Yes, indeed.
Posted on 04/30/2006 9:38:02 PM PDT by Heartofsong83
This should be a list of who is planning to close their business on Monday, May 1 in response of the Great American Boycott. We should compile it and boycott them ourselves if possible!
Remember to go shopping or work overtime on May 1!
You're certainly welcome!
Did you see this re hiring...?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624433/posts?page=1354#1354
Thanks to monkey face. : )
No, I'll go check your url out!
Yes Ma'am!
Did you see this...?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1624433/posts?page=1354#1354
signonsandiego removed their whitewashed article from last night!
Yes, more power to 'em!
Oh now that's a surprise.
How long have they covered the Tom Delay or Rush Limbaugh ridiculousness?
;o)
That looks just right devolve.
RE: "Proof of any and all income taxes I paid and payment now of all my long overdue evaded federal and state and city income taxes?" "...No comprende!"
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So sorry Seadog, I thought I'd responded to your good graphic post earlier! I must have admired it and had something distract me. I like it and your frame is great!!
Tartine, 253 West 11th, at 4th Street, where we tried to go next, was also closed.
The wonderful Sevilla, where we ended up, at 4th and Charles, was NOT closed. Glad I knew about this one. Another reason to patronize this establishment.
Interesting post, firebrand! Nice to hear a first-hand "on-the-scene" account. I'm also glad that we don't have to boycott our fave NYC restaurant, Sevilla... ;-)
Thanks for the link! :o)
I couldn't find a pic of that station wagon. It had the lines of the '61 Country Squire, but it wasn't a woody. It had a dark aqua body and lighter colored roof. We seated three adults on the front bench seat, we three kids in the middle, and the remaining adult squeezed into the "way back" and shared a seat with the luggage for seven.
We started The Mother Road at Chicago. I remember St. Louis, Oklahoma City, & Amarillo (The steak at The Big Texas Steakhouse is still the best I've ever eaten, and no, nobody succeeded in finishing the large cut, though several tried). I remember the beyond incredible sunsets in NM, the Indian Reservations in AZ, Los Angeles and the Santa Monica Pier. We hit all the national parks we could find, and returned via the Pacific Coast Highway, San Francisco, Reno, Yellowstone, Mt. Rushmore, etc. back to Chicago, then another ten hours home.
Yes! We got a water bag for crossing the desert. That last gas station scared us to death before venturing into the desert. They probably made a bundle off us city slickers.
We had such adventures on that three week trip. I'm so thankful my parents made us look out the window and know something about where we were. I've never seen a video or game that could beat what we saw out the window.
Thanks for a great post! Loved it - it just made my day. What a wonderful memory to have. And your home movie - in color - too!
Let's see--in 1961, you might have seen oil wells in Oklahoma and some fake Indian teepees and certainly some cattle. You would have driven on the Turner Turnpike from Tulsa to Oklahoma City - I'm not sure if the Howard Johnson's Ice Cream fountains were there then - always a great place to stop. There were 3-4 of them along the turnpike, with Phillips 66 service stations.
I didn't realize the Big Texan was there in Amarillo back then. We always visited family when we were there and I didn't get to eat at Big Tex's place until I was a lot older. I much prefer the calf fries there - but my ex took a stab at that 72oz. steak once. Didn't get it for free, though.
It seems to me that back then we would drive on to Santa Fe on Rte66. Nowadays we turn at Clines Corners, off the Interstate. Seems like back then ... hmmm ... I'm kinda stumped. It was probably what's now either the Old Pecos Trail or the Old Santa Fe Trail. Either way, we ended up downtown. And I'm sure that what I know today as Cerillos in SF has to be the old 66 we drove back then.
Then Albuquerque ... you could see Sandia Peak ... and then west to Grants and Gallup. Somewhere between those two, you cross the Continental Divide. I'm thinking there was an old Harvey House hotel along here somewhere, but I may be mistaken on the location. It had a large fireplace (huge!) in the main dining hall that fascinated me. Then it was a race to "I Spy" the first saguaro cactus, plus signs for the Painted Desert and Petrified Forest.
Hmmm ... The Harvey House was in Winslow, AZ - we didn't have the Eagles then to tell us to "Take It Easy" and stand on the corner there, "such a fine sight to see." Then "Flagstaff, Arizona, don't forget Winona" -- didn't know how close we were to Sedona, then. Then Williams was where we turned off to go to the Grand Canyon - to Supai and Havasupai Lodge.
After that, "Kingman, Barstow, San Bernardino." The "Last Gas" stations were at Needles, I believe. Somewhere along that next stretch was where Roy Rogers and Dale Evans had their ranch and sometimes you could recognize things in their TV show that were in the desert along there.
In San Bernardino, there was the first McDonald's and a theater where Will Rogers had his last performance before he and Wiley Post took off for Alaska. (You were just a few miles from Will Rogers' birthplace when in Tulsa, OK - that's another reason many of the stretches of old Rte66 are now named for him. Can you tell I'm part-Okie?)
From there on in, it seemed like everything was "oranges" - juice stands and produce stands, like that, till town. "And Cu-camonga" was what the railroad guy used to say on Jack Benny's show. Then it was "town" all the way in - Pasadena (don't think we knew yet about the "little old lady" when we were on Colorado Blvd then), Hollywood, Beverly Hills - so exciting, hoping to see a movie star ... then Santa Monica, "the end."
Thanks again for posting!
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