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My wife and I went to a new Yuppie hamburger place a couple of months ago. The waiter had a number of new piercings, some of which were infected. He wanted to sit next to me and be my buddy while he took our order. I was not amused. The food was adequate, but not worth the possibility of contaminati...

Pat Holscher wrote: ↑Sat Dec 07, 2019 7:18 am

Steve Haupt wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 2:43 pm Ah for the days when milkmen wore ties.

At this point, I'd just settle for the girls working the cash register in restaurants and grocery stores to not look like they were involved in a tragic fishing tackle accident.

There is nothing like a nose ring to scream 'Class.'

Pat Holscher wrote: ↑Fri Dec 06, 2019 2:18 pm http://www.questmasters.us/Bicycles.html

I wasn't aware that there were that many different models.

There weren’t a lot of fields open to women to work outside of the home, either. School teacher, nurse or secretarial for the most part, were the majority of the jobs available to women. Now you have women working as guards in men’s prisons. My Dad, a classic male chauvinist of his age, once stated ...

I read once that the last day of the war in Germany, in addition to four Tiger tanks that rolled off of the assembly line; there was also ladies cosmetics and lawn furniture that were also produced. The US producers were much more committed to war production than those in Germany. IBM, Rockola Jukeb...

I had never heard that rationing bicycles was a necessity.

Circle C Cowboys - America's Cold War Cavalry

Video on Constabulary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7D6huURHAY

Lord help me, what would that look like? ! ?

Where, pray tell, were we still using oxen?

Army Appropriation Bill, 1929, Hearing Before the Committee on Military Affairs House of Representatives Sixty-Fifty Congress , Third Session January 18 to February 7, 1919, Volume One https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433004200865&view=1up&seq=187 Page 108: Mr. Tilson. There has...

AN ACT Making appropriations for the Military Establishment for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1942 , and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, . . . . [CHAPTER 262] https://www.loc.gov/law/help/statutes-...

Contact Gordon Blaker, Supervisory Curator, U.S. Army Field Artillery Museum, Fort Sill, OK, 580-442-0297, gordon.a.blaker.civ@mail.mil, He may have an interest in it.

VR,

Couvillion

I am amazed at how much room the bellows took. It would seem that a centrifugal blower would have worked just as well and would have taken a lot less room. But, I imagine that the technology of the times precluded that.

See enclosed on Cavalry Forge-Cart, Model of 1874.

http://couvisnewblog.blogspot.com/

They look almost like Medieval knights!.

That is a Model 1950 Phillips Cargo saddle for use on mules to carry Pack Artillery loads and Quartermaster pack loads. They are the same as the Model 1934 with the exception of the use of aluminum in place of some steel.

https://www.thevintagenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/85.jpg A horse named Comanche survived the Battle of Little Bighorn despite being shot seven times This is an interesting article with some good photographs. https://www.thevintagenews.com/2017/10/25/a-horse-named-comanche-survived-the-battl...

Nicely done.

What is with the leaving of money on grave stones. I worked in a cemetery for four years and never saw that. Now, it is everywhere.

REMOUNTS: BREEDING, PURCHASE, ISSUE AND TRAINING MAJ C. L. Scott, Q. M. C., The Field Artillery Journal, Sep-Oct 1928, pp. 467-80 https://sill-www.army.mil/firesbulletin/archives/1928/sep_oct_1928/sep_oct_1928_full_edition.pdf The subject of this article is the Post WWI breeding of Army horses. It ...

Hmm! I have never seen that before.