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  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭

    An added view from the observation platform fronting the Mishima Skybridge incorporating the bridge and Mount Fuji:

    And an added photo from the same spot incorporating cherry blossoms and Mount Fuji:

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JWP said:

    Nostalgic. Thanks.

    Peered down that pathway as a child and again as a college student years later. Also descended down into the caverns on both occasions.

  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 7, 2024 7:17PM

    Don’t make a mountain out of a mole hill.

  • CoinscratchCoinscratch Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @pocketpiececommems said:

    Don’t make a mountain out of a mole hill.

    Soooo, you found a screwdriver?

  • pocketpiececommemspocketpiececommems Posts: 5,853 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I put the screwdriver in the mound to give another indication of how big it was😊

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 7, 2024 8:36PM

    This past week's walk across Japan's longest pedestrian suspension bridge reminded of a prior photo book:

  • TiborTibor Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JWP said:

    I was there in 1972 and I don't remember this.

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    The memphis TN area

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  • CoinscratchCoinscratch Posts: 8,647 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @pocketpiececommems said:
    I put the screwdriver in the mound to give another indication of how big it was😊

    Well okay but where's the treasure :D

  • JWPJWP Posts: 22,105 ✭✭✭✭✭


    It was cloudy I. The Memphis TN area this afternoon. We were able to see the eclipse with the glasses, but pictures sere not so great. We were about 60 miles to the SE from the main path
    What we saw was great

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  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 9, 2024 9:27PM

    @1northcoin said:

    @JWP said:

    Another cool movie fact. When the movie Pearl Harbor was filmed Big Mo was used as a set for the USS Arizona. However, in order to film down along "Broadway" (the below waterline corridor that stretched from one end of the ship to the other and through which munitions were transported by a ceiling mounted rail) the producers ended up paying millions of dollars to have asbestos removed. As a result, today one can tour that corridor.

    Here is another of my photos. This one taken on a special tour of Big Mo at the location on "Broadway" where the scene in the movie Pearl Harbor was filmed. In the movie the corridor begins rocking as bombs hit USS Arizona.

    And here is a screenshot from the film "Pearl Harbor" at the subject location on Big Mo's Broadway. (Note the artifact of a hand held light on the far left of the frame. The corridor is so narrow it was difficult for the film crew to place lighting for the shot.)

    And some years later, this same location was again used as a set for another film featuring a battleship. This time it was in a Godzilla film.

  • TiborTibor Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JWP said:

    Lost our milkman early 70's. Milk was always better from a glass bottle.
    Not very fond of the waxed cardboard or plastic jug.

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Tibor said:

    @JWP said:

    Lost our milkman early 70's. Milk was always better from a glass bottle.
    Not very fond of the waxed cardboard or plastic jug.

    Not to mention the pull off cardboard caps. Anyone collect those?

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  • TiborTibor Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @1northcoin said:

    @Tibor said:

    @JWP said:

    Lost our milkman early 70's. Milk was always better from a glass bottle.
    Not very fond of the waxed cardboard or plastic jug.

    Not to mention the pull off cardboard caps. Anyone collect those?

    I've got a bunch of the baseball and football ones.

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    Eurasian Big owl

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  • TiborTibor Posts: 3,552 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @JWP said:

    Eurasian Big owl

    Is this a similar species as the one from the previous page?

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 10, 2024 8:43PM

    @JWP said:

    Worked as an Assistant manager at the Burger chef in my hometown in Michigan prior to enlisting in the Navy.

    @Bullsitter said:

    No photo to add, but seeing these 15 cent burger places reminded of a Dee's Burgers which was the original fast food burger chain in Utah before McDonalds. I recall when traveling through Salt Lake City seeing the similar 15 or 29 cent signs there in the 60s and still recall how great they tasted wrapped in a waxed paper.

  • 1northcoin1northcoin Posts: 4,280 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited April 11, 2024 12:41AM

    Somehow fast food burgers wrapped in paper always tasted better than those in cardboard or styrofoam boxes.

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