I didn’t have any technology except my practical way of doing things. So I told them by pulling on the spring. If it is hard to pull it means that it would hit harder and that’s how I do it.
History
Cannon Fodder. Louis Ferdinand Celine.
Cannon-Fodder is an unfinished novel by the French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline. The largely autobiographical narrative is set before World War II, and roughly continues where Céline's 1936 novel Death on Credit ended. Much of the novel disappeared in 1944. Surviving...
Bastille Day. 1789. Today.
Bastille stormed by Paris mob. On this day n 1789, a mob advanced on the Bastille, the crowd captured the prison, an act that symbolized the end of the regime of Louis XVI
Things that you just don’t see much anymore…
Christopher Dresser letter rack 1881
Yoko Ono – Walking On Thin Ice – 3 track Cassette (Cassingle)
"You've just made your first number one Yoko" "Walking on Thin Ice" was released by Yoko Ono in1981. She and John Lennon finished recording of the song on December 8, 1980. It was upon their return from the recording studio to...
Doug & Lois Mitchell Outstanding Calgary Artist Award – Katie Ohe – 2020
Legacy Awards Calgary Arts Development 2020. Katie Ohe
Chapter 34 Vital and Danny Thebeau
CHAPTER 34 Summer of 1975 My friend, Jack Moore was keeping a few horses; he told me I should have one. I thought about it. I had a brother-in-law that had a horse he wanted to sell. I asked him how much he wanted for it, he told me he wanted $90.00. It was a nice...
Ringo Starr’s Beaucoups of Blues
I bought this when it came out, 1970-71ish, and I've owned it ever since, I always heard Ringo had made it for his mother, who loved country music. Ringo Starr Beaucoups of BluesA few reviews lifted shamelessly from Wikipedia: Writing for Rolling Stone,...
A Message For You Ch. 30 – Feel Good About Your Job! – Vital Thebeau
CHAPTER 30 The job that I enjoyed was working alone on the forklift - most of the time that was my job - to keep this forklift going. The operators were very hard on them, they never took a course on how to operate the machine that made my job very hard, and we had...
A Message For You- Ch. 29 – Getting an Education!
CHAPTER 29 Sometime in 1972 the Department of Labour, said that we had to have a license to work in the mill, they wanted all the mechanics to have their industrial mechanic licenses. The Department of Labour, Bruce Baker told the superintendent, Dave Crosby that I...
