CW - Driver & I did local X-word puzzle and then tackled the LA Times one. We finally got it, but it was a struggle.
He does local one every day and only consults me when he goes brain dead.
She who has no signature! cinscocom-tmw
Back to Chevy’s Future:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/23/automobiles/autoreviews/23wheel-slideshow.html?ref=automobiles
Continuing on about Chevrolet, here is an article in todays NY Times entitled: "Chevrolet at 100":
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/23/automobiles/chevrolet-unlikely-cornerstone-for-gm.html?_r=1&ref=automobiles
Well, Mook, my pencil didn't break, but I'm doing doing any crossword puzzles, so do you want to borrow my pencil? I do share, you know!
Very cloudy and overcast out, with periods of very light rain showers/sprinkles. Also slightly on the cool side out. But here in the house, it is quite comfortable. Last time I looked at the thermometer or heard the temp, it was 62 out, and that was a couple of hours ago. Sun is trying to peep out, so maybe the temp will rise a little bit.
For our late afternoon/evening meal, here is what I've come up with:
1. Country fried steak w/your choice of steak fries, mashed taters w/milk gravy, corn, beans or peas/carrots, and what I call "baked tomato pie": tomatoes w/homemade biscuits w/butter and sugar on top, and baked in the oven until the biscuits are a golden brown.
Everyone enjoy your afternoon, take care and see you all later.2. Grilled steak w/any of the above mentioned side dishes.
pencil broke....
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Good Wednesday morning everyone. We have a temp of 65 degrees here in Louisville this morning, going for a high of 69, 70 degrees. Also supposed to see a few sprinkles throughout the day, with possible heavy rain, storms around this evening, overnight.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are freshly made and ready to go, including some hot cider for our Colorado friends, who may be digging out of quite a bit of snow this morning, if what I heard on the early news/weather is correct. And breakfast of oatmeal, toast, bacon, eggs, biscuits, gravy and fried taters is on the warmer/serving station.
Everyone have a good morning, keep safe, take care and see you all later.
mudchicken
You certainly said a mouthful there!
Larry Resident Microferroequinologist (at least at my house) Everyone goes home; Safety begins with you My Opinion. Standard Disclaimers Apply. No Expiration Date Come ride the rails with me! There's one thing about humility - the moment you think you've got it, you've lost it...
California vs Alberta? The powers that were in California certainly were arrogant and overbearing.
A little more understandable was the North Carolina-South Carolina difference that came up in either the late forties or early fifties: North Carolina had been switching the colors on its plates from one year to the next; I don't remember jsut what the colors were, but we could say they were black on white one year and white on black the next. And the powers that were in South Carolina decided that the new year's plates would have the same color as North Carolina's new year's plates were going to be. Needless to say, the powers in North Carolina were extremely upset. There was a difference: North Carolina had only one plate for a vehicle, and South Carolina had a front as well as a rear plate--but from a distance from the rear, who could quickly tell which state a car was from?
Johnny
That's excellent! It is not the type of plate under discussion, but it is still great. We were talking about serving plates and other decorative type plates. See my posts above.
But your link brought back two memories right away. I can vividly recall being out with my Dad when he put the white on green 1962 plates on our '59 Pontiac. I even remember the number, LT 4854. It has always stuck in my mind because it was not long after I had learned the 6 times multiplication table. And I remember those 1969 yellow on black plates making the news because they were the same as the California plates at the time, and California wanted to dictate the colours of license plates even in foreign countries. Because of the interconnected North American road network, and our much smaller population, the Alberta government had to capitulate. I forget what the 1970 plate colours were.
Bruce
So shovel the coal, let this rattler roll.
"A Train is a Place Going Somewhere" CP Rail Public Timetable
"O. S. Irricana"
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Not the one you are looking for Bruce...but this link has a sample of Alberta plates:
http://www.worldlicenseplates.com/jpglps/CN_AB_GI6_1960's.jpg
Hello everyone.
It is trying to be a nice day here but it is getting late enough in the year, that at this latitude, the Sun is starting to cast longer shadows, even at midday. We did beat our forecast high today by two degrees. It is now 43° and sunny, but it doesn't really feel warm. We are looking at a low of 21° tonight.
After I went to bed last night I thought I had a brainstorm about the location of the image of that plate, but alas, when I checked it out earlier there was no luck.
