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I'd use an antenna in a heartbeat Right now I have the cheapest possible Comcast service, local channels only plus WGN from Chicago. But where I live in the Tucson area is west of the mountain range north of town, and the local broadcast antennas are on top of those mountains pointing south...

I have used Norelco rotary shavers since high school. (45+ years) I never liked shaving with soap and a blade, never tried another brand of electric. I guess that I agree they do not shave as close as they might, but they also never irritate my face. I do not use any kind of lotion. (thinking...

Our first automatic water heater was a Homart We got it sometime in the mid-50s. Before that we had a manually-controlled heater, which I do not believe I have ever seen discussed here. It was a non-insulated cylindrical metal tank, with a smaller cylinder grafted on the side which held a coil...

Well that snowplow video ...led to this one of the UP 3985 Challenger, which locomotive began this thread. If it's already been presented in one of the earlier posts, I did not find it in a cursory search.

Growing up in Detroit All the weddings I went to prior to college were Polish weddings. The menu varied a little, but every one had chicken soup, mashed potatoes, kielbasa, and city chicken as constants. Held in halls in the rear of commercial buildings, where the front was a flower shop or...

Garmin NUVI I got this GPS as a gift several years ago, and use it seldom. It has been handy when I was lost on the NW side of the Phoenix metro area, trying to find a subdivision in an area which I remembered as rural and agricultural. However, I just got back from a trip Tucson --> Fairfax...

I am using my second Cuisinart coffee maker. It's the one pictured in reply #2. The first one functioned for about ten years, I guess. It had one serious illness many years back, and the more recent failure seemed to be the toggle switch. Both times I was not able to discover how to take it the...

the old SP Daylight #4449 This locomotive passed through Tucson early in the 80's and I witnessed it pulling into the downtown siding where it stopped. My idea is that it was pulling the circus train, but I may have conflated that from some other event. I have photos someplace.

Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Mich The big locomotive in that museum is a C&O "Allegheny" 2-6-6-6, not a UP "Big Boy". I first saw it there in 1960 when I was 11 years old and have been fascinated ever since. It holds claim to some superlative metric, like it is the "heaviest locomotive" or...

I flew on a Caravelle once It was in 1988, on Halloween, from Paris to Nantes in France. It also was the end of a long trip so the details are gone, but I do remember the triangular windows. Also that the seat back would fold down flat onto the seat bottom. Never did appreciate the value of...

I just saw this thread today. My Win7 desktop icons stay where I put them as far as I can tell, but I have columns of them on the left edge of the screen. Five columns of ten rows, plus a couple at the top of the sixth column. I looked at the desktop right-click menu options. Auto arrange is...

NEW ENGLAND STYLE HOT DOG ROLLS Wow this triggered some old memories. Back in the early 50s, before the expressway, our family would periodically caravan down from Detroit to Toledo to visit relatives. This trip was made on US-24, a conventional highway. About halfway there, we would always...

Swing-A-Way I have two, the older of which I got when I was in college in the early 70s. Both work great. They are both the dual-gear variety and have been in the dishwasher hundreds of times. Perhaps the handle pivot is a little stiff, but no significant degradation in function is observed. I...

Never ate any Chinese food at all until I was in college. (Yat Wah restaurant in East Lansing MI) That LaChoy/ChunKing stuff was never found in our house at home.

I bought my own house in 1978 after about six years of apartment living and I was determined to never see the inside of a public laundry facility again. I got a J.C. Penney washing machine which was a G.E. under the skin. It did not have the basket for small loads, but it did have the filter...

Our A&P cashed checks too But it wasn't at a "service desk". There was a small cubicle with high walls up against one of the exterior walls, which was called the "manager's office". Check cashing was accomplished via a window in one of these walls. There was also a camera and they took your...

Nobody Owns A Cat I have two, and use Tidy Cat Multiple Cat Long-Lasting (or something like that, it's the red label not the green one) I do not care for clumping litter. Litter is deployed in open pans. They kick it over the sides, I sweep it up.

Link for the brown GE Americana Link for the brown GE Americana. http://www.ebay.com/itm/360469256146

remember one of the first search engines "AltaVista" Alta Vista was great, it simply did searches and did them very well. Google was that way too when they started, before they had to make money by skewing every search towards sites with something to sell.

Damnation Alley Landmaster (1977) I saw this beast in 1983 while on vacation in LA. It was parked behind a gas station on the frontage road of the freeway in Cahuenga Pass.