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We went into a zone and held on to winMikeDamone said:
Did you win?RaceBannon said:Was playing pick up ball at the St Mike's outdoor court in Olympia
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Tell us more about your 1980 Mt St Helens experience. It’s crazy!GrundleStiltzkin said:
Sad to see your struggles today.MikeDamone said:
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing your unique experience.GrundleStiltzkin said:
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelensCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.alumni94 said: -
MikeDamone said:
Did you win?RaceBannon said:Was playing pick up ball at the St Mike's outdoor court in Olympia
Great view no ash. We could see most of the eruptions up to the big one
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Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.GrundleStiltzkin said:
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelensCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.alumni94 said: -
Ice_Holmvik said:
Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.GrundleStiltzkin said:
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelensCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.alumni94 said:
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potdRaceBannon said:
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History Channel has another Titans Who Made America three parter going. Watching part 1 and it was the US Mail that got first Ford, then Boeing to see the profit in air travel as more than a novelty. Both made millions off of Air Mail contracts. Boeing ended up beating Ford out. Then Ford hired Lindy to get passengers to think air travel was safe and away we went.
It reminded me that in my lifetime there was an air mail stamp where you could pay extra to get it sent by air. Now its all by air.
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Was washing my sweet ride and couldn’t figure out WTF was happening.Ice_Holmvik said:
Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.GrundleStiltzkin said:
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelensCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.alumni94 said:
No school that week and got busted trying to bootleg some beer at Rosauers.
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Was in Spokane for older sisters marching band in Lilac Festival parade. Parents never listened to radio in the car. Drove around all day oblivious and only found out when getting gas around 4 in Airway Heights the volcano blew that morning. My father the Korean War vet of course decided to soldier on and make it home to Omak. Darkness descended before we made it to the end of Airway Heights, where the Texas BBQ place had the goat tied up to entertain bratty kids like us.PurpleThrobber said:
Was washing my sweet ride and couldn’t figure out WTF was happening.Ice_Holmvik said:
Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.GrundleStiltzkin said:
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelensCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.alumni94 said:
No school that week and got busted trying to bootleg some beer at Rosauers.
Like midnight at 5 pm. Headlights were worthless. Three inches of ash at least every hour. Wrecks everywhere. Something out of Mad Max. Had to stop twice and huddled with people we barely knew. My father, always hard headed, fashioned a filter out of cardboard and tshirts for the Ford fairmont wagon and we soldiered on into the darkness. Relief came first around Grand Coulee, ash cloud was getting light enough to see more than 20 feet ahead.
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Didn’t realize all the Spooks on this board. Especially surprised grumble is one. Spokane had about an inch of ash. Darkness came at 4 o’clock. And didn’t see the Sun for 3 days. The ‘Rents were coming back from a Softball tournament from Yakima and their truck choked out somewhere on I-90. They were road rescued by the WSP and had to share a Moses Lake hotel room with about 8 people and ration food for 3 days. They had about 5 inches of ash in Moses Lake.PurpleThrobber said:
Was washing my sweet ride and couldn’t figure out WTF was happening.Ice_Holmvik said:
Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.GrundleStiltzkin said:
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelensCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.alumni94 said:
No school that week and got busted trying to bootleg some beer at Rosauers. -
One of the first known photo shops. DuPont wanted to pretend the 250 foot tower on top had a purpose because Chrysler said it shouldn't count. This photo ran in all the papers. An airship never docked there
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Race was there, and did it again.RaceBannon said:One of the first known photo shops. DuPont wanted to pretend the 250 foot tower on top had a purpose because Chrysler said it shouldn't count. This photo ran in all the papers. An airship never docked there
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Race was using photo shop before photo shop was a thing.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Race was there, and did it again.RaceBannon said:One of the first known photo shops. DuPont wanted to pretend the 250 foot tower on top had a purpose because Chrysler said it shouldn't count. This photo ran in all the papers. An airship never docked there
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Round here we know it as papyrus shopCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
Race was using photo shop before photo shop was a thing.GrundleStiltzkin said:
Race was there, and did it again.RaceBannon said:One of the first known photo shops. DuPont wanted to pretend the 250 foot tower on top had a purpose because Chrysler said it shouldn't count. This photo ran in all the papers. An airship never docked there
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Kaepsknee said:
Didn’t realize all the Spooks on this board. Especially surprised grumble is one. Spokane had about an inch of ash. Darkness came at 4 o’clock. And didn’t see the Sun for 3 days. The ‘Rents were coming back from a Softball tournament from Yakima and their truck choked out somewhere on I-90. They were road rescued by the WSP and had to share a Moses Lake hotel room with about 8 people and ration food for 3 days. They had about 5 inches of ash in Moses Lake.PurpleThrobber said:
Was washing my sweet ride and couldn’t figure out WTF was happening.Ice_Holmvik said:
Damn we are connected in some odd way. I too was in Riverfront Park that afternoon. Eating an ice cream with dust flakes on it with my friend Corey. I remember riding my bike thru 6 inches of powdery ash for sometime after.GrundleStiltzkin said:
41 years ago today I was at Riverfront Park w/ friends and suddenly the sky began to turn black...we ran to shelter. When it got light again outside, it looked like a nuclear landscape. Perhaps one of the freakiest and scariest thing I had ever seen..#MtStHelensCFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
I was 7 1/2 and lived in west Seattle. Friends would talk about ash covering the sidewalk yet I have no recollection of seeing anything in our neighborhood.alumni94 said:
No school that week and got busted trying to bootleg some beer at Rosauers.
May 1980 was practically still the 70's
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Underrated movie.RaceBannon said: -
No longer just a running toilet, @GrundleStiltzkin takes flight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M1nT21mo2Y
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Coming to E-1 in '21PurpleBaze said:No longer just a running toilet, @GrundleStiltzkin takes flight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M1nT21mo2Y
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PurpleBaze said:
No longer just a running toilet, @GrundleStiltzkin takes flight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M1nT21mo2Y
Clean up you’re random shit threads guysmBaseman said: -
Wrong boredGrundleStiltzkin said:PurpleBaze said:No longer just a running toilet, @GrundleStiltzkin takes flight!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1M1nT21mo2Y
Clean up you’re random shit threads guysmBaseman said: