Bruette
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It was before challenges.
Running Bear's June 2023 Coffee Shop
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Edit to add it was in Anderson, Indiana. Howe was the name of the company, but this family wasn't related to the Howes. They got involved a couple of years before the company was sold to some big conglomerate.
Thanks for the many acknowledgments you've given my simple posts over the time I've been a member here.
Willie, I like what’s going on here…nice
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Bruette
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Congratulations Snowman and to your Denver Nuggets!
David "Skywalker" Thompson. I saw him play for N.C. State vs the University of Maryland in the ACC. He was a dominate force.
JeffH
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Nice! Do you collect? I have some friends from Indiana whose family had something to do with building firefighting apparatus. I want to say it was either in Franklin or Anderson, Indiana. Does that say Franklin on it? Just wondering if it mat be one of theirs.
Snowman
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On a personal note, I had fun playing head-to-head against a couple of future NBA players. We always matched up height vs. height, and "that other guy" had nearly three inches on me...but I think he STILL owes me some kickback money for helping him become a rebounding force and playing twelve years in the league (I would probably blow it all on model railroading, of course). I could still block his shots, and regularly, so he had to learn to out-rebound me. He did.
The guy I most remember matching up against though was not an NBA player. He was a starting linebacker for the original Broncos "Orange Crush" defense (they lost to Dallas in Denver's first Super Bowl). I THINK he was also drafted into the NBA, and had to make a choice, so he went the football route. Played ten years, I think.
We two matched up head-to-head once a week for about eight months (the tallest players generally do. I think I had half an inch on him), and he was such a quiet and unassuming guy I didn't realize who he even was until the very last night we played.
Even then, the only reason I finally figured it out was when he brought in his best buddy, the starting safety who I DID recognize right off the bat. Go figure.
I have very long arms and had a good outside shot--he had a zipper on one knee, maybe on both, so I could out jump him...but he had seventy odd pounds on me, and even though I was a good shot-blocker, he just muscled me inside. As a rule we scored pretty much evenly every night, so they were good games almost every time.
But I watch these NBA guys today. OMG. They play the game on a level we dared not even imagine. Jokic is nailing three-pointers from eight feet further out than even the top of the 3-point line? And he's SEVEN feet tall? That's just impossible, and yet I'm seeing it.
It's like watching Allen McLelland, Tony Koester, John Allen...John Nehrich...Gordon Odegard and Linn Westcott all combined into one...squared, and then cubed...
...and then going out to play them. To try to "out model-railroad" them.
It just ain't gonna happen.
But man...it's still fun just being out there...innit?
The guy I most remember matching up against though was not an NBA player. He was a starting linebacker for the original Broncos "Orange Crush" defense (they lost to Dallas in Denver's first Super Bowl). I THINK he was also drafted into the NBA, and had to make a choice, so he went the football route. Played ten years, I think.
We two matched up head-to-head once a week for about eight months (the tallest players generally do. I think I had half an inch on him), and he was such a quiet and unassuming guy I didn't realize who he even was until the very last night we played.
Even then, the only reason I finally figured it out was when he brought in his best buddy, the starting safety who I DID recognize right off the bat. Go figure.
I have very long arms and had a good outside shot--he had a zipper on one knee, maybe on both, so I could out jump him...but he had seventy odd pounds on me, and even though I was a good shot-blocker, he just muscled me inside. As a rule we scored pretty much evenly every night, so they were good games almost every time.
But I watch these NBA guys today. OMG. They play the game on a level we dared not even imagine. Jokic is nailing three-pointers from eight feet further out than even the top of the 3-point line? And he's SEVEN feet tall? That's just impossible, and yet I'm seeing it.
It's like watching Allen McLelland, Tony Koester, John Allen...John Nehrich...Gordon Odegard and Linn Westcott all combined into one...squared, and then cubed...
...and then going out to play them. To try to "out model-railroad" them.
It just ain't gonna happen.
But man...it's still fun just being out there...innit?
CambriaArea51
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Not leaving either, I'll post pics of whatever, non offensive, no religion, and no politics. If you don't like RR pics then go to a lawn mower, John Deere, Cub Cadet forum, or even a knitting forum. I'm here for the trains and nothing else.
CambriaArea51
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6 months away. 
rbturner
Randy
I do not collect. And I sold the ALF 5 years ago after I was no longer able to take care of it. It says "Nankin" on it. It belonged to a tiny township volunteer department where I got my fire career start in 1979. If you google Nankin/Orange township Ohio you will see where it was from. ALF/American LaFrance was located in El-Mira, New York.
Snowman
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Paper football, "quarters," and coin basketball.
Paper football was a game where you folded a sheet of paper into a triangular shape...then held it tip up (hand on the top)...the "kickoff..."...and flicked it with a finger snap toward your opponent. If you did it well you trapped your opponent at his end of the field. If you over kicked it so it ran off the edge of the table, however, then you got a penalty and he had a penalty kick from in close. The defensive player in either case put his hands thumb-tip to thumb-tip and raised his fingers vertically...this became the "goalposts"...and the receiving team/player "kicked off" back at the goalposts trying to sail it through the middle, etc. I recall we played it in grade-school on cafeteria lunch tables.
Here we go:
"Quarters" was some sort of beer drinking game. Perhaps like tiddly-winks, where you had to flip the quarter up into beer glass or somesuch....
"Coin Basketball" was a game I played with my aforementioned cousin after dinner. Dishes cleared--the rectangular dinner table measured about 3' x 6'--we would set up two "Avalon Hill" boardgame boxes, horizontally and standing on one side, at each end of the table. As backboards. Then a low waterglass in front touching the board as the hoops.
