And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
That's a thing of beauty: it's a Sears Dreadnaught Deluxe from 1913.
When I was a kid my neighbor had a bike much like that which all the kids envied, but it was a Whizzer from the '40s or '50s. I used to dream about owning that marvellous bike that you didn't have to pedal to go fast!
I find it so sad, that so many shops & things that I knew as a child are now gone or going fast: Monkey Ward long gone, now Sears is on the chopping block. So many American brands are no longer US based, or gone too: Studebaker, Jeep, Pontiac, Oldsmobile... it's a long list, and growing longer.
That picture is a comment on just how bad the management of Sears Roebuck became. Once upon a time you could buy a precut kit for a house or a school.
ReplyDeleteThat's a thing of beauty: it's a Sears Dreadnaught Deluxe from 1913.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a kid my neighbor had a bike much like that which all the kids envied, but it was a Whizzer from the '40s or '50s. I used to dream about owning that marvellous bike that you didn't have to pedal to go fast!
I find it so sad, that so many shops & things that I knew as a child are now gone or going fast: Monkey Ward long gone, now Sears is on the chopping block. So many American brands are no longer US based, or gone too: Studebaker, Jeep, Pontiac, Oldsmobile... it's a long list, and growing longer.
I miss all those things that are gone; sigh.