Tuesday 18 June 2013

Under the carpet


We pulled up the carpet from the old cottage, last weekend. More accurate than carbon-dating, are these newspapers which set the installation of said carpet sometime after October 1979. I don’t know why Dad or Mom put them there; perhaps they were to level a spot? Or soak up a spill that was then forgotten?
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The front page mentions a new industry coming to the industrial park, which I think must be Westinghouse.
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This closeup of the picture shows Howie Haramis  on the left, and on the right is Joe Zerbach, who was the plant manager at Blue Bell when I began to work there.
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The Shady Lady Disco was a hot spot in the 70's and early 80's.

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If only tune-ups were still this cheap!
Thirty-four years sees a lot of changes, doesn’t it?

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