Friday, November 8, 2024

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  1. Paul Bunyan's blue ox, 'Babe', I presume.
    - macxcool

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  2. Exactly what I was gonna say! Many a diner/restaurant in the Pacific NW had versions of this and Paul outside their business.

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  3. Trees of Mystery, Klamath CA.
    One of my favorite tourist traps and well worth a visit if you're in Northern California's redwood country.

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    1. My family went there while my father was stationed at Adair AFS. One of the nicer tourist traps I've seen.

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  4. Jeff F beat me to it, That's Trees of Mystery. I am going to be there tomorrow.

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    1. I envy you!
      It's a great motorcycle trip from San Francisco.

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  5. Yeap… ‘56 Chevy Biscayne

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    1. Agreed, we owned a B&W '56 Bel Air. No A/C, power steering/brakes/ windows. Most highways were 2-lane.

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  6. They did not make the biscayne in 56. The
    body trim levels were the Bel-Aire, 210 and the 150 in various body styles.
    Bubbarust

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  7. Across the road is a restaurant named Forest Cafe and the ceiling is painted to look like you are underwater and there a bunch of the bottoms of ducks all over the ceiling. Take a look:

    https://tinyurl.com/3nxr5k3r

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    1. Looks like a neat place. Their fries keep changing though.

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  8. Babe. My favorite is in my Grandpa's hometown of Ossineke Michigan. When I was a kid Babe and Paul were next to a fire lookout tower on Hubbard lake but at some point they got moved to beautiful downtown Ossineke.

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  9. best year hands down

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    1. In 1956, I was 10 years old and in 4th grade at Walter Reed Elementary School in Arlington, VA. One of my fellow students was Susan Sletfet. She had bright Redhair, and at the time I could not understand how much I really liked her. Today, I realize that virtually any and all redheaded women hold a very special place in my heart.

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  10. I worked as a school teacher on the Yurok Reservation in Klamath and the kids worked at the Trees of Mystery called it the Trees of Misery.

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  11. My first car was a green and white 56 Chevy Bel-Aire with the small V-8 as I recall. Was stationed at Keesler AFB in Biloxi, MS at the time attending AC&W radar school. After graduation, was pulled for Instructor duty teaching in the same radar program. Spent my whole active duty tour of 4 years and 7 months at Keesler. Not bad duty as permanent party with both New Orleans, Mobile, and several universities within easy driving distance. Good times!
    Fred G AFSC 30352

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  12. There's a nice little motel across and down the street from there. Walk in the front door and your backdoor is the ocean. Fun times.

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