[Linux-users] [0.5 OT] (way OT)back from Disney Land

[Bill Campbell]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2007, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>On 8/3/07, Bob Hemus <ol.bob at sisqtel.net> wrote:
>> On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 11:36 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> > Vu Pham wrote:
>> > > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 10:31 -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>> > >> Vu Pham wrote:
>> SoCal is a disaster!!!!  I grew up there in the 40' & 50's.  It was
>> beautiful there then.  More so early, as I remember it.  Watched the
>> first "dragster" in the world to top 120 mph at what is now SNA (?), in
>> prolly 1952 or 3.  It was an old Army Air Corps base turned over to a
>> private air field that allowed weekend drag races.  Laguna Beach, where
>> I lived 'til I was 25. was the greatest place you could imagine.  Went
>> back a couple of years ago for my 50th reunion...   Couldn't believe
>> Southern California!!! People drive 90 and 100 mph on the freeways.
>> Bunches of 'em.
>
>That's not just socal.  And I'm quite thankful for it.  If you can't
>drive that fast, move to god's waiting room (AKA, Pennsylvania).  ;)

Ah, the Pennsylvania Turnpike -- the army could use it to test
tanks (and the roads department does things like test 1st gear on
the snow plows on holiday weekends in July to make sure things
don't go to fast).

In the early '70s I was driving a 1964 Ford F-350 dualie back
from a race at Nelson Ledges, towing a 30 ft trailer, and the
Turnpike was so bumpy near Pittsburg it bounced me out of the
driver's seat so I was standing with one foot in the driver's
side foot well and hanging onto the wheel (I installed seat belts
as soon as we got back to my shop).

Bill
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