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MaxPete said:
Robin: our Dad's must have gone to school together!
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Lol, quite possible Pete. If he, as you are now, was from the Windsor area.
Dad grew up in the McGregor Hotel during prohibition and the Depression. As the youngest of 13 his job was to crawl under the hotel floor to get to the stash that his father bootlegged out the back door.
When his work was done, he would grab his trusty Coke crate so he was tall enough to hustle the local drinkers at the pool table for his spendin' money.
 
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And actually, I fibbed a bit. There was a very brief window after I retired from the Navy and before my hair fell out. This is as 70's as it ever got for me. Oldest brother on left, me in the middle, my son on the right.
 
Actually - my Dad was from Peterborough, ON - but he drove a milkwagon drawn by a big Clydesdale horse when he was around 12 years old in the early 1940's. Given that Windsor was (and still is) Sin-City - its not surprising that what my Dad did with milk, your Dad did with booze...:cheers:

Holy cow Downeaster - didn't know that you were an internationally recognised rock & roll star!
 
You might want to get out in your boat and drag the Detroit River Pete. Dad used to say there's lot's of cases of booze on the bottom of that river from being thrown overboard when the law was a coming.
 
robinc said:
You might want to get out in your boat and drag the Detroit River Pete. Dad used to say there's lot's of cases of booze on the bottom of that river from being thrown overboard when the law was a coming.
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I have heard that often around here Robin. Around 10 years ago we have a swimming pool put in and the guy who dug it had just come from a similar job in the east end of the city down near the river and he said that, while digging the hole for that last pool, he unearth a car - which was packed with cases of booze. He figured it was being used to cross from Hiram Walker's distillery to Detroit during the 1920-30's and went through the ice or simply got bogged down in the mud before it got too far on the Canadian side. The soil around here is all mucky clay - and so the car just kept sinking over the last 70 years or so until it disappeared and a housing development went in there.

He said that the car was totally wrecked....but that its contents were, thankfully, OK.
 
Mailman said:
And to my constant amazement, looking back on things, we survived it.
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No kidding. In 1969 and 1970, I was stationed at Great Lakes Naval Training Center for a bit over a year between boot camp and schools. I thought nothing of hitchhiking back to home in Michigan over a weekend. Through South Chicago. In the dead of winter.

I wouldn't make that DRIVE these days.
 
As a child, dear ol' dad would take me to the barber shop.

"You can have any haircut you want".
"Just pick one from the poster board".
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"Anything from the bottom line".

"...Except the flattops".


Later, the Air Force decided even *that* was still too long.
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Later, 1975, broke and working for a living, couldn't afford haircuts.
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A lil' more later, 1991, can now afford haircuts.
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I *told* her that propwash would ruin her hairdo...
 
Wow 2M - are you that handsome (but hairless) young dude climbing into an F86?

Very cool!

....and yes, it is amazing what we all survived from those wacky 70's. If my Dad had only known......
 
2M you just do not cease to amaze me. You are like an onion that just keeps revealing another unknown layer.
You were an Air Force pilot, a movie star, a professional dowser, inventor of some of the coolest gadgetry I've seen in this site and the owner of one of the most interesting garages I've seen.
Dude...you really just need to write your biography all down and just put it out there. Instead of releasing one little nugget at a time.
I feel like such an under achiever! Haha
Bob
 
You know 2M. I (and I'll bet a bunch of other folks on this site) would pay BIG money to have you, RtdGent, 5 Twins (sorry - but that still sounds like the title of a porno fantasy movie) Fred, Gary, RobinC, YamaDude, littlebill, JetMechMarty and a few others in a room with some BEvERages for a few hours.....
 
Dammit - I forgot Mr. TwoWheel, Scott, WER, TimeMachine, BBQ Rider, DownEaster and whole passel of other great people! Those senior guys (not necessarily senior in age - but in "XSperience"), really make this forum so useful and so much fun.

....besides, I simply have to meet Mr. Kablatta and the King of Baraboo some day....
 
Sorry guys I can't do a before but I can do an after....
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ok so it was late in the afternoon and I was half asleep ! ....
dunno when the beard went white.... sometimes in the 90's i think
in the 70's I was a straight laced no nonsense Motorcycle lover and if that wasn't a mix-up nothing was, I wore jeans and jean jacket and cowboy boots.... and packed a bible....rode my bikes everwhere I went.... didn't like cars or trucks ....it was bikes or nothing !
I was going to be a Preacher, but wound up a Mechanic on anything with an engine, though tractors and lawnmowers have ocupied most of my time the last 30 years the first 30 were strickly motorcycles.... I was good at one time but lost it somewhere along the line....LOL
My Dad was bald, but I took after my mother for hair.... thank God I took after my dad in body shape ! that would'a been weird !
Short stocky , like most Nebraskan farm boys.... and dark in the summer ( I tan up real good!) my wife says I look like a native indian from the back ! LOL.
the pic is of me a few years back..... I've lost some weight sense then but not much ! LOL
Bob............
 
Handsom ? I was voted Number one Uglest bartender at the Place I worked at in Reno NV. except I wern't no bartender ! LOL
( there were 3 caucasion guys besides me and the rest were mexicans ...so what do they know ! ) LOL
i figured I'ed put my picture up there so the rest of you wouldn't feel so bad ! HAHAHHAHAHAH!
Bob........
 
TwoManyXS1Bs said:
"You can have any haircut you want".
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Hi 2many,
when I was a kid my dad used to take us both to the local barber-shop every third Saturday where we'd sit in line for a haircut.
No matter what style or length you asked for, what you got was a short back and sides like everyone else. Brylcreem was also available at extra cost.
 
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