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wait a minute.....I thought the fish they were after was "catfish hunter"
and man did ann-margret look good!!!
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Paisano Pete .... Ft. Stockton, TX!
LARGE road runner!
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Okay, a lot of travelers have seen this...where is this tallest thermometer monument located?
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Las Vegas? That's too obvious. Dunno...
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You're on the right track, Igor...lots of Vegas people have seen it.
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How about beautiful downtown Baker, CA. ?
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Right you are, rainvato...although I've never quite heard Baker described in such a flattering manner.
For your prize-winning answer, here's some fruit for you...
A Banana monument from Melita, Manitoba...a small border town that is said to have the best climate in the province...right
on the Banana Belt. Akin to Brookings on the Oregon Coast?
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Many thanks. I thoroughly enjoy your varied and interesting posts Pompano......please keep em coming!
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Yeah what Rainvato said! Your posts are like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get!
By the way, about your 'mood' in the Author box; The correct expression is "Happy as a clam, at high tide!". At low tide, they are just shovel ready
projects!
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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Pompano
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Quote: Originally posted by AKgringo  | Yeah what Rainvato said! Your posts are like Forrest Gump's box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get!
By the way, about your 'mood' in the Author box; The correct expression is "Happy as a clam, at high tide!". At low tide, they are just shovel
ready projects! |
You mean like the ones at this beach in Alaska? Let's call it a monument to low tide clams and chocolates...and as a result, we were very happy.
Welcome to Clam Beach, Alaska at low tide.
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The Famous Shoe Tree....a monument to travelers on The Most Lonesome Highway in the World. I left a pair of sneakers up there.
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This is a common monument on large grain farms of the Great Plains. You'll see them here and there on your
cross-country drives...Old time grain threshing machines, out-dated nowadays, set out on prominent hills in ND and other prime grain states in the
Midwest. When I was a lad, I imagined them to be like the extinct dinosaurs.
The thresher, was first invented by Scottish mechanical engineer Andrew Meikle for use in agriculture. It was devised around 1796 for the separation
of grain from stalks and husks. It was a serious innovation to farming and changed that endeavor forever. For thousands of years, grain was
separated by hand with flails, and was very laborious and time consuming, taking about one-quarter of agricultural labor by the 18th century.
Mechanization of this process took much of the drudgery out of farm labour...and also led to a little trouble with those laborers...
Of interest to practically nobody, here are some odd historical happenings pertaining to this invention....The Swing Riots. In England, where these
disagreements seem to happen more often than in America, this machine was responsible for unemployment, farm worker rebellions, and riots in which
some were hanged or sent to prison in Australia. Now, who woulda thought?
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This one from Rhode Island is in there somewhere
| Quote: Originally posted by Pompano | Kicking this can down the road....more unusual monuments.
Here a little more orderly form of graffiti. The Signpost Forest at Watson Lake, Yukon, Canada at Milepost 613 of the Alaska
Highway.
In 1942 a soldier was ordered to repair a damaged road sign on this part of the original Alaska Highway..then a tote road being built for WWII. The
homesick soldier ad-libbed the mileage to his home town, Danville, Illinois on that repaired sign. Several other people added directions to their
home towns, and the idea has been snowballing ever since. Like Baja's Virgin of the Rocks, the Signpost Forest now takes up a couple of acres, with
huge new panels being constantly added, snaking through the trees. We've certainly seen some very wild & strange signs. There are street signs,
there are "Welcome To..." signs, there are signatures on dinner plates, there are license plates from around the world - the variety is as broad as
people's imagination. The size of some of the signs is amazing - how on earth do people get a 6x10-foot sign from the German autobahn to Watson
Lake??
For our second trip by the place I painted a metal tray folk-art style showing our motorhome bouncing it's way over the moguls (frost heaves) on the
infamous Alaska Highway. That was in 1991 when there was just over 10,000 signs in the 'Forest' On a trip in 2008, there were over 65,000 and last
time we stopped in summer of 2012 the count was more than 72,000 and growing fast...so it's a long-term fad.
