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

[Jerry Frost]

1947?!? WOW Mike.

Unfortunately you don't have enough years on me I can even rib you about it. 
<sigh>

I WILL remember the wayward boy part though. <evil grin>

I saw Travel Town the first time maybe around 65'. We were going to the 
planetarium and had to kill a few hours and for some reason the Den mothers 
knew we'd like Travel Town. Yeah, I was a Cub Scout once. Hmmmm. Maybe it 
was earlier than 65'.

I sympathize with old Pete, I hate crawling under vehicles too.

Frosty
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From: "Mike Spencer" <mspencer at tallships.ca>


>
>> 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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