Gregg Wilson

I have discovered the perfect computer password.

                                   incorrect

"Your computer passwod is incorrect. Yes. I know."

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Now that is one of the funniest I have heard!

Patrick Calkins

Mike McCarthy was one of my best buddies being on the Highline HS State Champion Gymnastic Team together. I was so sad when I heard of his death.

Bill Engelhardt

In the spirit of Opening Day....

Hardwick (KVI), president of Ray Oyler Fan Club, Seattle Pilots, 1969. 

Gregg Wilson

Democrats have decided that if they cuss a lot, they can win back enough votes to re elect themselves.

Amateurs.

As an old Marine, I can assure you that we Marines had cussing down to a fine art. I will demostrate:

                       !@)^$&?%!

Al Peffley

KENT PACIFIC RACEWAYS - 1964

Recently I realized that I attended a 1964 USRRC PNW Grand Prix Race at Kent Pacific Raceways (KPR) that the famous Ken Miles won the GT+2.0 Class for Shelby American Racing in Carroll's 289 Cobra #50 CSX2128 roadster. At the time, I did not know who Ken Miles was or how important he would become to Shelby American and Ford Racing. I was part of the Alan Green Cheetah Racing Team at the time and watched as the #50 Cobra beat Alan Green's best efforts with Green's Corvette Grand Sport and one of Bill Thomas' Cheetahs he owned  to compete against the Iacocca and Shelby 289 Cobras. Ford v Ferrari would change road racing in the next year at la Sarthe Circuit (Le Mans). Green would sometimes team up with Roger Penske on Chevy 305/327 engine builds, and a young Mark Donohue would win at a KPR Trans Am race in a Lola or McLaren small block Chevy Spyder race car. The engine sounds were ground shaking sometimes during the KPR races. Now the electric cars are quiet (and boring). The B&W photo is of Miles driving for a win at Riverside in 1964. I can't find my photos taken at Kent in 1964. I had a Paddock Pass and full race course access in 1964 and 1965. In 1965 it was the new Shelby GT350 versus Penske Z/28 COPO Camaros. Roger Penske was a Chevrolet dealer like Alan Green. WONDERFUL memories of famous constructors, owners, drivers and race cars. The 289 Cobra was ahead of its time. GM abandoned the Corvette Stingray Grand Sport Program to a young  GM engineer Duntov's dismay. I wish I could have met Ken Miles that weekend in 1964. Our Cheetah driver was normally Jerry Grant. Gary Gove drove Trans Am Z/28 Camaros. Dick Milner drove the Thomas fastback Nova at NHRA Drag races. Larry Webb was Alan's Race Team Manager for all of the race cars. Webb and Milner were both Chevy race engine master builders and race car setup wizards. Milner became a personal friend while I was briefly on the Team's Crew.

Bill Engelhardt

Bill Engelhardt

Coy's Hi Line Theater on First Ave.
If you had a quarter, you were set for the Saturday afternoon matinee. A dime to get in, candy bars were a nickel, popcorn a dime. Previews of "coming attractions," a cartoon, newsreel, a serial chapter (The Lost Planet, Congo Bill, Blackhawk), and the main feature -- often a western. 

Al Peffley

OK, Bill, I'll bite. It was on 1st Ave. near 136th on the east side of 1st going north? Across the streat, on the corner in a one-story (mint green stucco?) building, was a rug and flooring retailer? The Coy theater screen was in the quonset (aka Nissen] hut structure to the left of the lobby and projector room bulding in the early 50's or late 40's photo. Heavy rain would make a lot of noise on that steel hut roof. We could walk to the old Burien Theater in those days, A trip to the Danish Bakery and the grocery store's pop cooler (next door) on 152nd for a pastry and a grape Nehi soda and you were "good to go" to a Saturday Matinee at the Burien Theater in the 50's. We only owned one car, so walking to the theater was preferred to attend Saturday movies. My father, being a butcher, worked on Saturdays.

Happy Birthday, Virginia!

Bill Engelhardt

You're close --- 134th and 1st Ave.S. 
Coy also had a theater in White Center, on Roxbury, near 16th SW.   