I see over on the Newswire that our poor weather in the first half of the year is still having a bad effect on CP's third quarter earnings. The effects of that weather are starting to show up in all sorts of issues. A major bridge repair on the busiest freeway in Calgary only finished and reopened yesterday, quite a bit later than its' original forecasted end date. The economy is already slow enough as it is, domino effects from bad weather are not helping the situation at all.
There doesn't seem to be any other local RR related news today.
Well, nice to back in here, after a loonnnngg day. Produce went o.k. this morning, would have been better if we'd gone inside: my feet and the rest of me was COLD when I got back home about 10 a.m.
Menu for this evening:
1. Hamburgers/cheeseburgers w/salad and fries
2. Tuna Melt casserole
3. Spareribs w/cabbage, baked beans and cornbread
Hope everyone has had a good day and will have a good evening. Take care,you all, and see you later.
Bruce.....The closest I've been to what you are looking for is the street in front of Duchess Restaurant.
{Edit}...Corrected mistake.
Quentin
afternoon
went to town.csx told sperry and other mow foreman not today.saw the maw fetch cars from the csx siding.Cw thanks for supper.time to get Matt and get things around for work.
stay safe
Joe
Deshler Ohio-crossroads of the B&O Matt eats your fries.YUM! Clinton st viaduct undefeated against too tall trucks!!!(voted to be called the "Clinton St. can opener").
.....Yes, Bruce...I know better. It was a '60 ply. Just a typo.
morning
cw thanks for breakfast.errands for town later.garbage can by the curb for pick up.time for bed.
joe
What a morning: overslept, so I'm running around, getting breakfast for you all and getting myself ready for Tuesday Produce.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are freshly made and ready to go. Breakfast is on the warmer/serving station.
Current temp is 42 degrees. It was 42 when I awoke at 6:10.
Everyone have a very good morning, and I'll see you all later.
Modelcar If I understand you correctly, your Father's 61 Ply. is on one of the pictures on the ann. plate. So we are looking for the "plate"....Correct.
If I understand you correctly, your Father's 61 Ply. is on one of the pictures on the ann. plate. So we are looking for the "plate"....Correct.
It was my Uncles '60 Plymouth. And we are looking for the plate, issued in 1961. If you found a site with these type of plates I would certainly put in the time to find it. I did find sites for china and ceramic plate collectors. But not for the metal types. Whatever their proper name is. That was my other question. Thanks Quentin.
....Bruce:
I just spent about 45 min. {gee, the time does fly}, over in "ask.com", looking thru hundreds of 50th anniversary plates....Just ran out of time for now...Will make another effort tomorrow.
cherokee woman I'll try to post a picture or two of it.
I'll try to post a picture or two of it.
CW, the Fried chicken supper sounds great. It is 39° right now after a high in the mid-forties today. It dropped down into the high twenties last night, and the same is expected tonight. Expected to make 40° tomorrow.
Went up to my Mother's place last night for a good visit. But I am becoming concerned about her continuing to live in her house on her own. It is the house my parents bought when they moved out of the station in Irricana and came to Calgary 46 years ago. As you might expect, she really doesn't want to leave. But she is having a harder time keeping the place up each time I go up to see her.
Now to get back to the quote above. After I got home last night I realized that somewhere on this Internet thingy, there is not just an image of a similar car, like on Murray's excellent video links, but a photo of my Uncle's actual 1960 Plymouth. In 1961 the Village of Duchess, AB issued a commemorative plate celebrating the village's 50th anniversary. It is your standard type plate with five or six images including the standard stock Main Street photo. At the time my Uncle lived above the Duchess Cafe, and there is his car parked out front. He used to walk to where his work truck was parked.
Someone had taken a picture of that plate and posted the image, and several years ago I stumbled across it. I never thought to save the photo, or bookmark the site, and now I can't find it. I spent an hour and a half this afternoon trying every combination and permutation of search terms I could think of into into Google, with no luck. I am asking CW, Mookie, Quentin, if he could ask Jean, or anyone else, if anybody has any ideas for more search terms. It is a commemorative plate, but not a china or ceramic one. It is metal (aluminum?), about 12-14" in diameter, and the photos are under some type of plastic coating. I just don't know what this type of thing is called. If you wanted to answer here, or send me a private message, either would be appreciated.
Back to our normally scheduled program, no new local RR news today.
Thanks, Bruce
The weatherguessers finally got it right, but only after teasing us with a nice, sunny morning...
Another note about those Chevy clips is that at least one showed that it was produced by "Jam Handy Productions," which did a lot of work for GM. I'd opine that all of them came from that studio in Detroit.
