Friday, December 30, 2022
Letter "Z" -- Friday's Weekend Roundup 09 / Reflections and-or Street/Candid Captures
- Tom's Requests: Starts with "Z"; A Favorite; and Tom's suggestion, "Z".
- James' request, Reflections and/or Street Photos/Candid Captures.
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Happy New Year !!!
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Photo is of the Cover of the magazine, M a t u r e F o c u s, December 2022 issue. |
Picture is the Artwork of
Angela Trotta Thomas
titled "Loading the Truck"
(more is on the picture at the
side, click on it for larger size).
This old Packard pickup? I am
guessing it is from1938 to 1940.
I've not seen one, they are rather
Tom's suggestion, A Lagniappe: The Day After Christmas; Sales and putting things in order for 2023, read above. I previously posted this in my "jim's little Christmas tree farm" blog on December 26. 
Has a "Z": Zombie tree. I wrote "a poem" about a tree like this last year, https://jimmiehov6.blogspot.com/2021/08/weekly-scribblings-tree-of-different.html?m=1
A Favorite: My first real post on this blog, December 04, 2005:
"I liked best the article about the human yardstick and I’ll relate a little.
SMOOTS - A Boston Tradition
If you have walked along the Harvard Bridge that connects Boston and Cambridge, no doubt you have encountered the Smoot markings along the way. These markings have helped millions of area residents and tourists measure their progress along the bridge as they walk or bike to their destination.
Question:
How long is the bridge in Smoots?
Answer: 364.4 Smoots plus 1 ear
That makes the bridge over a half mile (roughly 2763.37 feet) that these poof college students had to cross to get to their campus. That was in 1958. Of course these that was only half the walk I had back in 1951 at Lincoln, having to walk a mile to classes from my rental room. Up hill, sometimes in the rain and snow. Dad did loan me his pickup when I broke my foot-another whole story.
SMOOTS - A Boston Tradition
If you have walked along the Harvard Bridge that connects Boston and Cambridge, no doubt you have encountered the Smoot markings along the way. These markings have helped millions of area residents and tourists measure their progress along the bridge as they walk or bike to their destination.
Question:
How long is the bridge in Smoots?
Answer: 364.4 Smoots plus 1 ear
That makes the bridge over a half mile (roughly 2763.37 feet) that these poof college students had to cross to get to their campus. That was in 1958. Of course these that was only half the walk I had back in 1951 at Lincoln, having to walk a mile to classes from my rental room. Up hill, sometimes in the rain and snow. Dad did loan me his pickup when I broke my foot-another whole story.
The students decided "in a unique way to tell how much bridge they had left to cross. So they decided to make the pledges use one of their own to measure the bridge." Smoot was the shortest, 5'7", so his measure would produce the highest number.
Oliver Smoot is now 65 (in 2005) and ready for retirement. He had been on the board and vice president of the American National Standards Institute. Right up his alley from college days. The bridge has also become known as The Smoot Bridge."
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A Notice: Now that Christmas has past, I am slowing on posting, th next post is planned for New Year's Day, my Christmas Trees on my Christmas Tree Farm blog. See it at
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- I am linked with Tom of "Backwoods Travel" (click here, Link, for Tom's Weekend Reviews)
- I am also linking again this week with James of "Weekend Reflections/Street Photos" (click here for his Street Folk and Reflections Photos).
- The pictures mostly are all mine and rights are reserved to me under Copyright Law.
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