Hello, The Market Basket Chain grew into one of the popular stores in So Cal. But, it had to compete with the other stores the Kroger company owned. (Market Basket then became a Kroger own store chain) as the years rolled by, what ever large grocery store in your own neighborhood, whether it was Market Basket, Hughes, Alpha Beta or others, the Kroger name was never a store title brand. They just owned almost every thing as the years progressed. The Market Basket chain was founded with a single store in Pasadena in 1930. By 1963, the year the Studio City store was opened, the company had 56 stores throughout L.A. and the surrounding regions. In October of that year the chain was acquired by Kroger, providing them a beachhead (no pun intended) in the vital Southern California market. Prior to this time, Kroger had no stores west of Kansas. Jnaki As we grew up going to the local Hughes, Lucky or Alpha Beta stores, the brand grew with purchases of other So Cal "going out of business" branches. Now, Kroger is one of the top two companies with ownership of so many name brand top stores that their recent joining of forces with the Albertson brand of company own stores was deemed a monopoly and all negotiations stopped. For now. So, someone is looking out for all of us out West in our own grocery brand shopping weekly or bi-weekly. YRMV
I had the 425hp version of the 396 out of a wrecked Vette in my '55 with a 4 speed and fiberglass front fenders.
King Super 20 alto - not a good enough photo to see if it's a Silversonic model, though. Sweet little horn.
Hello, I hope that the two women are lowering the mainsail and not raising the sail. If they are raising the sail, they are in for an awful time as the winds will fill out the main sail and blow the small boat over or slam it into the dock to the right. The wind pattern on the water identifies it as a not so smooth day and therefore will have some power, even at the dock. The angle of the arms on the dark shirt woman looks as if she is getting ready to pull down, thus raising the sail up. Then the other woman will connect the back portion of the mainsail to the boom and now they will be ready, unless of course, the current wind blows them to the dock or tips them over. 90 degrees to the direction of the wind causes calamities that are not nice. Jnaki My wife and I learned the same lesson in our small 14 foot sailboat on the Newport Bay Harbor, one Summer. She was responsible for attaching the rear of the sail to the boom. I was raising the mainsail, while the small sailboat was tied to the dock. The winds were swirling around and we should have been facing the direction of the wind, so as not to be forced over the sideways direction. As I raised the sail, the wind caught the fullness of the sail and almost knocked my wife overboard. Luckily, I dropped the sail and she hung on to the boom. But, a smile was not the next thing that happened. So, in learning the direction of the wind and lowering or raising the sail was a constant in the future adventures. Even though the boat is on the dock or in a slip, the bow must be pointed towards the direction of the wind to be safe when raising the sail (or even dropping the sail). So, we angled the small boat, the bow facing the wind and the sail went up easily on a fairly level boat. It was something that, even after 3 other larger sailboats in the future, we always found the wind direction and pointed the nose of the boat into the wind. Now, it did not matter how large the mainsail is, as the winds blow with the line of the sail and not against the full measure of the wide cloth. No more tipping over sideways or panicking about how strong the wind is blowing. When it was time to go out sailing or after a great day of sailing on the blue water. YRMV
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