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Offline john e. holliday

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Back in the day
« on: January 22, 2012, 07:27:23 AM »
I am going to post this here and if the Administration sees fit it can be moved.  It's from "Wheels a Day".  I got wrong date when I saved picture, it is really 1940 Seattle  at Aurora & Denny.  Before control line and free flight was king.   Bet it don't look like that now. H^^
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Offline Jim Fruit

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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2012, 08:12:01 AM »
Doc:

I guess we were just as dependent upon gasoline in those days also. I count six gasoline stations on that one corner.

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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2012, 08:27:37 AM »
We have the US Department of energy now with a $27 BILLION dollar budget for 2012. They were going to cut our need for foreign oil. Can you think of any cost saving measure or new and cheap energy source they have come up with? Not fussing just laughing at the waste in Washington.   
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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2012, 09:09:42 AM »
Quote from: Curtis Shipp on January 22, 2012, 08:27:37 AM
We have the US Department of energy now with a $27 BILLION dollar budget for 2012. They were going to cut our need for foreign oil. Can you think of any cost saving measure or new and cheap energy source they have come up with? Not fussing just laughing at the waste in Washington.   

Curtis,

There's no waste.

 All that money winds up in someon's pocket, just not ours.

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Offline john e. holliday

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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2012, 01:08:36 PM »
Where's the Seattle people?   I would like an update on the inter section. mw~
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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2012, 01:42:10 PM »
well I am from the NW, but not from Seattle, however because of that I learned to use this little tool to find my way around,,

not sure if hte link will work but try it


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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2012, 03:18:22 PM »
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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2012, 03:36:08 PM »
Hey Doc what's this 'back in the deay" thingy.  I never heard this phrase until recently. Now it's all over the place! "Sure pulls your bobber down, don't it?"

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Offline john e. holliday

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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2012, 04:03:34 PM »
I guess I must be showing  my age.  I remember a lot of old timers using that phrase, even as a kid many years ago. Did zoom in on the interscection from the satelite view and it is very congested.  Well I tried to copy picture so I could post it and it keeps disappearing. H^^
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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2012, 07:45:57 PM »
According to Mark's link, it looks like this today.
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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2012, 08:00:37 PM »
Relative to the picture Randy posted, I usta live on top of Queen Ann hill, which is on the upper left of the pic. Looking at the picture Doc posted, it's not really clear to me which street is Aurora and which is Denny, but I think it's a much different viewpoint, maybe 180 out. The spacing between cars had to be much greater in 1940, because the brakes sucked, as did the tires.  y1 Steve 
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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2012, 08:34:25 PM »
Quote from: Garf on January 22, 2012, 03:18:22 PM
Here are some ancient model flying scenes.

http://hangarflying.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=wire&action=display&thread=3809

  I like this one - 29 seconds in, ROG straight into the crowd. I don't see how they expected that to work.



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Re: Back in the day
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2012, 11:01:23 PM »
Can ya hear john singin in Th background.   "A way down yonder in Thu Indian nation I rode my pony on the reservation."  didn't ya just love "Woody"? he was the greatest BW@ see that ? 3 gas stations flying A, Texaco and standard.    jim
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