tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95402182024-02-07T21:02:46.620+08:00LoyalTubistAmerican living in Mindanao... Educator, musician, and historian... Strives to be nice to everyone... A man who never gets bored... Never. Here are some things that don't exist anymore... well...LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.comBlogger107125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-78321744557401251182010-07-28T20:26:00.031+08:002010-07-28T22:35:23.520+08:00Bill's Sponsors for July 2010<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhOJsIKNI1ss48DbuoxfOIALJDHBhAKZfAEu7Ey9jGTxFS2EuwgGNykpiknHRY8dY2kOqAThUakDPjJ8HAPUw6ac49Aapw3oIs_Ura2BlgVSzUut9kc-Eo-iOsTJZ43mvIv8HGA/s1600/minniepearl.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfhOJsIKNI1ss48DbuoxfOIALJDHBhAKZfAEu7Ey9jGTxFS2EuwgGNykpiknHRY8dY2kOqAThUakDPjJ8HAPUw6ac49Aapw3oIs_Ura2BlgVSzUut9kc-Eo-iOsTJZ43mvIv8HGA/s400/minniepearl.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498964036867284738" /></a><br /><b>Minnie Pearl's Roast Beef/Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken</b> - - Now you can have a choice - - good thing there's a McDonald's next door!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgByTvRuZ1uv-Ldx98jxKt44gaa8WVP7wwroxnyzqbLKxgHajIsbQRJvcQAD_aY6R58rR855sO7t6j5f4_dNAXvik7wSzFil1pB0hYrhpsK6d64PEqGrPYzOGZGnGgQakD0e5zZPw/s1600/aztek.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgByTvRuZ1uv-Ldx98jxKt44gaa8WVP7wwroxnyzqbLKxgHajIsbQRJvcQAD_aY6R58rR855sO7t6j5f4_dNAXvik7wSzFil1pB0hYrhpsK6d64PEqGrPYzOGZGnGgQakD0e5zZPw/s400/aztek.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498962684188422386" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Pontiac Motor Division of General Motors</b> - - Makers of the Aztek minivan. Chrysler wouldn't dare make a car this unique!</div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_v-9nn1Sugbi0AdzxDfz43pztWvThw9EOKxs8TCkptOQ30lj2bDT27c5ofrKvQCOBl6E45dPs1HrJpytFtIVqSpWE_1Uk2FYXsNsKEEaAlLmz3ogwkSjM4RRNESbDhFPqNonqdg/s1600/gemco+card.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 218px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_v-9nn1Sugbi0AdzxDfz43pztWvThw9EOKxs8TCkptOQ30lj2bDT27c5ofrKvQCOBl6E45dPs1HrJpytFtIVqSpWE_1Uk2FYXsNsKEEaAlLmz3ogwkSjM4RRNESbDhFPqNonqdg/s400/gemco+card.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498961393386489650" /></a><span style="font-weight:bold;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-weight:bold;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><span style="font-weight:bold;">Gemco Membership Department Stores</span> - - Our lifetime membership is the best deal there is!</span></div></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5I7dYutKNT7p4B9Bgw7ltTGuGKQXOuJOmuOOeEEi44R56pO4aq-QGMHilDBoJlEwwx9WEFAk8COe4QS-2usuU3LvQXKFKlPlllQUnTwImHQnDc9dfiz-y2hwlfxLB0fr0ilMc4Q/s1600/location.png"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 340px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5I7dYutKNT7p4B9Bgw7ltTGuGKQXOuJOmuOOeEEi44R56pO4aq-QGMHilDBoJlEwwx9WEFAk8COe4QS-2usuU3LvQXKFKlPlllQUnTwImHQnDc9dfiz-y2hwlfxLB0fr0ilMc4Q/s400/location.png" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498960089915431122" /></a><br /><b><br /></b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Colton Movieland Frontier Town </b>- - Live Western gunfights every weekend...</div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyFRQGOv-M0VRPEbyHRJKoTk-QLO5obzcWzu93LMdObaHWiAulwFCEJ0BOVvsqUgPUawSVOKkaIFDc4myzPbtiXXW_jwWhncJUPLCHkzHymHerqlSWZE_CEsGYEtPPsHTPhEU5Sg/s1600/thriftimart.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 373px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyFRQGOv-M0VRPEbyHRJKoTk-QLO5obzcWzu93LMdObaHWiAulwFCEJ0BOVvsqUgPUawSVOKkaIFDc4myzPbtiXXW_jwWhncJUPLCHkzHymHerqlSWZE_CEsGYEtPPsHTPhEU5Sg/s400/thriftimart.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498958772307676658" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Thriftimart Supermarkets</b> - - Every day's a special day at Thriftimart!</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpQF3EGs-fELlANM6J_3h07vFtJLYwKzlOQd4zXUN_2mEL0CBQeqMM0d2u6fUGfuLfUZTjNTyX9T6KQTcij0qA4s78BjXmH65JErQUfuI8pC8moyGWgxFSt7YrLw6n66wzFMAVaw/s1600/Silver+Eagle.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 201px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpQF3EGs-fELlANM6J_3h07vFtJLYwKzlOQd4zXUN_2mEL0CBQeqMM0d2u6fUGfuLfUZTjNTyX9T6KQTcij0qA4s78BjXmH65JErQUfuI8pC8moyGWgxFSt7YrLw6n66wzFMAVaw/s400/Silver+Eagle.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498958079738818754" /></a><br /><b><br /></b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Continental Trailways</b> - - You have a choice. You don't have to go to the dogs.</div><div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCylkGsy-vyNSpF6bxgveSldrYmf49Eldg459FHFUv58tiXee8MYlRpXHczq5MtzBX5ycNwm-rNKCFZrlQYsfFGdArqmvnyki8H_1aenHCR7IWatwTG0au_fSJNqtm2Kk2wwh8g/s1600/needles.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimCylkGsy-vyNSpF6bxgveSldrYmf49Eldg459FHFUv58tiXee8MYlRpXHczq5MtzBX5ycNwm-rNKCFZrlQYsfFGdArqmvnyki8H_1aenHCR7IWatwTG0au_fSJNqtm2Kk2wwh8g/s400/needles.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498957046022554178" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Needles Police Department</b> - - The most isolated municipal law enforcement authority in the conterminous United States... </div><br /><br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcrO1mzxwdrzhZpDjdSr12wrhajV7kHC3Ufk8rLZysY4rDYWV-vaGGfGpqPAFAx8cYd1xWC3F_0dFFIQkjkjBkQ7OgTvYwi_-MWmm93DWQGP0vJMMQL41unmCDqf44Txgbeb9uBg/s1600/maytime.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 372px; height: 227px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcrO1mzxwdrzhZpDjdSr12wrhajV7kHC3Ufk8rLZysY4rDYWV-vaGGfGpqPAFAx8cYd1xWC3F_0dFFIQkjkjBkQ7OgTvYwi_-MWmm93DWQGP0vJMMQL41unmCDqf44Txgbeb9uBg/s400/maytime.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498955887228425570" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Maytime Band Review</span> - - May is the best time for a band parade.</div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58GXEZXaKxnjrbMmfVwM_GgqADPk_meqXqjMQxybV5AJPjYt2MIVueQQ_Yfzqe7tS-BQoKtuWlGP4urivgl90XGnSiOn0p1e7DRUWFefZNsAXW4Poahl5VtHEwYtqPjj8rFBa0Q/s1600/herald.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 257px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg58GXEZXaKxnjrbMmfVwM_GgqADPk_meqXqjMQxybV5AJPjYt2MIVueQQ_Yfzqe7tS-BQoKtuWlGP4urivgl90XGnSiOn0p1e7DRUWFefZNsAXW4Poahl5VtHEwYtqPjj8rFBa0Q/s400/herald.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498954694183038578" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Los Angeles Herald-Examiner</b> - - L.A.'s afternoon paper. A Hearst Publication. With the Puck Comic Weekly every Sunday. Still only 10 cents daily, 50 cents on Sunday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDnj98UmhZvCYj-9ISn5ZryVYW2mv47A1ytb1GXL7ENzRh4wYYPfebUf38j9QFKdi2NYCOTRynv5oNel9S9fZNsBLbK4FX_dUTUyu6ODeinSRFmD9gZ44QUWRsjhCNsGXTgFMF6A/s1600/737.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDnj98UmhZvCYj-9ISn5ZryVYW2mv47A1ytb1GXL7ENzRh4wYYPfebUf38j9QFKdi2NYCOTRynv5oNel9S9fZNsBLbK4FX_dUTUyu6ODeinSRFmD9gZ44QUWRsjhCNsGXTgFMF6A/s400/737.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498953578502695826" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>PeoplExpress (People Express)</b> - - Fly to Newark for only $29.99 and up, one-way, from LAX.</div><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg32zqnrm3Bl8xnIkWymxuGZLTwYdzXmR_Cno01Qphg7sQa9zHH2fJOiP2Ij8Ic_jJpP39MpsRVBiGKmYhoXxyCMGpwKii5iBnJYZlYhe-mFupv2NmT7W2PlQUZcsBCmcgL8cqO6Q/s1600/jerseymaid.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 200px; height: 216px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg32zqnrm3Bl8xnIkWymxuGZLTwYdzXmR_Cno01Qphg7sQa9zHH2fJOiP2Ij8Ic_jJpP39MpsRVBiGKmYhoXxyCMGpwKii5iBnJYZlYhe-mFupv2NmT7W2PlQUZcsBCmcgL8cqO6Q/s400/jerseymaid.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498952375136785138" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">Jerseymaid Milk</span> - "All us cows do our best for Jerseymaid!"<br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF_RhTmwGhFtnk0WX7c2Uax7-IEy6WiOP8VVfxclxq7QaqaXNWXagFhs7n1rnb0NKzswXYQF0hPNjZX4aXaRcLc230lByp5pvPpw8Mp1eLt6GOXeLsNTvTTdQs7Y1i59Zdz8xJcg/s1600/lowes_logo.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 184px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF_RhTmwGhFtnk0WX7c2Uax7-IEy6WiOP8VVfxclxq7QaqaXNWXagFhs7n1rnb0NKzswXYQF0hPNjZX4aXaRcLc230lByp5pvPpw8Mp1eLt6GOXeLsNTvTTdQs7Y1i59Zdz8xJcg/s400/lowes_logo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498950648435327042" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Riverside General Hospital</b> - - One of the largest teaching hospitals in the country. Now a Lowes Hardware Store!</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhACz-cFncpcMvZ6Jt-Gk9PurawZrXXlgADswzXdqL1aGlOojaGSI91oRnegwauNJW5_rfLsYWBl-D3QFYtdpZJIevSq4ArZgAWkumAOv33CN4VtwY_rKDvLMNdDjJKxOwj3wRb7g/s1600/spnb.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 252px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhACz-cFncpcMvZ6Jt-Gk9PurawZrXXlgADswzXdqL1aGlOojaGSI91oRnegwauNJW5_rfLsYWBl-D3QFYtdpZJIevSq4ArZgAWkumAOv33CN4VtwY_rKDvLMNdDjJKxOwj3wRb7g/s400/spnb.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498948584412455282" /></a><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>Security Pacific National Bank</b> - - Formerly Security First National Bank.</span></div></b><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtit0Ev8Yp94dM2OzovveLqfpxHnjsdSxEY2ie5b16zs-kaf5xuBLmSN9acR1psOAfapcz2_5KnBV6Fo2baNlHIzEPIvY5Pr8M9fMbcLsrpit5JwefNJRlqFf5pjH7LNiwWu_BYQ/s1600/Postum.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 178px; height: 350px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtit0Ev8Yp94dM2OzovveLqfpxHnjsdSxEY2ie5b16zs-kaf5xuBLmSN9acR1psOAfapcz2_5KnBV6Fo2baNlHIzEPIvY5Pr8M9fMbcLsrpit5JwefNJRlqFf5pjH7LNiwWu_BYQ/s400/Postum.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498947464683454498" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Instant Postum</b> - - The hot drink Mormons have for breakfast. (Yes, I know it's been off the market since 2008... everything on this list is defunct...)</div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBHV8hWxAz2XjzUWzrjRN2G17Cq9p96tbKY-tapcWvQTy337DZ8cWfRvevJflAUL20x9uglhby43xX50GXYbaaoPYPr9JtoKF9kpT-OkhzovGYCWJ1wdHDLsVuuqhW633-M0w_hA/s1600/brew102.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 360px; height: 271px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBHV8hWxAz2XjzUWzrjRN2G17Cq9p96tbKY-tapcWvQTy337DZ8cWfRvevJflAUL20x9uglhby43xX50GXYbaaoPYPr9JtoKF9kpT-OkhzovGYCWJ1wdHDLsVuuqhW633-M0w_hA/s400/brew102.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498945778316762914" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Brew 102</b> - - Now beer drinkers can enjoy their favorite beverage for the price of a soft drink!</div><br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5BaysW24wUgLLnEC5y662ssz0SIeOOath_61lDJ1AJUbOpbt2Fl5ZQD9orHL7MqFOxeoidyfWNOngpOhzqlBSmTNVGsmV_hAoFoVFKceBND4Gy_uTuaFUCgkbo_lYi5AcrFD5_Q/s1600/hobo+kelly.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 372px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5BaysW24wUgLLnEC5y662ssz0SIeOOath_61lDJ1AJUbOpbt2Fl5ZQD9orHL7MqFOxeoidyfWNOngpOhzqlBSmTNVGsmV_hAoFoVFKceBND4Gy_uTuaFUCgkbo_lYi5AcrFD5_Q/s400/hobo+kelly.gif" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498944866808212258" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>KCHU-TV, Channel 18, San Bernardino</b> - - San Bernardino's first and only commercial TV station. Located in the old Fox Theatre on Court Street downtown. Owned by the Sun-Telegram.</div><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaZ1F8Ch3e0Ljq2_pd5g51bXPQTesTk7Pl3Pd1wctwAHlVaOR-rg5GJLq3QFnk-Z4cz_e_0Dvs7Vdt2Jx_z0OMC6rAZ_dPNqvStk8rqDuLCT-feCB7LZUKqpXpUUzvmMrUvPfEHw/s1600/mode+o+day.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 284px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaZ1F8Ch3e0Ljq2_pd5g51bXPQTesTk7Pl3Pd1wctwAHlVaOR-rg5GJLq3QFnk-Z4cz_e_0Dvs7Vdt2Jx_z0OMC6rAZ_dPNqvStk8rqDuLCT-feCB7LZUKqpXpUUzvmMrUvPfEHw/s400/mode+o+day.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498943167639680450" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Mode O' Day</span> - - Women, you can look just like your grandmother dressed 48 years ago for about the same price.</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzsfPen-TONj3-Q2ghv9S2gKKSx-EFY6h_aPQKt84ccE59fTA1q9bgSSun45ufVqVPTWiOfCFvo0pTHhAdXwB9niXajccUN8dVJozaPmNSvwcVdtedCJIemr-MFGJwKxG2qBTAdg/s1600/santa.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 254px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzsfPen-TONj3-Q2ghv9S2gKKSx-EFY6h_aPQKt84ccE59fTA1q9bgSSun45ufVqVPTWiOfCFvo0pTHhAdXwB9niXajccUN8dVJozaPmNSvwcVdtedCJIemr-MFGJwKxG2qBTAdg/s400/santa.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498942136574487138" /></a><br /><b><br /></b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>Santa's Village</b> - - Santa doesn't live at the North Pole. He lives in nearby Skyforest.<br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIAIKlN7At6IE0OggQkBjVYJHDKF20l5RC22Pe46UkKYB2SCPG-bQlCwevLkwHrXJk575h789MRgMnpJeTiLMhoIxAyEjRNhGnF7l5Aefs_LiVfZSStIhanQlgPiXj-ujJA0SUjQ/s1600/mission+pak.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIAIKlN7At6IE0OggQkBjVYJHDKF20l5RC22Pe46UkKYB2SCPG-bQlCwevLkwHrXJk575h789MRgMnpJeTiLMhoIxAyEjRNhGnF7l5Aefs_LiVfZSStIhanQlgPiXj-ujJA0SUjQ/s400/mission+pak.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498941164114273586" /></a><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>Mission Pak Fruit Baskets </b>- - Send fresh California fruit to the friends and family back east (offer not available in Arizona).</span></div></b><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGr_ijNh9Sk_2u_36ZYLB2M_z20TpVb5hW2GqumKf9sZNKz52k0fHMehPHxgJ-Pstwl7Mvn8SjArQIOFJGJpj4gkHMs_4AdaYGRTnkADiSctxKkwTRCD2y8dijFquiD10of00I7w/s1600/apple_II.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 330px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGr_ijNh9Sk_2u_36ZYLB2M_z20TpVb5hW2GqumKf9sZNKz52k0fHMehPHxgJ-Pstwl7Mvn8SjArQIOFJGJpj4gkHMs_4AdaYGRTnkADiSctxKkwTRCD2y8dijFquiD10of00I7w/s400/apple_II.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498940120960037794" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Apple ][e Computer</b> - - Get lightning fast speed and a huge disk to store your stuff! At just under $3,000! Very affordable! </div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3iWeG93cR_Kjt6_oRt9D6jLi_USjGufISl9xwnKmc6Ga8VRLYRSozGUl9RspJfN1ClI2JWbwcpz-ypge5l1OLsEN9Z2jMhPYbxJUfF3DO59l8JWxyzYwRPNCqOzxbtNMSfCEmNA/s1600/khj.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3iWeG93cR_Kjt6_oRt9D6jLi_USjGufISl9xwnKmc6Ga8VRLYRSozGUl9RspJfN1ClI2JWbwcpz-ypge5l1OLsEN9Z2jMhPYbxJUfF3DO59l8JWxyzYwRPNCqOzxbtNMSfCEmNA/s400/khj.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498937949152925890" /></a><br /><b><br /></b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>93 KHJ Boss Radio</b> - - Listen to the Real Don Steele, Sam Riddle, Gary Mack, Robert W. Morgan and all the other jocks, playing the best music in Los Angeles.</div><div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWO4DRl-wGF1BzUBujjlwMiD9xtqjjZP0mD8Ox8vMlpWtOMexCCxh8akKe4P6zRepQ4LcbUJVynPgVLZhNghttwwQTF04e_uBrfS8aXKI9GdXiZi1_bbTEBlb69DUw5_XQWr8gWA/s1600/isc+wine.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 235px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWO4DRl-wGF1BzUBujjlwMiD9xtqjjZP0mD8Ox8vMlpWtOMexCCxh8akKe4P6zRepQ4LcbUJVynPgVLZhNghttwwQTF04e_uBrfS8aXKI9GdXiZi1_bbTEBlb69DUw5_XQWr8gWA/s400/isc+wine.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498936719140067282" /></a><b><br /></b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Italian Swiss Colony Wines</b> - - "Made by that little old winemaker... me!"</div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7n_5Ky_iGYNvtGavlhBh6OfGDk4uRzEND7vbHUttLrl2C4FvXKpjVsH1mvQDHKcqccgJK7Kjn8rFYXRljx1Zs6nSjUAwngJTmvLZEPzMOZxWmvicaDHk4bub9vdxNpa7e4lrMTQ/s1600/barbara+ann.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7n_5Ky_iGYNvtGavlhBh6OfGDk4uRzEND7vbHUttLrl2C4FvXKpjVsH1mvQDHKcqccgJK7Kjn8rFYXRljx1Zs6nSjUAwngJTmvLZEPzMOZxWmvicaDHk4bub9vdxNpa7e4lrMTQ/s400/barbara+ann.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498934841641351170" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Barbara Ann Bakeries</b> - - Honey V Bread: Best damned wholegrain bread on the planet! (Could this slogan have saved the company?)</div><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8f5W8g2tnCOdUaqnOOaI-_KiJpBhApbbr5-bVd3nlMu8YMITf3isVdZ77NIV5clGGsWD0T8V1xfUGZoXBKfmNT0Ec_CsfY6XY6y3-LV33-cTZcQD8POTqOcMXzH3ktpTLA6ffcw/s1600/axelrod.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 283px; height: 384px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8f5W8g2tnCOdUaqnOOaI-_KiJpBhApbbr5-bVd3nlMu8YMITf3isVdZ77NIV5clGGsWD0T8V1xfUGZoXBKfmNT0Ec_CsfY6XY6y3-LV33-cTZcQD8POTqOcMXzH3ktpTLA6ffcw/s400/axelrod.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498933831494105634" /></a><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div></b></span></div></b></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><br /></b></span></div></b></span></div></b></span></div></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b><div style="text-align: justify; display: inline !important; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>Flying A Gasoline</b> - - Axelrod says, "Ooh, do we worry about your car."