[TheForge] Re: FAQ ['Ware topic drift]

[Mike Spencer]

> Travel Town is (or was) at Griffith Park.

Griffith Park?!  I used to picnic at Griffith Park. In 1947.  I
supposed it was still there although, after much googling, I learned
that the place I lived in Van Nuys is now a monster mall.  Gak.  It
was a large and beautiful estate with watered lawns, numerous trees,
swimming pool etc. that housed a home for wayward boys.  (My father
worked there.  I was kept away from the wayward boys.  Lot of good
*that* did.)

> http://www.swapmeetdave.com/Humor/Workshop/ProppedUp.htm

He jes' don't got the right tools for the job.

In the late 60s I worked in a foreign car shop (when "foreign car"
still meant something) and one of the mechanics was 80 years old.  He
had spent most of his working life as a chauffeur cum mechanic for a
Rich Lady.  His greatest disappointment in life, he said, was that he
did not drive her car 1,000,000 miles.  He worked for her when she
bought the car, drove her from Amherst, Mass. to Boston or Springfield
or to Florida whenever she took a whim to go.  No one else ever drove
the car but Pete.  The Rich Lady died at an advanced age in the middle
of the 900,000 mile range and the car went somewhere or other with her
estate.

Every spring (we *are* coming to the point) Old Pete (then, of course,
not so old) took the black body off the car, overhauled everything and
put the white body on.  Reverse in the fall.  Annnnd... he had a big
muckle that would grab the whole car (sans body, I think, but I'm not
sure) by the front and rear, then lift and rotate it around its long
axis to any desired angle.  Old Pete was grumpy about how you couldn't
do that with a car any more and hadda actually crawl underneath or use
a lift to maintain it.


- Mike

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