Category: Travel

But That Train Keeps A-Rollin’

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from “Hometown USA”

Well-dressed workers flank a locomotive in the Illinois Central Railyard of Paducah, Kentucky, during the flood of 1913. I imagine the water was a tad unclean.

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Fine-Lookin’ Bus

Holiday magazine, Jan 49
Holiday magazine, Jan 49

Have you ever seen a finer looking bus than this? Look at this condiment-colored sexy beast, truckin’ along in majestic Heinz 57 and Grey Poupon paint job. Get down with your bad self, Trailways Bus!

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Creepy Forty-Something Gets Handsy With Grace Kelly

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Even the captain can sense it, although his smirk seems to endorse it, rather than condemn it. I doubt Captain Stubing would have approved.

The 1949 ad is for Lurline cruises, part of the Matson Lines. Nope, never heard of them. But isn’t the artwork lovely? Lurline sounds like the name of a girl in a gabardine dress, brewing sweet tea on a window sill, if you ask me. You can bet the narrow-waisted girl in the chartreuse dress here was not named Lurline. Lurlines do not go on cruises with older men. Or do they?

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This all sounds inviting: shuffleboard, dancing, listening to a radio because there were no televisions on board, having a gay evening under the Pacific moon. Maybe she does know what she’s doing after all.

Skelly Tagolene: Bad Stripper Name

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I’ve never heard of Tagolene, much less Skelly Tagolene. That sounds like a crimp-haired, Newport-smoking, jean skirt-wearing trollop who works the graveyard shift at The Waffle House. Like Skanky Jolene’s younger sister: Skelly Tagolene.

Evidently, it’s not. Check out the art deco font on this map.

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Scenes From The Appalachian Trail

Natl Geo Aug 1949
Natl Geo Aug 1949

Adams, Massachusetts (named after Sam Adams) lies at the bottom of Mount Greylock. Thunderbolt Ski Run drops 2,060 ft down Greylock. Five states are visible from the summit. Incontheivable!

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I’ve never been anywhere near the A.P., but I did gain respect for it, while reading Bill Bryson’s A Walk In The Woods. And yes, I do want to see the new movie with Redford and Nolte, but I bet Mark will beat me to it!

Now dig his socks.

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The violent rains/overhanging rock part, I can do without. The steak part, I understand. Beef really puts a smile on their faces!

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