</span></div></b></span></div></b></span></div></b></span></div></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinnLfZZPTdU93MTJfEq7elEpPuQOuubJiN4ijw0le7vH-uFeBZsycSDxkzyO6swkLp_NiGURLuQlzUs-H5SckCEehikC9J8SV0saN9J9St_oPDFXGRiVdLPX0VSBgMYYq0BugR5g/s1600/pupntaco.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 282px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinnLfZZPTdU93MTJfEq7elEpPuQOuubJiN4ijw0le7vH-uFeBZsycSDxkzyO6swkLp_NiGURLuQlzUs-H5SckCEehikC9J8SV0saN9J9St_oPDFXGRiVdLPX0VSBgMYYq0BugR5g/s400/pupntaco.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5498963547607303202" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">Pup 'n' Taco</span> - - Now you can get both in the same restaurant! We serve RC Cola.</div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-51516976182015694362010-06-19T18:55:00.017+08:002010-06-19T20:28:18.181+08:00Let's Eat Out<div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">A lot of people today complain that the nation is becoming the same all over. Actually, restaurant chains have existed for almost a century, since the first fast food chain, the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Pig Stand</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">. Lots of places no longer exist. Some only have one location left. Others no longer have chain operations in the United States but do great overseas. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Kenny Rogers Roasters</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"> only has one restaurant at the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Ontario Mills Mall</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"> in Southern California (in the USA). However, it's all over the Philippines (although not where I am now in Cagayan de Oro). </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Shakey's Pizza</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"> is a bigger chain here than it ever was in America. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; ">Sambo's</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"> only has its original Santa Barbara (California) location. And it closes early.</span></span></b></div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /><br /></span></b><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR2L61xN6GmnjDCxURvEZeHgdpf1g5tsjsd7vaHd9N0zIErwWt8hH4L3bvK46BOLhcywGDEtQvbUpg5lyPMPY-ytII6maUYNO7jWAdPlK5Y_TLXQ9w_A6q-22cDc_E-covgZeHig/s1600/BurgerChef.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 286px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR2L61xN6GmnjDCxURvEZeHgdpf1g5tsjsd7vaHd9N0zIErwWt8hH4L3bvK46BOLhcywGDEtQvbUpg5lyPMPY-ytII6maUYNO7jWAdPlK5Y_TLXQ9w_A6q-22cDc_E-covgZeHig/s400/BurgerChef.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484458945767385714" /></a><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Burger Chef<br /><br /><br /><br /></span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ3jPwYctK0cesBrneRc-iYcWJBwbOWm0jpIBZ5uQSZYtFHMYD_OvgY5M6bILEFW73yPuKuwekxnVaVTYPsPOTKKafN4JyBn-4UKVzFv3jC-oOI4PsloBfkcAt6l-M2nwRtycyEw/s1600/ChiChis.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQ3jPwYctK0cesBrneRc-iYcWJBwbOWm0jpIBZ5uQSZYtFHMYD_OvgY5M6bILEFW73yPuKuwekxnVaVTYPsPOTKKafN4JyBn-4UKVzFv3jC-oOI4PsloBfkcAt6l-M2nwRtycyEw/s400/ChiChis.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484457291465741106" /></a><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">Chi-Chi's Mexican Restaurante</span></b><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></b><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJQnliyLv0pp6E39SLtR4tVbJqVzVGtoS8xlMUH2wz8Loof4Rx0rUHDMClBByYzgd3aM4MyqKVdCU-ASUg1gwuPRbLZXLLRnvjHTXK_Tv3Ki-C3bbxEn2ZTUlThZOrUAhDWK37JA/s1600/Farrells.jpg"><img style="float:right; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 274px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVs47bvk2R7HJpzMBiDh2zOlukHijELp3Kzc4UsTsM4miRV29nzgXIqfxXJDD3ZbInCpW2Qe4tYfP0twG6UFKRPbW5O710kfDLfvN7CA39j3u0e8XfCUjxkVmCSmvIDnWBeh9gmw/s400/ShowBizPizza.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484440173335471906" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">ShowBiz Pizza</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></b></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgntOn-CKhpPElJ9VdxUFPU96pSPV7QdDIpR3hLRMjsxDITxJRygfCW-vMKwJoUWbiRVY9BWIgQcD-IeMauK5XRNLYU2qPxDMYcyieNfW8uzT14oHaxfGsKSiRJ4VGPcaBsibGwyg/s1600/VictoriaStation.jpg"><img style="text-align: justify;float: right; 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margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 365px; " src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheh4XV06_T2YS39I8ItsPNzimzM3ij0uQgTS-WLb49wH_GQOiGThkgRm4JopnlRybu-dqiHdtWXQMKomE4xYbx4-tQJ6DKkulj6aiHNfwop7LzO3dn3AoPFn7HdS3xHXrGFz9_7A/s400/WhiteTower.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5484437800651878882" /></a><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;">White Tower Hamburgers</span></div></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-76340171517929716112010-06-14T12:04:00.028+08:002010-06-14T19:49:30.506+08:00Cola Trivia<ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpIW0OlttCsYNe296jZtNud3WmlJPUx1nmyIIQbjA51yoF3td6p4VZSO8cmcA_SsmlKlhonC-GDkmyqcelQPhoJzlTRhnTben3y_o0cpOZDLzq0q2cZbv8MIrp3RdO2gMvqTSydQ/s1600/coke.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 284px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpIW0OlttCsYNe296jZtNud3WmlJPUx1nmyIIQbjA51yoF3td6p4VZSO8cmcA_SsmlKlhonC-GDkmyqcelQPhoJzlTRhnTben3y_o0cpOZDLzq0q2cZbv8MIrp3RdO2gMvqTSydQ/s400/coke.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482540035109762370" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">The Coca-Cola Company</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> never officially used the word </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Coke</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> until March 17, 1944. It never appeared on Coke packaging until 1955. That was the year the Coke can first appeared. So there have always been Coke cans, since the day they were first made.</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;">The word </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Coke</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> was used promotionally.</span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;"> Morton Downey</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> (1901-85), a popular Irish tenor had a radio program called the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Coke Club </span><span style="font-size:100%;">which aired from 1930 until 1950, with Downey as host. It continued a few more years with </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Eddie Fisher</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> (1929- ) hosting. And, in case you were wondering, Morton Downey was the father of the late talk show host (and singer, too) </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Morton Downey Jr.</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> (1932-2001).<br /><br />"Coke" only appears on cans sold in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore. It's not seen on the Coke sold here in the Philippines.<br /><br />In countries whose native languages do not end words with a </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:100%;">k</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> sound, </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:100%;">Coke</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> is called </span><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;font-size:100%;">Coca</span><span style="font-size:100%;">. This includes Vietnam, Spanish speaking countries, Indonesia, and German speaking countries. So now you know.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuE_Fmz8DIzPUz13-vR3Hnz6wgDF0-7qPuG-e-pUq-Zt4KHb6ZfyCqrwuf4VV4tgplSOAgKe2eMambFPTmxh_WOXHST8lBebYrWdM71Rgju5I5T1D4zJq0ga6rthxZeKkLsB_Tcg/s1600/savannah.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuE_Fmz8DIzPUz13-vR3Hnz6wgDF0-7qPuG-e-pUq-Zt4KHb6ZfyCqrwuf4VV4tgplSOAgKe2eMambFPTmxh_WOXHST8lBebYrWdM71Rgju5I5T1D4zJq0ga6rthxZeKkLsB_Tcg/s400/savannah.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482538329693986290" border="0" /></a></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;">The bottoms of Coke bottles had the names of the cities of the bottling plants where the bottles were made. It was quite interesting to be living in San Diego, California and have a bottle from Jamestown, New York!</span></li></ul><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;">The bottle at the right is from Savannah, Georgia.</span></blockquote></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeSRSXAD5VXCQ0KKGwlcFkOvr5qOQXacetDN0bBcZZg35TXSpaNrcgInW2aahqZG7DcEkzQOMzeinZWKEPEwnGPLMUUfDa4UPMOG_NgKOxqwtb1VUog5S8dCqLgK6CqxC9ThoNWQ/s1600/ghr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeSRSXAD5VXCQ0KKGwlcFkOvr5qOQXacetDN0bBcZZg35TXSpaNrcgInW2aahqZG7DcEkzQOMzeinZWKEPEwnGPLMUUfDa4UPMOG_NgKOxqwtb1VUog5S8dCqLgK6CqxC9ThoNWQ/s400/ghr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482525285553564738" border="0" /></a>Disneyland served both Coca-Cola and Pepsi Cola from 1955 to 1982. <b>Coke</b> was almost everywhere but <b>Pepsi</b> was served at the Golden Horseshoe Revue in Frontierland. </span></li></ul></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;">The Anaheim, California, theme park is now exclusively Coca-Cola Territory.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnM2r3QoP_NBnspndeAhGUxMrHCR_aISfM1N6xwQH91gG5f0MZXUEtnJSVsMQoO9DbT9C7W6dVXroOMYOb0Qz3gWETpoKLxV23GPksd1Ngqa7NRs3BDwdgmZYsaGcnTsMDHqadoA/s1600/cpmach.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnM2r3QoP_NBnspndeAhGUxMrHCR_aISfM1N6xwQH91gG5f0MZXUEtnJSVsMQoO9DbT9C7W6dVXroOMYOb0Qz3gWETpoKLxV23GPksd1Ngqa7NRs3BDwdgmZYsaGcnTsMDHqadoA/s400/cpmach.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482523512050830306" border="0" /></a>Pepsi and Coke employees must swear an oath that they will never imbibe a competitor's product. It's such a solemn promise that even after some workers have been off the job for 60-70 years, they are still loyal to their former employer.</span></li></ul></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw57Y478eVRcGa4Xm5zpohxxfCe_CWpWUy7Ry5-9BOLykg4smz_NBtaH_cGAFIU2ao2vRhQqJrD2KMPFi2bnXvvnbmP9S44e8uRq2I9RH52OpMxw0p_WwDUjKFPzmzr4u3rH63Lw/s1600/likecola.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgw57Y478eVRcGa4Xm5zpohxxfCe_CWpWUy7Ry5-9BOLykg4smz_NBtaH_cGAFIU2ao2vRhQqJrD2KMPFi2bnXvvnbmP9S44e8uRq2I9RH52OpMxw0p_WwDUjKFPzmzr4u3rH63Lw/s400/likecola.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482521296303675250" border="0" /></a></span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Like</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> was the sugar free version of Seven Up ("the only soft drink made just for girls.") Comedian </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Louie Nye</span> (1913-2005) starred in some hilarious commercials in which he played a woman, even though acted and looked like the manly man he was. Eventually, Like's name was changed to<span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;"> Diet Seven Up</span><span style="font-size:100%;">.</span></li></ul><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;">A couple of decades later, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Like </span><span style="font-size:100%;">resurfaced as a caffein free cola. There were regular and sugar free versions. The regular version had red packaging. The sugar free version was blue.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2M10CsE1q1N0esLdDFmPcGr5UQHXro_P0D2YiFohjXKc55LCZ2DhyVsZcZxBt0LcbyYsSXrv981ilI08XNPs1AVkXRiqweaznFOXIWj5xDIVyXHu3TdaIxkJu9fj982-PTYvCdQ/s1600/shastacola.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 308px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2M10CsE1q1N0esLdDFmPcGr5UQHXro_P0D2YiFohjXKc55LCZ2DhyVsZcZxBt0LcbyYsSXrv981ilI08XNPs1AVkXRiqweaznFOXIWj5xDIVyXHu3TdaIxkJu9fj982-PTYvCdQ/s400/shastacola.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482517517999174274" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.shastapop.com/">Shasta</a> used to make cola in the following flavors: Cherry; Lemon; Chocolate; Vanilla; Pineapple. I loved them all. I think the pineapple cola bit the dust way ahead of the others. And then they just went away. The company that made Shasta pop made some interesting flavors, including draft root beer and draft orange soda (so that kids would have a head on their fizzy drinks, just like Daddy's beer!)</span></li></ul><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;">Years later, I wrote to Shasta to ask about them making the flavored colas again. But you know those young kids who run the companies like that.. They didn't acknowledge that these flavors were a part of history. No, they said these originated in Mexico (?????) and the cans were captioned in both English and Spanish. No mention about the past.<br /><br />Alas...<br /><br />By the way, this advertisement must be from the early 1960s, at the latest!<br /></span></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsHzK25PRM2qIV-QK6VuV6Luf2WuVCfblrXlL5cdM9HcU6Qh_dvRwoehNocYQP7VHv3LPr_10PvIFO-omy8-G323-sgwsM0BIF16biB6P94aoUYbhXXiU9oo7iO68YAfW1sySMvg/s1600/p7.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 317px; height: 295px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsHzK25PRM2qIV-QK6VuV6Luf2WuVCfblrXlL5cdM9HcU6Qh_dvRwoehNocYQP7VHv3LPr_10PvIFO-omy8-G323-sgwsM0BIF16biB6P94aoUYbhXXiU9oo7iO68YAfW1sySMvg/s400/p7.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482515555944330498" border="0" /></a><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;">Outside the United States, </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Pepsi Cola</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> is market with <a href="http://www.pepsiarabia.com/brands/7up_en_gb.aspx#/default_en_gb.aspx"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Seven Up</span></a>. The packaging of the two drinks is virtually identical.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKGSf55iSDNAXo96-kai1IDddVgP74NpjmozOElB7WqGMKjbYwMMh7GN8FZ5sTpUy_jXlmNqOEA4GNEYFdKNrh-Sp1BTclONXW6qPg-x6e0wdRPPJJrIf02GOybEXlFpAc91BmeA/s1600/rclogo.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 236px; height: 205px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKGSf55iSDNAXo96-kai1IDddVgP74NpjmozOElB7WqGMKjbYwMMh7GN8FZ5sTpUy_jXlmNqOEA4GNEYFdKNrh-Sp1BTclONXW6qPg-x6e0wdRPPJJrIf02GOybEXlFpAc91BmeA/s400/rclogo.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482504211366498866" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.drpeppersnapplegroup.com/">Cadbury-Schweppe's</a> bought </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Royal Crown Cola</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> in the 1990s. The company had earlier bought Seven Up. (They also own Dr Pepper.)</span></li></ul><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;">Americans living in the Southeastern part of the country enjoy </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">RC Cola and <a href="http://moonpie.com/">Moon Pie</a></span><span style="font-size:100%;"> as a snack.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Jg01fmfTRUUQ14r57FCS-dNfDoYYs2E6ymzQyh9kbCy4W4GB4EdGumd11vB94tDyZS6O3p8FrMWT1SCo9ReHDqy7frYV4qKvdz0VEN6KWlV1jPsE1Wdg2chi0T235n4OhUb0ng/s1600/popcola.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3Jg01fmfTRUUQ14r57FCS-dNfDoYYs2E6ymzQyh9kbCy4W4GB4EdGumd11vB94tDyZS6O3p8FrMWT1SCo9ReHDqy7frYV4qKvdz0VEN6KWlV1jPsE1Wdg2chi0T235n4OhUb0ng/s400/popcola.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482501116120654930" border="0" /></a>In the Philippines, Coca-Cola puts out its own generic version of its flagship drink, called </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Pop Cola</span><span style="font-size:100%;">. It generally sells for 20-25% less than Coke. There are also generic versions of the company's other drinks: </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Royal</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Tru-Orange</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> (the Filipino version of </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Fanta</span><span style="font-size:100%;">) has a low priced version called Cheers and </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Sprite</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> has a discount version called </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Sparkle.</span> Taste-wise, the less expensive drinks are identical. But there is some stigma attached with drinking these all the time. Coke gets a lot of money, anyway.<span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></li></ul></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzR-KmXaGDIeEDI4KROsiA3gXIwX24lt1Xhvg2hFloOmkZ_7kvkKaWZ-aFeRaA-_t0ynamiGzwguPkBibpEeEL8rxzeFbHaKyESm-ySX9S909hsx1zi6DAsTCjxOzoI4ZgyZIxgQ/s1600/rccolabottle.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 180px; height: 287px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzR-KmXaGDIeEDI4KROsiA3gXIwX24lt1Xhvg2hFloOmkZ_7kvkKaWZ-aFeRaA-_t0ynamiGzwguPkBibpEeEL8rxzeFbHaKyESm-ySX9S909hsx1zi6DAsTCjxOzoI4ZgyZIxgQ/s400/rccolabottle.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482497648971188242" border="0" /></a>Outside the United States, <a href="http://www.rccolainternational.