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Bob Schulz

Posts: 416
From: Brooklyn Park, MN
Registered: Aug 15, 2003

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 20, 2005 1:12 PM

Back then when you bought a car the first thing you did was find a long stretch of blacktop out in the country, floor it, and see what it would do.

Gabriel Combs

Posts: 1,497
Registered: Jun 16, 2002

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 20, 2005 1:30 PM

The first of two cars I ever owned, the second co-owned, was a '68 maroon mustang. I bought it for $200, and drove it without a license or insurance. I knew of no country roads, age urban 18, so around the factories and railroad tracks I almost killed myself finding out how not to drive before I really knew how to drive. I forget how much I sold it for, not long afterword, (I was going to be kicked out if I did'nt get rid of it), but the engine blew up on that person on the freeway... All of my friends had cars, some really nice ones, that had been restored, or were being restored, but I realized pretty quickly that it was too expensive a hobby and luxury if I wanted to do anything besides just have a car. My dads always been a little bummed I did'nt get into cars. Oh, well... About the only reason i'd get another car would be for a job that paid really well and was out of reach of public transit. Honestly, I still admire a lot of cars... its just that oil thing though.

Bob Schulz

Posts: 416
From: Brooklyn Park, MN
Registered: Aug 15, 2003

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 20, 2005 2:31 PM

All these cars went for a song just before the great oil crunch of '73.

Ray Rolfe

Posts: 3,263
From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 20, 2005 4:56 PM

The memories are more valuable then the possessions.
I first had a white Ford station wagon. Don't ask what year, my brother is the car guy, driving his Mini Cooper and his VW's. I'm more into computers for performance stats. Anyway, I used to drive 5 guys to Eagan every night to work at Haunted Acres. Trusty Ford...

Also had a crappy grey GMC cargo van we drove to Sheboygan Wisconsin to play a punk rock show in a roller rink. Those were fun days. We stayed at the Sheriffs house at the invitation of his daughter. So when my brother jumped the curb out of a parking lot, right in front of him, he just said "you boys get home safely".

Once upon a time, my Dad, Brother, Cousin, friend and I, went on a road trip into the rainforests and mountains of Oregon. We were almost home, exausted after 3 weeks on the road. The girl without a license was driving. She fell lazy at the wheel or perhaps hypnotized, so that she was pulled left, off the highway as it split and curved right. We descended chaotically into a field of grassland at 60mph. Holy shift that was crazy. A few hundred yards later we were undead and examined the miracle. The bikes attached to the trunk were laying mangled in the grass tracks. We had flown over a 10 foot drainage half-pipe which should have flipped us and sent us tumbling. I love life. The car was towed to the next truck stop and abandoned. So tired.. so tired.. sun rising.. I think we waited for someone to drive out from Minneapolis to rescue us.

Kathryn Browning

Posts: 414
Registered: Apr 22, 2005

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 20, 2005 8:11 PM

Okay, I realize we've deviated off the subject, but my first car was a 68 Olds Cutlass. My dad bought it from a tenant in 1974. He buffed it out, and it was a second care for he and his wife for a while. I finally "inherited" it when I got into college and he bought my younger sister a car when she graduated. Hmph. We fought tooth and nail when the Olds was the only car to drive and she wanted to drive to high school and me college. She ultimately wrecked it so I really only had it to myself for a year 1978-79 but that car was in good care when I had it. I patched (bondo) the rough spots, i polished, cleaned, it was so cool. Talk about tork-whoa-that baby was fast. I loved it. I can't belive I never got caught racing the suburban streets. Next car, 1972 Pontiac Lemans 350. That was all my own. Beauty.

Bob Schulz

Posts: 416
From: Brooklyn Park, MN
Registered: Aug 15, 2003

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 21, 2005 12:05 AM

I love the stories and long drives without air conditioning. The crazy old gas stations. The goofy restaurants across the toll roads in Illinois. The anticipation of the trip, the complete abandon of the drive across the country measured in days. These are the ingredients that are part of our culture not to be denied, but celebrated.

