Son of Sandor
@sonofsandor
Our Dad Alexander, Sandor in Hungarian. A first generation American. #WWII and 20 year veteran of the USAAC, USSAF, USAF Chief Master Sergeant. Our Mom Joyce his Australian war bride. Posts about #History, #Science, #Weather and Global Relations.
Quonset Huts were used for many different types of business and even as homes. In this case, a motel was developed, taking advantage of the huts. The Quonset Hut Motel just outside of Colfax was built right after WWII. pitsenberger.com/blog/tag/Quo...
The Chevette economy car was ordered into production during the 1973-74 Arab oil embargo and resulting gasoline shortage. By the time it arrived on the market last October, however, the long lines at filling stations were only, a memory, people were again buying larger cars.
Our Mom would freak out when we cut our skin. It was immediate mercurochrome
The guests went to the East Room for the evening's entertainment, featuring Bob Hope followed by a pop group “The Captain and Tennille” where the Queen and the President finally fulfilled the ritual for which photographers had been waiting, dancing together to what sounded like “The Lady Is a Tramp”
Mom remembered when it was just an orange grove. Our sister Diane with Walt soon after it's opening.
I always associate it with the Love Boat when I hear it. It was never used on the show but they were popular at the same time.
You may have seen John Wayne and Katherine Hepburn on the Rogue River in "Rooster Cogburn".
Mars Pathfinder was the first spacecraft to land on the surface of the red planet since the Viking mission in 1976. On reaching Mars on July 4, 1997, the spacecraft entered the planet's thin atmosphere, was slowed by a parachute and then rockets. airandspace.si.edu/collection-o...
July 4, 1976 TIME Oddly, no member of the drafting committee seems to have gone along to John Dunlap’s shop to supervise the printing which accounts, perhaps, for the caprices of punctuation, capitalization and spelling that occur in the printed document. time.com/archive/6648...
Vice President Rockefeller and Johnny Cash, the singer, led the parade here in separate cars up Constitution Avenue, then retired to a reviewing stand. But Mr. Rockefeller got less attention than Telly Savalas, who plays the detective Kojak on television.
Inspired both by the bicentennial and the rising popularity of the TV show Little House on the Prairie, the fashion industry marketed a romantic vision of the past filled with bonnets and flowery dresses. This nostalgia for an earlier time also brought with it a new interest in sewing and quilting.
July 1, 1976 NYT In its search for a suitable landing site, Viking 1 is transmitting hundreds of clear photographs showing the Martian landscape to be more rugged and geologically puzzling than most scientists had expected. www.nytimes.com/1976/07/01/a...
July 1, 1976 NYT Miss Taylor didn't seem to notice the commotion. She was escorted to the head of the line, kissed Mr. Carter and shook hands with him and Mayor Beanie, and then headed out across the ballroom amid cries of “My God, it's Elizabeth Taylor!” www.nytimes.com/1976/07/01/a...
June 30, 2026 Project Sunrise is the codename for Qantas’ initiative to operate the world’s first long-haul non-stop commercial flights from Sydney to London and New York. www.qantas.com/travelinside...
1941 #WWII The US newsmen checked off the phrases applied to Nazi Germany and its ways, ”treacherous, dishonorable, deceitful, hostile, murderous, brutal, desperate.” When the US could officially use such terms as were now applied to the Nazis, the US was certainly at war.
We just received a heavy burst of thunder and hail on our side of the lake while the Sun sets on the other. ⛈
Haley stated that the most emotional moment of his life occurred on September 29, 1967, when he stood at the site in Annapolis, Maryland, where his ancestor had arrived from Africa in chains exactly 200 years before. A memorial to Haley reading to children was erected in Annapolis.
Jenner attended Sleepy Hollow High School in Tairytown, NY, for two years and Newtown (Conn.) HS for two. He now lives in San Jose, CA. After the Olympics, he will retire from track and hopes to go into the entertainment business like such sports heroes as Bill Toomey and OJ Simpson.
Then they take the coastal highway north along the savage shore, turning off at Oregon’s Siskiyou National Forest to see the aptly named Rogue River, where the salmon in spring and fall beg to be caught. On they drive into Canada where they pick up the Alaska highway to America’s true last frontier.
Turning southwest, they cross the Continental Divide, push past gaudy Las Vegas and climb the Sierra Nevadas, pausing at Donner Pass. Here, explains Twain, whose lecturing is becoming a mild irritant, a wagon train, led by George Donner in the winter of 1846-47, became trapped in a fierce snowstorm.
June 28, 1976 TIME For Bicentennial 1976 is truly a glorious season in which to rediscover the USA. The most popular target is Washington, DC, which has never looked prettier. Normally the capital receives 14 million visitors annually; this year 17 million are expected. time.com/archive/6845...
The earliest mention in the NYT I've found, so far. Apr 10, 1861 NYT Considerable interest appears to have sprung up in the development of a new wonder near Los Angeles. The celebrated springs of Asphaltum are said to issue from a bed of coal capable of furnishing inexhaustible quantities of oil.
June 24, 1941 #WWII NYT A plea for more aircraft, ships, guns and munitions was made today by Admiral Husband Kimmel, Commander-in-Chief of the US Fleet, after warning that the present state of emergency might soon become a state of war.
This photo from that day was displayed in the Tahoe Biltmore. I'm afraid it and many more might have been destroyed since closing.