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Royal Crown Cola</span></a> is owned by the Cott Company of Canada. In certain parts of Vietnam, it may seem odd, but RC is easier to find than Coke!</span></li></ul><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTw8hl_tG_rNWHO-1Gj0313lwDXVbOe4C85R8xblxlbZ5mMFTRLg6TO9-f590A-JUX9D0HraWKo_jxA2MG-saK-mTHPGYmCqSTSvO5cbOgGxWpRA-vAz7suMzzX3xIgB4DsBuZRA/s1600/cokesprite.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 340px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTw8hl_tG_rNWHO-1Gj0313lwDXVbOe4C85R8xblxlbZ5mMFTRLg6TO9-f590A-JUX9D0HraWKo_jxA2MG-saK-mTHPGYmCqSTSvO5cbOgGxWpRA-vAz7suMzzX3xIgB4DsBuZRA/s400/cokesprite.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482496030021127938" border="0" /></a>The name of the little boy with the Coke bottle cap hat, premature gray hair and glowing smile is </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Sprite</span><span style="font-size:100%;">. He was also called the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Sprite Boy</span><span style="font-size:100%;">. The drink called Sprite did not come out until 1960. Many Coca-Cola bottlers put out Bubble Up. The </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">San Diego Coca-Cola Bottling Company</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> (as well as those in the Los Angeles area) continued to sell Bubble Up into the late 1960s. I remember I could never buy Sprite at a store until about 1969. Sometimes, though my memory isn't as good as I wish it was. I wish I could remember EVERYTHING....</span></li></ul><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;">Well, except the bad stuff!</span></blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu340MyA2D3dfoOOmS1i760bRGz4OcQzBgiRs7N8kFGqcFNTHLEfcs1m10wJV5RZ2myxPUcwt1lWI8tcsI3WYD7vUVTjrDul2p1znoxg5M8PL4RFtPFMj_-EG4DuU8uy1zlnTgEQ/s1600/doublecola.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 299px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiu340MyA2D3dfoOOmS1i760bRGz4OcQzBgiRs7N8kFGqcFNTHLEfcs1m10wJV5RZ2myxPUcwt1lWI8tcsI3WYD7vUVTjrDul2p1znoxg5M8PL4RFtPFMj_-EG4DuU8uy1zlnTgEQ/s400/doublecola.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482490301074629666" border="0" /></a><a href="http://www.double-cola.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Double Cola</span></a> was the discount cola when I was growing up. Like RC it came in 16 ounce bottles. It had a very rough taste (to me, but I liked it). Somehow, it disappeared from Southern California sometime in the early 1970s. I went to college briefly in Tennessee and was delighted to see Double Cola at the </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Mouse Trap Mini Market</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> in Cookeville. (They also had Bubble Up and Kickapoo Joy Juice, but that's another story. Many years after I left that store became infamous for being the top merchant in Tennessee to sell cigarettes to minors...) Double Cola is sold in the Southeastern United States, Southern Asia, the Middle East, and South America. But not Los Angeles. Alas...</span></li></ul></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><ul style="text-align: justify;"><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgStWc7c8ui7u0_Fj-H2ao3A4ZZ1u9ABKP3fQ9b69107MQLwHvsQmYsUMr8pbR5M8-Jao1s1n43bzqBmtzA9trq0SP1aKpHqQPDgFthi2Fh0P9GFBz-6AzR01Zk2q0ufQwMlyHgxA/s1600/pepsiad.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 168px; height: 360px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgStWc7c8ui7u0_Fj-H2ao3A4ZZ1u9ABKP3fQ9b69107MQLwHvsQmYsUMr8pbR5M8-Jao1s1n43bzqBmtzA9trq0SP1aKpHqQPDgFthi2Fh0P9GFBz-6AzR01Zk2q0ufQwMlyHgxA/s400/pepsiad.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482485530679305362" border="0" /></a>The very first national commercial jingle (song used for advertising) was for Pepsi Cola in 1940:</span></li></ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><blockquote style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Pepsi Cola hits the spot;<br />Twelve full ounces that's a lot.<br />Twice as much for a nickel, too;<br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">Pepsi Cola is the drink for you!<br />Nickel, nickel, nickel, nickel, nickel, nickel, nickel... (etc.)</span></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-size:100%;">So the toothpaste jingle in the musical play/movie, Annie, "You Aren't Dressed Without Your Smile," could have never happened because the story took place in the early 1930s (people tell me that the LoyalTubist is not much fun to watch movies with... I notice too much!)<br /><br />To explain the jingle, Coca-Cola was sold in tiny six ounce bottles for five cents. Pepsi came out with bottles that were twice as big for the same price. Coke would later outdo Pepsi in 1988 by creating a 16 ounce "tall boy" aluminum can. But that was only an experiment, much to the chagrin of a real Coke lover like me.<br /></span></blockquote></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq6oZiF0-6dePVVhmXTX9TpsoZAV3cjPmiIbNSUvHp_H-bkHLqeDElVORQo5Mjb9cMfJgqnXZM7CxYhkaTnooJ1pza2vExR1aCbudQqHhm8g02VlSEaif1nVv9XewIxWWP-PcJZw/s1600/santa.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 383px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq6oZiF0-6dePVVhmXTX9TpsoZAV3cjPmiIbNSUvHp_H-bkHLqeDElVORQo5Mjb9cMfJgqnXZM7CxYhkaTnooJ1pza2vExR1aCbudQqHhm8g02VlSEaif1nVv9XewIxWWP-PcJZw/s400/santa.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482482288272888850" border="0" /></a>Artist </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Haddon Sundblom</span> (1899-1976) is, by urban culture, and legend, credited with creating the modern idea of who Santa Claus is from the paintings he made of Kris Kringle in magazines of the 1920s and 1930s for <span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Coca-Cola</span><span style="font-size:100%;">. Older pictures of Santa show him in colors other than red and white, Coke's official colors.</span></li></ul></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_tMnBx4DqELppY3AHPj6ENh3au_7LSEaRMAydmuj2OUA1NdM_2VEJ9cSOuk8vda0V9UqSn9TiWUW7-xvf2nzx8q7c31sJ3MW-9UgYgRD8IMIO_skkWpxLcVqu8VRY8n10q5aR-w/s1600/rccola.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 290px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_tMnBx4DqELppY3AHPj6ENh3au_7LSEaRMAydmuj2OUA1NdM_2VEJ9cSOuk8vda0V9UqSn9TiWUW7-xvf2nzx8q7c31sJ3MW-9UgYgRD8IMIO_skkWpxLcVqu8VRY8n10q5aR-w/s400/rccola.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482479558780661762" border="0" /></a>For a couple of years, the <a href="http://www.ripleyoddcast.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Ripley's Believe It Or Not</span></a></span> radio show radio show was sponsored by <span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;">Royal Crown Cola</span><span style="font-size:100%;">. Robert L. Ripley, announcer Ford Bond, singer "Lovely" Linda Lee, and bandleader B.A. Rolfe did the show in New York City in the 1930s and 1940s. At the closest place where one in New York could buy a bottle of RC Cola was Maryland.</span></li></ul><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIQFOwTgqDa3YK41xg-OCOXlJ7WZVutLwRSk_hvbKZbigDj-DWotLA1Q3j_BX1XPoKeZTdHQjWBP7sR9Di_YUbFCZ9wZEaDJfw1LZwiDXtuc_BzO5EIOz1i4IEuY4KVriZSUdGcQ/s1600/drpepper.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 305px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIQFOwTgqDa3YK41xg-OCOXlJ7WZVutLwRSk_hvbKZbigDj-DWotLA1Q3j_BX1XPoKeZTdHQjWBP7sR9Di_YUbFCZ9wZEaDJfw1LZwiDXtuc_BzO5EIOz1i4IEuY4KVriZSUdGcQ/s400/drpepper.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5482477565301908882" border="0" /></a></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><ul><li><span style="font-size:100%;">The strongest flavoring agent in </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Coca-Cola</span><span style="font-size:100%;"> is </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;">lemon</span><span style="font-size:100%;">. In </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Pepsi Cola</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, it's </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;">cinnamon</span><span style="font-size:100%;">. And, even though it's not a cola project, in </span><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:100%;">Dr Pepper</span><span style="font-size:100%;">, it's </span><span style="font-style: italic;font-size:100%;">cherry</span><span style="font-size:100%;">. Popular 1950s folklore told us it was prune juice, but that isn't true; if you drink too much Dr Pepper and get the runs, it's the carbonation doing what carbonation does best. Incidentally, according to the people who make Dr Pepper, there is no period after the Dr. Actually, I've seen one logo used during the World War II period that had a period after the Dr. Maybe they mean after 1946!</span></li></ul></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-35464448939896709812010-05-15T02:43:00.001+08:002010-05-20T22:24:23.240+08:00BREAKING NEWS...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3VRkZipv0jJoD2ewxLmLe1qe25kIMI2t1PeBGdz-4cQdrPr0hYWYw9ejgSKRQ9jaIO1D68TLYCkjCxQ-o0LA1OmezbhKGd3M84N1t5BvEyd8TwdTXY-0y_bvwfObqvAWMNStF1w/s1600/TOASTIES.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 255px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3VRkZipv0jJoD2ewxLmLe1qe25kIMI2t1PeBGdz-4cQdrPr0hYWYw9ejgSKRQ9jaIO1D68TLYCkjCxQ-o0LA1OmezbhKGd3M84N1t5BvEyd8TwdTXY-0y_bvwfObqvAWMNStF1w/s400/TOASTIES.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5473200180045293410" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Post Toasties has finally returned. Most people don't even realize the original corn flakes (which actually pre-dated Kellogg's by a couple of years as <b>Elijah's Manna</b>) left us way back in 2006. Four years later, Post Toasties has returned.<div><br /></div><div>Welcome back, <b><a href="http://www.postcereals.com/cereals/post_toasties/">Post Toasties</a></b>!</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-23675515943007761302010-04-25T16:54:00.002+08:002010-04-25T17:27:56.447+08:00The Colton Quiz (ANSWERS)<div style="text-align: justify;">Sorry to say, but we had no winner. I need to save some reserves in my CafePress store.<br /><br />Here are the answers:<br /><br /></div><ol style="text-align: justify;"><li>What are the specific official colors of Colton High School? <span style="font-weight: bold;">CRIMSON AND GOLD.</span><br /></li><li>What were the names of the two junior high schools that were replaced by Colton Junior High School in 1954? <span style="font-weight: bold;">WOODROW WILSON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL and THEODORE ROOSEVELT JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL.</span><br /></li><li>Who was Isaac "Cristobal" Slover? A<span style="font-weight: bold;">N EXPLORER WHO LIVED IN THE VILLAGE OF POLITANA, NEAR AGUA MANSA CEMETERY. HE WAS KILLED BY A BEAR ON THE MOUNTAIN (now ex-mountain) THAT WOULD LATER BEAR HIS NAME.</span><br /></li><li>What was the name of the Colton Airport? Where was it? Which airline made regular stops there? <span style="font-weight: bold;">MORROW FIELD. NEAR THE FORMER SITE OF THE PRICE CLUB AND THE COLTON CABLE SKI-WAY SWIMMING POOL. CABLE CABLE COMMUTER AIRLINES (later known as IMPERIAL AIRLINES).</span><br /></li><li>Name the Chevrolet and Dodge dealers which used to be in downtown Colton. The Chevy place moved north (onto La Cadena Avenue) with downtown redevelopment and the Dodge dealership closed after its owner died of a heart attack. <span style="font-weight: bold;">CENTER CHEVROLET and LAUGHTON COLTON DODGE.</span><br /></li><li>What was the former nickname of Colton? It has something to do with the shape of Colton City Hall (formerly Colton Civic Center) as seen from the air.<span style="font-weight: bold;"> THE HUB CITY.</span><br /></li><li>What were the names of the two Southern Pacific passenger trains that stopped in Colton? Can you also name the two Union Pacific passenger trains and the one Santa Fe train that stopped in Colton during the 1960s? <span style="font-weight: bold;">SP: SUNSET LIMITED (New Orleans-Los Angeles) and GOLDEN STATE (Chicago-Los Angeles). UP: CITY OF LOS ANGELES and CHALLENGER (both Chicago-Los Angeles). ATSF: GRAND CANYON (Chicago-Los Angeles)</span><br /></li><li>What were the five route numbers of the two highways that crossed in Colton before the freeways were built? <span style="font-weight: bold;">US 70, US 91, US 99, US 395, CA 18.</span><br /></li><li>What does <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">joint</span> mean in Colton Joint Unified School District? <span style="font-weight: bold;">The district is located in more than one county. There is a section of the district south of Reche Canyon near Moreno Valley.</span><br /></li><li>Before Bloomington High School was built, high school students in Bloomington went to Colton Union High School (having more than one high school meant that Colton was no longer a one high school high school district, the "union" was dropped, and the high school district subsequently "unified" with the elementary districts in Colton, Bloomington, and Grand Terrace.) Before Eisenhower High School was built in 1958, where did high school students in Rialto go to school? <span style="font-weight: bold;">After</span> <span style="font-weight: bold;">1952, they went to Pacific High School in San Bernardino. Eisenhower was originally in the San Bernardino Union High School District.</span><br /></li><li>Name a dairy located in Colton. It was actually outside the city limits on Cypress Avenue. <span style="font-weight: bold;">BLUE MOUNTAIN DAIRY--originally the branch of a dairy located in Grand Terrace on Blue Mountain. QUALITY DAIRY had a small property on Fairway Drive in the 1960s.</span><br /></li><li>What was the major chain supermarket at the Mount Vernon Shopping Center? What about the major supermarket at the Rancho Vista Shopping Center (Rancho Avenue and Mill Street, next to the T.G.&Y.)? <span style="font-weight: bold;">THRIFTIMART (Mt. Vernon SC). MAYFAIR [later BI-RITE] (Rancho Vista SC).</span><br /></li><li>What was the name of the coffee shop located in front of the old Stater Brothers supermarket on I Street (later Valley Boulevard)? <span style="font-weight: bold;">STATER BROTHERS COFFEE SHOP (it was there even after Stater's supermarket moved down the street).</span><br /></li><li>What were the names of the Stater brothers? <span style="font-weight: bold;">TWINS LEO and CLEO STATER.</span><br /></li><li>Name a popular 1960s songwriter who graduated from Colton High School. His father had been the pastor at the First Southern Baptist Church (now Sierra Vista Baptist Church). <b>JIMMY WEBB (MacArthur Park, Up Up and Away).</b><br /></li><li>For whom was Colton named? <span style="font-weight: bold;">David D. Colton, Vice President of the Southern Pacific Railroad and an Army general in the Civil War. He never visited the city.</span><br /></li><li>How did the Colton High School Yellow Jackets get their nickname in the late 1920s? What was the schools nickname previous to this? <span style="font-weight: bold;">Football players wore black tape strips on their gold jerseys. A newspaper reporter said they looked like a swarm of wasps. Prior to this the teams were known as the Crimson Tornado (singular).</span><br /></li><li>Name the original members of the old high school Citrus Belt League. When they were built in the 1950s, Pacific (San Bernardino) and Fontana were added to this group. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chaffey (Ontario), Colton, Pomona, Redlands, Riverside [never referred to as Poly until the 1960s] ,San Bernardino.</span><br /></li><li>For what professional sports team did Kenny Hubbs play?<span style="font-weight: bold;"> CHICAGO CUBS of the National League (Major League Baseball).</span><br /></li><li>Name a current celebrity who graduated from Colton High School. (Not me.) <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.katvond.net/">KAT VON D</a><span style="font-weight: bold;">.</span></li><li>Where was the first Stater Brothers market?<span style="font-weight: bold;"> YUCAIPA, CALIFORNIA.</span><br /></li><li>Name a former Colton High School student who played professional football, then returned to the school to teach English. <span style="font-weight: bold;">DENNIS CRANE. He played for the Washington Redskins and the New York Giants.</span><br /></li><li>What were the three brands of fuel sold by Ray Phillips Truck Stop? <span style="font-weight: bold;">FLYING A, PHILLIPS 66, and TEXACO.</span><br /></li><li>What was the name of the hamburger stand across the street from Colton Union High School (corner of Third and I Streets)?<span style="font-weight: bold;"> BIG G.</span><br /></li><li>What was the original name of La Cadena Drive in Riverside?<span style="font-weight: bold;"> COLTON AVENUE.</span><br /></li></ol><div style="text-align: justify;">Too bad no one entered. Oh, well...<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-59268699218800877412010-04-15T21:30:00.002+08:002010-04-15T21:40:51.530+08:00Bill's find of the day...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyns7J-KvnbTGQKzHZBkUTxFcKaGA1_KzyHrQ1N7YimWPeZlLiB4AQzM9j9u2yFAVB2O2X0dqrwMOXFX6W-jmzW0e58KBirDJT_SXyNixAapl6YwkvZZb5vb8GNvrtftnOwVZpuw/s1600/bluechipstamps.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyns7J-KvnbTGQKzHZBkUTxFcKaGA1_KzyHrQ1N7YimWPeZlLiB4AQzM9j9u2yFAVB2O2X0dqrwMOXFX6W-jmzW0e58KBirDJT_SXyNixAapl6YwkvZZb5vb8GNvrtftnOwVZpuw/s400/bluechipstamps.