re: Pictures from days gone by....

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Easy money and the smell of the coffee plant early morning was exquisite.

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I have a Michoud story for you.

We were conducting employee safety interviews a few years ago and was at Kennedy. In one of the wrap-up question answers, one of the office ladies told me "I absolutely HATE the alligators here. I went out to the parking lot to go home from work one evening about 6 PM. There was about a 5' gator underneath my car and I was too scared to shoo him off, so I just had to wait until he left. I didn't get home until after 10 PM that night."

It is worth noting that Kennedy Space Center is located on Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge - including the launch pads and office buildings. This means that you can't interact with the wildlife or harm them in any way - so this lady was stuck until the gator left.

A few month later, we were conducting the same type of interviews at Michoud. I was walking in the parking lot with one of the safety guys and sure enough, a crocodile was just wandering around and slipped off the parking lot into one of the drainage ditches nearby. I told the safety guy the story about the lady at Kennedy Space Center, and asked "What do you guys do if something like that happened here?"

He kinda swiveled around a bit to see if anybody walking in the lot was listening. He responded "Well, the managers they rotate into here to get experience don't like it much... but generally when we see a big enough crocodile like that, the night shift maintenance crew is probably gonna be cooking jambalaya."

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but generally when we see a big enough crocodile like that, the night shift maintenance crew is probably gonna be cooking jambalaya

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And that's the proper thing to do. Too bad the dumb-arse bureaucrats who made gators a "threatened species" couldn't have a real date with one of those pre-historic monsters.

Oh wow. I scrolled past the first image thinking it was just an R. Crumb strip without looking close enough to see it was an album cover.

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Through a mutual friend they got Crumb’s number and Janis called him. Crumb remembered the moment he was asked to create the cover: “Janis asked me to do an album cover. I liked Janis OK and I did her cover. I took speed and did an all-nighter. The front cover I designed wasn’t used at all. They used the back cover for the front. I got paid $600. The album cover impressed the hell out of girls much more so than the comics. I got a lot of mileage out of that over the years!”

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Family outing on the Niagara River, 1890s