialist. His mind has better things to do. Mr. Tonkin can't do it because he's getting ready to take Coastie out to see if any terrorists are trying to come into America. LaDivaLoca can't do it because she's a Diva. So? She can't be required to do peasants work. So? That just leaves you and Burka Man. Since you gave out the credit card yesterday, we'll let you slide. So? It's all you Burka Man!! Have fun! Don't forget to mop when you are done!
030606-N-3707W-001 Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (Jun. 6, 2003) -- The crew of the Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Columbia (SSN 771) moor the submarine to a Pearl Harbor pier. Columbia is returning from deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 2nd Class John Watts. (RELEASED)
USS Columbia Returns from Operation Iraqi Freedom
Story Number: NNS030610-22
Release Date: 6/10/2003 10:32:00 AM
By Chief Journalist (SW/AW) David Rush, Commander, Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs
PEARL HARBOR, Hawaii (NNS) -- As one of four Pacific fleet submarines to participate in Tomahawk strikes in Operation Iraqi Freedom, USS Columbia (SSN 771) returned to its homeport of Pearl Harbor June 6.
The submarine’s commanding officer, Cmdr. Duane R. Ashton, and his crew, left Dec. 6 for a six-month deployment in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.
“They were spectacular. They are the most courageous young men I have ever met. They executed with great precision and with great technical ability. I have the best crew on the waterfront. I am very proud of them,” said Ashton.
In addition to participating in coalition exercises, including Tandem Thrust, the submarine’s crew paid a visit to Brisbane, Australia. “The morale of the crew was outstanding. The guys were excited about what they accomplished. The most enjoyable part was the port visit to Australia. We were received very warmly there, and the guys had an opportunity to see the east coast of Australia,” Ashton added.
Christened in 1995, Columbia is the last 688-class submarine to be built at Electric Boat Shipyard in Groton, Conn. It is also the last submarine in the history of the program to be launched by sliding down wooden ramps.
Columbia was built with the state-of-the art Seawolf technology, making it the most modern submarine in the world. Both construction methods and computerization make Columbia stand out as a unique submarine platform among the 688 improved class.
Columbia is one of the most versatile weapons platforms ever placed in the world's oceans, capable of long range Tomahawk strike operations, anti-submarine and surface shipping operations, surveillance and intelligence gathering, and special forces insertions. Displacing more than 6,900 tons, the 360-foot submarine can reach speeds in excess of 25 knots and attain depths of more than 800 feet. Nuclear propulsion gives it virtually unlimited endurance through any ocean in the world.
030411-N-0728B-002 Southern Iraq (Apr. 11, 2003) -- Lt. Dallas Braham from New Orleans, La., monitors an Iraqi woman at Fleet Hospital Three’s (FH-3) Intensive Care Unit following surgery for a gunshot wound. The woman conveyed her story of being injured in a firefight where she was used as a human shield by Iraqi forces. Representing Coalition Forces’ strong commitment to the Iraqi people, FH-3 personnel have conducted almost 200 surgical procedures in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Operation Iraqi Freedom is the multi-national coalition effort to liberate the Iraqi people, eliminate Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, and end the regime of Saddam Hussein. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Journalist Al Bloom. (RELEASED)
030414-N-0728B-002 Central Command Area of Responsibility (Apr. 14, 2003) -- Ensign Jill Skeet from Williamsburg, Kan., administers pain medication to an unidentified Iraqi woman who arrived in Fleet Hospital Three’s (FH-3) Casualty Receiving room with a gunshot wound. FH-3 staff have seen more than 500 patients and conducted more than 280 surgical procedures since constructing the Navy’s first Expeditionary Medical Facility in a combat zone and seeing their first patient April 1. FH-3’s surgical capabilities range from Ear, Nose and Throat and Neurosurgery to Orthopedics and Ophthalmology, as the only Echelon Three hospital currently in Iraq. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Journalist Al Bloom. (RELEASED)
030414-N-0728B-004 Central Command Area of Responsibility (Apr. 14, 2003) -- An unidentified Iraqi woman (foreground) who arrived in Fleet Hospital Three’s (FH-3) Casualty Receiving room with an ankle injury, waits to be seen by FH-3 staff providing care to another Iraqi citizen with more immediate needs. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Journalist Al Bloom. (RELEASED)
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