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5460358415841890562" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">If some of you never got rid of your old <span style="font-weight: bold;">Blue Chip Stamps</span>, they never expired. You can redeem them at the following address:<br /><br />Blue Chip Stamps<br />P.O. Box 831<br />Pasadena, CA 91102-0831<br /><br />They still make reports to the company's corporate owner,<span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/">Berkshire-Hathaway</a>. And you can get a free catalog at this address. (Try to keep this a secret, if you can, and see if you can get some good deals on old stamp books!)<br /><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"></div><div style="text-align: justify;" id="refHTML"></div><input id="gwProxy" type="hidden"><!--Session data--><input onclick="jsCall();" id="jsProxy" type="hidden"><div id="refHTML"></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-32705205468840263202010-04-10T21:29:00.005+08:002010-04-10T21:44:18.917+08:00It's NOT ME!!!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5oRt7vAVRlIZCClrnD1NhjlmP_cTVAVeu9lC0uSpC55Hi1ZzGwvRET4N80ej_a5oP8xnXEs7x59wG7jg0SVRPKgM2LIUtaZW3Z-ddMXgg2kbxJqprTMCw-vZLz1Tsxusl-BpVSA/s1600/For_info.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 136px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5oRt7vAVRlIZCClrnD1NhjlmP_cTVAVeu9lC0uSpC55Hi1ZzGwvRET4N80ej_a5oP8xnXEs7x59wG7jg0SVRPKgM2LIUtaZW3Z-ddMXgg2kbxJqprTMCw-vZLz1Tsxusl-BpVSA/s400/For_info.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5458501651989642242" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">You probably remember reading in this 'Blog that the Roy Rogers Museum in Branson, Missouri, shut its doors December 12, 2009. I had the feeling things wouldn't be much different in that part of the country than they would be in the Mojave Desert off old Route 66.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I looked on the 'Net today and saw that some (well-known) auctioneer named <b><a href="http://www.billylong.com/0430.htm">Billy Long</a></b> is auctioning off all Roy and Dale's stuff. I haven't worn a suit to work since I left Vietnam. The only time I lived in Missouri was when I was doing Army basic training at Fort Leonard Wood (not far from Springfield). And I don't own a cowboy hat.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also, I never use the <b><i>Billy</i></b> without the <b><i>Jack</i></b>. I never use Billy J. Long because my dad's name was <b>Billy Joe Long</b> and that created all kinds of problems. We were both <b>Billy J. Long</b> and there was no<b> Sr.</b> or <b>Jr.</b> What a mess! (At least <b>George W. Bush</b> has one less initial than his dad!) My friends call me <b>Bill</b>. My family calls me something else but I won't go into that.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The auction is on April 30, 2010. It's kind of sad...</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-61334050821770204902010-01-25T12:00:00.001+08:002010-01-25T13:58:48.765+08:00Colton High School<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimvKGPA-8vufHuLWVMcj7boTwV2zIGzIHSehrX6Fh4eG141vGQSOEmrXDASS-TYQ11ohBLq0KCsoAusMvAqOliZOdfMmWkajKwdHTnSEqpGrZDoRzkdY5zDuiCpuINUBKgq8IrQw/s1600-h/CSHLogo2.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5429107628600089266" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 278px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimvKGPA-8vufHuLWVMcj7boTwV2zIGzIHSehrX6Fh4eG141vGQSOEmrXDASS-TYQ11ohBLq0KCsoAusMvAqOliZOdfMmWkajKwdHTnSEqpGrZDoRzkdY5zDuiCpuINUBKgq8IrQw/s320/CSHLogo2.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Colton High School</span></strong> </div><div align="center">Colton, California</div><br /><br /><div align="center">Crimson/Gold</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Yellow Jackets</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Opened 1896</div><div align="center"><br />3,200 students (grades 9-12)</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ_QbnL77H02OCjEr8wWd4CI2VYCT_qN5vNvBthtpZE7JMIZtdP_cVMBQEaUq9T3EhAl_se8jXOQUmWcZfjlsYWh0SB4OyQB1yu1kf3W0vH3V1nQ-y3J3jFWtmd8xnGh0QmgGbBA/s1600-h/Viking_face.gif"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430548754720714946" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 204px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ_QbnL77H02OCjEr8wWd4CI2VYCT_qN5vNvBthtpZE7JMIZtdP_cVMBQEaUq9T3EhAl_se8jXOQUmWcZfjlsYWh0SB4OyQB1yu1kf3W0vH3V1nQ-y3J3jFWtmd8xnGh0QmgGbBA/s400/Viking_face.gif" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Colton High School</span></strong></div><div align="center">Colton, Oregon</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Green/Gold</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">Vikings </div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">238 students (grades 9-12)</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="center"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCLxZXCJSVXkOmf1xoMgEGfqKBO9NqYwDiQvhePvZAfGF-AoAHshvwakL6PoqAHOBiucdDZMGB8ugbMB2PWI4-r9ZTTlNUHexW9E8Qi4iGBohDL8DXkPgGkOzq7hbtOvnpOjeH5g/s1600-h/wildcats.bmp"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5430550047156883538" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 150px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 155px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCLxZXCJSVXkOmf1xoMgEGfqKBO9NqYwDiQvhePvZAfGF-AoAHshvwakL6PoqAHOBiucdDZMGB8ugbMB2PWI4-r9ZTTlNUHexW9E8Qi4iGBohDL8DXkPgGkOzq7hbtOvnpOjeH5g/s400/wildcats.bmp" border="0" /></a> <strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Colton High School</span></strong></div><div align="center">Colton, Washington</div><div align="center"><br />Blue/White</div><div align="center"><br />Wildcats</div><div align="center"></div><div align="center">108 students (grades 7-12)</div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify">If you know of any other Colton High Schools, let me know. I always tell people in other countries not to give the name of any city or town without listing the state. </div><br /><div align="justify">Did you know there is a Los Angeles in Texas? There is also a New York in Texas. Both of these towns are very small. Hollywood isn't a city in California (it's a Los Angeles neighborhood) but it is a city in Florida. (West Hollywood is a city that neighbors Hollywood, California. For many years it was thought of as the <strong><em>unincorporated</em></strong> part of Hollywood.) </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-68563320541253122192010-01-15T15:00:00.001+08:002010-01-15T15:56:58.858+08:00This month's sponsors...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTwf5NL6e6mThLX34KeB1-ZwZ3qY5akt6tRc2fEn2LmSR201SzqmgbX49Eni3SE7XyXbrhWAcCM5UtkAbm8DHPE0Z0LScVqHXXWPZXOv6AA9ad1QTsYtWOassKFWPPTYbrhVNwA/s1600-h/Marx+Logo.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 100px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiTwf5NL6e6mThLX34KeB1-ZwZ3qY5akt6tRc2fEn2LmSR201SzqmgbX49Eni3SE7XyXbrhWAcCM5UtkAbm8DHPE0Z0LScVqHXXWPZXOv6AA9ad1QTsYtWOassKFWPPTYbrhVNwA/s400/Marx+Logo.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426870500803254530" border="0" /></a><span style="font-size:180%;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Marx Toys</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">The best toys are made by Marx. Everyone loves the Rock em' Sock em' Robots. In the past, Marx created the Stonewall Smith action figure for Montgomery Ward and later made the Buddy Charlie action figure. Unlike the competition, these toy soldiers were made right here in the United States. Marx toy trains work everywhere without electrical power. All Marx toys are American made. Next time you go shopping, look for Marx Toys, made by Louis Marx and Company of New York City.</span><br /></div></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_JfsC6w4TAuoOk8RpPj-hYPs2OLN7ZtlnW-aKLleGPqM1FfqNInrQondglUYS3rLCga9q5Lk1VPsdYgaBl08oFQBReKfSCwx73nKFLxYnVXiP8xYjNjrV_gWu0ktiebAk-SryA/s1600-h/Ohrbachs.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 323px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO_JfsC6w4TAuoOk8RpPj-hYPs2OLN7ZtlnW-aKLleGPqM1FfqNInrQondglUYS3rLCga9q5Lk1VPsdYgaBl08oFQBReKfSCwx73nKFLxYnVXiP8xYjNjrV_gWu0ktiebAk-SryA/s400/Ohrbachs.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426868582756100354" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ohrbach's</span></span><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Many television programs have the famous tag, "Fashions by Ohrbach's." While most of the television shows that carry this tag originate in New York, you will be glad to know that you, too, can buy your fashions at Ohrbach's.<br /><br />In the Los Cerritos Shopping Center in Cerritos, they are the anchor store. We may not have Macy's, Gimbel's, or Strawbridge and Clothier, but we do have Ohrbach's. And, surprisingly, they aren't that expensive.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh295O1t0Wf3iNW7-lZ6ZYQrY3bjHFaP0PhAQjH3Cjv-90KEYtmTaB4H2f6BduFSu_Bqdk3oPVefs1LXYy5eGDVZCBn_03nhHaqGrxpbZubokuQXa88m900JOPgIPrK12VDoZVZpA/s1600-h/Movieland.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 186px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh295O1t0Wf3iNW7-lZ6ZYQrY3bjHFaP0PhAQjH3Cjv-90KEYtmTaB4H2f6BduFSu_Bqdk3oPVefs1LXYy5eGDVZCBn_03nhHaqGrxpbZubokuQXa88m900JOPgIPrK12VDoZVZpA/s400/Movieland.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426866658807800098" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">Movieland Wax Museum<br /></span></div><span style="font-size:180%;"> </span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"></span>Located on Beach Blvd. (State Route 39) in Buena Park, this is the best wax museum of its kind in the world. See your favorite scenes from some of your favorite movies. If you get tired of movies, hop over to the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Palace of Living Art</span>, which is also located on the premises. Here, you can see wax life size reproductions of your favorite paintings. You can see the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Blue Boy</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Pinkie</span>. Both of these paintings are housed nearby in the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Huntington Library</span> in San Marino. But if you want to see what it really looked like, go to Buena Park. It's within walking distance of <span style="font-weight: bold;">Knott's Berry Farm</span>!<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2GGKO6uCL7YUhTVyh5eMWznBf6FL8bW6dduCLuWfSxB04ofnDdFEcL3WXgDMp8q88GwATo_7-rjp6qSajNxIEVMalTh60nVwKLyT8UQ6q00F_fh6P4ByEsCgQpUgg6KeXChipA/s1600-h/Thriftimart.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF2GGKO6uCL7YUhTVyh5eMWznBf6FL8bW6dduCLuWfSxB04ofnDdFEcL3WXgDMp8q88GwATo_7-rjp6qSajNxIEVMalTh60nVwKLyT8UQ6q00F_fh6P4ByEsCgQpUgg6KeXChipA/s400/Thriftimart.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426865688348510242" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-weight: bold;font-size:180%;" >Thriftimart </span><br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Located in the Mount Vernon Shopping Center</span> at the corner of Mount Vernon Avenue (Business Route US 91-395) and Olive Street. We feature Jerseymaid milk and Iris soda pop.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg94c1ESfqmxa5oKt1_xj4kikJf9colcEVZVW_DsQHOnEZGByV4O3w3m-aBqp4H_iTxtQpLRxpk0r7Hr2joAdfwGSttG2fyviEm_Q_hRV73kzc-W6tg2ilbhQfeBMHmMjW4idRgcA/s1600-h/mpfc.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 250px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg94c1ESfqmxa5oKt1_xj4kikJf9colcEVZVW_DsQHOnEZGByV4O3w3m-aBqp4H_iTxtQpLRxpk0r7Hr2joAdfwGSttG2fyviEm_Q_hRV73kzc-W6tg2ilbhQfeBMHmMjW4idRgcA/s400/mpfc.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426864301105094610" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken<br /><br /></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Located near McDonald's and Minnie Pearl's Roast Beef Sandwiches on Foothill Boulevard (US Route 66) in Rialto. This week's special is two of Cousin Minnie's pies for the price of one. There is no limit. Come this weekend and enjoy the tastiest fried chicken you ever ate. Made from Cousin Minnie's own recipe. You'd think she fried it herself!</span></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">DISCLAIMER:</span> Just so you know, the above firms no longer exist. And Macy's took over almost every department chain in the United States, including the territory of Guam.<br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"></span></span></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-68113382197732985942010-01-04T17:00:00.000+08:002010-01-04T17:35:19.836+08:00San Bernadino [sic]<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_SLu4ewE6PqgO6oy9FqjLA_RVwKolzSxwFn16P2wliT5I9XgoeWBuHO0pGiAAcV96OjxCuBT9CW0W-c9vvVJmXD3F065oTEy67JNpp4YFzXgKDcube5L3Lw74jrdyIOHhp9xPVQ/s1600-h/SBD.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 293px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_SLu4ewE6PqgO6oy9FqjLA_RVwKolzSxwFn16P2wliT5I9XgoeWBuHO0pGiAAcV96OjxCuBT9CW0W-c9vvVJmXD3F065oTEy67JNpp4YFzXgKDcube5L3Lw74jrdyIOHhp9xPVQ/s400/SBD.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422813962689235282" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;">What's wrong with my spelling? I was looking at some old books at the local bookstore here in Cagayan de Oro and they referred to the county seat of my hometown as the name of the city you see written at the top of this page. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In grade school, even though we didn't actually live in the county seat, my fifth grade teacher had a very unusual spelling test. Without preparation she tested us on the spelling of words placed on street signs. Words included <b>crossing</b>, <b>through</b>, <b>prohibited</b>, <b>railroad</b>, and the name of the county seat. Five terms on an unprepared spelling test. Most of the class wrote <b>xing</b>, <b>thru</b>, and <b>RXR</b>, which were wrong. But that's the way they are spelled on signs. Surprisingly most of the class could spell <b>prohibited</b>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">No one could spell the county seat, which is properly spelled (and pronounced) <b>San Bernardino</b>. It has two <b>R</b>s in it. If you can't see that, you must be from Los Angeles and believe that only hicks live in area code <b>909</b>. (This is the reason why <b>Riverside</b> broke out of that area code and went with <b>951</b> a few years ago... Seriously!)</div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-59365106263335809652009-09-11T14:00:00.004+08:002009-09-11T16:59:28.710+08:00Korla Pandit (1921-98) and Iron Eyes Cody (1904-99)<p style="text-align: justify;">Two of my childhood heroes on television during my childhood weren't who they said they were. Only after their deaths did the truth come out.</p><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjkJOihGSGZ5nn1z4KQQ1AFzVCgwCwWo4a9_1skR9Zoc_w1ID1lharGhQHpm0YRjQjXs-aErqeyYUg_j6ijIB_fDnsi1OS2CVF4t_AihnnC6XYeT5GWx5U5cPIW-RTZ0YRoUgDoQ/s1600-h/korlapandit.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 238px; height: 302px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjkJOihGSGZ5nn1z4KQQ1AFzVCgwCwWo4a9_1skR9Zoc_w1ID1lharGhQHpm0YRjQjXs-aErqeyYUg_j6ijIB_fDnsi1OS2CVF4t_AihnnC6XYeT5GWx5U5cPIW-RTZ0YRoUgDoQ/s400/korlapandit.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380126334755787010" border="0" /></a>You probably remember <span style="font-weight: bold;">Korla Pandit</span> who was a mainstay at KTLA in Los Angeles from the station's beginnings in 1947 through the early 1960s. Korla was the fantastic organist who never spoke put played such great ethnic music. He wore a turban with a jewel and a stylish dress suit. The programs were 45 minutes long with no talking and no commercials. Even though the program lasted less than an hour, you wished it would go on much longer. Korla was born in New Delhi, India, to a Brahman priest and a French opera singer, who learned to play the organ as a child in France and England.<br /><br />After his death, his <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.korlapandit.com/">website</a> told the truth about Korla Pandit: He was born <span style="font-weight: bold;">John Roland Redd</span> in St. Louis , Missouri. His father, John S. Redd, was a Baptist minister. And they were black!<br /><br />He began working in radio as a musician in 1938 in Des Moines, Iowa. A few years after this he moved to Los Angeles where his sister, Frances Redd, was working in a radio drama called the <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Midnight Shadow</span>. John had been working as a musician under the name <span style="font-weight: bold;">Juan Rolando</span>. He married a fellow show business worker, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Beryl DeBeeson</span>, but because she was white, they married in Tijuana, as interracial marriages were illegal in California for many years after this. His wife came up with a new character, using one of the characters of his sister's radio series, Prince Alihabad. John's new name was Korla Pandit. Through their research they found it was a legitimate sounding name and Beryl would also be playing a role in this game and the Korla Pandit name change was made legal.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgb4sDfahbxgD3w_C-opULFVEI-zfRIy644_tiqPvL6w6HmgVwgRsYK_or1Xdcc9x3NVFhju9hvB6B2y2kkHog864KeTSz-NzTDPr7Kix4j2VLwn3baXphYWLKKHH9aelDK4a1sA/s1600-h/IronEyesCody.