Gregg Wilson

A fellow had three serious girl friends. He did not know which one to marry, so he gave each gal $5,000. The first girl told him "I spent the $5,000 on making me incredably beautiful because I love you so much." The second girl said "I bought you golf clubs and a 100 inch TV because I love you so much." The third girl said "I invested the $5,000 and made $10,000. I am giving you back your $5,000 because I love you so much."

He thought long and hard about it, and married the gal with the biggest bazonga's.

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Al, thanks for the birthday wishes.  My friends had a big party for me with a large banner saying, "Happy 90th."  Table decorations saying born in 1935!  Fun day!  Hey, I remember that Danish Bakery.  About once a month, my mother would take us in there for a special treat.  Guys, just keep posting the memories and jokes!

Bob Nicholson

"...on the east side of 1st going north?"

Al, is it on the west side going south?

Al Peffley

That was a long time ago - I remember that theater facility just north of 136th on the east side of 1st Avenue, going down into the dip towards 128th. my first guess was the 132nd Block and 1st, but I changed it. I remember a short row of shake-sided houses on the west side of 1st, almost directly across from the theater. But I'm and old fart now, and I have some trouble remembering where I left my truck keys at times. The area changed when they widened 1st Avenue and the Coy theater was torn down. I think the old building on the NW corner of 136th and 1st was originally an AMC auto dealer showroom... or maybe not. 1st Avenue in Burien became "Auto Row" between 152nd and 136th in the late 50's and early 60's. The Burien economy was booming. Dad bought a new car - a '52 Pontiac Deluxe Chieftan "straight eight" with a 4-speed automatic; It would become my first car before I bought the '52 white Chevy custom sedan from Gary Wright. People traded-in and bought new cars more often in those days. The more the new car looked like a limo, the more you looked "classy" owning it (if you lived through the Great Depression and WWII.) It was a state of mind.

Dick Surman

Al, your last post brought back memories for me.  In '62 I bought my first car, a '52 Chev 2-dr sedan from my uncle for $100 (paper route $).  It was a 3-speed manual column shift.  Kept it until I entered the Air Force in '64.  Memories...it was back in the day of carburetors and changing your own oil.  Good times...

Bob Nicholson

Ahhhh.... You guys and your hot cars. I drove my 1930 Model A Ford 2 door until I entered the Air Force.  But it was the fasted car going around the running track when we had that pushing race between the Knights Of The Cuttless and The Coachman.  My thanks to Mike Clausing for the nice article.

Cheryl Miller

Bob, I remember riding to school in that car.  The only source of heat in winter was a light on the dash!

Bob Nicholson

That's harsh Cheryl, but true. No air conditioning in the summer either. We really had it ruough back then. But, it was fun.

Al Peffley

The '52 Chev was modified for a 272 c.i. V8. Theron helped me install the V8 while I worked at Alan Green. I needed money when I came off Active Duty in the Navy and returned to Boeing and HCC, so I sold it. I bought a '39 Chev with a 283 Corvette engine and less than 75K miles on the body with a BECU loan and also purchased George Brower's MG Midget to commute to my transfers to Boeing Tulalip Test Site and Whidbey NAS in the winter of '68. I sold both of those cars. I bought a used 1970 Pontiac Lemans Sport from Danny Hill (RIP) when he worked for a Pontiac dealership on Capital Hill. That was a wonderful car with all of the accessories for family road trips with the kids. My ex-wife, Cathi, after a few too many, totaled it and my son never forgave her for it. I still like cars but I have to divest of my car collection with my current disability issues... Just think what value a 30-year old car is to someone today? My 1997 Chev pickup  that I bought new from Glen Grant is getting there! It is a very comfortable ride and a great tow vehicle, when needed. I turn down offers to buy it.

Al Peffley

We pause for a moment from nostalgic topics of "unserious" nature and "political" cartoons to share a brief experience with real life...

I just finished VP J.D. Vance's 2016 book HILLBILLY ELEGY. It brought back many memories of my parents' and my own childhood. You might find it a good read and interesting. My mother's family was from Richmond, VA. My father was a cowboy, wooden boat builder, and former Merchant Marine from Eastern Washington -- a blue collar worker. My grandmother and uncle both died of a blood disease (some said lukemia) early, and my mother assumed the roll of "MOM" in her family (she was a great cook.) Grampa moved back to Richmond when the three girls were raised by a single father who had lost his wife and only son so unexpectedly. Grandpa was shot dead after a tavern card game with a irate loser who accused him of cheating! There were no drug addicts that I knew of in my family, but my father had an alcohol problem when he ran his butcher shop business, so I can identify with parts of J.D.'s life account. It gives you a great insight into the background of our current VP, his views on personal relationships, value system, and his demeanor as a young lawyer, father, and a successful politcian.

