re: Pictures from days gone by....

"Nurse Ratchet, bring me my cigarettes! I want my cigarettes!"

Judy Sullivan, lead biomedical engineer for the Apollo 11 mission. Shown here during a training exercise in 1969



Next month Netflix will a premiere a biopic about her starring Queen Latifah

Notice the pad and pencil on the counter. The clerk had to take your order, mark down the price of each item, total it, then calculate and add the sales tax. All without a calculator. Imagine that scenario today. ??

Rarely is it Hammertime on the O-T.

Literally like twice a year.

The Eastern Columbia Building, Downtown Los Angeles. It opened on September 12, 1930, after just nine months of construction.

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The Dog Army of Cat Island: K9 Troops at their kennels off the coast of Biloxi Mississippi. They were part of a US Army plan to train dogs and then drop them on enemy-held islands where they would attack Japanese based on their smell. (1942)

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I go out to the Mississippi gulf coast islands often on my boat, and go to Cat Island at least once a year. Back in spring 2005, we found the path/trail to the island interior where there are still some ruins and remnants of the old dog training facility. I usually check that out on my trips to Cat each year. Some older photos from our visits to the ruins:

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this was an old bathroom building (you can tell by pipe holes in the slab, water heater still there).



We surmised this was the old veterinary office; a few rooms and 15 kennel slots with the kennel slabs are all sloped to the outside walls and there is a hose bib sticking up in the middle-- hose out the dog poop to the outside.



speaking of "pictures from days gone by", those two little girls are now 28 and 25 yrs. old...

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Next month Netflix will a premiere a biopic about her starring Queen Latifah

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How did Whoopi not get the part?