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"Fastest car in the valley", that was the rumor. ;-)
I took the Charger to the car wash yesterday. Some guy in a new pickup pulls up and asks me "want to race?" So I'm like, well, probably not up a mountain or in the dirt. He smiles and says, remember me, I used to drive a 1971 Chevelle SS, yellow, black stripes 454 - 4 speed. It comes back to me in an instant.
This is the same guy in high school that used to challenge me to a race nearly every time he'd put a new part on his Chevelle. Off we'd go to Highway 27, just outside of town, stage up, and the first one to the 45 mph sign was the winner. His Chevelle was screaming fast, as were most of the cars that I raced on that highway. But I always had the one thing they didn't. Traction.
I'd hook up on the launch and my opponents would go up in smoke deep into first gear, which would give me about a car length. I was always able to hold them off past that crazy sign. Never lost once. Undoubtedly got lucky occasionally, but a win is a win.
Most Saturday nights you'd eventually find us at the local Sambo's restaurant, drinking 25¢ coffee and recounting the nights misadventures. That's when a challenger to the throne would come in and say "hey!, I hear you're the one to beat around here". We'd all jump in our cars, head to the highway, and settle the score. It was surreal in the best possible way.
During our quick visit, "Mr. Chevelle" even shared he was just talking to someone a few weeks ago about how he and I used to race all the time.
His always co-pilot Jim, used to tell me how he'd "shined the rear bumper up real nice, so I can see my reflection as they blow my doors off". Just get in the car Jim. ;-)
Too much fun!
It was great seeing Jerry and meeting his grandson. Don't think I've seen him in 25 years.
I had vinyl records, 8 track tapes and AM/FM radio dialed in on a tuner. I evolved to cassettes and then to CDs. Now I have none of it as I stream my music and radio stations via bluetooth and apps from my phone to a kick butt tuner and speakers. This 8 track player and tuner is built into the kitchen of the vintage mobile home that my husband and I bought so we could shed our mortgage and maintenance while we were still young enough to enjoy the freedom. It's the only obsolete thing we still own as we have no room for anything that isn't useful :-}}}}
Happy Macro Monday!
From the bottom of the trunk: a hand letter written in the year 1991 by a great friend during a study trip in Germany.
Back in Time
Eine Blitzlichtbirne ist ein mit Magnesiumdraht oder Magnesiumfolie und einem sauerstoffhaltigen Gas gefüllter Glaskolben mit herausgeführten Stromanschlüssen, der hauptsächlich bei der Fotografie zum Erzeugen eines Lichtblitzes diente.
#BackInTheDay
Back in time
A flashlight bulb is a glass bulb filled with magnesium wire or magnesium foul and an oxygen-containing gas with lead-out Terminals mainly used in Photograph to genervte a flash of light.
Das uralte Kopierrädchen meiner Mutter funktioniert immer noch. Es dient zum Übertragen von Musterlinien auf Papier oder Stoff.
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Back in the days, we bind our notes by punching 2 holes on each sheet and use a Treasury tag to tie then together.
Tamron sp 35-80mm f2.8-3.8 @120mm(eq) f16 + 50mm ext' tubes + 12° tilt. www.adaptall-2.com/lenses/01A.html
On Obsolescence. #MacroMondays #BackInTheDay
St. George Street Cafe - 10/31/21
Saint Augustine, Florida U.S.A.
*[quaint 'garden-seating' in the 'middle' of The Ancient City]
*[left-double-click for a closer-look - old brick cobblestone]
*[huge green elephant-ears! - small tropical green garden]
*[St. Augustine is the oldest city in the United States - 1513]
This little garden behind a quaint little shop on Saint George
Street has been rented to numerous different shop keepers
and their wares over the years. At this very moment it is a
gourmet-pretzel-establishment with a few little eating areas.
Sweet. What will it be next year? - Thank you for looking.
*[there is a cute little-old-cabin 'in the back left' that they have
now hidden with landscaping...but it's still back there! LOL]
*[probably the neatest and nicest it's looked in a long time!]
Reviving themes:
glass
holiday bokeh
less than an inch
circles
multicolour
imperfection
I could also say "back in the day" as I never see anyone playing marbles any more.
Opaque glass marble by candlelight.
Title of poem by Langston Hughes
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom’s way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!
Our House in the middle of the street, built and dated around 1788 ...... I can't put a date on this picture of Haugh Fold snapped many years ago. If anyone can help that would be great! We have this pic in our porch, along with another.
At the top of the street is open land, now of which is Haugh Square ..... ( check out my previous upload of Haugh Square).
Navette utilisée par ma grande tante pour faire de la frivolité.
c 'est elle qui m'a enseigné la technique il y a plus de 50 ans.
This is a toothpick holder and my Grandmother had one! I found out they were made in the 40's and 50's and when I saw one at a flea market some thirty years ago, I had to have it because of the memories it brought back. You press on the woodpeckers head and he leans forward and handily picks up the toothpick for you. HMM!
#Macro Mondays. #Back in the Day. Mama don't take my Kodachrome away! My last roll of unexposed K64. Now impossible to get processed.
#HMM # Back in the day #Elvis
"That's All Right" is a song written and originally performed by blues singer Arthur Crudup. It is best known as the first single recorded and released by Elvis Presley.
Released: July 19, 1954
Format: 7-inch single
Recorded: July 5, 1954
B-side: "Blue Moon of Kentucky"
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My mother, brother and grandmother are in this 1944 Kodak slide. My father took the photograph.
The slide is 2x2 inches.
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A Macro Mondays submission on the topic "Back in the day", featuring technology no longer in use. This is an Underwood typewriter, bought by my parents around 1950 and still in working order.
Either write something worth reading
or do something worth writing about.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Weekly Themes - Textures: graphic/drawing/writing
7 Days with Flickr - Wednesday: macro or close up
Macro Mondays - Back in the Day
(photo by Freya)