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I was only going to take a couple of days off Flickr, as I was out both days, with little time at home.
Then, an unprecedented heatwave struck. I've never experienced anything like it. Our thermometer in the back yard recorded 41C (106F) in the shade on Monday. As we were unprepared for it, when it hit, all the stores sold out their AC units immediately. Our place was sooo hot, but stepping outside, was like going into a sauna, and I could only do it for a few minutes at a time. Over 100 people have died in the past few days from the heat, something that is just so sad. The air outside is filled with smog and small particles of ozone. I was constantly spraying myself with water and sitting in front of a fan, that actually just blew warm air around. I couldn't sit in my computer room for more than a few minutes.
Today it looks like it's breaking - I feel cooler air coming in the window this morning.
We ordered an AC unit, but won't get it for a couple of weeks.
Scientists say that this will become the norm as climate change continues. Pretty scary....
Theme: Out of my comfort zone
I took this with my newest vintage lens: Meyer-Optic Gorlitz Oreston 50mm f1.8.
Rootbeer Float
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Old Car Show - Wausau, Wisconsin
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Amnicon Falls State Park, a little ways east of Superior, Wisconsin. The falls are really a long series of cascades, with a couple of places where there are major drops in levels. This was just a side stream.
Torrential rains earlier in the spring had taken out several roads all along the south side of Lake Superior from Wisconsin into Michigan and left the water levels very high.
HAROLD GASTON
Niland, West Shore
Working first for the US Forest Service,
Harold eventually retired and opened a cafe
in the desert town of Banning in 1934.
Throughout the '30's, he would come down to
the Salton Sea to troll for mullet, and get
paid for every school that he located. In 1951, he witnessed the first introduction of salt water fish from the Sea of Cortez. However, when the freeway switched routes and bypassed his cafe, Harold moved his restaurant south to Niland in 1956.
In search of the newly introduced sport fish, Harold caught the first two limits of fish from the Salton Sea at a military target off Bombay Beach in 1957. Through his contacts with sports journalists in Southern California, Harold spread the word about the Salton Sea, and by 1960, fishermen by the thousands were dining at Gaston's Cafe.
Harold also hosted a fishing show on TV produced by the Chrysler Corporation, took John Wayne fishing, and opened a successful mudsucker bait shop in Indio. He was also an avid hunter and boat racer.
Mr. and Mrs. Gaston finally closed Gaston's Cafe on December 30th, 1999 and after a long adventurous life, Mr. Gaston passed away in 2005 at the age of 96.
Long John Silvers/A&W
1180 S Babcock St., Melbourne, FL
Originally opened as a Long John Silvers restaurant in 1976. Sometime in the 2000's an A&W was added here and the building was given some minor renovations.
The LJS/A&W building. Pretty average older LJS building. The right side was given an A&W orange trim paint scheme, while the left side of the building had blue trim for LJS. The dining area here is really small, and pretty much all contained under the pointed roof portion of the building.
Explored August 6, 2015 - #462
True color -- no filter or enhancement
Santa Clara, California
Nikon F80 // Provia 100F // Nikkor 50mm 1.8D
On Wednesday, Sept 9, 2020, the skies above northern California went orange from wildfire ash high in the atmosphere. The ash was suspended high above by a marine layer of air beneath it, and didn't begin reaching the ground until the next day, when the eerie orange sky was replaced by one of dull white. I took these photos on a 2.5 hour bike ride through Santa Clara and San Jose around in the early afternoon using a sunlight-balanced, natural-color slide film, with the camera automatically metering at the box speed of 100. Despite it being mid-day, it was very dark -- to achieve shutter speeds faster than 1/100, the aperture was never slower than f/4, and usually set to f/2.
Step 2: Introduce the icecream & rootbeer.
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Need a homemade root beer float with that burger....this is the place.The cook/manager volunteered that this location opened around 1948 and was originally a drive-in. A nearby church had just let out and by the time I left, the parking lot was full and the line was out of the door. It is still a local favorite for sure. Baton Rouge,Louisiana. 5.20.2018.
Here is an interesting Wiki article about the origins of the ice cream soda/root beer float, first made in Philadelphia...a delicious reason I'm proud to be an American ;-)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_cream_soda
50mm 1.8 4+ macro filter
Union City, OH. August 21, 2021. Shot on a Nikon F6 and Fuji Superia 400. Developed and scanned by The Darkroom.
