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And why isn't it yellow on white?

A real estate developer whose home burned down in the Pacific Palisades in January, 2025 has rebuilt on his burned out address. It is a four bedroom, 4,200 square foot two story home. He has made it as fire resistive as possible. 1) The frame uses structural steel. 2) Walls are 12 inches...

In about 1960, my parents dumped my sister and me off at a rock-n-roll concert at Kiel Auditorium in St. Louis. Headliners included The Crests, Johnny and the Hurricanes, maybe Bobby Rydell, and ........ Neil Sedaka. In 1970 my sister took me to The Apollo Theater to see Martha and the...

https://nypost.com/2025/09/29/us-news/jpmorgan-chase-now-employs-more-workers-in-texas-than-ny-top-city-biz-advocate-calls-it-scary-development/ And, like me, none of them has any clue what a state income tax form looks like.

Can you top this?

Sounds like folks in New York and Houston are on the same page about this topic. If you look up "Entitled @$$hole" on the internet, they have a picture of a bike rider Some have raised the idea of a hunting season.

Mitch Ryder turns 81 years old today.

Eleven years ago, Deputy Lewis had to jump off a bridge to avoid being hit by his own patrol car in another freeway accident. He fell thirty feet and survived. This time he was not so fortunate...

About three blocks around the corner at 404 Tompkins Avenue the Teddy Bear was born in 1902. The owner of a candy store there was intrigued by the hunting story of Teddy Roosevelt who refused to shoot a tied up bear by a guide in Mississippi and created a toy bear. It was so successful that he...

The Queensboro Bridge was designed by Henry Hornbostel (1867-1961), who also designed the Williamsburg and Hellgate Bridges. A graduate of Columbia University, he designed 220 buildings around the country during his long career; half of them in Western Pennsylvania. And, the fire service trivia...

I'm ready too!

Were things frantic in Yantic?

Well then those guys were lucky most of their fires were in Gulf Coast shotguns. In the late 1970's I was taking pictures of old Station 19 at Gregg and New Orleans Streets (across the street from the present quarters and next to Phyllis Wheatley High School), mid-afternoon, 95 degrees out...

Considering that in 2025 there were 143 days in Houston where the temperature was 90 degrees or higher (humidity will be 60 to 80%), this seems counterproductive.

Each year in the US, the majority of poisonous snake envenomation incidents occur in young, adult males. Stupidity, poor judgement and the use of the phrase "Here, hold my beer!" are found in all socio-economic groups, but are found most commonly in the above demographic.