On this day .....

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  1. Joe Fan

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    On this day ...... in 1968, the NL beat the AL 1-0 in the first All-Star game played indoors. Willie Mays scored the only run.

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  2. Joe Fan

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    The video is interesting



     
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  4. LousianaHorn

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    66 years ago today a legend is born............who can say double/double with bacon & jalapenos!

    "66 years ago today, on August 8th, 1950, Harmon Dobson --- a bold man, a man with a clear vision ----- opened this little 'ol burger stand at 2609 Ayers street in Corpus Christi. The price of the original Whataburger was 25 cents and the stand took in fifty dollars on its first day of business. To paraphrase Bob Slydell in "Office Space," I celebrate their entire catalog. I believe I'm going to go out and get me a double meat Whatburger with cheese, jalapenos, an order of fries and a Coke." quoted from Traces of Texas..........which BTW has some great photos![​IMG]
     
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    1939 --

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  8. Joe Fan

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    11 years ago today
    Hurricane Katrina

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  10. Joe Fan

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    This one got me personally
    Put a 100-year old oak tree thru my roof

     
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  13. Dionysus

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    I remember this so well. I was at my girlfriend’s condo off 31st & Speedway. The World Series was on, I think Al Michaels was calling it...
     
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  14. Joe Fan

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    Me too. I was staying with some friends in Northern Virginia. We were all running late (I had actually fallen asleep on the Orange Line and missed my stop). By the time we turned it on, it was supposed to have already started, but it was some rerun of some show. So we grabbed the paper to see if we had the wrong day? wrong time? wrong network? We were feeling kind of dumb. Then finally saw the scroll. Quite the shocker. Then saw pics of the Bay Bridge -- how scary that must have been for them.

    Coincidentally, much later in life, I ending up living in the Marina District of SF which, if you recall, was one of the areas that kept burning for days (much of it built on fill).

    Also, the elevated 101 used to sort of run close to that area (had been the closest freeway access). But parts of it came down, so they torn it all down. And then the city and the people of the city argued for years and years and years whether to rebuild it. It never was (or that northern most section was not). Which made bad traffic even worse. Hard to describe how bad. More like stopping time itself than just simply traffic. Fighting for parking in that city was war.
     
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  18. Dionysus

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    Wow, 14 years ago the Enron thing went down. Extraordinary hubris and greed.

    What got me about all that was the subsequent destruction of Arthur Andersen because of their role in the mess. I worked at Andersen in the mid 90s and it was easily one of the most valuable professional experiences I ever had. So many talented people there, and it all just came apart.
     
  19. Joe Fan

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    There was no real reason for Enron itself to go down either
    It was doing fine before those guys arrived
     
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  22. Joe Fan

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    check out that picture of the stands

     
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  26. LousianaHorn

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    75 years ago today........this...[​IMG] .......to to the 1177 Sailors and Marines still on duty aboard the USS Arizona.......I salute you gentleman and I know that you rest easy in the loving arms of God.
     
  27. Joe Fan

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    DEC. 7, 1941: "A DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY"




     
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  30. Joe Fan

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    One of my cousins is named after him
    My uncle said he was the greatest player he had ever seen

     
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