Blownie craves a root beer float and makes a cupcake...:http://blondieandbrownie.blogspot.com/2008/04/root-beer-floatie-cupcakes.html
A blast from the past brought to you by the Pebble Beach Concours
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A few blocks from my house is St. Louis' finest diner, "South City Diner". I love that it is so close to where I live. I love that its food is great. And I love to have a hamburger and root beer float there.
This is an embroidery pattern I drew to look like the kitchen towels of the 1930s and 40s. To download it, use the "ALL SIZES" button above.
I have been drawing lots of free embroidery patterns lately. To see more embroidery patterns that you can download for free go to my set, "Stickers, Softies, Stitching Patterns, and Coloring pages here:
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If you stitch up one of my patterns, I would love to see a flickr photo of it.
Best Regards, Jacque
Yes, today is Root Beer Float Day! If there’s anything Chocomint Ice Cream Lycee likes almost as much as Chocomint ice cream, it’s a Root Beer Float! 🍺🍦🍨👧💕
The 2019 Plant City, Florida Strawberry Festival was held from February 28 through March 10 at the Plant City Fairgrounds.
This photograph shows another Strawberry Sweets Drinks and Ice Cream Vendor at the 2019 Plant City Strawberry Festival. This establishment is shaped like a Strawberry ! In addition, there is another Sweets Vendor in the Left Background and Publix Supermarkets sponsored Shows in the Building in the Right Background with a Gondola in behind that.
Belle City Amusements is the prime Carnival Contractor and they supply most of the Rides, Games and Food Joints on the Midway. Their Mailing Address is:
Belle City Amusements Inc.
Post Office Box 6269
Deltona, Florida 32728
For further information about Belle City Amusements, see:
The Strawberry Festival had a vast number of Rides and Food Joints and I'm sure Belle City Subcontracted other Carnival Vendors to fill the venue; either that, or the Strawberry Festival Board itself hired other Carnival Vendors to supply Rides & Food Vendors.
Long John Silvers/A&W
1180 S Babcock St., Melbourne, FL
Originally opened as a Long John Silvers restaurant in 1976. Sometime in the 2000's an A&W was added here and the building was given some minor renovations.
And the reason why I came here - the root beer float. Not a bad size for being free, and it tasted good. If you live near an A&W, it's not too late to get one for free - you have until the restaurant closes tonight, 8/6/15.
Anyway, a note about scheduling. Next week is AFB on flickr's annual Restaurant Week. Restaurant Week will run from this Sunday, 8/9, until Friday, 8/14. I'll be posting 4-5 photos everyday (there might be a few more than that on some days). All of this year's features will be either repurposed or abandoned restaurants located just to the north of the LJS/A&W along the North Babcock restaurant death row (not to be confused with the Palm Bay restaurant death row, featured last year, which you can peruse here). I'll also be posting some Albertsons photos on Sunday as well as I have a new blog post going up that day. After Restaurant Week, my usual Tuesday/Friday uploads will resume, and our subject matter on flickr will switch to a dead mall. Maybe. I can change my mind on that by then, but I've had those mall photos sitting around for over a year now and I'd like to get them out of my way, or at least start on them. I'll figure something out, and I've rambled on long enough. Just be sure to stay tuned for Sunday! - AFB
I attended the "Antique Flywheel Engine & Tractor Show" sponsored by the "Florida Flywheeler's Antique Engine Club" located at 7000 Avon Park Cutoff Road, Fort Meade, FL 33841 on Friday February 21, 2020.
This Photograph shows an Ice Cream Churn Powered by an Antique Flywheel Engine. You can see part of the Ice Cream Truck on the extreme Left side of my Photograph !
The Ice Cream Truck provides refreshments for the Antique Flywheel and Tractor Show Attendees.
Several other shows/exhibitions were as follows: Functioning Sawmill Demonstrations, Running 1914 400 HP Snow Making Machine Demonstration, Antique Construction Equipment Demonstrations, Model-T Put-Together Demonstration, Daily Antique Tractor Pulls, Kids Pedal Tractor Pulls on Friday & Saturday, Daily Antique Car Parade, Daily Antique Tractor Parade, Florida Flywheeler Antique Engine Club Gift Shop Opened, Huge Flea Market & the Antique Village (was opened) to Wander Through.
This Place is HUGE ! - - One of the attendants told me it is approx 480 ACRES !
INGREDIENTS:
1 cup premium vanilla ice cream
1/2 cup stout draught beer (from 14.9-oz can)
3 tablespoons chocolate-flavor syrup
DIRECTIONS:
1. Using small ice cream scoop (about 1 tablespoon each), place 2 small scoops in each of 8 shot glasses. Slowly pour about 1 tablespoon beer into each glass.
