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[GH85Carrera]

Don't expect to find a lot of book there.


Spiral staircase in the State Capitol Law Library in Iowa (USA) 1886.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The only problem with that is that the rest of the house doesn't fit the vibe.

[GH85Carrera]

June 2nd, 1973: Led Zeppelin’s performance at Kezar Stadium in San Francisco — “There were two cages behind the amps on stage, each containing six white doves […] Robert Plant’s a real hippy at heart, so the idea was that at the end of Stairway to Heaven, we’d release the doves and they’d fly off into the air as a homage to peace and love. But when the cages opened, the birds flew out and one did a low pass over the audience, then must have taken too deep a breath of the San Francisco air – remember, this was 1973 and there was a high chance of being dosed by some deadhead. Anyway, it turned back to the stage and Robert stuck out his hand. The dove landed on it, purely by chance – this was not a trained bird. It was there for about five seconds.”

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I've always found the timing difficult when swinging on one of those.

[GH85Carrera]

From cruise liner to hospital ship to scrap metal… the S.S. Maheno drifted onto the shores of K’gari in 1935, after her tow chain snapped in a seasonal cyclone on her journey to Japan, where she was decommissioned and sold to be used as scrap metal. Having drifted onto 75 Mile Beach, her rustic ruins are now a popular tourist destination.






The ship was made of the very common Chineseium, used in many Chinese products.


The prototype of the Shrek was the famous wrestler Maurice Tille. He was born in 1903 in Russia, in the Urals in a French family, which in 1917, in connection with the revolution, returned to France.

[mjohnson]

I think that for most 'mericans visiting over there it should take about three seconds of (Huh. OK I get it)

It's not like we (USA) don't have our own floor numbering quirks. I think we all know which floor this elevator at the ABQ Sheraton airport is going...

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

[Jim Horton]

Originally Posted by Zeke

Come on, if you look at it it's nothing as you stack the lumber. Disassemble just unstack it.

It's not mortise and tenon. What am I missing other than the difficulty in cutting such a joint?

Look at the grain of each piece. Individual boards.

Yeah, I didn't see the seam in the boards on the left side.

[GH85Carrera]

The world's largest gate valve. Weights 100 ton, and 12 meter tall, installed in Texas

[KNS]

Originally Posted by masraum

That house is known as Falcon's Nest in Prescott, AZ (where I lived for many years). Behind the house is Thumb Butte which everyone who has lived in Prescott is familiar with. Thumb Butte actually looks like a mini Devil's Tower but the angle in the photo skews the image. There's a nice easy trail that leads up the base of Thumb Butte.

[KNS]

[GH85Carrera]

Or how to loose a kidney!




A camper in 1918.


Great workmanship.

[GH85Carrera]

This little dot is Earth about 6 Billion kilometers away (3.7 billion miles) taken by Voyager 1, as it was leaving our solar system. So much life in that little Pale Blue Dot. Everyone ever born in all of the history of life on Earth, and the future of humans are in the little speck.

Voyager distance: Now roughly 13.9 billion miles, or 22.3 billion kilometers Launched: Mon, 05 Sept 1977.

[GH85Carrera]

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I texted this to my younger brother. I was laying on the lawn he was mowing with a push mower and I wouldn't move, so he mowed me. Put a V-shaped scar in my forearm about 3/4" long on each side. I remind him of that every 10 years or so.

[Por_sha911]

[GH85Carrera]

Maybe I need a bigger safe so I can store some ammo as well.

[GH85Carrera]

Here is a great photo of a man filling his desert water bag from a hose provided by a gas station as his family waits. This is not on Route 66. We have never been able to find a photo of someone filling a water bag on Route 66. The photo is, also, interesting in that the two boys and the dog actually have to ride in the open trunk with the mother, baby, and father in the front seat. The desert water bag was hung from a bumper, would cool the water as the car traveled, and would be used most of the time for overheated engines/radiators in these cars and for human consumption if it was needed. Although this family was from Montana they are photographed on a vacation on Route 30 but they do say where they are for this photo.
This photo was taken on Route 30 in 1948 by Allan Grant. The LIFE Picture Collection.

[GH85Carrera]

[Seahawk]

^^^ For Glen

[GH85Carrera]

On ten-cent beer night, when an estimated 60,000 cups of brew are sold to a crowd of 25,134, the Indians forfeit the game due to the unruly behavior of their fans. June 4, 1974.