re: Pictures from days gone by....

When it was empty, my mother washed and saved that container, she packed more leftovers in those things than any other mom I knew.

Robert Taylor had her in handcuffs in the 1959 movie called 'The Hangman' .

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At the track

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Bottom photo looks like Jungle Pam, a fixture at the track back in the day as her husband was a racer back then.

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I remember Jungle Jim and she was quite the cheerleader supporting his efforts.

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Yeah, I was mistaken thinking she married Jim Liberman.

They did have a relationship and it ended when he was killed in a crash at age 31, ironically while on the street driving his Corvette when he hit a transit bus and wedged under the front bumper.

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That's Barbara Roufs in the pic. This is Jungle Pam;

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Yep. I googled Barbara Roufs and that pic of her comes up. She committed suicide at age 31.

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White privilege has taken on many forms over the years

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There used to be a slot car track in Lake Charles that I would go watch every once in awhile. Those things were fast as hell.

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They had one in Metairie between Rosa Ave and Martin Behrman… It was behind the KFC that was there at the time on Vets. It’s a New Orleans Hamburger company now.

It was called Model Car Raceways, or we just called it Raceways. There was a grumpy old man who ran it, Mr Fox. There were three tracks, what they called the “ big track” the “little track” and an HO track.

He also sold Estes rockets, Cox planes and other shite like that.

It sucks places like that don’t exist anymore.

The little track looked like this one...



The big track looked like this, with a huge bank turn.

Fresh baked bread from a wood stove in an unidentified coal mining town in the Crowsnest Pass circa 1940.

Photo by Harry Rowed