#1 with some cherry pie please.need to run an errand in town.houseguest is getting spoiled.saw a CN unit going eastbound on ns this morning after work.guessers say next chance of rain is on wed.better get going.
Looks like we're kind of on the slow side this morning, traffic wise here in the Cafe/Diner/CS. We've got a temp in the mid 60s, with plenty of sunshine, but we also have a cool breeze blowing, so it is still jacket time outside.
For the rest of the afternoon/tonight, here is our menu:
1. Fried chicken w/mashed taters, milk gravy, homemade buttermilk biscuits, your choice of green beans, lima beans w/corn (succatash), broccoli w/cheese sauce
2. Country fried round steak, or grilled T-bone steak w/baked tater, any of the above listed veggies, and garden salad, dinner roll or buttermilk biscuit
Desserts today: Cherry pie, lemon meringue pie, chocolate cake w/white icing, strawberry cheesecake.
Hope you are all having a very good Monday; take care, have a good evening, and I'll try to get back in later on this evening.
Gone are the days when you could say "There goes a 1961 Rolls Canardly," because the '61 model was different than the '60 or the '62.
Many of the shots in those commercials were done at GM's Proving Grounds in MI. IIRC, the splash pan was next to the oval track. I've probably been on some of those roads.
Ironically, we had a '56 Chevy station wagon and a'61 Belair.
Good Monday morning everyone. Sorry about not making it back in yesterday, but it doesn't look like I was missed at all.
Coffee, juices and other morning beverages are fresh and ready to go, with breakfast on the warmer/serving station.
Now, back to the good stuff: Murray, really enjoying looking at those old commercials, on YouTube. I'm only 59 years old (young), and I can remember seeing the showroom windows all papered over, so you couldn't see inside. And yes, it was a BIG EVENT, in September and October, to hear all the commercials about the new cars getting ready to roll off the assembly line. Back when you could tell Chevy models from Ford, etc Now, it is just one generic frame, and you can no longer tell one brand from another. YUCK.
Everyone have a good day, take care, and enjoy the sunshiny Indian Summer Day.
Murray.....I really think {we}, and the auto industry lost a big asset when the "hide the new ones" was really a hot topic back when....And eventually, that tradition simply evaporated.
As you say...Show windows papered over...Car carriers with their load covered, and a lot of them delivered and taken into the building actually at night.
Sept. / Oct. time frame was the time to watch for the opening day for the new models to go on display. Myself, and almost always with a friend, made a trip to the dealers to see such unveiling...!
{Item}....I remember the night we went to see the unvailing of the 1968 models...My eye caught an Impala Cusom Coupe....and it wasn't even in the showroom....A new model, setting outside. But it really got me interested, I actually ended up with a 1968 SS427 Impala Custom Coupe.
Now....I hardly even know when a new model is introduced. It just seems to me the industry lost an asset of customer excitement that occured to show off the new models....bringing potential customers into the showroom.
I know.....Totally different times now.
I remember how the dealers back in my hometown of Elizabeth, NJ used to make a big show out of the new model year...they would paper up their show room windows so you could not see the new models until the official "presentation day."
Quentin, I remember a lot of the older folks in my town would usually opt for a Biscayne or Belair with the 6-cyl and manual transmission when they did buy their new Chevy's. I guess old habits died hard then.
Of course there was a lot more dealer and brand loyalty back then as well.
Boy, can't imagine an advertisement being allowed now, showing a girl driving with her feet.....and setting on the seat back to do it....!
Yea, I can put myself pretty close to many of those models. Example:
Had a 1959 Chevy Convertible light green....348 c i V-8, with {3} two's and hyd. cam that rated at 280 hp.
As for advertisements from GM....and particularly from Chevy, I always thought they concentrated on silly side events...."apple pie" and so on.....If one wanted to find what performance options were available, it seemed one actually had to kind of push on the subject.
Currently, I believe GM, and again, Chevy are doing rather good advertisements. Actually telling one about the product.
{Item}....I wonder really, do we really gain from vehicles like the volt....? Personally in my thoughts, if an automobile can achieve roughly 30 mpg or close, and transport one in total comfort, and have good driveabiltiy...that ought to be pretty satisfying and good value without all the complications that make up these "advanced" green cars. And at a much lower cost.
They {my thoughts}, back then...seemed to want to sell 6 cyl Powerglide 4-door sedans....Bread and butter models.
But I managed to find the "good stuff" I preferred.
But I appreciate your retro "you tube" scenes Murray.
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