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World's Largest Flyrod
Aye, that's right, matey...at Houston, British Columbia on Hwy 16...near the communiities of Rupert and Prince George,
and on the way to Alaska from Seattle. A spot known as the "Steelhead Capital of the World" because so many anglers flock here for this fish - even
though it is catch and release only.
Skipjack Joe and other traveling fishermen will recognize this monument. Wouldn't it be great if your catch was size-equivalent to that flyrod?
"Hookup! in Canadian is 'Fish On, eh?"
Nearby Babine Lake is a hoot, too.
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Another Baja Off-Roader?
In all wars some historical weaponry of that conflict is remembered. As we all have seen there are LOTS of war monuments around the country. Some
teens are playing their own war games on this one near Barnsville, Minnesota. It's a Sherman tank, known as "America's tank", the M4, and was the
most mass-produced tank worldwide. Some specs are 66,700 lbs fighting weight, max sp 26mph, 130 mile range, 1 case of air freshener....
.....and if you are interested in becoming an owner, one of these will cost from 90,000 - 300,000 dollars.  And No, you can't use the cannon or machine guns...
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I went through the Armor School at Fort Knox KY in 1967, and learned a lot about various tanks. The Sherman tank was a huge mistake! The armor was
too light, and the main gun too small to go up against the German Panzers and Tiger tanks. The gasoline engines had limited range, and coupled with
the light armor, they went up in flames fairly easy. The Germans even nicknamed them 'Zippos'.
Edit, I believe the engines were produced by Cadillac.
[Edited on 3-7-2015 by AKgringo]
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Yep, the Tiger Tanks ruled Europe during the first half of WWII. There was no stopping them on the eastern front as they rolled over Poland and
Ukraine. The Soviet tanks were no match for them. But then the Soviets built their own new tanks and the tables were turned. From then on the Tiger
Tanks were sitting ducks.
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Interesting extra info on the tank monument, AKgringo, and Igor, thanks ....and Yes, the Sherman tanks were called the Zippos....named after the
popular lighter. Coincidentally, my college roommate, Mike D., went on to become a tank commander at Ft. Knox in the mid sixties.
Pertaining to the Sherman monument, here are some more researched facts about that tank.
During its 50,000-unit production run, the US Army built seven principle variations of the M4 Sherman. Replaced by the Patton series of tanks in the
1950s, the Sherman was heavily exported and continued to operate with many of the world's militaries into the 1970s. It won top praise in the North
Africa theatre.
How it got the nickname, Zippo. Other popular variations included Shermans equipped with Duplex Drive for amphibious operations and those armed with
the 'flame thrower'. Tanks possessing this weapon were frequently used for clearing enemy bunkers and hence earned the nickname "Zippos" after the
famous lighter.
Here's another war monument I came across...the Saber Jet. This was at a small plane airport in the village of Walhalla, ND. A transonic jet fighter
aircraft developed to fight against similar Soviet Mig-15s in the Korean War.
The Sabre was by far the most-produced Western jet fighter, with total production of all variants at 9,860 units. Although it was developed in the
late 1940s and was outdated by the end of the '50s, the Sabre proved versatile and adaptable, and continued as a front-line fighter in numerous air
forces until the last active operational examples were retired by the Bolivian Air Force in 1994.
I built a model of the Saberjet back in boyhood days. It might be still in the attic with many other model airplanes.
And as to those Soviet Mig-15s....a dear departed Baja amigo got to take a fast ride in one before he went to his rest. RIP Trent.
[Edited on 3-7-2015 by Pompano]
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Brubaker, Brubaker do you read me?
From Bridges of Toko Ri, one of my all time favorites. I think these are the same jets.
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Good movie, Igor, and an Best Special Affects Oscar winner for the year. Sidenote: William Holden and Grace Kelly had an affair during the filming,
which must have made some gossip in 1955 Hollywood.
But those fighter planes in the movie were F9F Panthers, not the Saberjets. I think the Sabers could have been right at the end of their usefullness
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