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.
Thursday, April 30, 2026
Walt Disney oils the engine Lilly Belle for his backyard railroad (”The Carolwood Pacific”), at his home in Holmby Hills, California, 1953.
An wealthy older NC Woman that spent her youthful summers in Blowing Rock, NC (serious $$$ resort), then moved to LA & a failed film biz careerv made a comment to me 40+ yrs. ago.
"I spent in the winters in Holmby'. Poor people live in Beverly Hills."
https://www.carolwood.org/walts-barn/
ReplyDeleteThat was two years before Disneyland opened.
ReplyDeleteI had a couple of live steamers and it's so much fun. Expensive then but way too expensive now.
ReplyDeleteWhat scale is this?
ReplyDeleteBigger than G (grande) scale
DeleteWhere's the cigarette?
ReplyDeleteA real hobby works wonders!
ReplyDelete1/8" scale
ReplyDeleteI’m told he was driven near tears when he was told that he could run it on actual coal loaded into a firebox.
ReplyDeleteWas an f’ing pedophile.
ReplyDeleteLIAR!
DeleteAn wealthy older NC Woman that spent her youthful summers in Blowing Rock, NC (serious $$$ resort), then moved to LA & a failed film biz careerv made a comment to me 40+ yrs. ago.
ReplyDelete"I spent in the winters in Holmby'. Poor people live in Beverly Hills."
Heard he was good at lubing
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