re: Pictures from days gone by....

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That's my fetish

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On October 15, 1910, Kiddo the cat became the first of his kind to attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean by airship—and he wasn’t very happy about it.

When aeronaut Walter Wellman’s hydrogen airship, America, was preparing for take-off from New Jersey, Kiddo was found in the airship’s lifeboat. The wide-eyed grey tabby was not pleased about his unexpected journey, and his howling annoyed the airship’s chief engineer, Melvin Vaniman.

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The America was the first airship to have radio equipment. Kiddo has the distinction of being the subject of the first ever radio communication from an aircraft in flight: “Roy, come and get this g-damn cat.”

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I don't think you want to be Mrs Blake

A colorized photo taken by one of the Japanese pilots who attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet on December 7, 1941. Note the towers of water from impacting bombs and the oil slicks beginning to accumulate beside the ships in the harbor.

Tinker toys, erector sets, Lego and Matchbox - large parts of my childhood.

Mad Magazine had a great spoof of Baretta entitled Barfetta.