Ray Rolfe

Posts: 3,263
From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 21, 2005 12:20 AM

Yeah, artical A, artical B, artical C.
Evidance. Court report.
retelling memories.

Have you been driving around America alot in your life Bob?

Gabriel Combs

Posts: 1,497
Registered: Jun 16, 2002

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 21, 2005 1:53 AM

Kathryn, I use a digital a lot also. I'm not against it, but once we go so far "forward", it gets harder and harder (and more expensive), to go back. I still believe fine-ground silver superior to pixels for capturing an image. However, there is the space issue, and the fact that one can take so many digital images, and quickly. This can breed some creative laziness though. I usually tend to be more focused when using film, with the limited number of shots. But then, i'm not a photographer. I just need images.

Kathryn Browning

Posts: 414
Registered: Apr 22, 2005

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 21, 2005 9:03 AM

Gabe, I still like film the best. Digital is handy because I can carry the camera in my pocket and capture an image on the fly that I might not otherwise capture. Although, most of the time I try and carry both with me.

Bob, sounds like you've had a few road trips. My last one was about 4 years ago to the east coast. We had seven days which was not enough time. We took a lot of back roads and saw so many interesting people and places. I think I shot about 6 rolls of film on that trip-probably more.

Kathryn Browning

Posts: 414
Registered: Apr 22, 2005

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 21, 2005 9:17 AM

Name calling? well then this is definitely more fun.

Talk about gas stations, I thought those old full service stations were way cool. I remember the few trips my grandfather made in to town, there was one station where he brought every car or pick up in for repair, and just signed a slip to be billed later. Same for the grocery store my grandmother used to shop at. I first learned to drive a big old John Deere tractor, then when my dad's sister was learning to drive, we took the family Dodge out into the field and took turns driving. I was about 14 I think. We also drove around on the gravel roads kicking up big dust clouds. The only bad accidents I've ever been in happened when someone else was at the wheel. Luckily, no one was ever seriously injured or killed. When I think of all the foolish chances we took on occasion, I'm surprised that something worse didn't happened. Guess it just wasn't my time. I put my guardian angel to work on overtime!

Bob Schulz

Posts: 416
From: Brooklyn Park, MN
Registered: Aug 15, 2003

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 21, 2005 12:34 PM

In the mid fifties

Ray Rolfe

Posts: 3,263
From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 21, 2005 4:22 PM

Love it. I have the desire to tell another travel story but I don't have the energy to think right now.

Digital, Gabe, the idea about creative laziness when resources are unlimited... Yep. When I was in peak digital photographer mode, I'd have 22 shots a day. Then it takes a million years to transfer to my computer because it's a 266mhrtz Pentium 1!!(with MMX, ooh ahh) at 64mb ram.
So the timing effect on creativity was not unlike developing a roll. I was fully aware and working with the limitations, seeing if it would make the art finer.
I've got to do a massive upload some time at a photo sharing site. Just to prove i was awesome

Bob Schulz

Posts: 416
From: Brooklyn Park, MN
Registered: Aug 15, 2003

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 21, 2005 4:38 PM

I learned on a Ford tractor,

Ray Rolfe

Posts: 3,263
From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 21, 2005 5:09 PM

largess, also largesse \lar-ZHES; lar-JES; LAR-jes\, noun:
1. Generous giving (as of gifts or money), often accompanied by condescension.
2. Gifts, money, or other valuables so given.
3. Generosity; liberality.

Largess is from Old French largesse, "largeness, generosity," from large, from Latin largus, "plentiful, generous."

I'm dry heeving right now, Bob

Kathryn Browning

Posts: 414
Registered: Apr 22, 2005

Re: Feedback on Articles
Posted: Jun 22, 2005 11:34 AM

Hey Ray, we all know you're awesome.

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