schlimm BaltACD schlimm Judging from pictures, the real crowd was Saturday, not Friday. Ms. 'Con'way would differ with her 'alternate facts'. Ha ha! She must live in an alternate universe.
BaltACD schlimm Judging from pictures, the real crowd was Saturday, not Friday. Ms. 'Con'way would differ with her 'alternate facts'.
schlimm Judging from pictures, the real crowd was Saturday, not Friday.
Ms. 'Con'way would differ with her 'alternate facts'.
Ha ha! She must live in an alternate universe.
For better or worse we seem to be living in it too, and her boss is in charge of both universes!
As for crowd size comparisons, the Washington Metro carried about 600,000 riders on inauguration day but over 1,000,000 the day after (1st day of the women's march). That second figure is an all-time Saturday ridership record for the Metro.
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schlimmJudging from pictures, the real crowd was Saturday, not Friday.
Never too old to have a happy childhood!
Judging from pictures, the real crowd was Saturday, not Friday.
Nice- TR was speaking from the back of a train. A heckler shouted "I vote democrat!"
TR said- "Why do you do that?"
Man said, "Because my father was a democrat and my grandfather was a democrat.'
TR said- "If your father was a jackass and your grandfather was a jackass, what would that make you?"
Man- "A Republican!"
Dinner at Union Station is on the schedule of inaugural events.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/schedule-of-inaugural-events
Be fair. Amtrak does provide lots of extra service on the NEC Thanksgiving. Good rehearsal for the Inauguration.
blue streak 1 Amtrak plans to meet extra demand Jan 20 - 23. Maybe it is becoming more nimble ? http://media.amtrak.com/2016/12/amtrak-offers-increased-service-convenient-transportation-inauguration-activities/
Amtrak plans to meet extra demand Jan 20 - 23. Maybe it is becoming more nimble ?
http://media.amtrak.com/2016/12/amtrak-offers-increased-service-convenient-transportation-inauguration-activities/
I find it interesting that Amtrak can add cars to the regionals as well as get extra runs out of both regionals and the Acelas when they are servicing a political event in Washington. Yet when someone suggests additional service elsewhere, it gets shot down over equipment shortages.
Granted, Superliners and P-42's may be a problem; but it seems they are a one priority organization!
I remember the PRR train falling through the station floor. I wanted to go down and look at it, but my mother wouldn;t agree. I didn't understand at the time, I was in grade school.
ya don't say
54light15 ya know, there's so few pictures of JFK wearing a hat, but there is not a single one of FDR dancing. Must have been a very sad man.
ya know, there's so few pictures of JFK wearing a hat, but there is not a single one of FDR dancing. Must have been a very sad man.
Henry Ford II with a gift for the president, the first-built ’46 Ford. Daughter Margaret drove it. Harry was partial to Chryslers.
http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/automotive-history-the-cars-of-president-harry-s-truman/
Awesome find, Wanswheel! I like how Harry is riding in a 1961 Chrysler Imperial when his own car (I was told) was a humble Dodge. Says a lot about him. Those two photographic Cadillacs look like they could each easily mount a pair of Lewis guns.
FDR did dance with Eleanor at least once.
https://books.google.com/books?id=1oNRI4ClbW4C&pg=PA28&dq=%22feeling+sorry+for+eleanor%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiq5Puit5rRAhVFfiYKHYV6A0cQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=%22feeling%20sorry%20for%20eleanor%22&f=false
Hey, bro, we go with the flow around here.
The Reading bulletin schedule was a nice RAILROAD tidbit from 1961. I guess the rest of the thread is lost among hats.
Wans: I am speechless.
54light15 JFK at a ball game
JFK at a ball game
54light15 Somewhere there is a picture of JFK at a ball game wearing a hat. By the way, I wear one every day, a nice black felt one with a button of a beer cask on the band. I can't believe how warm it makes me in the winter. For example, I live in Canada which I guess you're heard can get pretty cold in the winter. I don't even own a sweater, much less long johns on account I wear a hat. I do take it off in elevators with ladies present.
Somewhere there is a picture of JFK at a ball game wearing a hat. By the way, I wear one every day, a nice black felt one with a button of a beer cask on the band. I can't believe how warm it makes me in the winter. For example, I live in Canada which I guess you're heard can get pretty cold in the winter. I don't even own a sweater, much less long johns on account I wear a hat. I do take it off in elevators with ladies present.
54light has caught the genius of hats. Most body heat, I've read, escapes through the top of the head. Hats put a lid on it.
Yeah, JFK wore the obligatory top hat at his inauguration. I suspect even wans will be up against it finding pics of him wearing hats otherwise.
Somewhere there is a picture of JFK at a ball game wearing a hat. By the way, I wear one every day, a nice black felt one with a button of a beer cask on the band. I can't believe how warm it makes me in the winter. For example, I live in Canada which I guess youv'e heard can get pretty cold in the winter. I don't even own a sweater, much less long johns on account I wear a hat. I do take it off in elevators with ladies present.
Schlimm, what about your Orthodox Jewish mail students with their yarmulkas? Or did not you have such students?
Trust wans for the right photos (and other good stuff) at the right time. You'll notice JFK can't bring himself to actually put the hat on his head! Or maybe he thought it was more for hand protection, like gloves?
Ask not what your hat can do for you
dakotafred Remember? It was JFK who almost singlehandedly blighted the hat business with his failure to wear one. (He got the blame from the industry, anyway.) Whatever one thinks of hats -- which have been making a modest comeback in recent years -- I like them better than the caps that have largely replaced them. (And that so few men have been instructed to remove in public indoors settings such as restaurants, even funeral parlors!)
Remember? It was JFK who almost singlehandedly blighted the hat business with his failure to wear one. (He got the blame from the industry, anyway.) Whatever one thinks of hats -- which have been making a modest comeback in recent years -- I like them better than the caps that have largely replaced them. (And that so few men have been instructed to remove in public indoors settings such as restaurants, even funeral parlors!)
I commanded that all students remove hats, caps, visors, scarves, etc. in my class. They did.
The hat business must have been good back then.
President-elect Eisenhower on his train from New York to Washington on January 18, 1953, and newly former President Truman soon after.
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