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Christmas 1965.....4th & Pine

12/25/25 10:19 AM

#2343

Merry Christmas to all our class pirates!

12/27/25 01:23 PM

#2344

The star on the "Bon" was a great memory because it announced the beginning of the Christmas displays in the Frederick & Nelson's and Bon Marche's giant street-level windows. It started as a tree with a star on top and morphed into an all white lights star display to better depict the reason for the season. Since then the magic of Christmas window displays, train layouts, and entertaining puppet shows has left the Emerald City like a ghost of Christmas Past. Good memories of hot chocolate and road trips to Downtown for shopping with Mom and Dad...

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

12/28/25 01:51 PM

#2345

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NB-DXIGGoqc

And one more nod to nostalgia as Christmas 2025 fades in the rear-view mirror.

In this case, we follow an older couple on their annual winter drive to the family cottage. But as the Suburban rolls through the snow, the real road trip is down memory lane.

12/29/25 07:10 PM

#2346

A very professional advertisement by the Chevrolet Division at GM. Definitely a New England elite holiday theme with an exagguratd family "cottage" (that only the rich could afford.) The fantasy story in the ad is remenant of the nostalgic, old Christmas scenes depicted in theater movies of decades gone by. I miss those type of normal family-oriented TV video ads during the holiay season [instead of the current, medicine-peddling ads by big pharma after the COVID attack]. That sort of family interaction (and evolution) is part of the American Dream for loving, decent people. Thanks for the hyperlink, Bill.

12/30/25 07:03 AM

#2347

Yes, Bill, Thanks for the bit of nostalgia. Sure seems as though, the generations now, are really missing what the holidays are all about. Being with family and friends is a true blessing!

12/30/25 01:50 PM

#2348

If I'd added a disclaimer ("by the way this is a Chevrolet commercial"), would you still have been inclined to check it out?

In all events, New Year's just ahead....

12/31/25 01:26 PM

#2349

Yes, Bill, I would. I am always curious, so I would have to snoop. HaHa! Happy New Year, everyone!

12/31/25 03:52 PM

#2350

A Chevrolet ad on youtube disappoints me because the TV mass media only seems to promote drugs and Asian cars now during the holidays. How would you find that ad on youtube if you weren't aware that it even existed there? The mass media also mostly promotes foreign cars with a "Santa" secular theme; they very seldom feature old fashioned American family culture any more. Nostalgic car ads apparently don't make money for the foreign car sellers or the TV broadcaster programmers who are "woke" to the global agenda I guess. I still see new Suburban SUV'S driven by young families in spite of the Green New Deal pressure that was promoted by the extremist climate cult. I believe electric vehicles are good and should be a family buyer option, not a dictated government requirement (the right machine for the family size and transport needs.) I think we are headed back to more practical vehicle choices for families with a pet and maybe even a camping travel/utility trailer, regardless of the family size. My blah, blah, blah -- since you asked. I REALLY ENJOYED THE AD, Bill. I still own a 1992 454 c.i. Chevy pickup that I bought new from Glen Grant Chwvrolet. It tows our small fleet of large trailers better than our 2008 Toyota Tacoma, but both vehicles seem to like running the $3.05/gal. gas price in our area. Thank you President Trump.

01/01/26 12:53 AM

#2351

Cheers to a New Year, and another chance for us to get it right!

01/01/26 07:43 PM

#2352

01/03/26 01:44 AM

#2353

January 2, 1961 -- The "Freeway Bridge" under construction on I-5. The direction of the photograph is looking south and slightly west over Lake Union toward Elliott Bay.

01/06/26 07:31 PM

#2354

Dennis Morse

Gerald Charlshe passed on Dec 29,2025 from dementia.

01/07/26 12:05 AM

#2355

Very sad to hear about Gerald's passing. He always was friendly to me and he had a great heart-warming smile.

01/12/26 07:37 PM

#2356

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/01/eyes_turn_to_somali_child_daycare_fraud_in_washington_state.html

Eyes turn to Somali child daycare fraud in Washington state

"The Somali community is poised to continue their communal scam with the active support of Seattle’s new mayor."

Bill Ponton | January 12, 2026

01/17/26 12:28 AM

#2357

A Little Coin Trivia: If you have a roll of quarters that was minted before 1964, and each quarter has pre-1964 silver content at today's market price of over $90 per ounce, then every one of those quarters would be worth approximately $16 EACH in today's fiat dollar currency, as Federal Reserve Notes. The Central Bank's inflated USD Currancy System is "toast". The British Sterling Pound is now worth more than its equivalent in EU euros or USD's in international financial transactions. Think about it!

Is it ime for US Treasury Notes based on precious metals, instead of ENDLESS Fed loan debt notes and digital money-derived, credit/ATM debit cards?... Time to print REAL US asset-backed dollars again? Some international banks will "go under" during the transition to a USA sovereign nation currency based on the international silver and gold market values again. [THE BRICS COALITION CURRENCY EFFECT...]

Interesting, even if my numbers and/or the international banking trend analyses are a little off...

My credit union has hired a new CEO from the Central Banking community, and digital financial operations, partnerships, and procedures are changing rapidly. It's definitely not the same credit union that I became a member of in 1966.

01/25/26 04:08 PM

#2358

Seattle TV listings -- June 29, 1956.

KIRO TV didn't go on the air till Feb. 8, 1958. CBS, notwithstanding its contract with KTNT (Tacoma), switched its affiliation to Channel 7 the same day.

01/26/26 06:58 AM

#2359

Congrats to Seattle Seahawks!! Now on to the Super Bowl!!!

01/26/26 12:13 PM

#2360

Always glad to see LA "tinsel town" lose a game, even though I once worked at Huntington Beach and Seal Beach in the past. Hawks have some injuries going up against the Patriots, but they still look strong enough to be competitive. Four point spread in the NFC Championship final score must have paid out millions to the gamblers... I will not watch the satanic Super Bowl halftime show.

01/27/26 07:25 AM

#2361

For those of us fortunate enough to live in a warm sunny climate, half-time will be barbecue outdoors, grab more food and libations, then third quarter will be ready to start. Go Hawks!!

01/29/26 01:54 PM

#2362

01/30/26 12:34 AM

#2363

We like the Newsmax N2 channel if we watch TV news presentations, instead of the Internet podcast reports from independent investigative journalists. All the standard MSM "alphabet" networks are just parrots of the lame stream, Mockingbird propaganda spin invented by the CIA and associated foreign organizations. AI productions make the social drama [black pill] reporting products even worse. Look, squirrel!

02/03/26 02:20 AM

#2364

Hundreds of high school students from Highline and Renton school districts walked out of their classrooms and into the rain at 9:45 a.m. Monday, demanding an end to the federal immigration crackdown.
At Highline High School in Burien, about 500 teenagers — over a third of the school’s student body — poured out of the brick building’s front doors for the “ICE Out” protest. Students at Evergreen, Mount Rainier, Raisbeck Aviation, Lindbergh and Big Picture high schools also participated in the walkout, which called for abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
-- The Seattle Times

02/03/26 02:40 PM

#2365

Gregg Wilson

This is not education. It is propaganda.

02/04/26 01:11 AM

#2366