- Trainer night tonight, 90 minutes of zone 2. Yay. Thrills. Nothing exciting there. What is exciting is the Library of Congress sharing a collection of color photos from the 30's and 40's. There are thousands of 'em on line. Want to feel wistful with me about some good old days, that weren't all that good, but which were really pretty good for most folks when you get right down to it? Well, stop in at the juke joint
Or at least pour yourself a nice bourbon, then check out the whole collection and enjoy the quiet dignity
of our grandfathers at work
and at war
And our grandmothers too.
It wasn't perfect. Not by any means.
The clothes and the dirt tell you there were tough times.
But the wry looks tell you that they knew a few things that we seem to have forgotten.
Go ahead, check out the whole collection. Ask yourself, "where are they now? Are they still alive? Did they have kids? What did they do? Did they live well?"
Let yourself go for a minute and think about all we've gained since then.
Think too about what we've lost.
7 comments:
I would think you could pick up the local HD feeds with good old rabbit ears. I get great reception in the basement home theater of the Casa Del Boz with the. Some experts say it's the best signal, though I can't tell much difference w/ Directv HD, but the HD DVR rocks.
The "we've cooked em" line is actually much worse than you think. I knew a guy who was having the VZ work/upgrade/installation done and in the process they set his house on fire...big time, and with the kids in it. When the adjuster (accompanied by a company lawyer) came out to review the damage, the guy was trying to be cool/appreciative about the responsiveness, and the lawyer commented something to the effect of "Think nothing of it. This is the fourth house we've set on fire this month."
Holy shit! "The fourth house we've set on fire this month."
Amazing. We knew when we got Verizon we'd have bad customer service. We had previously had a phone account with them, which they absolutely screwed up, sending us a minimal bill (that we paid twice) repeatedly (and which dinged our credit rating) until I threatened legal action for fraud against the company. That's bad, but I had no idea that their software/hardware combo was a fire risk. I'll be replacing the battery in the smoke detector tonight.
And, BTW, that's a bit of bad lawyering by the Verizon lawyer there.
For another thing... holy shit. Unbelieveable.
Upon further review... Hey, Anon... sure you don't work for Comcast? I'm just sayin....
Jim --
Thanks for the link to the pictures. I didn't know that Nehi was around for that long -- I remember my friends and I being great fans of their Blue Cream (yes, cream soda, but blue) somewhere around 1985. Pure marketing genius, way ahead of its time. The upturned hatbrim look on the gentleman in the railyard must have been popular in the 40s -- have a similar shot of my grandfather at an airbase in England around that time.
-RFN
Jim,
Thanks for the link to the pictures. That was the best thing I've seen on the net in a while.
Jim, re your 1106, I do not work for Comcast (and don't have any particular affinity for them either). That would be Scott T.
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