It's fun to drive around the countryside and find interesting sights. This old Buick takes me back to the year I graduated from high school. A little uncertain as to its model year, I searched the internet for pictures of '59 and '60 models. It appears as if this number could be either one. It sat out front in the junkyard, and I'm sure the owner was showing it off in hopes of finding a classical car lover to buy and restore it.
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Quotation hanging on my office wall:
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are . . .
from Tennyson's Ulysses
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I started wondering what was going on in 1959 and did some looking on timelines. Ike was president . . . Alaska and Hawaii admitted into the Union . . . First photocopier, Xerox 914 on market . . . Castro took over in Cuba . . . Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper killed in an airplane crash on their way to Moorhead, MN and Bobby Vee was the fill-in act . . . Dodgers won the World Series . . . Coors Beer Co. introduced the aluminum beer can . . . Texas Instruments applied for patent on Integrated Circuits . . . Barbie Doll was introduced . . . China took over Tibet . . . Ford won a battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon" . . . "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton topped the charts . . . The first missile-carrying submarine, the USS George Washington launched . . . Rod Serling's Twilight Zone started . . . Chubby Checkers sang "The Twist" on the Dick Clark Show . . . Ford quit making Edsels . . .
. . .
Quotation hanging on my office wall:
Tho' much is taken, much abides; and though
We are not that strength which in old days
Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are . . .
from Tennyson's Ulysses
. . .
I started wondering what was going on in 1959 and did some looking on timelines. Ike was president . . . Alaska and Hawaii admitted into the Union . . . First photocopier, Xerox 914 on market . . . Castro took over in Cuba . . . Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper killed in an airplane crash on their way to Moorhead, MN and Bobby Vee was the fill-in act . . . Dodgers won the World Series . . . Coors Beer Co. introduced the aluminum beer can . . . Texas Instruments applied for patent on Integrated Circuits . . . Barbie Doll was introduced . . . China took over Tibet . . . Ford won a battle with Chrysler to call its new car "Falcon" . . . "The Battle of New Orleans" by Johnny Horton topped the charts . . . The first missile-carrying submarine, the USS George Washington launched . . . Rod Serling's Twilight Zone started . . . Chubby Checkers sang "The Twist" on the Dick Clark Show . . . Ford quit making Edsels . . .