Each player would stand a quarter on end and "flick-spin" it so it spun like a top, from his end of the "court" back down toward the other end...then run down the side of the table to trap it before it spun to a stop and fell over. He'd try to trap it by squeezing his thumbs together, the still spinning coin in between.
If you missed, or if it fell over, it was a turnover*. If you snagged it, but not cleanly...say only on the edge...well...it was gonna be a tough shot, etc. Your best chance to score came when you snagged it cleanly.
[* and IIRC, the opposing "team" had a chance to spin and shoot back the other direction--they were in a lot closer when they started their spin the other way, so you didn't want any turnovers. If it was bad enough and too close, your opponent might even have a dunk
Once you "had possession" you shot the ball (the coin) by placing your forefingers on the table, then you would flip the coin back and forward again between your two thumbs...up and over your fingertips, and then off the backboard into the glass or without backboard assist for a "clean" jumper. There WERE occasional rebounds when it came back off after a miss but it spun on edge again for a moment. But you had to be good to get one, and they were rare.
Like this:
...except that we went for the backboard+waterglass target instead of the circled fingers.
Those were the days.
Paper football was a game where you folded a sheet of paper into a triangular shape...then held it tip up (hand on the top)...the "kickoff..."...and flicked it with a finger snap toward your opponent. If you did it well you trapped your opponent at his end of the field. If you over kicked it so it ran off the edge of the table, however, then you got a penalty and he had a penalty kick from in close. The defensive player in either case put his hands thumb-tip to thumb-tip and raised his fingers vertically...this became the "goalposts"...and the receiving team/player "kicked off" back at the goalposts trying to sail it through the middle, etc. I recall we played it in grade-school on cafeteria lunch tables.
Here we go:
"Quarters" was some sort of beer drinking game. Perhaps like tiddly-winks, where you had to flip the quarter up into beer glass or somesuch....
"Coin Basketball" was a game I played with my aforementioned cousin after dinner. Dishes cleared--the rectangular dinner table measured about 3' x 6'--we would set up two "Avalon Hill" boardgame boxes, horizontally and standing on one side, at each end of the table. As backboards. Then a low waterglass in front touching the board as the hoops.
Each player would stand a quarter on end and "flick-spin" it so it spun like a top, from his end of the "court" back down toward the other end...then run down the side of the table to trap it before it spun to a stop and fell over. He'd try to trap it by squeezing his thumbs together, the still spinning coin in between.
If you missed, or if it fell over, it was a turnover*. If you snagged it, but not cleanly...say only on the edge...well...it was gonna be a tough shot, etc. Your best chance to score came when you snagged it cleanly.
[* and IIRC, the opposing "team" had a chance to spin and shoot back the other direction--they were in a lot closer when they started their spin the other way, so you didn't want any turnovers. If it was bad enough and too close, your opponent might even have a dunk
Once you "had possession" you shot the ball (the coin) by placing your forefingers on the table, then you would flip the coin back and forward again between your two thumbs...up and over your fingertips, and then off the backboard into the glass or without backboard assist for a "clean" jumper. There WERE occasional rebounds when it came back off after a miss but it spun on edge again for a moment. But you had to be good to get one, and they were rare.
Like this:
...except that we went for the backboard+waterglass target instead of the circled fingers.
Those were the days.
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JeffH
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Small world. I used to drive through there between Sandusky and Wellington back in the late 90's. My Father was raised in Shelby, and they had friends in Wellington. Made that trip dozens of times taking my Grandmother to visit her friends in Wellington.
Edit to add it was in Anderson, Indiana. Howe was the name of the company, but this family wasn't related to the Howes. They got involved a couple of years before the company was sold to some big conglomerate.
NYC_George
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Sunday night I was bored so I decided to play a few races at Mountaineer Racetrack. I bet the 6 race and my horse is in tight at the top of the stretch. Everyone is fighting for the lead and one horse gets tripped up and falls. As he's on his back (pictured in photo 2) another horse has to jump over him and his jockey who's on the ground. I thought someone's hurt here either the jockey or horse or both but to my surprise no was hurt. Everyone got up.
As I said in a previous post my cousin was a big-time horse jockey for over 30 years and his last fall ended his racing career.
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As I said in a previous post my cousin was a big-time horse jockey for over 30 years and his last fall ended his racing career.
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KriegslokBR52
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Dang it, you stole my line. I was going to post that
troyphoto
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I tried to give you guys an easy one. Been waiting for Sherrel to return just to work it in somewhere.Dang it, you stole my line. I was going to post that
KriegslokBR52
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With these guys still bickering i was going to put a clip from the "Naked gun" of the opening scene in Beirut.
KriegslokBR52
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Sirfoldalot
Days Gone Bye!
Nothing new to to report - I thought we would have heard something by this time.
GEORGE - The Spousal Unit just finished watching the series WILDFIRE on Tubi last night.
There were a couple horses on the ground - a pretty good series if you like horses and drama.
GEORGE - The Spousal Unit just finished watching the series WILDFIRE on Tubi last night.
There were a couple horses on the ground - a pretty good series if you like horses and drama.
McLeod
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Up here in NW Alberta, it's definitely not auto parts. Most likely used for lumber, pulp, or glossy paper.
Thanks for the many acknowledgments you've given my simple posts over the time I've been a member here.
AirbrushNo5
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Willie, I like what’s going on here…nice
NYC_George
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Sherrel I tried to find the video of the race but found one that I could not share but only clip out frames. When the horses got his legs entangled with another horse and went down, I thought for sure other horses were also going down but one of the horses behind him jumped over. Smart horse. I watched in disbelieve as this was happening.
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Boris
Beach Bum
Ford Chassis - cool.
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