re: Pictures from days gone by....

Perhaps the 1960sest ad ever



I warned you integration would lead to this

And this is Mrs. Harry Houdini














Wait, where did the pic go? It vanished into thin air!

Reunion of Alabama Civil War veterans commemorating the Battle of Shiloh on a steamboat named Tennessee Belle at the Muscle Shoals Dock in 1925

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Sadly, Fido did not survive the surgery

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That's NOT who I wanted to play doctor with.

I had a Commodore 64 except mine came with a red head.

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The only thing Commodore 64-related that came were the operators alone in their Mom’s basement after midnight.

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Sir, I will have you know I owned a duplex at the time and had the key board hooked up to my TV in the living room.

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Makes me want to shoot a Load "*",8,1

USS Selfridge (DD-357) at Noumea following the Battle of Vella Lavella October 7 1943, where her bow was blown off by a Japanese Type 93 "Long Lance" torpedo.

(If you look closely, you can see sailors sitting the the remains of the forward 5” turret)

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In May 1943, Selfridge was reassigned to the 3rd Fleet. On the 12th, she arrived at Nouméa. Through the summer, she operated with cruisers of TF 36, later TF 37, and participated in exercises with TF's 38, 39, and 34. In late September, as a unit of the 3d Fleet's amphibious force, she escorted an LST convoy to Vella Lavella, then commenced nighttime patrols in the Solomon Islands up "the Slot" to intercept Japanese shipping.[citation needed]
On the night of 6 October 1943, Selfridge, O'Bannon, and Chevalier intercepted an enemy force of six destroyers, three destroyer transports, and smaller armed craft some 12 miles off Marquana Bay as it attempted to evacuate land forces from Vella Lavella. In the ensuing Battle of Vella Lavella, Chevalier was torpedoed and damaged beyond repair. She was sunk on the 7th by an American torpedo. Selfridge and O'Bannon were both heavily damaged; Selfridge by an enemy torpedo, O'Bannon by enemy action compounded by collision with Chevalier just after the latter had gone dead in the water. Personnel casualties on board Selfridge amounted to 13 killed, 11 wounded, and 36 missing.

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The Selfridge would be repaired and continue to fight to the end of the war, earning four battle stars. She was decommissioned in October 1945 and later scrapped in 1947.