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[Tervuren]

[masraum]

[GH85Carrera]

The "Randall Tire Co." gas station and garage in Vinita, Oklahoma on old Route 66, circa the 1930s. It is at 237 S. Wilson St. and was built in 1931. It was a Wilco, H. F. Wilcox, Tulsa gas and oil company gas station. The gas then was 11 cents per gallon. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995. It has a distinctive facade with irregular stone that gives it a castle-like appearance, with a sawtooth parapet. Its windows are framed with bricks. We believe it is currently an auto parts store.

Historically, Vinita is the second oldest town in Oklahoma and was the first in the State to have electricity. It is called "America's Crossroads" US highways 60, 66, and 69 crossed Vinita. Some see Vinita as Will Rogers hometown, but he was born close by on the Cherokee Nation near present-day Oologah, OK. He did go to college at Willie Halsel College in Vinita but made Claremore, OK his home.






The RAYDAC (Raytheon Digital Automatic Computer)
Technician performing a memory integrity check during the construction phase of the 30-bit RAYDAC computer on August 2, 1952. Designed for use in Project Hurricane, this four address binary machine built by Raytheon was installed in July 1953 at the Naval Air Missile Test Center at Point Mugu, California. Cooled by liquid freon, the 5,200 vacuum tubes consumed 28 kW of power. It had 18,000 crystal diodes, 1,152 words of 36-bit 305 µs acoustic delay line memory, and 630 relays. With a 3.77 MHz clock and 54-bit instructions, addition took 38 µs, multiplication 240 µs, and division 375 µs, excluding the memory-access time, with 5-bit check numbers (Hamming type error detection) for self-checking arithmetic. The 18.6 m² computer required 4 operators, 14 maintenance, 25 mathematicians, 5 clerks, and had 4 coders in training. According to the specs, the purpose of the machine was data reduction and general large-scale computations.

[john70t]

[GH85Carrera]

An aerial view of Hunter's Point Naval Shipyard, San Francisco, California (USA), with three docked aircraft carriers on 25 August 1971. The carriers are the USS Ranger (CVA-61) (in dry dock), USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), and the USS Hancock (CVA-19) (left).




UNIVAC 490 Real-Time System at NASCOM Network Switching Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S.A. (1965). Designed by Seymour Cray, it consisted of two 30-bit central processor units with 32K core memory each, using 13,819 transistors and 37,543 diodes each, FH880 drums, IIIC Mag tape units and a 1004 card processor and printer. Prior to the advent of NASCOM, the 1957 Minitrack network largely relied on 30 bits/sec teletype lines for tracking the flights of Sputnik, Vanguard, and Explorer. As NASA developed more advanced satellites in the early 1960s, the capability for telecommand grew, and Minitrack was no longer sufficient. Network technologies used in NORAD and SAGE defense systems contributed to the development of NASCOM which formed in 1964 under the administration of the Office of Tracking and Data Acquisition which tied together three tracking and acquisition networks: the Spacecraft Tracking and Data Acquisition Network (STADAN), the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN), and the Deep Space Network (DSN). Communication links consist of landlines with 60 WPM full-duplex 33 ASR teletype circuits, submarine cable, HF radio and even Continuous Wave (CW). There are three basic Communication Line Terminals: low speed (300BPS), medium speed (1600BPS); and high speed (2000-4800 BPS). Above 4800 BPS, a Communications Control Unit (CCU) is used.


El Reno, OK late 1940s


Following those blueprints precisely?

[GH85Carrera]

I wonder why this did not catch on?






A team of archaeologists and speleologists has explored an underground branch of the Aqua Augusta, an 87-mile-long aqueduct constructed between 30 and 20 B.C. that supplied water to cities around the Bay of Naples.

[daepp]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Who dat?

[911 Rod]

[GH85Carrera]

Downtown Auburn, Illinois on the original Route 66, circa 1928. Auburn is southwest of Springfield located on the original 1926 to 1930 Route 66 alignment in Illinois, now IL-4. Its main sight and one of Route 66's classic attractions is the Historic Brick Road north of Auburn. Look at all the American flags flying along the sidewalk

[john70t]

[GH85Carrera]

Clean under the fridge????

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Wow. Of all the many pictures you post, Glen, spectacular stuff, the above is my favorite because I know how hard it it to keep a place as tidy as the owners of the house and fields in the picture.

I can see it, appreciate the effort. Not as well done from two days ago:

[Geronimo '74]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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I wonder where that is. House style looks particularly belgian.
Stijn can confirm?

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by Geronimo '74

I wonder where that is. House style looks particularly belgian.
Stijn can confirm?

Defo Belgian, the lack of design, red brick, the additions in the back, it used to be 2 houses but 1 got removed again, probably farmer had 3 sons.. oldest 1 took over the farm, and to do the other 2 right he cut of 2 plots of land.. and built a house on it for both sons.
But then one died early and the remaining one bought it over, and removed the house.. Stuff like that..


In Holland they have similar evolutions of ground plots, the thing happens when the farmer dies, and he has more sons, and he cuts of a bit of land to build house for his kids. or in they cut up the land in 2, and both build a house, than they have kids and they do the same again.
In Holland they have entire towns like this



But the houses look much different, typically a lot nicer the farm houses at least





A lot has to do with religion... Belgians were catholics, house sober on the outside, close the curtains, hide your riches on the inside.
Dutch were protestants.. clean tidy house on the outside, open curtains so everybody can look inside how you live a sober life or whatever.


Modern day Belgium is a mess full of houses of various designs, all scattered
you can have a housing estate with a modern house, than a hacienda style, classic red brick, then a wood frame house, there is no limit to anybodies imagination or style, a dream for chitty architects

In Holland they create a housing estate, First thing they do is open a coop for all the future owners to deal with the housing project.. Get all houses built in same style with same mailbox, same roof same window colors.

And the sillyness is that somebody buying a big 2 under a roof house with double garage.. has to be in the same coop as retired folks who get a social house in the project.

Obviously the big owners have busy jobs no time for the coop, and the retired wankers are numerous and keep the coop meetings flooded with stupid arguments.. And they decide what color window frame the big owners end up needing to install.

[red 928]

Originally Posted by daepp

Who dat?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Evans_(Miss_Texas)

[red 928]

[GH85Carrera]

Sponsored by Cadbury World, (Confectionery manufacturers) the Jaffa Race (orange hard candy with a soft chocolate centre) was dubbed New Zealand’s running of the balls.

(Thousands of marked candy balls sent off down the world's steepest street....some competitors' balls met a sticky end)


I keep getting my car washed all the time, only because I like a clean car. Really! I promise, just the clean car is why I do it, I promise.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by red 928

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monique_Evans_(Miss_Texas)

Feet look normal in most pics.

[GH85Carrera]

USS Wisconsin (BB-64) in Auxiliary Drydock AFDB-1, April 1952, at Guam.

[masraum]

Occupants of a sod house in Drenthe, the Netherlands, photographed standing outside in 1936.