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Pompano
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Top 10 Quiz Photos (What the heck is this?)
1. Found in odds-and-ends shop in Santa Rosalia. Can you identify this object?
[Edited on 8-24-2009 by Pompano]
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Ken Bondy
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First generation scuba tank?
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Nein...and nei. It does look a lot like something scuba..but No.
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Kinda looks like wood paneling and a formica countertop with a thingamajiggy on it.
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My thought is a pressure relief valve like you see along the highway here in those little fenced enclosures.
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BajaKeela
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My husband thinks it's a steam whistle from an old train..
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Its a early version of an Italian orange juice squeezer. Does the oarnge. ++C++
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| Quote: | Originally posted by BajaKeela
My husband thinks it's a steam whistle from an old train.. |
Toot toot! We have a winner 
This Steam Whistle was donated to Caloco in memory of Christopher Bolms at the Fillmore March 2008 Railfest
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More on whistles here
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Yes, it's a steam whistle. Could have come off a train or since it was in Santa Rosalia maybe from the mine. Used to signal shift starting/stopping
time. Or could have come off a ship. There should be a name on valve body of manufacture. Or you can use compressed air.
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Some of them are really quite valuable. Pieces of chiite recently stole the whistle from the locomotive at the park in Dunsmuir California. They
probably tried to sell it for the brass. Dispicable punks.
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Pompano
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2. Next Quiz. Taken from about 1 foot away.
This is a little harder, I hope.
I took this photo very quick as the subject came to me. Pretty wild event.
What the heck is it?
[Edited on 8-24-2009 by Pompano]
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Geez, I was sure the first one was a Mexican bidet !!
And the second one looks like my mother-in-law, first thing in the morning !!
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a sun fish, aka a Mola?
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Pompano
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Ira, watch your back when your mother-in-law visits...I sent her this thread.
No, not a Mola, Taco de Baja...but a damn good guess.
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Moray eel
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Pompano
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Paulclark, Nope, but another great guess, Getting closer...I think.
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Some kind of ray? Maybe a small sting ray? But the skin doesn't seem rough enough.
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No Russ, not a ray...but al those guesses are soooo close. It's definetely a marine creature and is under water..and that is it's actual eye.
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A trigger fish?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Pompano
...and is under water..and that is it's actual eye. |
Could it be Jimmy Hoffa?
[Edited on 8-24-2009 by El Camote]
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