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  1. Bugguy

    Show us your photography

    After college I had an opportunity to spend several years living in South Korea. It was my gateway to Asia, so I traveled whenever I could. I took these pictures in ~1972 on a trip to Hong Kong and Macau. The fishing scene is Macau.. Hong Kong
  2. Bugguy

    Show us your photography

    I can't claim I took these pictures, They're from a Chicago Boys Club group in 1959 led by Charlie McCann, a naturalist with the Cook County Forest Preserve (Illinois). I can say, however, that these experiences left me with an appreciation for the outdoors and the environment that lasted my...
  3. Bugguy

    Civilian Conservation Corps Clothing Reference Site

    I've always had an interest in the Wisconsin CCC. Growing up in the late 50's, we always pitched our large side-wall tents in the old CCC barracks area at Devils Lake State Park, Baraboo, WI. The buildings were deserted, but the legacy has remained for over 90 years. The stonework on the...
  4. Bugguy

    Seperating myth from reality: Nazi secret tech development projects

    I don't know how I missed this thread, but it makes interesting reading. As it's a little picture light, I'll add this one. In another version, there's only a single saucer. Also, this year is the 80th anniversary of Operation Market Garden. My father landed there in a WACO glider.
  5. Bugguy

    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    You're lucky your Goodwill stores still value good will. Ours in Nashville have all bumped their prices up $2 across the board and essentially eliminated the colored tag discounts. On the donation side, they've gotten fussy about what they accept...
  7. Bugguy

    Loungers' Pets

    Well, the dog agility/speed/leaping season is starting off. Ruby (Kelpie'ish) and Willa (All America mutt) have been eating, sleeping and occasionally working out all winter. They had some spring tryouts and have both qualified in their classes. I don't know which is more difficult to have sit...
  8. Bugguy

    Show us YOUR Vintage Flask!

    I wouldn't mind a small collection of very vintage sterling flasks to go with my napkin rings. I have a collection of one - not silver - so far. I suspect the covering is a faux reptile skin, but maybe not. The bottom is a tin cup for civilized drinking. It has a good metal threaded cover on a...
  9. Bugguy

    Show us your photography

    The Thinker, JOSEPH KLIBANSKY Rembrandt Square (Rembrandtplein) Amsterdam Not the greatest technical quality - more of a snapshot. I got a kick out of it , though. Rodin - The Thinker, Philadelphia, PA
  10. Bugguy

    Loungers' Pets

    We had her DNA checked... she's >80% Australian Kelpie - basically a cattle/herding dog. She started a tracking program and we'd have her herding if it wasn't so darn expensive to find a trainer with a herd of something, i.e. goats, sheep, geese, cats, etc. My weird daughter aspires for her to...
  11. Bugguy

    Loungers' Pets

    Indoor competition.... Barn Hunting. The dogs must locate several rats enclosed in tubes hidden under hay bales in a set amount of time. Two rats in 1 min. 30 sec. and 4 rats in 2 min. 30 sec. Ruby found her two rats by smell in 38 sec. She advanced to the 4-rat class and located them in 1...
  13. Bugguy

    Resole Shoes

    I like this thread. Over the years I've thought that learning shoe repair would be an essential skill for when the SHTF. It could be a skill set that could be bartered. I mean as a former hospital administrator, what can I bring to the table that has value to a community?
  14. Bugguy

    62 Years ago A Bridge Too Far..

    Thanks for resurrecting this thread... I hadn't seen it when I posted my Market Garden trip last week. Next year will be the 80th anniversary of the battle.
  15. Bugguy

    Operation Market Garden

    Rained every day in Amsterdam and Paris. However, the Market Garden battlefield trip to Groesbeek (at the German border) was clear, sunny, and windy.... almost too cold for a top down jeep ride. Here are a couple of pictures that show the actual field my father landed in, with the forest he...
  16. Bugguy

    Operation Market Garden

    Heading to Groesbeek (Netherlands) at the end of this week to tour the museum (Grateful Generation Tours) and the battle field where my father (82nd Airborne) landed in a glider. These guys have my fathers uniform, medals, etc.on display. I'll post some pictures when I get back.
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  17. Bugguy

    Essentials for the kitchen

    As I grew up, my family always had a bread box in the kitchen. However, only my grandmother in rural Wisconsin had a match dispenser, and only with the strike-anywhere wood matches. When the cousins were really being cool, we'd strike the matches on the zipper of our pants... tough guys. What...
  19. Bugguy

    Restaurantware in the modern home?

    We've been following the 'buy what you like and enjoy' approach for several years. As noted there are plenty of examples of green-stripe dinnerware. We have been collecting the style pictured below and exclusively the Homer Laughlin product (https://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/474). We have...
  20. Bugguy

    Summertime then and now ...

    Three thoughts on this thread... 1st.: Play is an essential part of human socialization. 2nd.: The original mission of the Chicago Boys Clubs was to "provide our good kids with and alternative to the street". Unfortunately that devolved into "let's rehabilitate the gang-bangers" and we lost...
  21. Bugguy

    The Collectors Dilemma

    I'd wear the 1967 NOS... in my opinion they're not collectable "in the original box" like matchbox cars or beanie babies. where "pristine" is what counts. Frankly, who cares about mint boots - there are probably more out there in a crate somewhere. For a collector the value is in the story...
  22. Bugguy

    Loungers' Pets

    Yet another spin on AKC dock diving. Air Retrieve... Lure is suspended 2' above the dock and it's further back after each successful grab. The top tier is 21'. Ruby is grabbing it at 19'. I love the flat out form. I never knew this type of competition existed. Sure beats primping and running...
  23. Bugguy

    Vintage things that have REAPPEARED in your lifetime?

    Mid-70's I started out with a Motorola Pageboy II - tone only beeper. I'd get paged out of a movie theater and thought I was pretty hot stuff. My work partner had one of the first mobile phones in his car. It was a radio phone and you had to connect through the mobile operator - like a ship at...

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