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 275px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgb4sDfahbxgD3w_C-opULFVEI-zfRIy644_tiqPvL6w6HmgVwgRsYK_or1Xdcc9x3NVFhju9hvB6B2y2kkHog864KeTSz-NzTDPr7Kix4j2VLwn3baXphYWLKKHH9aelDK4a1sA/s400/IronEyesCody.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380121142674145074" border="0" /></a><p><span style="font-weight: bold;">Iron Eyes Cody</span> was famous around the world. If he was in a movie or a TV show, we knew it was <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">authentic</span> because he was a real Indian. We knew him to be of the Cherokee and Cree tribes and grew up in a Sioux reservation. We figured that's why the costume he wore had so many different patterns in it.</p><p>My ex-wife and I loved reading his autobiography, <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">Iron Eyes Cody: My Life as a Hollywood Indian</span>. He wrote about his work in Hollywood beginning in 1927 and service with the <a href="http://www.usma.edu/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">U.S. Military Academy</span></a>, teaching about the history of the U.S. Army and the Indians in the Western United States. He was our hero!</p><p>Then he died. About a year after his death the story broke out that he was really the child of Italian immigrants who grew up in the town of Gueydan, Lousisiana, where his parents owned a mom and pop grocery store. We were sorely disappointed. Iron Eyes was no more an Indian than the local actors who were hired for spaghetti westerns made in Italy and Spain. His real name was <span style="font-weight: bold;">Espera Oscar DeCorti</span>.<br /></p><p>An Indian and an Indian.. neither of whom really was...<br /></p><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-29392246676958718222009-09-07T13:34:00.003+08:002009-09-07T13:56:23.103+08:00A Blast to the Past on the Internet...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvW6vAiYjX_T96lMrXHZDUZIhErmRUN0Kwt1-yrrGBCIxPuJhilGUC61ERorihXLoinDL2VR7rbGFgy5quS-GV97K-SLbkTZqeYYrRABPH4VKFceEbZ4rZzTHEGGfwaWtgOdxTXw/s1600-h/Pong+screenshot.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 178px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvW6vAiYjX_T96lMrXHZDUZIhErmRUN0Kwt1-yrrGBCIxPuJhilGUC61ERorihXLoinDL2VR7rbGFgy5quS-GV97K-SLbkTZqeYYrRABPH4VKFceEbZ4rZzTHEGGfwaWtgOdxTXw/s320/Pong+screenshot.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5378599501034796898" border="0" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Some things never get removed from the Internet. I hope you can get a chance to do some reminiscing with these sites. It's a great way to kill time at the computer and visit your past.<br /><br />You can find old TV shows, games, and commercial campaigns.<br /></div><br /><br />Click on the following links:<br /><ul><li><a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://www.carnivoresfootball.com/">Carnivores Football</a> (Jack in the Box)</li><li><a href="http://subservientchicken.com/"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subservient Chicken</span></a> (Burger King)</li><li><a href="http://www.mrbiggsonline.com/games.htm"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Old Computer Games</span></a> (Mr. Bigg's/a hamburger chain in Nigeria)</li></ul><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-54150614967508982392009-09-04T12:30:00.032+08:002009-09-05T15:02:09.790+08:00The Toys I Played With as a Child<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZWDPgcAzg7524Wulfr22bcu0LFAK5uStDg94AbcOMCSOvgVhCPJOiA_xBxOiBuqgyFPzGU-RYa5WNaJyr27xz8T5TMGjvkU5jrPNuUF32cJdyp2SJ6Icku6aQAvlmYnYil_5CSg/s1600-h/ricochet.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 120px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZWDPgcAzg7524Wulfr22bcu0LFAK5uStDg94AbcOMCSOvgVhCPJOiA_xBxOiBuqgyFPzGU-RYa5WNaJyr27xz8T5TMGjvkU5jrPNuUF32cJdyp2SJ6Icku6aQAvlmYnYil_5CSg/s400/ricochet.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377870327634391122" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>DAISY RICOCHET RIFLE - - </b>It was just like a real gun. Except it didn't have bullets. It even smelled like one. A friend's father (who was also a Cub Scout leader), was a detective with the <b>Colton Police Department</b>. He put my hands through the parafin test after I fired my rifle. Do you know, it showed that I actually fired a weapon? Wow. It really was like real.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhltpkfq6eSLwfLT5_gPPOZ5L_qSNOwSI0Rv-oCI777pUQNEOSsoQShyjF0JOyJrxTpW0N6Hf-X7laRLuBbZ2tYayxBn2oVVT4q6g5wNwxrnX46Rp1GE9M-qHqeoUQELD_aSwAlcg/s1600-h/Greyhound.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 269px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhltpkfq6eSLwfLT5_gPPOZ5L_qSNOwSI0Rv-oCI777pUQNEOSsoQShyjF0JOyJrxTpW0N6Hf-X7laRLuBbZ2tYayxBn2oVVT4q6g5wNwxrnX46Rp1GE9M-qHqeoUQELD_aSwAlcg/s400/Greyhound.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377867078128659730" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MATCHBOX TOYS - -</b> These were made in England by a company called Lesney Products. Supposedly, all these cars were made on HO scale, although the Ford police cruiser was much larger than the Greyhound Scenicruiser. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The wheels on Matchbox cars were uneven. Then Mattel came out with <b>Hot Wheels</b> in 1968. Those things would roll! So, eventually, Matchbox introduced <b>Superfast</b> wheels, which were almost faster than Hot Wheels. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Lesney Company tried to make its total subsistence on Matchbox Toys and continually kept sliding down. Soon, their factories in England were shut down and they began making the cars in Asia. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Tyco Toys</b> bought the line in 1992. Tyco also fell on hard times and was acquired by Hot Wheels producer, <b>Mattel Toys</b> in 1997.</div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_myrpXda_f_ny1iB3G0Az5ylzwnL6uVsWYfrEac2rkXJczlWRhFgG6jmLVqW0XIOF4Km_bzKSYOete8lM-LUtEiKVjwPNJEeKgoXuhI6OuqLi2zHxJrjGEgHAxUfczdQBQfGtmA/s1600-h/GiJoe.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 333px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_myrpXda_f_ny1iB3G0Az5ylzwnL6uVsWYfrEac2rkXJczlWRhFgG6jmLVqW0XIOF4Km_bzKSYOete8lM-LUtEiKVjwPNJEeKgoXuhI6OuqLi2zHxJrjGEgHAxUfczdQBQfGtmA/s400/GiJoe.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377860688935975394" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight:bold;">G.I. JOE - - </span><span>Yes, it was a doll for boys. At least my sister thought so. It gave her a chance for me, a boy to play with her dolls and get away with it. I said it was OK, so long as my G.I. Joe could have wars with her <b>Barbie</b> and <b>Tammy</b> dolls (Tammy was a Barbie wannabe made by the Ideal Toy Company).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>Louis Marx Toy Company</b> began putting out its own cheap G.I. Joe wannabes. There was <b><a href="http://www.selloldtoys.com/marx/images/IMG_0484_jpg.jpg">Stonewall Smith</a></b> and the Montgomery Ward exclusive, <b><a href="http://www.vintagetoyroom.com/lots/lot1519b.jpg">Buddy Charlie</a></b>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Parents liked Stony Smith. His uniform was molded onto him so there weren't any clothes to buy for him. He came with all the equipment needed, including a mess kit (with tiny knife, fork, and spoon that would get lost the first time you took it outside!) He also had a poncho that could double as a pup tent... only I didn't have much luck with that. If your parents had a little more money, he even came with a Jeep, but Stony had a little bit of trouble driving it (his legs didn't move!)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Buddy Charlie:</b> I learned later in life, as a soldier, that this was an oxymoron (like <i><b>jumbo shrimp</b></i> and <b><i>pretty ugly</i></b>). Buddy is a pal, right? Well, to a soldier, Charlie is what they call the enemy. So who was this guy?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">As for G.I. Joe, the Hasbro Company got everything right, except what to call a member of the Air Force. They called him the <b>Action Pilot</b>. Not everyone in the Air Force can fly a plane. And there are pilots in all <i><b>five</b></i> branches of the armed forces, including the Army. The term for a member of the Air Force is <b><i>airman</i></b>, which can refer to a male or a female.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">When G.I. Joe was introduced, they had the <b>Action Soldier</b>, the <b>Action Sailor</b>, and the <b>Action Pilot</b>. The Marine Corps complained that they weren't represented. Hasbro responded by stating the Action Soldier could be a member of the Marine Corps, as they're all soldiers. The Marine Corps retorted that marines aren't soldiers (ask your friendly neighborhood marine if he's a soldier or not!) Checking their dictionary, the folks at Hasbro realized that a soldier is, specifically, a member of the Army. So they soon had the <b>Action Marine</b>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Clothes were then added. New uniforms, including Army and Marine Dress Blues. They cost almost as much as a <b><a href="http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51m-mB5XseL._SL500_AA280_.jpg">Robert Hall</a></b> suit! (Sometimes more!) My sister tried to have her Ken doll wear my G.I. Joe's uniforms but they just didn't fit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX7FzV8TVf3rDBo4akZ_iFkpDZSdVNsMmkGgzw4fR2q-PNydSsaC47A-xCBsLhP3eTQRHnfoRi7DVkxTG410hv0qQLrzZxyoAt9CSFiF1AyuBoqF4xW00PrwscAAovonmG8BurCQ/s1600-h/crashmobile.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX7FzV8TVf3rDBo4akZ_iFkpDZSdVNsMmkGgzw4fR2q-PNydSsaC47A-xCBsLhP3eTQRHnfoRi7DVkxTG410hv0qQLrzZxyoAt9CSFiF1AyuBoqF4xW00PrwscAAovonmG8BurCQ/s400/crashmobile.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377858192538934706" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>CRASHMOBILE - -</b> It's nice to have a toy that will break on purpose. I had the big <b>Crashmobile</b> and the <b>Crashmobile Jr</b>. The big one had a Model T type crank you'd wind up and then it would crash into something and break. Lots and lots of fun. The little one had to be pulled backwards and the same thing would happen. Boy, it sure didn't take much to excite us when we were young. If we had today's video games then, we probably couldn't stand all the excitement. I might not even be here today!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheajkqtYuco2Fk770Fe2l3qnvEMVdqomsi-cSv-5lyZSg8CFfna4XCKLkmbc1SGXIJPa2uwTRXFYCveHkxt0UXrv-k5b0s1xNNnP0gVlcwWZl3L1mgGSpQ8tCF_rDDqiNuw2xD-g/s1600-h/tuba.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 340px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheajkqtYuco2Fk770Fe2l3qnvEMVdqomsi-cSv-5lyZSg8CFfna4XCKLkmbc1SGXIJPa2uwTRXFYCveHkxt0UXrv-k5b0s1xNNnP0gVlcwWZl3L1mgGSpQ8tCF_rDDqiNuw2xD-g/s400/tuba.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377856646488280082" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>EMINEE GOLDEN TUBA - -</b> This was actually a very popular toy for almost twenty years! It was a tiny sousaphone that sounded just like all the other toy wind instruments that the Eminee Toy Company made. These included a trumpet, a clarinet, a trombone, a saxophone, and possibly many others. Remember the Eminee Polychord Organ? It was almost the same thing, except that you didn't have to blow it. It made its own air.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can blame the lack of funding for the lack of interest in a musical education... I don't... I blame it on the demise of the Eminee Toy Company!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2vm13h1MYolylb6p6hkvFYWK877e7wcXouxtBvxrPGEYSVN1MiuD6_46csQm46Wo82MEIJsAyNB8AlP4q-n7hFFQDj841vklnjU3PVJmx9ZX0dzAPE8wW6_7uFHYTnR_B4n_z_w/s1600-h/pickup.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 259px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2vm13h1MYolylb6p6hkvFYWK877e7wcXouxtBvxrPGEYSVN1MiuD6_46csQm46Wo82MEIJsAyNB8AlP4q-n7hFFQDj841vklnjU3PVJmx9ZX0dzAPE8wW6_7uFHYTnR_B4n_z_w/s400/pickup.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377849720515861634" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>TONKA TOYS - - </b>They were rugged. They lasted forever.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br />One birthday present I received when I was three was a <b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIBpFnLtecWQPORtWtyigMOC0RKEnQrOcH-jeSh10Au9XkLqROQgGlIt7wLZRpLL47b0qxMGYna1w2Yh0TTVw2g2ZQnOK1VxDZ6xaotTkR7usAJ_SJuvs5B1Vk9hpGtVoo1Vp13Q/s1600-h/structo.jpg">Structo Farms</a></b> semi-tractor and trailer (Structo was one of Tonka's competitors) complete with <i>lead</i> farm animals (they didn't know better then!) The cab was plastic and was soon destroyed in a few days. I can remember my mother saying that "I should have gotten him a Tonka Toy!"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.maisto.com/product_home_TK.asp">Here's what Tonka Toys are like today.</a> (Notice the company is in Fontana.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh659FXWto9poueFbtxwuIstqUsHZwsE486SP4WV5_cucEcSZLGJg0pO6kfmKYqOZXJZ9ZybxzonpsbXr0xFYmHrxKNGt9pwbxR5_Ol6ZFpaWkDkS8j5vgeitEctufZB1-wzBWPSA/s1600-h/thingmaker.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 350px; height: 256px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh659FXWto9poueFbtxwuIstqUsHZwsE486SP4WV5_cucEcSZLGJg0pO6kfmKYqOZXJZ9ZybxzonpsbXr0xFYmHrxKNGt9pwbxR5_Ol6ZFpaWkDkS8j5vgeitEctufZB1-wzBWPSA/s400/thingmaker.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377848096414411170" /></a><b><div style="text-align: justify;">THINGMAKER - -<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> It was an oven for baking </span>Creepy Crawlers<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> and </span>Creeple Peeple. <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">You had to have lots of </span>Plastigoop<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> to create lots of toys. The problem was, when the fad died out (but we still enjoyed making these things), you couldn't get anymore of the Plastigoop.</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We'd hunt down the close out stores and everyone else was buying the stuff out... sigh!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Who said the fad was over, anyway?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div></b><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtXGBeDca9ElKxKhQ0gev2qJQkrXruQGK2qKTgs32cIPHEPSyI9cAlsxTlsMiZSjycExfR3rZ2CRFIuy_ZvO4ZmFXE9DXonZk2PCWiEIGaW6ToWPACInoHedugG4CSaJm17NQpXA/s1600-h/Tootsietoys.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 328px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtXGBeDca9ElKxKhQ0gev2qJQkrXruQGK2qKTgs32cIPHEPSyI9cAlsxTlsMiZSjycExfR3rZ2CRFIuy_ZvO4ZmFXE9DXonZk2PCWiEIGaW6ToWPACInoHedugG4CSaJm17NQpXA/s400/Tootsietoys.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377847141303588434" /></a><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>TOOTSIE TOYS - -</b> These were extremely inexpensive. They were great if all you wanted to do was play with cars (and detail wasn't too important.)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">They're probably one of the oldest toys on this list and they still make them today. The advertisement posted here is from the late 1930s. So all those styles are contemporary for the time!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Wouldn't I like any or all of those!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></span></div></b><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8lHaZi9RdoUnNjSeuFDa_etelqV_pn1hreYCBPpAK5YqAgKHt2SisosO1z0gXC6wiF54G8WBzhP6TVkKM5k4F5L1i_ROeRaJktaUuhpKBy8YIJGGE8uEPhKr-VwqgARKtH-13qw/s1600-h/Lego.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 253px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8lHaZi9RdoUnNjSeuFDa_etelqV_pn1hreYCBPpAK5YqAgKHt2SisosO1z0gXC6wiF54G8WBzhP6TVkKM5k4F5L1i_ROeRaJktaUuhpKBy8YIJGGE8uEPhKr-VwqgARKtH-13qw/s400/Lego.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377845963439736226" /></a><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal; "><b>LEGOS - -</b> I have a secret. Don't tell anyone, but if you were to give me a box of Lego bricks now, I'd probably be playing with them for the next three or four hours!</span></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">When my older daughter was celebrating her first Christmas, we gave her some Duplos (large sized Legos for toddlers). So did all our friends and relatives. We had thousands. On that Christmas night, after she went to sleep, my wife and I built houses and cars, almost until dawn. I'd probably do it again, if I had the chance!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgND73GU8efL0uktFcbIi8Arj2VD161RzPUr5tLcPlr4PGkyBTfopRKqPxteiQok7NnCk4zmNcNWtOJUfJcg18E2jjDQOvraX4hSbSDG0lO23SmQx9_wLUnfNZNfZyeUFcn9Ocx1Q/s1600-h/lindy.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgND73GU8efL0uktFcbIi8Arj2VD161RzPUr5tLcPlr4PGkyBTfopRKqPxteiQok7NnCk4zmNcNWtOJUfJcg18E2jjDQOvraX4hSbSDG0lO23SmQx9_wLUnfNZNfZyeUFcn9Ocx1Q/s400/lindy.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377843788452627442" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>MINI-LINDY - -</b> These were a cross between Matchbox cars and model kits. The <b>Lindberg Line</b> was a company that made model kits. Mostly World War II military airplanes. The box states you could "BUILD 'N COLLECT" them. Actually, they were also quite durable and you could play with them just like any other toy car this size. My favorite was the mail truck. It looked like the one pictured here except that mine was yellow.