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[GH85Carrera]

Sonic Drive-In was founded in 1953 in Shawnee, Oklahoma. What is your favorite item on Sonic's menu?
Following World War II, Sonic founder Troy N. Smith Sr. returned to his hometown of Seminole, Oklahoma, Soon afterwards, Smith purchased the Cottage Cafe, a little diner in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Before long, he sold it and opened a fast food restaurant, Troy's Pan Full of Chicken, on the edge of town.
In 1953, Smith joined with a business partner to purchase a five-acre parcel of land that had a log house and a walk-up root beer stand named the Top Hat. The two continued operating the root beer stand and converted the log house into a steak restaurant. After realizing that the stand was averaging $700 a week in the sale of root beer, hamburgers, and hot dogs, Smith decided to focus on the more-profitable root beer stand and bought out his business partner.
Originally, Top Hat customers parked their automobiles anywhere on the gravel parking lot and walk up to place orders. While traveling in Louisiana in 1954, he saw a food stall with homemade intercom speakers that allowed customers to order from their cars. He contacted the innovator who made an intercom for the Top Hat. Smith also added a canopy to shelter diners' vehicles and hired carhops on roller skates to deliver food directly to the cars. Each customer received a mint with their order, a tradition to remind customers that they were "worth a mint." Smith had the prototype of the future Sonic.
In 1956 Charlie Pappe, manager of a Woodward supermarket, partnered with Smith and opened a second Top Hat Drive-In. By 1958, Top Hats existed in Enid and Stillwater. However, only four opened, because the name was already copyrighted to another business.
Upon learning that the Top Hat name was already trademarked, Smith and Pappe changed the name to Sonic in 1959. The new name worked with their existing slogan, "Service with the Speed of Sound". After the name change, the first Sonic sign was installed at the Stillwater Top-Hat Drive-In.
The first franchise agreements offered a royalty fee of one penny per bag, based on the number of sandwich bags sold through its vendor, the Cardinal Paper Company. When Pappe died in 1967, Smith invited two franchisees to operate Sonic Supply, the supply and distribution division. By 1973 the trio built an additional 124 Sonics in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Kansas.
Today, there are 3,551 Sonic restaurants located in 46 U.S. states.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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Start at mile zero on each end.
Historic Route 20 is the longest federal highway in the United States. It stretches across twelve states and has its ends at Boston, MA and Newport, OR.
The 3,365 miles was determined back in 1989. This number also included alternate alignments and older alignments now bypassed.
Route 20's designation has an eastern and western component as it is not signed through Yellowstone National Park.

Interesting, and the longest interstate

[GH85Carrera]

1950s

[WPOZZZ]

Gotta love airport security!

[GH85Carrera]

This Gundulf Door at Rochester Cathedral is Britain's second oldest door.
It dates back to 1080, and it’s the only surviving piece of decorative iron and woodwork from this Cathedral.


Volume one of "understanding women" the rest of the volumes are on the shelf.


Oklahoma City in the 1950s. NW 23rd Street. The Tower Theater is still there.

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[Robert Coats]

[Robert Coats]

How many can you name?





This AI stuff is mind-blowing to say the least.

[dheinz]

Excellent...

[GH85Carrera]

How many can I name from the collage? Not a single one.

[john70t]

[GH85Carrera]

[rattlsnak]

Originally Posted by Robert Coats

How many can you name?





This AI stuff is mind-blowing to say the least.

[QUOTE=GH85Carrera;12168282]How many can I name from the collage? Not a single one.
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Simpsons! I can easily name every one of them!

[GH85Carrera]

The Bow of the USS Constitution. “One of the only” parts of the Ship to retain wood from its initial build. 1794-1797

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

This guy musta made the sign.

[GH85Carrera]

Another fun day at work.




A very wonky arch at Selby Abbey in Yorkshire.
When the tower was built on wet foundations, it pushed the four central pillars down more than two feet, dragging the arch with it.






1958 Citroen U55 Citirama Bus. That would be a HOT ride on a sunny day.

[RBNetEngr]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That would be FASCINATED




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[Jolly Amaranto]

From the Stone Age.

[GH85Carrera]

January 4, 1954
While still working as a truck driver, Elvis Presley went to the Memphis Recording Service (Sun Studios) on Union Avenue, Memphis, Tennessee, and paid $8.25 to record a song for his mother's birthday. He records "It Won't Be The Same Without You and "I'll Never Stand In Your Way".
Marion Keisker did the recording and took down Elvis' number with a note "Good ballad singer", and would later get Sam Phillips to call Elvis.
PHOTO: Acetate receipt for "I'll Never Stand In Your Way"/"It Wouldn't Be The Same Without You"


New York City, 1911...
Photographer's Caption:
Mrs. Palontona and 13 year old daughter, Michaeline, working on "Pillow-lace" in dirty kitchen of their tenement home, 213 E. 111th Street, 3rd floor. They were both very illiterate. Mother is making fancy lace and girl sold me the piece she worked on. Location: New York, New York...
Source
National Child Labor Committee Lewis Hine photographer




There were many brothels in ancient Rome, but standard Roman coins, Serters and Denars, were not used and were even banned from being there. Store-bought Tokens were used for Denar and Serters and images on them were often obscene. Reason is understandable, because on all Roman coins there was a head image of emperor of that period. Even picture of emperor entering the brothel was synonymous with humiliating and cursing him. Of course, punishment was severe.
In resorts like Herculaneum and Pompeii, brothels were much busier places.
Over time, such places encouraged their customers to use their own currency, called spintriae in Middle Ages. Prevalence of prostitution in Roman culture can be inferred from concentration of this coin in circulation and abundance of examples at these resorts in southern Italy already mentioned.


Part of the surface of Mars.


Ashtray, Utah

[GH85Carrera]

A pretty scary situation in the southern England last Friday as a tanker pulled up an old test torpedo when it raised its anchor in Portland.

A diving unit was dispatched to the scene where they immediately evacuated the majority of the crew from the Maltese-flagged MT Skaw Provider. However, six crew members including the Master remained on board the vessel to respond in case it had detonated.

A photo of the torpedo shows that the old ordnance pierced by the fluke of the anchor after it had been dragged up from a depth of around a 15-meters.

The tanker was carrying approximately 1000 tonnes of fuel or oil, according to the Officer in Charge of the Portsmouth-based Southern Diving Unit, Lieutenant Commander Jonathan Campbell.

“The fuel cargo was pumped into the aftermost possible tanks to reduce the effects of any explosion, and fire hoses were charged and ready to deploy if needed,” said Campbell. “We directed the ship to use her other anchor to steady her, before lowering the fouled anchor, and the torpedo, to several metres below the waterline.”

Royal Navy divers, who are Explosive Ordnance Device (EOD) Specialists, had to then approach the torpedo and remove it in a safe manner.

“EOD Operators are obliged to treat these items as ‘live’ and hazardous until it can be disproved otherwise,” said Lt Cdr Campbell. “The entire job was conducted in this way.

“Working parts inside the torpedo could be seen from where the anchor fluke had ruptured it. The entire bomb disposal team were professional and got on with the job in hand,” Campbell said.

Once the torpedo was released, the team then took it to a safe area, lowered it to the seabed and destroyed it, the Royal Navy said.

The entire operation took about seven hours from start to finish, and the ship was released at around 5 p.m. on the same day.

“They were thoroughly relieved to be separated from their unwelcome burden,” said Campbell.

The Royal Navy said the torpedo was a British made device believed to have come from a test range that existed for Portland until the 1980s and had so far remained undetected. “While they vary in the type of hazard they represent test torpedo can contain highly flammable propellant,” the Royal Navy noted.