2. Drizzle each with about 1 teaspoon syrup. Serve immediately with small spoons.
A&W Root Beer was a national favorite in the mid-twentieth century. It became widely popular after World War II, with its “Frosty Mug” logo becoming an iconic symbol of the brand. By the 1970s, A&W had over 2,000 locations across the United States and internationally. These drive-ins were known for their carhop service and were especially popular in the 1950s and 1960s, making A&W a staple of American roadside culture. The root beer float, made with a scoop of vanilla ice cream in a frosty mug of A&W Root Beer, became a popular menu item during that time. It was a favorite treat for many families who embraced both its sweet taste and its $0.25 price tag.
A&W Root Beer drive-ins still exist, though they are less common than they once were. Some locations have become drive-thru or sit-down restaurants, and they continue to serve their famous root beer.
[Sources: Wikipedia, OldRestaurants.com, HistoryOasis.com and ShiftyChevre.com]
This was the "Treat Of The Day." I made the Root beer using my root beer tincture from Longevity Warehouse, and I made the fizzy water in my soda stream. I added the non-dairy Coconut Vanilla Bean Ice Cream and voila...It was quite tasty!
Apple and cornbread stuffed Beeler's pork chop; bacon horseradish mashed potatoes; kale, Brussels sprout, and asparagus medley; wild ramp pesto
Long John Silvers/A&W
1180 S Babcock St., Melbourne, FL
Originally opened as a Long John Silvers restaurant in 1976. Sometime in the 2000's an A&W was added here and the building was given some minor renovations.
I found out that today was National Root Beer float day. Apparently as a form of celebration, all A&W restaurants across the country were giving away free small root beer floats to everyone who stopped in today (which you can see on all the signage in this photo). As for the road sign, the letterboard and 'Drive Thru' signs are probably original to the building, however the old LJS sign was replaced when A&W took over half the building.
This is my Root Beer Float and Burger pattern, stitched up and ready to be made into a pot holder. If you would like this free embroidery pattern, or any of my other free embroidery patterns please go to my set, Stickers, Softies, Stitching patterns, and Coloring Pages, here
www.flickr.com/photos/jacquedavis/sets/72157605615689465/
I draw my embroidery patterns in Xara Xtreme and all are set to be downloadable.
Best Regards
Jacque
A vintage Route 66 Diner in Winslow, AZ. These diners were basically prefabricated much like a mobile home today. They sold for a pittance to entrepreneurs and many of them were put up all along Route 66. This one actually was saved from a crusher after having been sent to the scrap heap, reestablished to a location on old Route 66 in Winslow and was being restored before opening back up for business selling hamburgers and milkshakes. View on black
To the uninitiated, it’s a simple summer job; a chance to make some easy money before heading back to school in the fall. In this small town, the legacy of a summer job has been passed down from one family member to the next for uncounted generations.
What is learned, through failure and triumph, are the complicated lessons of living outside the comfort and support of family and friends. We learn to cope with boredom and mindless repetition. We learn to acknowledge being seen as what we represent, rather that what we believe we are. We learn to adapt to unexpected change. We learn the art of gracious gratitude. We learn to accept the bad stuff.
Somewhere in this world, a waitress will become a superstar. Somewhere, a busboy will become a hero. Somewhere, a girl will suddenly become a woman.
I have a special place in my cholesterol clogged heart for A&W. My first job was at an A&W stand on the beach in Pacifica, California. It was such a cool shop that it's (the building) has been ranked as one of the "World's most beautiful" fast food restaurants in America - for it's location right on the beach. It's now a Taco Bell.
Here it is: www.cgsd.com/Mtn_View/taco.html
At fifteen-years-old, I liked the perks: the cool brown and orange polyester outfit and all the onion rings, floats and burgers I wanted (Mmmmm...Teen burgers were my favorite!). And I had such a crush on my manager, Allan (an older man at 18), that I constantly dropped the trays of little paper cups of ketchup I was asked to fill. Yep, there was all that AND they paid me, too! The only downside, smelling like onion rings after work; not exactly the scent I wanted to wear on dates: Parfume de Onion Rings.
This is an A&W in Felton, California, (inland from Santa Cruz) my husband and I discovered on a road trip we took in 1993.
That was my first and last time there. But after doing a Google search, I believe the A&W is gone and another restaurant has replaced it. That's sad. Where have all the A&Ws gone?