7:48 "The chasmfiend bellowed with an awful screeching sound. It trumpeted with four voices, overlapping one another." - WoK ch. 12 So that's what a chasmfiend sounds like!
My father worked at Ford Motor Company and was a Private Pilot. He was sent to visit Molt in Longview to evaluate the last version of the Aerocar. He said it actually was a pretty good airplane, but was a lousy car. About what you'd expect from an aircraft designer. Molt came to visit us in Detroit several times when i was a youngster. He insisted that I call him "Uncle Molt." We'd catch up with him every year at the EAA convention in Oshkosh. I remember going to dinner once with Molt and my father. Also at the table were Burt and Dick Rutan (RIP), Burt's wife, Ed Lesher, and some VP from General Dynamics who had built one of Molt's Coot Amphibians. This was before Dick's historic flight.
Throughout history, diseases "took care" of large families by killing many children. It is only a couple of decades in the 20th century during which large families like this were actually really common. It's really fascinating. Some people manage to be great parents to large families. They somehow manage to get important life lessons across together all children, feed them, allow them to become confident and mature adults, and spend time alone with each of them. In other families, too much responsibility was put - actually, forced - onto the elder children. They were forced to grow up too soon. Or abuse was used to create order. I seriously congratulate anyone who manages to do well with so many kids. It's not easy to raise one right, let alone seventeen.
Yeah, I'd agree with you there, a big part of doing the laundry is owning a washing machine. Please buy appliances first before you have your first kid.
Here is Harpo suddening appear on Groucho's You Bet Your Life ... I like how they shake hands ... Groucho is pleased to see his bro ... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SdFgzZBhU7Y.html
The Thomas Flyer was purchased by Bill Harrah of casino fame. He had George come inspect the car to authenticate it but George was skeptical at best. Upon disassembly George noticed a repair of the frame he had done in Russia, some initials carved into the seat frame, and a repair to the clutch at which point he proclaimed that the car is the car he drove around the world. Bill had the car restored to the point it had finished the race in Paris. The car competed in the 1986 Great American Race driven by Ginni Withers. What provenance!
When I first started working as a flight attendant I was based in Boston and one time took the 9am flight to Bermuda with my roommate to have lunch then flew back that afternoon. Fun times!
From a 64 year olds viewpoint...world sure has changed. He goes to work at 12/13 years old on the highway department, and nowadays you can't get a 30 something off a couch. Nowadays, Father Flanigan would've been arrested and sent to court for getting him the job, and CNN news would be blasting the company execs that hired him and put him to work. Keep in mind, that's just the point of view of a 64 year old that drew a paycheck since he was 12, along with his sisters and brother. Anywhoooo.... this guy earned that carton of Winstons. 👍
That was really fun to watch. Got to see how people had such a good sense of humor. Loved seeing the street and cars back then. Class act. My father played a lot of Count Basie. He loved jazz.
