That is just a few blocks from the Rock Cafe. Our local PCA region has had fun road trips up Rt-66 to the Rock Cafe. It is a tiny place and we took over the restaurant for 90 minutes. Great burgers.
U.S. Army anti-aircraft rockets, mounted on launchers and pointed out over the Florida Straits in Key West, Florida, on October 27, 1962.
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.
The crisis was unique in a number of ways, featuring calculations and miscalculations as well as direct and secret communications and miscommunications between the two sides.
(September 1943..?) Combat ended with a forced landing on the beach at Paestum, Italy, for this Spitfire being examined by a U.S. Coast Guardsmen manned combat transports and landing craft, one of which appears in the background
Saguaro gatherers, Maricopa, Arizona
- 1907
170 years ago, Saturday, May 1, 1852, famous cross-dressing American frontierswoman, professional scout, & Indian fighter Martha Jane Canary (1852-1903), better-known as Calamity Jane, was born at the town of Princeton in Mercer County, Missouri.
Calamity Jane is best known nowadays for her claim that she was an acquaintance of & secretly married to Wild Bill Hickok (1837-1876), although almost all historians doubt the veracity of her claim to be the wife of Bill Hickok.
Calamity Jane was buried at Mount Moriah Cemetery, South Dakota, in a grave adjacent to Wild Bill’s grave. Four of the men who planned her funeral, Albert Malter, Frank Ankeney, Jim Carson, & Anson Higby later stated that Wild Bill Hickok had “absolutely no use” for Jane while he was alive, so they decided to play a posthumous joke on him by giving Calamity an eternal resting place by his side.
The left-hand photograph left depicts Calamity Jane in her typical attire -- dressed as a man. The right-hand photograph depicts Martha Jane Canary as she was seldom seen in life -- dressed in what she called “the costume of my sex.”