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCJ01xjdefGgCrGCMhqVxsv4SyEi_OX6ecITM3SRq7TnyO3kc_8aRuepidZvbSzNxZqW0SvF6vs8LZNxts0NY7qYjz6dFBla-Hfa1A7c__3j0p0-SjS-wWYplskWFDprlVN0KppA/s1600-h/GARTON1949.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 315px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCJ01xjdefGgCrGCMhqVxsv4SyEi_OX6ecITM3SRq7TnyO3kc_8aRuepidZvbSzNxZqW0SvF6vs8LZNxts0NY7qYjz6dFBla-Hfa1A7c__3j0p0-SjS-wWYplskWFDprlVN0KppA/s400/GARTON1949.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377842274600344578" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>GARTON TRACTOR - -</b> I got this when I was three or four. I never got tired of it but I did outgrow it. It was probably the only toy I had that I did outgrow. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It had plastic make believe spark plug cables that got lost as soon as I got it. That didn't matter. It also had a hitch I could use to pull the neighbors' <b>Radio Flyer</b> wagons Remember the little red wagons? My brother would later have one of those and I could pull him with my tractor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My tractor was also one of the few toys I played with that, except for the spark plug cable, never broke down. It was so wonderful. What a toy!</div><div>________________________________</div>________________________________</div><div>________________________________</div><div>________________________________</div><div>________________________________</div><div>________________________________</div><div>________________________________</div><div> ________________________________</div><div>________________________________</div><div> ________________________________</div><div>________________________________<br /><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil3N6tSJYhwPeBRoNe0_hoCBLfZOLWtwkyV7i7PJjr5Yw3cHTbTaBQfgV_h-vG1uLLz-xHCRG7mLYymTeMpbpQZ4ycRuPt2xAz7PRqDGEUozlQGbW_e9EHrPD8GaebEZirIKrXmA/s1600-h/getar.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 399px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEil3N6tSJYhwPeBRoNe0_hoCBLfZOLWtwkyV7i7PJjr5Yw3cHTbTaBQfgV_h-vG1uLLz-xHCRG7mLYymTeMpbpQZ4ycRuPt2xAz7PRqDGEUozlQGbW_e9EHrPD8GaebEZirIKrXmA/s400/getar.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377840507046511346" /></a></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>CASPER GE-TAR (by Mattel) - -</b> As a musician, I never learned to play any stringed stummed instrument, such as the guitar or ukulele. That's a fact that really embarrasses me today. (<b><i>...you have three music degrees, Bill?</i></b>)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">My parents gave me several gifts when I was four years old when I had to go to the hospital to get a growth surgically removed from the front of my neck. (It was found to be benign, but it could have choked me to death!) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Ge-Tar was like a ukulele which had a hand crank music box (in the picture, Casper is the one the boy is playing). I didn't much care for the strumming but I liked the music box. But I did get bored with the song it played. I discovered that if I turned the crank backwards it played an even better song. I never stopped playing it. I loved it. I'm sure the nurses loved it, too.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVZRIF4g_jofyRuUqhQw7xlYSq1PUDPNJAXbe7Z2CPm5B-oK0ei0yU4rurz-OwIbcAsb8o0wmcEI5jFAR3YXNYR-dUD4czFpa0mJAC88HCYum6yzQjlzm1tyKO69ADJKxUlHsVw/s1600-h/SNAP+TRAIN.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 301px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiVZRIF4g_jofyRuUqhQw7xlYSq1PUDPNJAXbe7Z2CPm5B-oK0ei0yU4rurz-OwIbcAsb8o0wmcEI5jFAR3YXNYR-dUD4czFpa0mJAC88HCYum6yzQjlzm1tyKO69ADJKxUlHsVw/s400/SNAP+TRAIN.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377838087929011922" /></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>SNAP TRAIN</b> - - This was a wooden toy train which was connected with the help of clothing snaps. My parents gave this to me when I had to go to the hospital for the removal of that growth on my neck at the age of four. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Now that I'm older I realize now why I have trouble sleeping at night. Having this train in my bed gave me a nonsleeping activity. That's not very healthy. I've been known to use my laptop computer, do my income taxes, and even eat meals in bed. I know it's bad. And now I can remember where I picked up these bad habits.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Snap Train was made by a company in Los Angeles called Jack Built. Whatever became of it?</div><div><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0gtvUId4EwH_sJB08QavFE_vaW4Po7QZJITUe9dE1vXWszBjtZWHkyiTHOkJR-FzehifhapcTqqZYGAoL0EURPBfXKJz2fxJEpt1ex9K1Wx1aLwXi05w2hogTusMcNsduTSncg/s1600-h/spoon.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt0gtvUId4EwH_sJB08QavFE_vaW4Po7QZJITUe9dE1vXWszBjtZWHkyiTHOkJR-FzehifhapcTqqZYGAoL0EURPBfXKJz2fxJEpt1ex9K1Wx1aLwXi05w2hogTusMcNsduTSncg/s400/spoon.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5377837326719063314" /></a><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>SOUP SPOON</b> - - Best tool for digging holes, making lakes, castles, and houses, and filling your Mighty Tonka Dump Truck with dirt. Just remember, kids: Always ask your mother before you take anything out of the cutlery drawer when you want to play with it outside!</div></div></div></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-43902549053536045372009-08-31T12:00:00.002+08:002009-08-31T12:49:46.052+08:00The Colton Quiz (possibly the first of many)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP54bkAX559RpbeF2e8ruimCbNAjFJQrHBrFwa9yWW_Et8hNblpR9Ia7sy2dAtvG859Ax4wgXQOPFrRac8fqbojrJYthVJPvVrpkuFFkXVUN7-DqyB4sW2jErStMUYAtvwUS-TOg/s1600-h/museum.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP54bkAX559RpbeF2e8ruimCbNAjFJQrHBrFwa9yWW_Et8hNblpR9Ia7sy2dAtvG859Ax4wgXQOPFrRac8fqbojrJYthVJPvVrpkuFFkXVUN7-DqyB4sW2jErStMUYAtvwUS-TOg/s400/museum.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5375977265640757186" border="0" /></a>Good afternoon.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">One thing you enjoy doing when you get older is reminiscing over things that aren't there anymore. One fun way of getting through this is a quiz. I lived in Colton from 1966 through 1976. I remained in the area (family moved to Rialto) until going to college in Tennessee (returning periodically) and finally enlisting in the Army as a musician in 1979.<br /><br />If you live in the Riverside-San Bernardino area, take this quiz. I haven't been around for almost three years now. But the answers to this quiz haven't changed. Enjoy. Post your responses as comments here.<br /><br /><ol><li>What are the specific official colors of Colton High School?</li><li>What were the names of the two junior high schools that were replaced by Colton Junior High School in 1954?</li><li>Who was Isaac "Cristobal" Slover?</li><li>What was the name of the Colton Airport? Where was it? Which airline made regular stops there?</li><li>Name the Chevrolet and Dodge dealers which used to be in downtown Colton. The Chevy place moved north (onto La Cadena Avenue) with downtown redevelopment and the Dodge dealership closed after its owner died of a heart attack.</li><li>What was the former nickname of Colton? It has something to do with the shape of Colton City Hall (formerly Colton Civic Center) as seen from the air.</li><li>What were the names of the two Southern Pacific passenger trains that stopped in Colton? Can you also name the two Union Pacific passenger trains and the one Santa Fe train that stopped in Colton during the 1960s?</li><li>What were the five route numbers of the two highways that crossed in Colton before the freeways were built?</li><li>What does <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">joint</span> mean in Colton Joint Unified School District?</li><li>Before Bloomington High School was built, high school students in Bloomington went to Colton Union High School (having more than one high school meant that Colton was no longer a one high school high school district, the "union" was dropped, and the high school district subsequently "unified" with the elementary districts in Colton, Bloomington, and Grand Terrace.) Before Eisenhower High School was built in 1958, where did high school students in Rialto go to school?</li><li>Name a dairy located in Colton. It was actually outside the city limits on Cypress Avenue.</li><li>What was the major chain supermarket at the Mount Vernon Shopping Center? What about the major supermarket at the Rancho Vista Shopping Center (Rancho Avenue and Mill Street, next to the T.G.&Y.)?</li><li>What was the name of the coffee shop located in front of the old Stater Brothers supermarket on I Street (later Valley Boulevard)?</li><li>What were the names of the Stater brothers?</li><li>Name a popular 1960s songwriter who graduated from Colton High School. His father had been the pastor at the First Southern Baptist Church (now Sierra Vista Baptist Church).<br /></li><li>For whom was Colton named?</li><li>How did the Colton High School Yellow Jackets get their nickname in the late 1920s? What was the schools nickname previous to this?</li><li>Name the original members of the old high school Citrus Belt League. When they were built in the 1950s, Pacific (San Bernardino) and Fontana were added to this group.</li><li>For what professional sports team did Kenny Hubbs play?</li><li>Name a current celebrity who graduated from Colton High School. (Not me.)</li><li>Where was the first Stater Brothers market?</li><li>Name a former Colton High School student who played professional football, then returned to the school to teach English.</li><li>What were the three brands of fuel sold by Ray Phillips Truck Stop?</li><li>What was the name of the hamburger stand across the street from Colton Union High School (corner of Third and I Streets)?</li><li>What was the original name of La Cadena Drive in Riverside?<br /></li></ol><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-85630905591601485512009-08-20T14:30:00.006+08:002009-08-20T15:55:03.145+08:00KCOP Channel 13 - - Very Independent - - Chris Craft Station<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvF2ZBmpdYX7hyphenhyphenvApH6ad3-iS2xIf2hv3AuDYu5l3yIdrE_Adt6DSOTz4epPw86-FcTbDuGx9svV3D2T5ad0ihKzne-Qo_A_pUqjfTbAiyjQWJTuxRZaCobkE9u1hjvj8Q0mG8g/s1600-h/kcop77.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnvF2ZBmpdYX7hyphenhyphenvApH6ad3-iS2xIf2hv3AuDYu5l3yIdrE_Adt6DSOTz4epPw86-FcTbDuGx9svV3D2T5ad0ihKzne-Qo_A_pUqjfTbAiyjQWJTuxRZaCobkE9u1hjvj8Q0mG8g/s400/kcop77.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371933005493087266" border="0" /></a>It went on the air in 1948 as <span style="font-weight: bold;">KMTR-TV</span>. When radio station <span style="font-weight: bold;">KMTR</span> became <span style="font-weight: bold;">KLAC</span> shortly thereafter, so the TV station became <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">"KLAC-TV, Where everything is active."</span> When the Copley Press, publisher of the S<span style="font-weight: bold;">an Diego Union</span> and <span style="font-weight: bold;">Evening Tribune</span> bought the station, it became KCOP. The <span style="font-weight: bold;">Chris Craft</span> motor boat company bought it in 1960.<br /><br />All of the pioneer TV stations of Los Angeles were unique. KCOP was no exception. They made most of their own commercials in the 1950s. This was the original station that had commercials for Worthington Dodge, somewhere on Slauson Avenue in Huntington Park... I remember everything except the house number. Did you know <span style="font-weight: bold;">Cal Worthington</span> (b. 1920) was a Hudson dealer? This began when <span style="font-weight: bold;">Mad Man Muntz</span> (1914-87) was still selling Kaiser-Frazers and used cars at his lot downtown.<br /><br />Anyway, KCOP had the best Hanna-Barbera cartoons. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Lloyd Thaxton</span> (1927-2008) had a musical show every day. Around the time in my life I started school, channel 13 had travel programs almost every night of the week. <span style="font-weight: bold;">Bill Burrud</span> (1925-90) had several shows. The one I remember most was the one with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hal Linker</span>, his wife <span style="font-weight: bold;">Hadla</span>, and their son, <span style="font-weight: bold;">Harold</span>. Always wearing their Sunday best for their program, I always had a fear that if I ever flew on a commercial airliner, I'd never look good enough. By the time I made my first flight at age 15, no one cared.<br /><br />Despite having studios in the middle of Hollywood (located at 915 North La Brea Avenue, two blocks north of <a style="font-weight: bold;" href="http://pinkshollywood.com/">Pink's Hot Dog Stand</a> at 709 North La Brea Avenue), channel 13 always had a folksy, non Hollywood air about it. They had a contest which always had such prizes as a car, a trip to somewhere exciting, and a <span style="font-weight: bold;">Packard Bell</span> console color television/stereo system. They never told about the contest much on TV but there was always a poster about it at the local laundromat.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">KCOP was always very different. We could always count on the station to bring cartoons, until all the stations quit showing cartoons in the late 1980s. And also the best of the worst in low budget movie classics. However, in 1995, it became the Los Angeles outlet of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">United Paramount Network</span>. Ah, but that was only two hours a night. Well, a few years later, the boat company merged with <span style="font-weight: bold;">News Corporation</span>, the owners of the <span style="font-weight: bold;">Fox</span> network.<br /><br />In 2003, the station moved in with <span style="font-weight: bold;">KTTV</span>, the Fox station, at 1999 South Bundy Drive in West Los Angeles. Today, channel 13 doesn't even have its own website. Everything seems to be a KTTV <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">hand-me-down</span>.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-14341180460073041762009-08-15T12:00:00.011+08:002009-08-15T14:13:02.200+08:00What was on the Radio in Colton 1969...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3NwyidTTZGxABACU_wfgwdyuQjJv8ok4-u7j6wvAva7qRadSp_eVCmynEN5Ra_D8IG7oKZLInHMa3qBPQgh1kFPJ7ILfPKybLgwemOJTzt_O9ghizoSWJh3jHhsvPSchonLhgw/s1600-h/xerb_1090_pastel.gif"><img style="cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 122px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM3NwyidTTZGxABACU_wfgwdyuQjJv8ok4-u7j6wvAva7qRadSp_eVCmynEN5Ra_D8IG7oKZLInHMa3qBPQgh1kFPJ7ILfPKybLgwemOJTzt_O9ghizoSWJh3jHhsvPSchonLhgw/s400/xerb_1090_pastel.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370066794969926146" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6OfkJiy_MnNnvjBQ76orIeJ8mH9tATlaWMpSMCiWZn8peedqkMQmbUvpicI_7T2sJxxT9VXdJ1FthpyGCHcWFvJ9Rdp1wRoDCKxAEb4hujX5id7tLn0TFIzrswAUAAsrM4A_KYw/s1600-h/00kmpcsgeoffedwards.jpg"><img style="cursor: pointer; 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During the day, I wired it to the handlebars of my bike. At night, it was under my pillow.