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Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Dog427435, Dec 18, 2009.

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  1. John B
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    I was thinking the same thing, but just figured I was imagining things.
     
  2. lewislynn
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    Also ice cream, potato chips, Coca Cola, hamburger and fries was a rare treat, not a staple.
     
  3. 57Custom300
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    Great thread. Took almost a week to go through it. You guys must have read my mind about no fat people in the pics.
     
  4. Jon SSS
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    This is on Ventura Blvd. in Woodland Hills, Ca. I lived down the street in the 90's.
     
  5. sixdogs
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    Ditto. I'm just sayin'.....the same.
     
  6. Buford Solomon
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    <o:smarttagtype namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com<img src=" images="" smilies="" redface.gif="" border="0" alt="" title="Embarrassment" smilieid="2" class="inlineimg"></o:smarttagtype> I have temporary use of a Super Coolscan 9000, and I've been scanning slides taken by my father between 1940, when he and my mother married, and 1950, when he died. A few fit into this thread, I think.
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    These two were taken while cruising on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, probably about 1946. Yeah, the shots are kinda bland; just a vista split by a concrete 4-lane divided highway. But in the mid-40s, the PA turnpike was pretty much one of a kind, the first American superhighway and a precursor to the Interstate system. When it was opened to traffic in 1940, drivers actually lined up at the toll booths awaiting the road's midnight opening, so they could be among the very first to drive on it. It stretched 160 miles between <st1>Carlisle</st1> in the east and Irwin in the west, largely following a railroad right-of-way laid out in 1884-5 by employees of William Vanderbilt. They did a lot of grading and roadbed construction and started digging the nine tunnels for the railroad, but it was never completed.
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    The highway had two lanes in each direction, separated by a narrow grassy median and flanked by wide shoulders. Tunnels were only two lanes, one in each direction. Initially, there was no enforced speed limit, but by the end of 1941, a nation-wide speed limit of 35 mph prevailed. I recall that in the '50s, after the turnpike was extended to Philly in the east and <st1><st1:city w:st="on">Pittsburgh</st1:city></st1> in the west, the original 160-mile-long stretch had a 70 mph limit, 5 mph more than the newer extensions.
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    What is so typical is that the banks, in 1939, didn't see any merit in the project and refused to finance it. "Nobody's going to pay a toll when they can travel on free roads," was their mindset. The federal government did see the merit and did finance the construction. Of course, the highway was an immediate hit because travelers and freight-haulers could chop several hours off the drive time across the state. And before the decade was out, <st1:city w:st="on">New York</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">Ohio</st1:state>, and <st1:state w:st="on"><st1>Indiana</st1></st1:state> were at work on spiffy multi-lane toll roads of their own.
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    I'm struck by how wide-open the road is in the first shot. No one else is in sight. In either direction! The median is narrow, and there's no barrier. The second shot shows the entrance to the Ray's Hill tunnel, the shortest of the original 7. During the 1960s, the road was rerouted to eliminate the Ray's Hill and Sidling Hill tunnels.
     
  7. Super442s
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    Another thanks to you and the others for all the great pictures! Sounds like I can look forward to new additions to this thread for some time to come! :cool:
     
  8. lewislynn
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    Do you have to download from online like photobucket in order to post large photos? Posting from "my photos" or "my documents" you are only allowed to post small sizes.

    Thanks in advance to anyone who can answer...
     
  9. swi66
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    I have not figured how to upload from my computer to this forum.
    I have been uploading onto webshots, then there is a way to upload to a forum, then choosing the highest resolution 600, then copying the code and pasting it here.
     
  10. lewislynn
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    With that I can maybe help. Towards the bottom of the reply page, the one I'm typing on now, there is a box for "manage attachments" Click on that and a drop down box appears with browse buttons. Click on a browse button to go to the file on your computer with pictures in it. You will have to resize them, which brings me back to how to post large photos?

    To resize you should just be able to right click on the photo and a drop down box will appear with, among other things, "resize photo".
     
  11. swi66
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    Here is the Corvair Astro 1 concept car.
    Just had to see if I could figure out uploading a file from my computer.
     
  12. Just giving rust a headstart on these Mopars............................:D
     
  13. swi66
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    My dad's 61 T-Bird, that was a beautiful ride!

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    My dad and his friend Mike MaCloud would do wax jobs on the side in my grandfather's garage.

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    There are many ways to post directly large pics. They have been mentioned by other posters. Here is another way. You can create your own photo albums in your HAMB account. When you create your photo album and start loading pictures into it, the HAMB automatically resizes your pics to, I believe, 600 pixels wide.

    Then once you have your pics in your album, you can enter that pic right into your post. You don't do it as an attachment anymore.
     
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