When my dad was still just a Capt. we lived in Hawaii (early 1960s) and he had flown a C-124 to Japan for the flying time to keep current. All the crew loaded up on goodies to bring home. Dad picked up his first stereo component system. A Sansui amp, and two speakers, each the size of a washing machine and a high end reel to reel tape recorder.
Many years later he laughed about teaching our neighbors about the 1812 overture with the walls of our house only paper thin, and windows open they had a good listen.
Shortly after he got the system they were playing scrabble with another couple and used the word tweeter and the would not believe it was a word. He had to get the instructions and show them tweeter in the manual. They still disallowed it as it was not in the dictionary.
Byron's grandma?
Adelnietze stands in the center of this group of 18 men, women and children photographed by C.S. Fly at Geronimo’s camp, before the Apache “surrender” to Gen. George Crook on March 27, 1886. The next decade, death found him.
Brandt Station, Atlanta, Illinois on Route 66. They have all the lights on and appear to have all the staff out for this photo.
This photo is courtesy of the Atlanta Museum and 66postccards.
From Lumen, the University of Adelaide Magazine:
'It was a Prosh Day prank to beat all Prosh Day pranks - and it was a great demonstration of the ingenuity of University of Adelaide engineering students. At a 30-year class reunion in 2003, engineering graduate David Gray told the story of how, in 1971, his fellow students suspended an FJ Holden under the University Footbridge.
"Under cover of the early hours of one Friday morning, a group of volunteers pushed the FJ Holden under the bridge next to the water on the southern bank of the Torrens," said David. "The car was lifted using beams and lifting gear attached to a small hand-operated crane located on the footbridge.
"The crane, with car attached, was then pushed out to the center of the bridge. The car was firmly secured to the bridge using a large chain. The crane and volunteers then quickly disappeared into the night and were never found."'