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Here are some of the things we heard:</p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">570 kHz<br />KLAC<br />Middle of the Road Music (Talk at Night)<br />Los Angeles</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">590 kHz<br />KFXM "Tiger Radio"<br />Top 40<br />San Bernardino</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">640 kHz<br />KFI (NBC)<br />Variety (Full Service)<br />Los Angeles</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">690 kHz<br />XETRA "Xtra Music"<br />Beautiful Music<br />Tijuana</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">710 kHz<br />KMPC<br />Adult Standards<br />Los Angeles</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">740 kHz<br />KBIG "K-Big" (daytime)<br />Beautiful Music<br />Avalon (on Santa Catalina Island)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">790 kHz<br />KABC (ABC)<br />TalkRadio<br />Los Angeles</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">870 kHz<br />KIEV (daytime)<br />Country and Western (and other stuff)<br />Glendale</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">900 kHz<br />KGRB (daytime)<br />Big Band<br />West Covina</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">920 kHz<br />KDES<br />Top 40<br />Palm Springs</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">930 kHz<br />KHJ "Boss Radio"<br />Top 40<br />Los Angeles</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">980 kHz<br />KFWB<br />All News<br />Los Angeles</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1020 kHz<br />KGBS (daytime only)<br />Light Pop (featuring Bill Ballance)<br />Los Angeles</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1050 kHz<br />KTOT (daytime only)<br />Variety<br />Big Bear Lake</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1070 kHz<br />KNX (CBS)<br />Newsradio<br />Los Angeles</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1090 kHz<br />XERB<br />Oldies (with Wolfman Jack) at night<br />and the Holy Rosary (in English and Spanish) during the day<br />Rosarito, Baja California<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1110 kHz<br />KRLA<br />Oldies<br />Pasadena</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1150 kHz<br />KIIS "Kiss Radio"<br />Top 40<br />Los Angeles</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1190 kHz<br />KEZY<br />Top 40<br />Anaheim</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1220 kHz<br />KKAR<br />Top 40<br />Pomona</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1240 kHz<br />KRNO "The Golden Sound"<br />Beautiful Music<br />San Bernardino</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1260 kHz<br />KGIL<br />Adult Standards<br />San Fernando</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1290 kHz<br />KMEN "K-Men" (ABC)<br />Top 40<br />San Bernardino</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1300 kHz<br />KWKW<br />Spanish<br />San Gabriel</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1330 kHz<br />KFAC (Mutual)<br />Classical Music<br />Los Angeles</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1350 kHz<br />KCKC (ABC)<br />Country and Western<br />San Bernardino</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1370 kHz<br />KREL<br />Top 40<br />Corona</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1410 kHz<br />KCAL<br />Spanish<br />Redlands</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1440 kHz<br />KPRO (CBS)<br />Music/Information<br />Riverside<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1480 kHz<br />KWIZ<br />Top 40<br />Santa Ana</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1490 kHz<br />KPAS<br />Variety<br />Banning</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1510 kHz<br />KMSL<br />Easy Listening<br />Ontario</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1540 kHz<br />KPOL<br />Beautiful Music<br />Los Angeles</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1570 kHz<br />KACE<br />Adult Standards<br />Riverside</span></p><p style="text-align: justify; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size:180%;">1600 kHz<br />KWOW<br />Top 40<br />Pomona</span></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Do notice the lack of religious radio stations. During the 1960s these were all on FM, except for the Rosaries on XERB.<br /><br />I will have more about radio in upcoming postings.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-27072632620022423002009-08-13T13:00:00.001+08:002009-08-15T14:17:56.962+08:00What is Your Favorite Color?<div style="text-align: justify;">Listed below are eight colors. Find your favorite color and see if the description matches your personality:<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 102, 0);">GREEN</span> - - Nature lover, likes to sleep outdoors when possible (if the weather is right), concerned about the worlds problems.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 255, 0); font-weight: bold;">YELLOW</span> - - Likes to have fun, nice personality, friendly, but can be in own world at times.<br /><span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;">RED</span> - - Very passionate (throws oneself into whatever projects are being done or political debates or whatever), has a fiery temper, has a strong personality. (This is also true for the color <span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">ORANGE</span>.)<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(51, 51, 255);">BLUE</span> - - Animal lover, likes to sleep with the window open. Concerned about local problems.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">WHITE</span> - - Very organized. Hates messiness. Very prompt. Keeps a tight schedule.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(102, 51, 102);">BROWN</span> - - Likes to give instructions. Likes to talk. Concerned about people's feelings. A hard worker.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(153, 51, 153);">PURPLE</span> - - Doesn't care about what people think about himself/herself. Very free thinker.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">BLACK</span> - - An intellectual who likes to talk and pick people's brains. Concerned about family.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; color: rgb(255, 153, 255);">PINK</span> - - A fun person who likes to make friends. Tells great jokes. A very devoted and loyal worker.<br /><br />Write your comments below. I've used this for the past six years and it's 99% right. I use it as part of the counseling sessions I give. I can tell so much from what a person's favorite color is.<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-2936257170103119602009-08-12T14:00:00.000+08:002009-08-15T14:25:46.984+08:00A Pleasant Thought for the Day...<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2dBCQKeokM9Mx8SXpejMxdUDz5cv96_IsNYUIISNu2-Zd_D0W4dVHUrJoJfg-GNoQ9V6Xn3MeOAPjn0EFw-oJUfdmtTtj1J0QqVSJiqCz-_YtJGhP3W6pE8UPEZhQhUMZrYKK3w/s1600-h/Shakespeare.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 312px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2dBCQKeokM9Mx8SXpejMxdUDz5cv96_IsNYUIISNu2-Zd_D0W4dVHUrJoJfg-GNoQ9V6Xn3MeOAPjn0EFw-oJUfdmtTtj1J0QqVSJiqCz-_YtJGhP3W6pE8UPEZhQhUMZrYKK3w/s400/Shakespeare.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5370072768576422514" border="0" /></a>William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564. He died 52 years later on April 23, 1616, his fifty second birthday. If I haven't accomplished anything else, I outlived him.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-33299706528627607362009-08-11T13:00:00.001+08:002009-08-11T13:25:32.069+08:00Ontario International Airport<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0kovD_WhYbbnenak2X4U0wjFPaKJ0A4yoRnRT6SZ7w7SR53KyOsm5NHlODa0G3Fdge2JXs07NS02GAyFIwyOrBdxEqyL_LZq5f0XuUBFtcq7pZfqgHo6IHomcf1zD16PHFJbGng/s1600-h/00037v.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368562668369761458" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 300px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0kovD_WhYbbnenak2X4U0wjFPaKJ0A4yoRnRT6SZ7w7SR53KyOsm5NHlODa0G3Fdge2JXs07NS02GAyFIwyOrBdxEqyL_LZq5f0XuUBFtcq7pZfqgHo6IHomcf1zD16PHFJbGng/s400/00037v.jpg" border="0" /></a>Between August 1995 and June 1997 I was Teacher of Instrumental Music and English as a Foreign Language at <strong>Sekolah Pelita Harapan--Bukit Sentul Campus</strong>, located near Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. One of the benefits of being a teacher there was receiving money for a round trip ticket to our home of record.</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">When I took the job, they flew me from Los Angeles International Airport. I remember being happy that the company put us on Singapore Airlines and not Philippine Airlines. There was a Philippine Airlines plane next to our plane. It would leave thirty minutes after us. But it began loading thirty minutes earlier. And they packed it like a sardine can.</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">My wife was a Green Card holder at this time and had to periodically make trips to the United States for two weeks at a time. We'd go to Guam for a fraction of the cost to California and it satisified that requirement. (Continental Airlines no longer flies between Bali and Guam so I don't know what we'd do today...)</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">When the school had us fill out the paperwork for our travel bonuses they wanted to know the closest airport to our homes of record, not necessarily the one where we came from. I wrote: Ontario International Airport (ONT). They said we could get more money that way.</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) would pay $750 per person or $3,000 for the family. I got $7,000 or $1,750 per person. I thought the extra $4,000 was a mistake. It's only 15 minutes to fly to Ontario from LAX. Why should it cost an extra thousand bucks?</div><div align="justify"> </div><div align="justify">The school answered that their books said that it's four hours to fly from Los Angeles to anywhere in the province of Ontario. Then I knew they didn't understand. They never knew that Ontario is a large city in Southern California. I tried to explain over and over. Too bad I didn't bring any road maps to Indonesia!</div><blockquote><div align="center"><blockquote></blockquote></div><div align="justify"> </div></blockquote><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-59913478894424756762009-08-10T13:30:00.002+08:002009-08-11T12:39:24.857+08:00Old Time Radio... IN 1994!<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi55gOk-JdOV7HgSZkkMP7QhaRIof5mL6FIMEQR5kib_3DVRAyYb4IzShzwH5qI0iZfNTPtiiLsTORf1QOiYTT_HWGPh6gzqVfNP23yCFn2QYTLewO6HNmfSdaoNLFwwiayUHwSzg/s1600-h/NFC-Trowback-Uniform-STL.PNG"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368191772432508962" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 290px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 320px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi55gOk-JdOV7HgSZkkMP7QhaRIof5mL6FIMEQR5kib_3DVRAyYb4IzShzwH5qI0iZfNTPtiiLsTORf1QOiYTT_HWGPh6gzqVfNP23yCFn2QYTLewO6HNmfSdaoNLFwwiayUHwSzg/s320/NFC-Trowback-Uniform-STL.PNG" border="0" /></a>When most people think of <strong>Old Time Radio (OTR)</strong> they think to the 1930s or 1940s. Some of us don't have to go so far. Los Angeles radio, 1994, had <strong>KMPC</strong> (710 kHz) still playing adult standards. There was a lot of <strong>TalkRadio</strong>, <strong>SportsRadio</strong>, and Spanglish radio. AM radio was humming 15 years ago. There was very little in the way of Top-40, although it was still around. The alternative non-TalkRadio/non-SportsRadio/non-Spanglish stations offered SUPERIOR entertainment and information.</div><br /><br /><div align="justify"><strong>KPLS</strong>, at 830 kHz, in Orange was the Los Angeles home of <strong>Radio Aahs</strong>. Previously, this station was the home of <strong>Catholic Family Radio</strong>, offering liturgy, music, sermons, and (really late at night) <em>OLD TIME RADIO</em>! As for Radio Aahs, most of the personalities were actual children with a few adult announcers and there were plenty there for supervision. The network studios were located in the Minneapolis -Saint Paul area of Minnesota and the commercials featured lots of products for which that area is famous, such as General Mills cereals and Pillsbury cookie dough.</div><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><br /><br /><p align="justify"><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSIWs5_EApUfy3nFCzaVYVQs0J_q9zJw5j8rn8GYqj2d6QhpxLsIKUYOMKHtS6mjnMA5JGWntQo1B4tnryjtp4_6F34no0Xm-5RzfUVHDoRKxZSR_Jhm46QbxTGg2wfDZqf0mrA/s1600-h/kgrb1.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368196698066385410" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 96px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTSIWs5_EApUfy3nFCzaVYVQs0J_q9zJw5j8rn8GYqj2d6QhpxLsIKUYOMKHtS6mjnMA5JGWntQo1B4tnryjtp4_6F34no0Xm-5RzfUVHDoRKxZSR_Jhm46QbxTGg2wfDZqf0mrA/s200/kgrb1.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong>KGRB</strong> at 900 kHz in Industry (licensed to West Covina) offered the best in popular music of the past 75 years. There were plans to offer, in addition to the NBC Radio news it had on the hour, to add NBC old time radio shows and give it the call letters, <strong>KNBC</strong>. NBC never owned a radio station in Los Angeles. Because of the illness and subsequent death of the stations owner, the planned NBC station never happened.</p><br /><br /><p align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsffWXCL3B4C-gTm7qfP7BeREFhG8xuScsfX_EQPxezHE0xqnmgn4QEN1G-aGBQ28anAlSHANIqX2QzscAPbChPGPiKsy8kdesJcXcdvTVsQa-SdEwOQmJk5S2HQq2dKn-psP2zA/s1600-h/cbs_radio.jpg"><strong><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368203274943566642" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 148px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsffWXCL3B4C-gTm7qfP7BeREFhG8xuScsfX_EQPxezHE0xqnmgn4QEN1G-aGBQ28anAlSHANIqX2QzscAPbChPGPiKsy8kdesJcXcdvTVsQa-SdEwOQmJk5S2HQq2dKn-psP2zA/s200/cbs_radio.jpg" border="0" /></strong></a><strong>KNX</strong> at 1070 kHz, under George Nicholaw, offered one of the best full service AM radio stations in the country. It never offered 24 hours of news. Even during disasters, when the Drama Hour was not aired, there were other features broadcast.</p><br /><p align="justify">But it was the Drama Hour that kept us focused on that station. The old radio shows, some of which were broadcast from Columbia Square when they first aired, were a fixture on the station until the night of October 31, 2004, when the station decided we needed more news, so they added TalkRadio and a cooking show. Bleah!</p><br /><p align="justify">I'll have more about radio much later on.</p><br /><p align="justify"></p><br /><p align="justify">____________________________________________</p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIgMLLDYMjkx1i3vf6TYWT_YtD52zVjeUg6R_2it16Pp1AAtKvHhFGsaCpiMdCc2a-Xvn8IJ7ecYutA_HY3285-XkMQAgkt8lckmQqT-X5LvRMHvLSDlN09BPP-qR4uJkAonQh9A/s1600-h/SongImage95.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5368208655961983762" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 216px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 163px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIgMLLDYMjkx1i3vf6TYWT_YtD52zVjeUg6R_2it16Pp1AAtKvHhFGsaCpiMdCc2a-Xvn8IJ7ecYutA_HY3285-XkMQAgkt8lckmQqT-X5LvRMHvLSDlN09BPP-qR4uJkAonQh9A/s400/SongImage95.jpg" border="0" /></a> <p align="justify">Today is my birthday. At 4:30 PM (Philippines time) I will officially be 52 years old (this was 1:30 AM in Riverside, California, where I was born). Since I don't like the traditional birthday song that the Hill sisters wrote about 120 years ago (and it's still under copyright), let me teach you this song. </p><p align="justify">This is great:</p><br /><p align="justify"><br /><br />Put another candle on my birthday cake<br />We're gonna bake a birthday cake<br />Put another candle on my birthday cake<br />I'm another year old today<br /><br />I'm gonna have a party with my birthday cake<br />Come on and take some birthday cake<br />Put another candle on my birthday cake<br />I'm another year old today<br /><br />We'll have some pie and sandwiches<br />And chocolate ice cream too<br />We'll sing and play the day away<br />And one more thing I'm going to do<br /><br />I'll blow out the candles on my birthday cake<br />And when I do, a wish I'll make<br />Put another candle on my birthday cake<br />I'm another year old today<br /><br />Put another candle on my birthday cake<br />We're gonna bake a birthday cake<br />Put another candle on my birthday cake<br />I'm another year old today<br /><br />I'm gonna have a party with my birthday cake<br />Come on and take some birthday cake<br />Put another candle on my birthday cake<br />I'm another year old today<br /><br />We'll have some pie and sandwiches<br />And chocolate ice cream, too<br />We'll sing and play the day away<br />And one more thing I'm going to do<br /><br />I'll blow out the candles on my birthday cake<br />And when I do, a wish I'll make<br />Put another candle on my birthday cake<br />I'm another year old today<br /><br /><strong>"Happy birthday to you"</strong><br />I'm another year old today.</p><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><em>Thanks, Sheriff John!</em></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-36038980896487209252009-07-27T12:30:00.001+08:002009-08-07T12:46:56.112+08:00This Week's Sponsors...<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPHfQC28DHdahLKijlN7JzC3GRCAY8wr5O_7yZOVBp9FKV8eTZTwl1-mlV3mRuuEQYLCnb16AojVd_3qaqhd1Dow1J_PLqMcPRm2XonZ3W_fEI8KwKvKFVNaGz-o88JYmyoMjW-w/s1600-h/sf246b.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPHfQC28DHdahLKijlN7JzC3GRCAY8wr5O_7yZOVBp9FKV8eTZTwl1-mlV3mRuuEQYLCnb16AojVd_3qaqhd1Dow1J_PLqMcPRm2XonZ3W_fEI8KwKvKFVNaGz-o88JYmyoMjW-w/s320/sf246b.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367077598763626706" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Roy Phillips Truck Stop</span> - - Flying A gasoline and Diesel Fuel. We offer unlimited parking for most rigs and a place for Colton High School students to smoke/hang out between classes. Located at the corner of Rancho Avenue and Valley Boulevard (where I Street becomes Valley Boulevard) just immediately outside the Colton city limits, so it takes at least 30 minutes for the San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies to get to us.<br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjztOWhqcz8c7R6LHoZE2oicDyp4qfyp8f0gQ9rlr8AYdW3r_JdigV3802Mvvw6dNHJI8_Ot51YbvEbLiNa0VoYu8S5uRmNLTScI6Ru-iKXtPp685-HN11lZd2jaqPxno_bzV1Yow/s1600-h/cantinflas.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 309px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjztOWhqcz8c7R6LHoZE2oicDyp4qfyp8f0gQ9rlr8AYdW3r_JdigV3802Mvvw6dNHJI8_Ot51YbvEbLiNa0VoYu8S5uRmNLTScI6Ru-iKXtPp685-HN11lZd2jaqPxno_bzV1Yow/s400/cantinflas.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367073835947755074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">New Colton Theatre</span> - - One of the oldest cinemas in the area, complete with a real balcony. Tonight's film is <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">El bolero de Raquel</span>, starring Cantinflas. Take the Ninth Street exit from the San Bernardino Freeway (I-10).<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnfwXt_Rzum4W67UTfsFLLJ5brs_vEfQ-OkKOQx_obsTvYMESKaw_L5mwzVkZC-X9XihyphenhyphenWh46m-Iw4_W67j9KwUBvFf6icMAxXEDL-I0yZq9Y_8XzVr_mqtpOm8ZPz2aZOCwFvsw/s1600-h/1929.