Al Peffley

Hall-Penske Corvette Grand Sport & Hall's Chaparral 2A at Road America in 1964

I just bought a 1:43 scale model of the #67 Hall Racing 1963 Grand Sport/005 coupe that Penske and Hall drove in 1964. Only five Grand Sport cars were made when Chevrolet stopped factory racing in FIA/CanAm (SCCA) events.  All five cars were sold to private racing team customers like Hall, Penske,Yenko, Green, and Mecom Racing. The first two 1963 tube-framed stingrays were converted into roadsters from the two thin fiberglass coupe bodies. From then on only Ford violated the late 1950's AMA agreement with GM and Chrysler because of their goal to beat the Ferrari factory entries in FIA and SCCA racing. There are three videos on YouTube (see hyperlink below) of the 1964 Elkheart Road America 500 race. Roger Penske, Jim Hall, and Hap Sharp drove both Hall entry cars at the 1964 race. Hall and Penske had direct help from the Chevrolet factory shops for aluminum block race engines and body parts in 1964. A special parts catalog was hand typed and mimeographed for all racing parts that weren't in the Chevy printed catalog pages that Corvette dealers received in 1963 through 1969. Only racing team customers had the ability to order from the "under the counter", PROTOTYPE [COPO] CARS special racing parts catalog. I purchased parts out of that catalog for my 272 c.i. V8 Project. it was not until I purchased a copy recently of Mark Donohue's book The Unfair Advantage that I learned why I had oil pressure problems with my modified, small block Chevy V8 in the '52! Seems that the new 427 big blocks had the same problem controlling oil into the pump in the oil pan. The fix was a few added baffle panels in a larger, special order oil pan. The new oil pan was deeper (sedan was still lowered), very costly, and definitely NOT in my meager U-dub college funding budget, so I shimmed the oil pump lower and made a longer push rod to operate it... Enginuity in action.

https://www.deansgarage.com/1964-road-america-500/

Gregg Wilson

Now that gold has crashed to $3,342 an ounce, I'm thinking of selling out before it reaches a value of zero dollars.

Al Peffley

Just think -- Gold rings, necklaces, and tooth caps saved from earlier days may be worth thousands when melted down...

We need to go back to a precious metals, "Gold Standard" backed money system (real Treasury Notes) and dump the Federal Reserve fiat paper money to get out of debt to the international banking cabal. The IRS and the Federal Reserve debt notes need to be dissolved from the US monetary system in order to free us economically (like the Founding Fathers, and God, intended us to be.) We have a lot of natural resources to base our national currency on besides gold. Follow the BRICS example and be free of the Western Central Bank economic slavery put in place around WWI against prosperous western world nations. The United Nations is a millstone around our necks. Hold onto your gold and real estate property investments. They don't want you to control and own real property assets. Stay as independent as you can, and enjoy your Bill of Rights that are unique to our Constitutional Republic of the United States of America.

Gregg Wilson

                                 AMEN

Al Peffley

YIKES! I am so happy we moved away from Seattle 20 years ago:

https://thepostmillennial.com/seattle-sued-over-nudist-park-as-city-considers-creating-masturbation-deterrent-infrastructure

We went up to visit Bon's aunt in Woodenville on Tuesday. The HOV lane toll going south down in the valley on Hwy 167 around Kent was $15.00 in the stretch down to about the Highway 18 exit! If the perverts  in downtown Seattle parks don't get  to you, the State will....bend over to assume the additional property tax inctreases, evolving taxes on gas, and additional travel fees. Traffic still sucks almost 24/7 in the Puget Sound basin during the work weekdays.

The Feds should take back the management of the ENTIRE freeway system infrastructure. WSDOT is doing a terrible job by funding stupid projects and basically ignoring highway repairs, line painting, and safety lighting. ODOT has less funds and does a far better job of maintaining the freeways through Oregon. "Better" is not more HOV toll lanes!