Old Man's Corners

[SolarWarden]

Underrated song

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[mythbuster]

I can't believe I'm admitting this but recently I've started watching reaction videos from these young whipper snappers reacting to 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's music. I like some of their reaction, critique and breakdown of classic songs with many saying WTF happen to our generation of music.

......Tom Jones ' Delilah ' is becoming like national anthem for whipper snappers

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

Y'all haven't lived until you spent your Saturday night like this:

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[Davey Crockett]

Loved it because it came after the Simpsons. Poor Al I don't think I ever saw him eat a full meal.

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[Davey Crockett]

Y'all haven't lived until you spent your Saturday night like this:

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After Hee Haw, the Lawrence Welk show. Brush my teeth, say my prayers, go to bed. Born in 1965.

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[AZ_HighCountry]

My grandparents liked Lawrence Welk. I didn't.

Back in the day, when it first came out, 60 Minutes was a good program.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

A little on-line searching and a trip down memory lane:

 

[Davey Crockett]

Underrated song

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[AZ_HighCountry]

The only natural harbor on Lake Erie:



Presque Isle State Park.

Someday, long after we're all gone, Presque Isle should be down around Buffalo.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

My high school. Clearly underwent some renovations since it opened in 1973.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

This one is not mine but this was my first car:



1970 Plymouth Fury 3 Coupe in this exact color. 383 engine.

Fun fact: at the time, the Fury was also the car of choice for the Pennsylvania State Police.

 

[AZ_HighCountry]

This is turning out to be a good thread!

Gives us old guys a chance to share some of the past that we lived.

 

[Davey Crockett]

A little on-line searching and a trip down memory lane:

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100 years ago today, Forbes was baseball's first true palace​

ALAN ROBINSON AP Sports Writer

Roberto Clemente’s first hit and Babe Ruth’s parting shot occurred within the confines of the most spacious ballpark any major league baseball team called home.

So did Bill Mazeroski’s 1960 World Series Game 7 homer, one so improbable, so magical that it seems certain to live in baseball’s memory bank as long as the sport exists.


The first fireworks night and last tripleheader? Chuck Noll’s first home game as the Steelers’ coach? The first live broadcasts of major league baseball and college football? Forbes Field was home to all of that and much more during 61 eventful years that helped launch not one but, eventually, two ballpark-building construction binges.

Baseball’s modern ballpark era was ushered in 100 years ago Tuesday when Forbes Field was christened in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. Today, its treasures live on in a modern-day gem named PNC Park that copies much of Forbes’ coziness, charm and quirkiness.


Named for British Gen. John Forbes, who forces captured Fort Duquesne during the French and Indian War in the mid-18th century, it was the National League’s first modern concrete-and-steel park, a massive-for-its-era structure that towered above a picturesque city park and was so innovative that many of its touches can still be found in ballparks from coast to coast.

While the Philadelphia Athletics’ Shibe Park (later, Connie Mack Stadium) predated Forbes by two months, nothing in baseball’s relatively brief history to that time rivaled the two-tiered palace that Pirates owner Barney Dreyfuss dedicated before a Cubs-Pirates game on June 30, 1909.

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[AZ_HighCountry]

Holy crap AZ!!! The mouth of Walnut Creek did NOT look like this when you were growing up:



The "marina" is new. Where you see the arrow, that is the old boat launching ramp:

The water is Lake Erie, so that is north.

The cottage circled in red on the west side of Walnut Creek was once owned by my great-grandparents.

Another fun fact: in addition to being the president of American Sterilizer, my great-grandfather, who was an engineer by training, was the Chief Engineer on Admiral Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay.