Lori Madden (Snyder)

I lived across Elliot Bay from Seattle in Admiral's Way for my first 9 years. I remember taking bus to go downtown Seattle with my mother and always having lunch at JC Penneys. I played at Hamilton View Park at end of California Avenue looking over Alki and Seattle waterfront.

Bill Engelhardt

1960s summertime destination

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

And surely some of you remember hiding in the trunk of a car.  Ahhh, the good old days!

Al Peffley

Speaking about 1960's drive-ins, one of our favorite hot rodding hangouts in the day (besides Lou's in Burien), was Phil Jensen's Burgermaster down in Rainier Beach near the old Rainiers Sicks'[sp?] Stadium.

"What is our famous Tom & Jerry shake? It's an eggnog flavored milkshake with nutmeg on top, called such for the classic '50's bar name for eggnog!"

Their fries with tartar sauce were wonderful. We often just called it the "Burg". It is still owned and run by the third generation of the Jensen family. I usually visit the Bellevue drive-in for my burger fix when traveling up north.

The first Burgermaster restaurant was established at University Village in 1952. BEEN THERE, DONE THAT.

https://burgermaster.com/about-history/

 I could not find a photo of the Rainier Avenue site in the early '60's.

Al Peffley

Congress Warning About DNA Testing Service Programs:

“There are now weapons under development, and developed, that are designed to target specific people,” US Representative Jason Crow (D-Colorado), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, said in Colorado on Friday. “That’s what this is, where you can actually take someone’s DNA, take their medical profile, and you can target a biological weapon that will kill that person or take them off the [population census rolls] battlefield or make them inoperable.”

Given that threat, Crow added, it’s troubling that expectations of privacy for personal data have diminished over the past 20 years, to the point that young people have “very little expectation of privacy” and readily give their data to private companies, such as DNA testing services.

“People will very rapidly spit into a cup and send it to 23andMe and get really interesting data about their background,” Crow said. “And guess what? Their DNA is now owned by a private company. It can be sold off with very little intellectual property protection or privacy protection.”

Please consider this public warning before submiting to DNA information-gathering organizations.

This is sobering bipartisan news, but not a surprise to many people who are fully awake and also understand the WEF's Great Reset and Transhuman Implementation initiatives. Your body, your choice -- be sure to make a safe and informed decision before submitting samples or taking new drug nanoparticle contents vaccines...

Al

Tim Jones (Jones)

Nice to see Burgermaster still around. Stopping there for a burger is on my do list.

I stopped at Dick's Drive In on 45th across I-5 from the U-district recently. The $2.85 basic burger wasn't very good and I couldn't bring myself to pay $4.85 for a milkshake or $4.50 for fries. 

Looking back to McDonald's 15 cent burgers and 20 cent fries and milkshakes, I'm thinking, I know what inflation has done to the dollar, but these current prices are way beyond inflation. They are 200% over the value of the 1960 dollar when you could exchange a paper dollar for a silver dollar.  

How low or how devalued can the dollar get?  That was answered by the Simpsons episode where Bart is taking Homer to the movies. Box office person:  two tickets, that'll be $4500 !!  Homer: Oh!!   Bart, I'll get it dad!

My oldest son took me to Ivars on the waterfront recently  First time I'd seen the area without the viaduct. We got our order, then drove down to the Coast Guard Station.  Graeme is a Coast Guard Reservist, twenty years in the reserves.. We drove onto the base after the guard checked my ID.

Parked and enjoyed our fish and chips while checking out the various vessels moored there, ice breakers and obsolete high endurance cutters. The cutters were built in the 1960's and were being decommissioned and then will be given to Argentina if I remember correctly.  The one big Ice Breaker there is being used as a "Parts Ship" for the other operational ice breakers.  With the arctic ice melting year around, maybe won't need ice breakers anymore. 

A number of the large buildings on the base were built in 1942 and have been condemned. The Coast Guard is always fighting for funding from Homeland Security.  

The world and specifically the US has changed so much since we were in high school. Retirement isn't quite what I was expecting it to be..... 

Hope you are all doing well.  Take care out there..

Ronald Goodmansen

Tim, you got the wrong burger at Dick's.  The best is the deluxe $4.70 and fries are $2.50.  Cheap compared to some other places for what you get.

Al Peffley

Ah yes, "Chez Richard's" in the U-District. I have not been there in many years. The iconic Seattle drive-in was popular when I was attending dog school and studying marine biology. I worked at Pizza Haven on the Ave while attending UW Oceanograhy School and I went to Dick's on 45th often for a change in lunch or dinner venue. We are now avid In N Out burger fans when their restaurants are close by where we are visiting down in southern/central Oregon, Cal, or Arizona. Long live the fresh, handmade hamburger sandwich! No microwaved burgers for me, thank you. XXX (like the one in Issaquah) had a good burger meal with a frosty root beer float & fries.

In N Out's famous  "Double-Double" Burger with fresh-cut fries. -- Yum! No fake meat patties! Are you hungry yet?

Al Peffley

The US currency dollar devalued the day it became the unsecured debt Federal Reserve Note in the early 1970's. President Kennedy was against the change to the Western Central Bank currency debt system from the gold and silver backed dollar standards. The Western Central Bank had him assassinated for his rejection of the new fiat money loans (Swift) system based on international bank loans and credit card digital money. The "petro" dollar and the Euro are dying. We are no longer considered a key player in the global oil industry or world currency markets because the US Fiat dollar is not based anymore on real national assets or minerals like oil, gold, and silver. Why is this true? Foreign nation states are buying up our farmland and industries to further erode our national assets for trade. We need a stronger balance of world trade position to back an asset-based currency, not more loan notes or higher loan rates. Wake up America.

Retirement is relevent to what we have perceived as obtainable while being free people in a Republic, not a socialist democracy. The WEF is against your inidividual freedom rights, and it wants you to serve them in their "sustainable" retirement goals world, not ours.

Find your happiness with the simple things in life while you still have your health. If we don't have our health, then we can't appreciate anything we have left to enjoy. Don't get any more shots if you have been injected with experimental, non-medical contents. Use your funds wisely during their world recession phase. Choose red pill happiness over black pill doom.

The WEF "cabal" wants us divided and unhappy, not united. Reject the tyrants' "Reset". Support our farmers and people who work. We the People win over evil if we are united. VOTE for a better retirement outcome from those who really represent you, not puppets controlled by the elitist WEF masters. Be strong in your community and county. Support NGO's like True the Vote. Help us take back our country from the greedy globalists who don't love their neighbor or us.

Don't ever trade perceived safety for freedom. We had it better in the mid-1960's and probably did not appreciate it fully; don't give up on the American Dream. Each of us had our own dream of retirement. Make your dream come true. Don't believe the false narrative propaganda from the cabal's media. You still have personal options as an American freeman. Use them wisely. People are more important than material stuff. Find good people to be associated with in your senior years. Welcome to getting old.

Cheers! -- to a Brighter Future & Freedom,

Al

Gregg Wilson

Hi Al,

Inflation began with the creation of the Federal Reserve in December, 1913. Before that time, the Federal Government went broke at least twice and had to be revived with gold from the major banks. At a price, of course.

The Federal Reserve enabled uncle fudd to borrow paper money. The Republicans used this greatly, causing the inflation of the 1920s. The Federal Reserve loaned money at 0.5% - causing the stock market explosion of the 1920s. Called to a halt in 1929. And the Great Depression began.

Al Peffley

Hi Gregg,

You are very correct about the first large devaluation of the US dollar was accomplished in 1913. A FED administrator much later admitted that they caused the American Great Depression of the 1930's.

Fast forward to today -- Many of the BICS(sp?) countries with acceptable GDP's are now changing to the gold standard again as a basis for their national currency and crypto currency for foreign payment transactions, but not the US, so far. The FED and the Western Central Bank are backed into a massive world recession corner of their own doing. Who and what policies caused this? How do we abate the dollar's devaluation trend?

The end result won't be for everyone. Our political parties have both been involved with this FED-induced economic train wreck for over 100 years. It's now time to pay the excessive lendiing system pipers. The FED banks should not get a bailout subsIdy this time from a bankrupt FED and US Federal Administration Treasury. The biggest retirement investment losers will be huge civil service retirement accounts based on probable  stock market performance failures. Stay calm. Protect your savings accounts in smaller, dispersed deposit locations. Avoid dealing with big name banks directly involved with the FED. Use credit unions where you are a financial institution cooperative owner/member, not just a banking "customer".

Do your own research and invest your savings wisely. I quit investing in stocks years ago when the technology .coms' bubble burst. I lost a lot of my retirement supplemental savings in the bust. Intellectual property and communication services don't feed, house, or heat/cool people,  nor do they trade well for life essential materials like metals, oil, natural gas, grains, food, clean water, and fertilizer on the global market -- ask the EU how it's working for them now that they support the Nazi Khazarian Mafia and WEF in the Ukraine conflict. Resist the WEF/UN Agenda 2030 Reset and the Admin./Congressional "war drums". The Titanic is sinking, and the captain and his crew have announced that the remaining passengers on the ship are in the next (newly-defined) transition phase of their pre-paid voyage to America. Life boats are scarce. What is your savings life boat strategic plan?

Just for consideration in this adult discussion about money: No one knows it all. Here are a few recent website sources to listen to what others perceive about the condition of our economy and the devaluing FRN currency status. You only need to look at your pocket book's monthly expenditure increases and reduced store inventory levels to see the inflation, food supply changes, and currency value trends at the buyer's micro economics level to see the pain to Americans - especially those with low-paying jobs and children to care for):

https://rumble.com/v1e5n8b-charles-hugh-smith-its-time-to-end-the-fed-and-return-to-a-decentralized-cu.html

and:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/uQ8NjxCkUCXn/

Comments are encouraged and will be respected. I am not a financial advisor or subject matter expert for domestic living budget/financil planning, just retired like most of you.

Cheers to Recovery (without the Western Central Bank),

Al

Al Peffley

LOL! 

THANKS, Larry.

Linda Pompeo (Worden)

Hard to remember when $5 would fill a gas tank. 

Now you need to put a 0 on the end of the 5 to get a half tank!

Al Peffley

Fuel Tax Sticker photo on pump unit at a Fred Meyer service station taken in July, 2019 (note: the tax was still at July 2016 taxation rates):

Compare the past early 1970's cost per gallon in the prior post with just the WA State fuel tax amount in 2016-2019. The Federal taxes at the pump are not the problem. Local taxes are not shown. Welcome to the Green New Deal era transition with a prolonged recession. The State Tax is increasing every year, in major increments. The WEF wants us to live in their mega cities, quit driving private vehicles, rent from them after we sell them our real estate, and use only public transportation that is mostly very limited. Airfare tickets are going through the roof. Welcome to the failed 2022 world economic transition period. Trucking cmpanies that transport our food supplies pay the same taxes... What else could go wrong? Their 16-year UN Agenda 2021 to 2030 implementation plan schedule is accellerated. Humanity is the target for reducltion of consumers as resources competitors with the globalist elites. they will lose if we all resist together. Please vote for America this November.

Al Peffley

[Former Seattle International] Pacific Raceways layout in 2009:

 I drove the parts truck to the track for the Alan Green Chev Racing Teams in 1964-65. This #8 car is the second race Cheetah that Green ordered from Bill Thomas Competition (the first car was destroyed at a race track). The competition was the Carroll Shelby Ford & Cobra cars in 1964. I gave Al Book my Cotati Race poster with the Cheetahs shown on it. Al Book bought a spare Cheetah body from the Green stables' residual inventory owned by a private party for years after Green divested from his race equipment. Book sold it years ago for a profit to a guy in Arizona who restored it to a road configuration in the Chev "Hugger Green" metalic paint color that was also used on the famous custom-made Thomas Chevy II fastback coupe drag race car body and green steet Cheetah that Alan & Bookie drove. Ron and I worked for Ron Shultz's dad in the Alan Green Parts Department in 1964. I stayed on in Parts with Socko in 1965-66 when I was going to HCC. Grant was Alan's lead driver when I was with the team's race crew. I have also been on the drag strip at SIR with Theron Wood in his '59 Chev when the weekend grudge drags were held at SIR in those days.  I did not try to race my '39 chev sedan with the Corvette engine and T-10 4 speed transmission there in the late 1960's.

Al Peffley

Spud Fish & Chips at Alki

Another survivor of the COVID plandemic was the "Spud" at Alki Beach. It is another Seatlle iconc seafood restaurant since the mid-1930's... Alki Point was also a popular cruizing area in the 1960's. The Seafair Pirates landed there during Seafair Week in a decorated WWII surplus amphibious "duck" vehicle to kick off the Seafair Week festivities, if I remember correctly. Later the craft was made more fancy as is shown in the photo below. Pure and simple fun.No one worried about social "correctness" or other BS politics. Some complained that the Pirates were being womanizers when some of the ladies played along with their theatrical antics. Maybe a little too much "rum" was consumed prior to the landing? - LOL!

The Seafair Pirates' amphbious craft  named "Moby Duck" was not this fancy when I first saw it in the late 1950's at Alki Beach.

My children liked stopping there, enjoying the seafood, and having fun playing at the clean sandy beach on the weekends. Sometimes we would go out in our boat in the late 1970's, stop at Alki Point, pull up on the beach, clean the sand off of our sandals outside of the public showers beachhouse, and go to eat at the Spud. in the mid- to late 1960's we played volleyball there and had beach party fires. The view of the bay was always interesting as large ships, sailboats, and WA ferries traveled the bay. Cutthroat trout and ling cod fishing was pretty good off of the beach there in the '60's & '70's. We used the Spud's clam chowder waxed cups to mix epoxy in when I was wooden boat building and outboard hydro racing. The "Spud" was always a place to stop and eat at when we were in West Seattle. I had many high school, HCC, and Navy friends who lived in West Seattle over the years. Better days around Seattle as I remember then than now...

Patrick Calkins

My father was a Seafair Pirate in the late fifties to the early sixties.

I loved Spud fish and chips. We had friends who lived three blocks from Alki and ate there often. 

I’m on the east coast and the fish and chips don’t compare at all.

Al Peffley

Nostalgic 1950's Cowboy & Cowgirl Play Memories:

The woods around Pat's house and the old chicken ranch buildings at the end of 8th S.W. were our "frontier" battle grounds and camp sites in the day. We played "war" around the empty chicken ranch buildings. We would play until it was time to go home for dinner (or sometimes a little later.) The woods next to our house became the Southgate Ford dealership's new cars parking lot in the mid-1950's. Our old house on 9th was torn down and became the Southgate Ford Body Shop location. Al book's Welding was established across the street from our old white house on 9th. We moved over into Hurstwood after selling our house on 9th Street to Southgate Ford around 1961 or '62. Burien was changing rapidly.

Bill Engelhardt

A summery 89 degrees in Olympia...and inside the Hawk's Prairie Costco...well....

Al Peffley

i don't think at that size of a  "Frosty" display would fit inside the Tumwater Costco...  LOL

Consumerism is reaching new heights [or lows] with new container shipments from the CCP factories. Every year Thanksgiving and secular Christmas marketing gets earlier. Who, during an excessive inflation period and recession, values this home decorative stuff over paying the mortgage or their car payment and buying food for the family dinner table? Yesterday, our normal $50 weekly food bill for two at WINCO was almost $100!  I am grateful that we paid off the Kelso house and Oregon property. Next year's real estate taxes bill for Kelso doubled from three years ago since Washington State has no tax percentage increase limit like rural Oregon currently does. Our cars are paid for, except maintenance costs. We are tightening up on spending.

Side Note: The government identity services contractor IdentoGO company, owned by French company IDEMIA, who is offering elelectronic facial recognition services and fingerprint recording files to the TSA's Pre Check Program and DHS TWIC cloud-based identity databases, also is a participant in the WEF's banking accounts identity tracking system and UN Agenda 2030 human identity system. You make your own decision whether your personal control of future personal biometric information sharing details is important to you. The US Government database with my biometric information from my DoD & DoE security clearances paperwork and scans has already been compromised several years ago by unknown hackers. Trudeau has already demonstrated the interaction of the identity database systems by freezing protesting truckers' bank accounts (IdentoGO is also used by federal and provincial government agencies and banks in Canada, and 70 nations worldwide.) Some of their operations software has been developed by CCP-controlled sources and will connect covertly with 5-G Comms Systems invented and controlled by Chinese interface entities. Do your own research on IDEMIA and IdentoGO. Digging for more information will require a little extra effort, even in DuckDuckGo. This is a [red pill] alert message.

Al Peffley

This should bring back some memories:

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Wow, this does bring back memories. The Wailers were fabulous.  First time at the Spanish Castle was amazing. It was absolutely packed!  Got that album too

Al Peffley

The Wailers also played at The Cove in the day. Maybe it was only once, but I remember seeing them there also. Someone in Normandy Park 's Cove Facility Management team obtained a money-making gig contract for that event, for sure. It was interesting to see them up close while they were setting up their equipment for the show. It had to be before 1967 (1965?) because Roberts died in an automobile accident in 1967. He also obtained a Masters Degree in biochemistry at OSU. He was a USMC reservist, according to his Wikipedia bio information file (see link below). Lawrence Fewell [AKA "Rockin' Robin"] Roberts II was truely an amazing person during his short lifetime here on earth of 27 years. The 1967 San Francisco drug culture aparently ended him, like many others of his time in the entertainment industry around the Bay Area.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockin%27_Robin_Roberts

As a side note: Bonnie & I were married at the Cove in 1998. The Dean family sponsored our lease of the Cove facilities for our wedding. The Normandy Park cops stopped a few of our guests for "speeding" through the Park. No large fine tickets were issued that day, fortunately.

Al Peffley

The economic impact of the US's inflation/recession (excessive money printing by the FED) and FRN dollar devaluation is affecting worlwide banking currency exchange rates and the imbalance of overall international trade.

PayPal is changing its policies and rules for foreign product purchases by US customers in personal transactions. Some of you who surf the Internet for foreign product sales may be interested in these dynamic financial institution rule changes. I am assuming that Visa, Mastercard, and other credit card systems  will also be making significant international transaction rule and fee changes in the near future Small businesses and individual sellers will be impacted more than the giant retailers on the Internet. in the mean time, Ukraine is asking for more funds and weapons with no exchange for fertilizer or useful goods and raw masterials.

I received this message last Friday from PayPal's HQ in San Jose, CA:

Effective September 19, 2022:

• U.S. business accounts will not be able to receive personal transactions from PayPal accounts outside the U.S. starting October 31, 2022.
• U.S. PayPal accounts will not be able to send personal transactions to business accounts outside the U.S. starting October 31, 2022.
• The Agreement to Arbitrate will provide revised information on the process if disputes arise between you and PayPal, including additional information about arbitration, small claims disputes, and the payment of associated fees.
• If you integrate or reference PayPal services on your website, we are clarifying that PayPal may use automated technologies (e.g., website crawling) to assess your website to ensure compliance with the user agreement and to combat fraud.
• Pricing for sending and receiving certain donations is being updated. The new pricing will result in fee increases for some transactions. You can preview the Consumer Fees Page and the Merchant Fees page that will be effective following such changes.

My Side Note: The Euro and FRN US dollar (USD) are almost equal in value today [Monday, Aug. 22, 2022]:

1 EUR = 0.994305 USD

Aug 22, 2022, 22:37 UTC

Central Bank Rates [vs. Euro= 0%]

Al Peffley

This is an interesting article and a good read about the world's geopolitics and economy changes related to international commodity trade interaction and disruption. It discusses international banking strategies, effects on national currencies, and the result of US/EU sanctions on Russia because of the Azov Nazi/Russian color revolution started in 2014 in Ukraine. The EU will be the biggest loser this winter. Economic analysts will differ in their US economy outcome forecasts, but no one group of politicians or the WEF can change what is going to happen to the world's economy after this recession period. The Western Central Bank is pannicking over personal gold, silver, and bitcoin investments which they have no direct control over.

The IRS, an extension of the FED banks and a service contractor to the US Treasury, has been recently told by the Federal Court System that they have no Consititutional right to ask about or control international bitcoin investments by individual US citizens. Why does the IRS need a new large police force function of armed "agents"? What new rules and regulations are they going to enforce against the individual US taxpayers? We need more effective representation to control this weponization of the IRS. Lobbying corporations will obviously not be the IRS's enforcement target, only small businesses and individual taxpayers (see recent agent training videos released to the mass media). This is important stuff for all of us, especially because most of us are on a fixed income budget. I know that we have some retired bankers out there -- Any personal thoughts or comments on this article? Stay informed. Economic storm coming... the results are impacting all of us, no matter where you live as a senior retired person.

https://www.algora.com/Algora_blog/

Geopolitics: The World Is Splitting In Two