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 298px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnfwXt_Rzum4W67UTfsFLLJ5brs_vEfQ-OkKOQx_obsTvYMESKaw_L5mwzVkZC-X9XihyphenhyphenWh46m-Iw4_W67j9KwUBvFf6icMAxXEDL-I0yZq9Y_8XzVr_mqtpOm8ZPz2aZOCwFvsw/s400/1929.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367072690938691074" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">San Bernardino Valley College Indians Football </span>- - Saturday's games pits the Indians against the Riverside City College Tigers. There will be a special half-time show by the SBVC Marching Band, under the direction of C. Paul Oxley. The game will be at the National Orange Show Stadium and begins at 7:30 PM. Come early and enjoy an exciting pregame show by the band.<br /></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFWuJ0Kn-DaqvmsqLiwgA2seM1p9UD5ULvmqUGd9jYO7gSVoBlvhsqnizUN0qSuvkoXu2O0gtdsEqxaxwBaaD5fMCWdu3qqEUoUMKRfI7qfjtCwmj4_60hRRFtQVdohGIfvW0H9w/s1600-h/harris.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 206px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFWuJ0Kn-DaqvmsqLiwgA2seM1p9UD5ULvmqUGd9jYO7gSVoBlvhsqnizUN0qSuvkoXu2O0gtdsEqxaxwBaaD5fMCWdu3qqEUoUMKRfI7qfjtCwmj4_60hRRFtQVdohGIfvW0H9w/s320/harris.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367071225739840514" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br />Harris' Department Store</span> - - The finest in merchandise to be found in San Bernardino, Riverside, and Redlands. We are the exclusive retailer for Magnavox electronics. We give and redeem S&H Green Stamps.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjATFSn3SbrEmVucLQea7AbKMsfvKQCgN5cj_6zVoUaUwMyAtt2oQPYYJoN1ZeEufn7mFv_V3xOc9epPwokwnsqv9GmXM18ZeAUTWmTzYyBW-RJ-A0XdKOsOhYDramn6WmNFw3njA/s1600-h/cow.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 340px; height: 255px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjATFSn3SbrEmVucLQea7AbKMsfvKQCgN5cj_6zVoUaUwMyAtt2oQPYYJoN1ZeEufn7mFv_V3xOc9epPwokwnsqv9GmXM18ZeAUTWmTzYyBW-RJ-A0XdKOsOhYDramn6WmNFw3njA/s400/cow.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5367070088893089394" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Blue Mountain Dairy</span> - - Colton's own dairy. We provide milk for all of the schools of the Colton Joint Unified School District. Visit our convenient cash and carry store on Cypress Street, just north of Valley Boulevard<br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-46490654559774111612009-07-24T13:00:00.001+08:002009-07-25T13:23:07.434+08:00From the Bible...<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic; FONT-WEIGHT: boldfont-size:130%;" >"...their normal lifespan will be no longer than 120 years."</span><br /></div><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Genesis 6:3 </span><br /><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">(New Living Translation)</span></span><br /><br /><div style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><span style="font-size:100%;"></span>God has said that human beings can't live any longer than 120 years. That is why the Guinness World Book of Records has trouble believing anyone who has lived for 140 years.<br /><br />I intend to live at least 100 years. Despite a family history of cancer, diabetes, arthritis, heart problems, and high blood pressure, I think I can do it. </div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-84397091707492025232009-07-19T12:00:00.000+08:002009-07-19T13:00:26.619+08:00Mickey Cohen (1913-76)<div align="justify"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilOgMfkR2No0x_Nrc0-6eq43vJ0ORwUegrB3Hts9fOwucDOsH-RdDM3-UUSIpuI1eYEHznACKZXtKKwInKSIYLUyak9lObRQL_Vs7_1kqBktA5nX6sUDGvoQBtSB9dlCW3fwIcWg/s1600-h/school.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360020420938926738" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 154px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilOgMfkR2No0x_Nrc0-6eq43vJ0ORwUegrB3Hts9fOwucDOsH-RdDM3-UUSIpuI1eYEHznACKZXtKKwInKSIYLUyak9lObRQL_Vs7_1kqBktA5nX6sUDGvoQBtSB9dlCW3fwIcWg/s200/school.jpg" border="0" /></a> <strong>Meyer Harris Cohen</strong> was born September 4, 1913, in Brooklyn, New York. His mother had immigrated from Ukraine. At three, he moved with his sister Lillie to the Boyle Heights section of Los Angeles. Two of his brothers (Harry and Louis) became gangsters at a very early age. His father was a gangster. His brother Sam took a different route and lived the ordinary life of a hard working Orthodox Jew. Ironically, most people saw Mickey as a sweet kid with a delightful personality.</div><br /><br /><p align="justify"><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCTbhG5YgJBKrYLUN1eYuVQUNDfLpLIU05LFYeMoluo-ENRBj5j-KIXCMaNVmuXfKvbuYgfPhU6dHrV5bOH8d-M7fZnbNCxacdyocmzfEtFHPGa0VEu1NkZ5D_Qa7T4ebNlY-tdA/s1600-h/talking.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360021965045322242" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 114px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCTbhG5YgJBKrYLUN1eYuVQUNDfLpLIU05LFYeMoluo-ENRBj5j-KIXCMaNVmuXfKvbuYgfPhU6dHrV5bOH8d-M7fZnbNCxacdyocmzfEtFHPGa0VEu1NkZ5D_Qa7T4ebNlY-tdA/s200/talking.jpg" border="0" /></a> He went back to New York in 1923 and began working in the illegal alcohol business at the age of nine. (This was the time of Prohibition, when alcohol was illegal to be sold as a beverage. He would sell the drinks to his older brother who owned a drug store that did a fair business as a <em>speakeasy</em>.<br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyHvOMQAJpaedD246AoBYEn53nktTbshDqcW3uneFeg5Xu1ofYwOxDXIXdi_GllH3iFcgy1TkKAJ2yfWZVFCqFfoPMxIkvUcd6HF8oKiptpWgHa1BiBsgseOlIDq1QG-_ya9_zg/s1600-h/newspapers.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360023658357887698" style="FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; WIDTH: 179px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDyHvOMQAJpaedD246AoBYEn53nktTbshDqcW3uneFeg5Xu1ofYwOxDXIXdi_GllH3iFcgy1TkKAJ2yfWZVFCqFfoPMxIkvUcd6HF8oKiptpWgHa1BiBsgseOlIDq1QG-_ya9_zg/s200/newspapers.jpg" border="0" /></a>As a teenager, he went back to Los Angeles and began boxing illegally. This led to other criminal activities. He was a smooth talker. </p><br /><br /><p></p><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimSDUOdPgTbxVXGTDg2foG2RDLTsLkfSFxlG9RpvaJA5rma_CD7gikBXEFINHC0k93tGxxy-ZK6Fil9YpdMsWY_LzAt3bJ7gkg5DEpL-8Wg9e-Gak1BxuStrWSg-fOHyLMF0D9EA/s1600-h/boxer.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360025998601256450" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 141px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 200px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimSDUOdPgTbxVXGTDg2foG2RDLTsLkfSFxlG9RpvaJA5rma_CD7gikBXEFINHC0k93tGxxy-ZK6Fil9YpdMsWY_LzAt3bJ7gkg5DEpL-8Wg9e-Gak1BxuStrWSg-fOHyLMF0D9EA/s200/boxer.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><p align="justify">He spent time in Chicago and met Al Capone. Mickey worked with Al's brother Frank for a brief period. But he'd always keep going back to L.A. He became the head of the syndicate in Los Angeles, dealing mostly with illegal gambling... but packing quite a few weapons.<br /></p><br /><br /><br /><p align="justify">There was also some sex related activity, usually voyeuristic pornography. This was not such a big thing for Mickey. He preferred dealing with schemes that made money.</p><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxv0EHjCROQ__m8JpoOKqZxl82hi2JaTdll1LMn6bZuorCItJKVBD_R1QxRiE4DywCAAn4d4-kKIpu-P6ZzCFLqpnSzSiVQMSRnRskHI68CwVp76YSDzfhtFV4m7XTmHOa2dKsg/s1600-h/flamingo.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360027320048892002" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 400px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 233px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFxv0EHjCROQ__m8JpoOKqZxl82hi2JaTdll1LMn6bZuorCItJKVBD_R1QxRiE4DywCAAn4d4-kKIpu-P6ZzCFLqpnSzSiVQMSRnRskHI68CwVp76YSDzfhtFV4m7XTmHOa2dKsg/s400/flamingo.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><p align="justify">In 1947, he took over the role that <strong>Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel</strong> (1906-47) of managing the Flamingo Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada. </p><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir3G176aqlL_5auqtaFbn6eLtJC32dEVjb33OO1ic7ooXpuZuRx9_QPraak5rtxNskLLu4ADl3HnU9XFvfcvZRwlFhzgaWPD9FJYZXV9hPMFETby43XPqqmtyVYVSq8Kf44c7p7A/s1600-h/police.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5360028538431937762" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 10px 10px 0px; WIDTH: 314px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 400px" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir3G176aqlL_5auqtaFbn6eLtJC32dEVjb33OO1ic7ooXpuZuRx9_QPraak5rtxNskLLu4ADl3HnU9XFvfcvZRwlFhzgaWPD9FJYZXV9hPMFETby43XPqqmtyVYVSq8Kf44c7p7A/s400/police.jpg" border="0" /></a> <p align="justify">Much more happened, but this was not the Mickey Cohen I remember seeing when I was growing up. In 1961 he was sent to <strong>Alcatraz Prison</strong> on the charge of income tax evasion. After Alcatraz closed in 1963 he was sent to the <strong>Atlanta Federal Penitentiary</strong>. He was released in 1972 on medical grounds. Diagnosed with an ulcer, it was found to be stomach cancer, and it was fatal.</p><p align="justify">Mickey lived the last five years of his life as a sweetheart of talk shows (including Merv Griffin), becoming a Christian believer at a Billy Graham Crusade (some say that was for show), and informing Attorney General <strong>Ramsey Clark</strong> (1927-) on the real activities of the mob.</p><p align="justify">He dealt with the kidnapers of <strong>Randolph Apperson Hearst's</strong> (1915-2000) daughter, <strong>Patty</strong> (1954- ) to release her. For those of you who remember that situation, the whole thing was quite confusing... One minute, you thought that she went with the group of thugs on her own free will and the next, you thought she was kidnaped. And that's what TV was like during the spring of 1974!</p><p align="justify">Mickey died on July 29, 1976, and is interred at the <strong>Hillside Memorial Cemetery</strong>.<br /></p><br /><br /><br /><div align="justify"></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-29992560906280333762009-07-18T14:00:00.001+08:002009-07-18T14:55:18.118+08:00US Highway 466<div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PRHpaSAV1G0hQwsHIAzUTB68JRBnQacxKss71ob-vXZ9e9aicfZSQfdIicElSnn0WR3VUCExq8dsxJZy6EOKVIURmR9h4iS3-6p9rRtUHkfV_IsgzOX11i7VrDe5bLsBfR88tw/s1600-h/466.gif"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 107px; height: 104px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0PRHpaSAV1G0hQwsHIAzUTB68JRBnQacxKss71ob-vXZ9e9aicfZSQfdIicElSnn0WR3VUCExq8dsxJZy6EOKVIURmR9h4iS3-6p9rRtUHkfV_IsgzOX11i7VrDe5bLsBfR88tw/s400/466.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359679806995108738" border="0" /></a>It began in Kingman, Arizona, where Route 66 and Route 93 met. From Kingman, it followed Route 93 to Las Vegas, Nevada. From there, it went south down Route 91. Just before Route 91 got to Barstow, California, it went off on its own way into Bakersfield. It went up Route 99 to Famoso and then took a turn westward to Shandon, and west to Paso Robles. It then went south on Route 101, took a turn west at Atascadero, then ending at Morro Bay (according to my 1936 map of California...)<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjv0qRMevEIRtg0oAeo7EzKSN4pXfDDKTpilfFIQ3VKP-0VtqF-ihyphenhyphendPmdHPcTMxZUFAces4XlyHyqqfSB9qR2eSvBzq4eXZqeHdUQlY-68Pgvkl2KmLFSyxwpk7FCIOg5akLug/s1600-h/james-dean-55.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 300px; height: 353px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBjv0qRMevEIRtg0oAeo7EzKSN4pXfDDKTpilfFIQ3VKP-0VtqF-ihyphenhyphendPmdHPcTMxZUFAces4XlyHyqqfSB9qR2eSvBzq4eXZqeHdUQlY-68Pgvkl2KmLFSyxwpk7FCIOg5akLug/s400/james-dean-55.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359679384536099138" border="0" /></a>Probably the most famous thing that ever happened on the road was on September 30, 1955, when actor <span style="font-weight: bold;">James Dean</span> (1930-55) was killed in an accident with his Porsche Spyder. It's ironic that he had just done a TV safety spot with Gig Young just prior to that occurrence. He warned young drivers not to speed... "...the life you save may be my own!" But it was his own speed that killed him.<br /><br />When John Steinbeck's novel (and later the motion picture) <span style="font-weight: bold;">The Grapes of Wrath</span> appeared, the Joad family took Route 466 to get from Barstow to Bakersfield. It should be pointed out that 466 only met Route 66 at one point, its terminus in Kingman. At Barstow, Route 466 was two miles north of town. In real life during the Depression, it was no problem to find the road... there were people on the highway 24 hours a day, seven days a week.<br /><br /></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheQghcI6AqL0rk8wLB5brTgy44o8VeZ_bEgCg8V1OuZzy75sEBty7NrMlVzsicbz7o3YpZO57S4gcS9tzn4TLpr5bhft-iR-g_avrZXADPPpskwVy5dkycar5nMfyJkZW1yfhYsA/s1600-h/old+hwy+58.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheQghcI6AqL0rk8wLB5brTgy44o8VeZ_bEgCg8V1OuZzy75sEBty7NrMlVzsicbz7o3YpZO57S4gcS9tzn4TLpr5bhft-iR-g_avrZXADPPpskwVy5dkycar5nMfyJkZW1yfhYsA/s400/old+hwy+58.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359678898982679586" border="0" /></a><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">California's Department of Transportation (Caltrans) decommissioned Route 466 in 1964. It had served the state as a major thoroughfare for 32 years. Route 58 went from Barstow to Bakersfield, then went elsewhere. From Famoso to Paso Robles it became Route 46. And between Atascadero to Morro Bay it was Route 41. (Actually, it was colabeled with Route 41 around Shandon and between Atascadero and Morro Bay.)<br /><br />When Caltrans built a new freeway for Route 58 to the SOUTH of Barstow a few years ago, the exit for the old highway was listed as <span style="font-weight: bold;">OLD HWY 58</span>. Route 466 was completely forgotten.<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUaPt3W1BZvhIN1L0GM6eiLyf377UPYG8gJA-SQaxvGaWqSusBKUQn6cyYax3IvOSA_bsc9cu1BYaxHUoBnBD_wFuRlXZsAkeBPbRYywQbBghbozYzFxrb2CvuClXPio58uFuJWA/s1600-h/sweatshirt.jpg"><img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 350px; height: 350px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUaPt3W1BZvhIN1L0GM6eiLyf377UPYG8gJA-SQaxvGaWqSusBKUQn6cyYax3IvOSA_bsc9cu1BYaxHUoBnBD_wFuRlXZsAkeBPbRYywQbBghbozYzFxrb2CvuClXPio58uFuJWA/s400/sweatshirt.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359678787667218194" border="0" /></a>However, the LoyalTubist has not forgotten the road. And here is your chance to own a piece of history. Click on this <a href="http://clothing.cafepress.com/item/hooded-us-hwy-466-sweatshirt/301872043"><span style="font-weight: bold;">link</span></a> to buy your own Route 466 hooded sweatshirt. It's available in white or gray. It shows the California version of the highway shield.<br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Did you know California is the only state that cuts out its US highway shields in the shape of a shield and not a rectangle? Perhaps this is the reason, in 1964, that Caltrans eliminated all but six US highways: 6, 50, 95, 101, 199, and 395.<br /></div><br /><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmETw6W2WpRSp8J5z_qaZQ4MwGM5Imuc9raSO60Xf_rXqDWo8KVx-0W9Jd65c4D6Nt6NDRZzv5Bv34dc00BEFrZYu7BPCD5KSUsUcqmkTyffPTQWeDRjepFvd8joLkWZQfc7A6lg/s1600-h/466.png"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 160px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmETw6W2WpRSp8J5z_qaZQ4MwGM5Imuc9raSO60Xf_rXqDWo8KVx-0W9Jd65c4D6Nt6NDRZzv5Bv34dc00BEFrZYu7BPCD5KSUsUcqmkTyffPTQWeDRjepFvd8joLkWZQfc7A6lg/s200/466.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359688243957572706" border="0" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9540218.post-72222447376434960922009-07-17T18:00:00.002+08:002009-07-17T19:13:00.770+08:00School of the Day<div align="center"><strong><span style="font-size:180%;">John F. Kennedy High School<br /></span></strong><span style="font-size:130%;">Barstow, California</span> </div><div align="center"><br /><strong><em><span style="font-size:180%;">Go Spartans!</span></em></strong> </div><div align="center"> </div><div align="center"><br /> </div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghRSJZ5h9bs9GuLVMkH2uF8pBteNXFV9R9LYW3-jBZ_E89EFz3jNgR93D40XNTRIbWRG4WA_RHH99-rPtuugUWtaXoUsa65jM1FCmFNU2zn_o1ZhDFzQ_ZTNZhnha_IaoMtH2VLg/s1600-h/KHS75.jpg"><img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359384167999318018" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 200px; CURSOR: hand; HEIGHT: 267px; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghRSJZ5h9bs9GuLVMkH2uF8pBteNXFV9R9LYW3-jBZ_E89EFz3jNgR93D40XNTRIbWRG4WA_RHH99-rPtuugUWtaXoUsa65jM1FCmFNU2zn_o1ZhDFzQ_ZTNZhnha_IaoMtH2VLg/s400/KHS75.jpg" border="0" /></a><br /><div align="center"><span style="font-size:78%;">THIS WAS THE FIRST SCHOOL NAMED FOR THE LATE PRESIDENT THAT CLOSED DOWN. IT EXISTED FROM 1965-78. AT THAT TIME THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAD GOTTEN SMALLER AS BAKER AND YERMO GOT THEIR OWN HIGH SCHOOLS. BARSTOW UNIFIED COULD NO LONGER BE CALLED "THE LARGEST SCHOOL DISTRICT IN THE UNITED STATES."</span></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Intelligence sometimes gets confused with wisdom.</div>LoyalTubisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14134197660709867672noreply@blogger.com2