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[Peanut]

Woman with poster Jimmy Carter as Jesus Christ outside the DNC NY 1976

 

[Peanut]

1930s Mack Log Truck 100 ft log

 

[Neb]

Woman with poster Jimmy Carter as Jesus Christ outside the DNC NY 1976

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JB didn't work either.

Ben

 

[Peanut]

Las Vegas, Nevada, 1947

 

[Neb]

Las Vegas, Nevada, 1947

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What is a "hottel"?

Ben

 

[Peanut]

What is a "hottel"?

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Ben

https://en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Hoyt_C._Hottel
Hoyt C. Hottel - Wikipedia

Hoyt Clarke Hottel (1903 - 18 August 1998) was a professor in the department of Chemical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was an expert on energy, radiant heat transfer, fire, fuels and combustion. [1]In 1984, he wrote the often quoted words "A case can be made for fire being, next to the life processes, the most complex of phenomena to understand".

MIT News

Hey, after all it is the desert!

 

[Tacitus]

What is a "hottel"?

Good question. Check out the other signs:

• What is the LMWCGLM building?
• The Neggul El Last Club?
• Are those Chinese characters over the Rancho Club Club?

I wonder if that is an AI generated image, with non-sensical signs. We are at the point when a photo is proof of nothing. But, eventually, AI will figure out how to not put non-sense in the photos it generates. Not good.

 

[Peanut]

Probably is AI, I traced it back to a facebook post. Opinions varied...

 

[Supervisor42]

Good question. Check out the other signs:

• What is the LMWCGLM building?
• The Neggul El Last Club?
• Are those Chinese characters over the Rancho Club Club?

I wonder if that is an AI generated image, with non-sensical signs. We are at the point when a photo is proof of nothing. But, eventually, AI will figure out how to not put non-sense in the photos it generates. Not good.

Likely it was dodging copyright laws.

 

[Pearl]

Likely it was dodging copyright laws.

Good point!!

 

[bkt]

Either dodging copyright, or someone asked AI to whip up what it thought would pass for a pic of LV back then. Everything about that image screams AI to me.

 

[Pearl]

Either dodging copyright, or someone asked AI to whip up what it thought would pass for a pic of LV back then. Everything about that image screams AI to me.

We have a winner!!

 

[Lenny]

They could be code words for naughty places and/or look at the Lancho Hottel. Is Hottel someone's last name?
https://neptunesociety.com/obituaries/las-vegas-nv/lester-hottel-11636084

 

[Neb]

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We have a winner!!

Another hint is the car colors. Pastel colors weren't an option.

Ben

 

[DrHenley]

Vegas in 1947

 

[Pearl]

Vegas in 1947
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The real deal? Looks like it should be!!

 

[Digout]

What is a "hottel"?

No Air-con???

 

[Supervisor42]

No Air-con???

Naa, it's where you take the hot-girl you picked up, for an hour of fun.

 

[Peanut]

Illuminated tires developed by Goodyear in 1961 but were never mass produced.

In the early 1960s, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company experimented with illuminated tires, a concept that seemed revolutionary at the time. The project, led by chemist William Larson and engineer Anthony Finelli, aimed to create a tubeless, cordless tire with a translucent material called Neothane. This innovative compound allowed for the dyeing of tires in various colors.

Engineers fitted the tires with 18 light bulbs wired into the center of the wheel, creating an electroluminescent-like glow on the ground and in the car’s wheel wells.

 

[Peanut]

Mt. Rushmore 1930

 

[Peanut]

NYC after a blizzard 1899

 

[Peanut]

Times Square in 1967

 

[Digout]

Illuminated tires developed by Goodyear in 1961 but were never mass produced.

In the early 1960s, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company experimented with illuminated tires, a concept that seemed revolutionary at the time. The project, led by chemist William Larson and engineer Anthony Finelli, aimed to create a tubeless, cordless tire with a translucent material called Neothane. This innovative compound allowed for the dyeing of tires in various colors.

Engineers fitted the tires with 18 light bulbs wired into the center of the wheel, creating an electroluminescent-like glow on the ground and in the car’s wheel wells.

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Were the tyres glowing?
I'll check again.

 

[Mountain trapper]

Although I don't consider this to be an antique it brings back memories for me. It's a fur price list from when I was around 18. I used to ship a lot of furs to this company.

 

[Alaskajohn]

 

[Lenny]

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Send them $10 and they will sell your information to a bunch of organizations that want to suck money out of you. Then you will get all kinds of stuff in the mail for a jillion years!

 

[Supervisor42]

Send them $10 and they will sell your information to a bunch of organizations that want to suck money out of you. Then you will get all kinds of stuff in the mail for a jillion years!

That's from 1985.
I wonder how that ended? I didn't pay attention...
Did the Contras win?
...or are many of the refugees crossing our border today, fleeing from Nicaragua?

 

[Pearl]

That's from 1985.
I wonder how that ended? I didn't pay attention...
Did the Contras win?
...or are many of the refugees crossing our border today, fleeing from Nicaragua?

You should have sent your.53¢ a day, then you would know!!

 

[Supervisor42]

You should have sent your.53¢ a day, then you would know!!

I think the numbers speak the truth...
Over a half-million are now in the US:

if we put it in statistical terms - with the expulsion of 600,000 Nicaraguans due to repression that moved to the United States, plus at least 150,000 people from other nationalities, Nicaragua is responsible for at least 10% of all the migration that has arrived into the Mexico-U.S. border. So I will say that's being a pretty good rate of success by Ortega's terms.

Edit: Sorry, I got dragged off topic :

 

[montanabill]

I made some money soldering antlers and legs on raineer beer bottles and selling them at a college craft fair back in the 80's. The I just saw this reprint of one of the commercials I patterned my sculptures after..