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Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch (HD) Camera E-8 from Mark Gray on Vimeo.

May 2nd, 2010 | Category: Cool Find, Video | Comments (2)

April 22nd, 2010 | Category: Boo Hoo, Cartoons | Comments (1)

George Bush, Queen Elizabeth, and Vladimir Putin all die
and go to hell. While there, they spy a red phone and ask what the phone is
for. The devil tells them it is for calling back to Earth.

Putin asks to call Russia and talks for 5 minutes.  When
he is finished the devil informs him that the cost is a million dollars, so
Putin writes him a check.

Next Queen Elizabeth calls England and talks for 30
minutes.  When she is finished the devil informs her that the cost is 6
million dollars, so she writes him a check.

Finally George Bush gets his turn and talks for 4 hours.
When he is finished the devil informs him that the cost is $5.00.

When Putin hears this he goes ballistic and asks the devil
why Bush got to call the USA  so cheaply.

The devil smiles and replies: “Since Obama took over, the
country has gone to hell, so it’s a local call.”

April 16th, 2010 | Category: Fun, Rant | Comments (1)

Very well stated, Mr. Leno .

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE
60′s and 70′s!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can and didn’t get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered
with bright colored lead-base paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, locks on doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes,
we had baseball caps
not helmets on our heads.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, no booster seats, no seat belts, no air bags, bald tires and sometimes no brakes.

Riding in the back of a pick- up truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and no one actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes made with Lard, white bread, real butter and bacon. We drank  FLAV-OR- AID made with real white sugar.. And, we weren’t overweight.   WHY?

Because we were always outside playing…..that’s why!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on..
No one was able to reach us all day. And, we were OKAY.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps
and then ride them down the hill,
only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem

We did not have Play stations, Nintendo’s and X-boxes. There were no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD’s,
no surround-sound or CD’s,
no cell phones,
no personal computers,
no Internet and no chat rooms.

WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We would get spankings with wooden spoons, switches, ping pong paddles, or just a bare hand and no one would call child services to report abuse.

We ate worms and mud pies
made from dirt, and
the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend’s house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team.
Those who didn’t had to learn
to deal with disappointment.

Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best
risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever.

The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. What can kids today do besides push buttons.

We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.

If YOU are one of them, CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good.

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave and lucky their parents were.

Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn’t it ?

April 15th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

Buffalo 1890 Buffalo “Albright Art Gallery” – newly completed, 1902 Cadillac accident – 1924 Scajaquada Drain Project then (1920′s) & now 100th NY Volunteers Monument – 1920 Elmwood Music Hall – c. 1915 Livestock Exchange then & now – 1901 Sisters of Charity Hospital, inside & out – pre-1900 Victory Liberty Loan Whistle Stop – 1919 Fort Porter – Gunnery Training c. 1900 Fort Porter – The Castle c. 1900 The Buffalo Pitts Company – c.1900 Republic Trucks: Borst-Damon – 1917 Buffalo Pottery Tour – 1910 Buffalo Traffic Accidents 1923-25 New York Central Terminal – 1929 Snowy Main Street – 1930′s Heywood Wakefield, Seneca and Wells, early 1930′s Spencer Kellogg & Sons Company – 1940 Thanksgiving Day, Depression – 1931 General Mills International Style – 1940′s McLeod Hotel & Exchange St – c. 1930 Perry Boulevard – 1930′s Remembering the Harbor Inn 2004 “Trestle Alley” – the only unpaved Buffalo street (2002) 509 Michigan Street – 2002 Margaret Wendt home – 2002 Bethlehem Steel aerial view – 1970′s Philip Riter & the Eagle Boiler Works – 1870′s African-American Soldier – 1943 Lafayette High School, then & now – 1910 Downtown Buffalo Hengerer’s Main Street store construction site – 1903 471 Main Street 1816 – 2005 Electric Building – 1919 Shelton Square – troops returning from WWI 1918-1919 Main Street – 1929 Maisel Store – 1920′s Washington Street (Chippewa) Market – 1910′s Lafayette Square aerial – 1929 Townsend Hall – early 1900′s Mohawk & Washington 1920-present Washington & Broadway – 1920-present German Insurance Building – 1910′s Main Street South of Chippewa – 1929 Main Street between Chippewa & Tupper – 1920′s Federal Reserve Building over time – 1910′s New Chicago Lunch, 1920′s Franklin & West Huron Street 1940′s White Building & Weed Hardware – c. 1940′s Gayety Theater – c. 1910 Entire City Block Demolished for Progress! – 1895 Main & Swan – pre-1895 Newsboy – 1936 Main Street – 1930′s Main & Genesee, Christmas – 1940′s Carl Meyer’s Hof – Court Street – 1940′s Main & Court Streets then & now – 1950′s Barnes & Hengerer Building, 268 Main – then & now – 1940′s Aerial View Dowtown Buffalo, 1936 Shelton Square – 1950′s Niagara Mohawk site aerial – 1968 Downtown early 50′s part 1 Downtown late 50′s part 2 Times Building demolition – 1967 Main & Chippewa, then & now – 1960′s Buffalo Skyway, 1950′s View of the future baseball stadium site – 1969 Shopping Downtown – 1962 Lafayette Square – then & now (2002) Future Convention Center site – 1973 The Aud Pharmacy – 1967 Old Seaman’s Home – 1960′s Exhange Street #10 – 1967 The Nimrod Hotel – 1967 193-195 Main – 1967 Main & Exchange then (1967)& now Main & Seneca then (1967) & now Aerial view future Pilot Field site – 1968 Chippewa & Franklin, Donald McDonald House – 1980 Selkirk House – 1980 Bathouse #1 – Terrace near Genesee – 1967 Morrison Building – 1945 Benlin Building – 1940′s Norbans, Washington & Huron – 1950 Lower Terrace and Gasworks Building – 1942

