Random history shit that doesn't fit elsewhere
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We went into a zone and held on to win
MikeDamone
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Tell us more about your 1980 Mt St Helens experience. It’s crazy!
Ice_Holmvik
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Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.
GrundleStiltzkin
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RIP
GrundleStiltzkin
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potd
GrundleStiltzkin
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History Channel has another Titans Who Made America three parter going. Watching part 1 and it was the US Mail that got first Ford, then Boeing to see the profit in air travel as more than a novelty. Both made millions off of Air Mail contracts. Boeing ended up beating Ford out. Then Ford hired Lindy to get passengers to think air travel was safe and away we went.
It reminded me that in my lifetime there was an air mail stamp where you could pay extra to get it sent by air. Now its all by air.
Speed speed speed became very important at the dawn of the 20th century. All of which lead to this website.
It reminded me that in my lifetime there was an air mail stamp where you could pay extra to get it sent by air. Now its all by air.
Speed speed speed became very important at the dawn of the 20th century. All of which lead to this website.
Was washing my sweet ride and couldn’t figure out WTF was happening.
No school that week and got busted trying to bootleg some beer at Rosauers.
Was in Spokane for older sisters marching band in Lilac Festival parade. Parents never listened to radio in the car. Drove around all day oblivious and only found out when getting gas around 4 in Airway Heights the volcano blew that morning. My father the Korean War vet of course decided to soldier on and make it home to Omak. Darkness descended before we made it to the end of Airway Heights, where the Texas BBQ place had the goat tied up to entertain bratty kids like us.
Like midnight at 5 pm. Headlights were worthless. Three inches of ash at least every hour. Wrecks everywhere. Something out of Mad Max. Had to stop twice and huddled with people we barely knew. My father, always hard headed, fashioned a filter out of cardboard and tshirts for the Ford fairmont wagon and we soldiered on into the darkness. Relief came first around Grand Coulee, ash cloud was getting light enough to see more than 20 feet ahead.
Normally a 3 hour trip, took 9 hours. Still have the bag of ash I got off the car somewhere.
Kaepsknee
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Didn’t realize all the Spooks on this board. Especially surprised grumble is one. Spokane had about an inch of ash. Darkness came at 4 o’clock. And didn’t see the Sun for 3 days. The ‘Rents were coming back from a Softball tournament from Yakima and their truck choked out somewhere on I-90. They were road rescued by the WSP and had to share a Moses Lake hotel room with about 8 people and ration food for 3 days. They had about 5 inches of ash in Moses Lake.
One of the first known photo shops. DuPont wanted to pretend the 250 foot tower on top had a purpose because Chrysler said it shouldn't count. This photo ran in all the papers. An airship never docked there
GrundleStiltzkin
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Race was there, and did it again.
Race was using photo shop before photo shop was a thing.
GrundleStiltzkin
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Round here we know it as papyrus shop