Waterfront The Canadiana’s maiden voyage – 1910 Waterfront: Foot of Main Street – 1900-1945 Waterfront “Idlers” – 1901 Waterfront along Fuhrmann Blvd – 1909 D. L. & W. Terminal, c. 1920 Massachusetts Pumping Station – 1920′s Auditorium foundations – 1939 Canal Slum – 1936 Front Park viewed from Peace Bridge – 1930′s Depression-Era Squatters: Outer Harbor – 1930′s Lower Terrace aerial view – 1930′s Michigan Street Bridge – pre-1939 The Frontenac in “Elevator Alley” – 1965 “Elevator Alley” – 1965 Great Lakes Dredge & Dock – 1967 Waterfront perspective aerial – late 1950′s Ice fishing harbor, Kinsman Independent – 1967 Waterfront – 1967 Maiden Lane Paving/Wheeler Hotel – 1996 Elevator Alley aerial view – 1970′s Ohio Street Lift Bridge – 1963 Erie Basin Marina 1930 – 1980′s Foot of Main Street, 1890′s Tug Martha Stewart – 1940 The Marine Star, aka Aquarama – 1956 Greater Buffalo & The U.S.S. Sable – 1940′s City of Buffalo Lake Passenger Ship – 1900′s Niagara River Ferries – 1920′s The International Bridge – 1900′s The Peace Bridge – 1930′s Buffalo Neighborhoods Building Buffalo Series – 1922 (then & now) The Lenox Hotel then & now – c. 1910 Poles in Buffalo, 1870′s – 1910 – Part 1 Poles in Buffalo – Part 2 Poles in Buffalo – Part 3 Elk Street Series – Boys in the ‘Hood – c. 1915 Elk Street Series -Business District, c. 1900 Elk Street – Series – Elk Street Market – c.1900 Richmond Avenue Church of Christ – 1922 William Street near Emslie – c. 1910 Fillmore Avenue Scajaquada Drain – 1920′s Hertel Avenue near Parkside – 1931 Clinton-Bailey Market over the years – 1939 Delavan and Grant – Then & Now 1936 Hertel and Delaware – 1937 Bailey & Ferry – Then (1938) & Now Frank’s Casa Nova – Bailey & Ferry -1938 Delavan & Humboldt – 1937 Bidwell & Delavan – 1936 Germania Street sewer work – 1934 Walnut and Clinton Street then & now – 1937 William and Lindbergh Gas Station then & now – 1934 Broadway, then and now, 1951 488 Masten Avenue – 1936 Lindbergh Drive – 1934 Masten & East Utica – 1936 Niagara Street and Bird Avenue then & now – 1937 J.J. Albright Estate – 1908 Carnival Court Amusement Park – 1920 Gates Circle, then & now and who – early 1900′s Allen & Elmwood, then & now – 1910 Rumsey Park – 1915 South Division Street, then & now – 1954 Willert Park & One Family’s Story – 1940′s Baldauf & Son Feed & Grocery – 1920′s Bird Avenue Playground, School 52 – c. 1910 Western New York Warsaw Niagara Falls Gorge Trolley – 1925 Niagara Falls Great Gorge Route – 1895 – 1935 Crystal Beach – 1900 – 1922 Crystal Beach miniature railroad – 1920′s Erie Beach Park – 1900-1920 part 1 Erie Beach Park – 1920 – 1930 part 2 Covered Bridge Holland Auto Club of Buffalo – 1920′s Flying Boat off Grand Island – 1920′s Forestville Wesleyan Church, then & now – 1912 Main & Buffalo Streets, Hamburg, over the years – 1900 North Boston Fire Company, over the years – 1910 M

April 8th, 2010 | Tags: Buffalo, historic, photos | Category: Buffalo, Cool Find, History, Travel | Comments (1)

Excerpt from an e-mail i received today, from a close friend>>Funny and Sad at the same time.

Over five thousand years ago, Moses said to the children of Israel ” pick up your shovel, mount your asses and camels, and I will lead you to the Promised Land”.

Nearly 75 years ago, Roosevelt said, “Lay down your shovels, sit on your asses, and light up a Camel, this is the Promised Land”.

Now Obama has stolen your shovel, taxed your asses, raised the price of Camels, and mortgaged the Promised Land!

I was so depressed last night thinking about health care plans, the economy, the wars, lost jobs, savings, social security, retirement funds, etc.

So, I called Lifeline, the suicide help line. Got a freakin’ call center in Pakistan and when I told them I was suicidal, they all got excited and asked if I could drive a truck…

March 17th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

F.Y.I. Alex Leigh is number 7

March 13th, 2010 | Category: Video | Leave a comment

transformation from Andre B on Vimeo.

March 13th, 2010 | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment

March 6th, 2010 | Category: Travel, Video | Leave a comment