Names of States By the Brits

It’s Thanksgiving So They Asked Brits To Label The United States — We’re So Sorry, America

What do you mean there’s no such place as Further South Dakota?! [Update: Turns out Americans aren’t so great at Europe either.]

Erm, sooo, yeah. We really wish we could tell you this is the worst attempt. It’s not even close.

What’s the state capital of Squaresies?

Robin Edds / BuzzFeed

Little known fact: No one actually knows what that state in the middle is.

Robin Edds / BuzzFeed

Click to see more:

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Thanks to Taffy Cannon MPHS 66 for sharing on Facebook.

Mickelberry's Log Cabin

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Brent MurrayMemories of 95th St 1960's to 1970's

Skinny Dipping in the MPHS Swimming Pool

1967 Class in Action

Skinny Dipping at MPHS

Some kids have great memories of skinny dipping at the lake - we remember the MPHS swimming pool.

Remember how delightful it was to take a refreshing swim naked in the good old MPHS Swimming Pool? It was especially nice when you swam in the first period in the morning, to see all the crud floating at the top of the pool before jumping in mixed it back up with the water.  What do you bet the old pool would never meet modern health requirements. Well, most of us survived.

I have it on reasonably good rumor authority that the girls did not have to swim naked.  An early example of sex discrimination.

Thanks to Barb Wilcox for providing the photo in our Yahoo Page.

World War II and the Great Lakes

The Great Lakes provided vital support for the war effort in WWII, from building 28 fleet subs in Manitowoc, Wisconsin to providing the bulk of US industrial output, we could not have won the war if not for the benefits of the Great Lakes and their related industry. However there was another benefit of the lakes that is often overlooked. Japan quickly lost the war because, among many other things, its navy could not replace its carrier pilot losses. We could.

How did we train so many pilots in both comfort (calm seas) and safety (no enemy subs)

We took two old side-wheel Great Lakes passenger steamers and turned them into training carriers on Lake Michigan! Virtually every carrier pilot trained in the war got his landing training on these amazing ships! Sadly nothing but these great photos and the wrecks of the aircraft that ditched alongside them remain to tell their fascinating story! Check this out! USS Sable and USS Wolverine.

During World War II merchant ships were converted to aircraft carriers to train Navy pilots. The USS Sable (IX-81) was a training ship of the United States Navy during World War II. Originally built as the 'Greater Buffalo', a sidewheel excursion steamer, she was converted in 1942 to a freshwater aircraft carrier to be used on the Great Lakes. She was used for advanced training for naval aviators in carrier takeoffs and landings. One aviator that trained upon the Sable was future president George H. W. Bush. Following World War II, Sable was decommissioned on 7 November 1945. She was sold for scrapping on 7 July 1948.

The steamship 'Greater Buffalo' before it was converted to the USS Sable (IX-81).

Overhead view of the training aircraft carrier Sable (IX 81) underway on Lake Michigan with an FM Wildcat making a deck launch from the flattop 1945

The USS Sable (IX-81) lies at anchor in Lake Michigan 1943

training aircraft carrier Sable (IX 81) moored alongside a pier on the shore of Lake Michigan during a break in training operations.

Click below for many more great photos and the rest of the story.

  ... http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=48962

Pilot crashes while attempting a landing on the USS Wolverine. The plane is an SNJ, the Navy version of the USAAF's T-6 trainer.

How to Tell You've Been Really Bad

Thanks to John Wason MPHS 67 for contributing.

Happy Thanksgving

What a turkey!

Crash of the Wiener Mobile

Jim Jones shared KKTV 11 News's photo.

Be careful in your travels, even Lil Oscar had a hard time with the weather 

!Kktv Brian Bledsoe ~ As someone who spent 

some time in Milwaukee and saw the "Weiner 

Mobile" many times, feel free to "share" and 

caption this picture. Keep it PG-13 

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Oh, I wish I was an Oscar Mayer weiner,

that is what I'd truly like to be,

'cause if I were an Oscar Mayer weiner,

everyone would be in love with me.

** Except now we will have to adapt the Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald Balad to the Crash of the Weiner Mobile.

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Snackville Junction - Food Served by a Model Train

Snackville Junction was the little restaurant that served its customers by a model train. For a small child this was and still is a great treat. It is in operation at its latest location at 9144 S. Kedzie in Evergreen Park.

Evergreen Park

9144 S Kedzie Ave 
Evergreen Park, IL60805

Very Short Video

frequency.com/video/snackville-junc/16589615


Nancy Benoit commented on Facebook on the Memories of 95th St 1960's to 1970's. You can see the discussion generated below. 

Nancy finds all kinds of interesting photos and information and puts it on the Facebook page. Some of them we repost on this this blog.

Thanks, Nancy. Great work.

Nancy BenoitMemories of 95th St 1960's to 1970's

November 11 

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  Ione Benoit Ellis Grandma Boylan use to take Kevin and I there for lunch . The look on his face when the train would deliver our food was priceless. Is it still there?

  
  
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  Lynda Levora Blust it's at 92nd & Kedzie

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  Nancy Benoit I know but I can't find the image one when they were in Beverly East of Western on North side of St.

  
  
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  Lynda Levora Blust 110th & Western

  
  
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  Lynda Levora Blust where is Brett when we need him for info

  
  
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  Ione Benoit Ellis We went to the one at 110th and Western.

  
  
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  Nancy Benoit No that was the second one ~~ when I was little the first was before Western ~~Ione the orginal was almost across from Wm A Lewis on 95th and something

  
  
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  Nancy Benoit My Dad used to bring us there

  
  
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  Brian Devitt I brought my son and a few of his buddies there, from Dupage to 110th western..his friend put fries on the track, wanted to derail train... a customer stopped him, I was out moving the car, Needless to say my sons friend was left outta future road trips...bjd aka big dog

  
  
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  Ione Benoit Ellis It was around 1974 when I first visited the one at 110th western.

  
  
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  Mike Swan We take our two our great -grand kids to the one on Kedzie

  
  
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  Janet Ballantine Irk Will have to try it my next visit

  
  
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  Brian Devitt Has it moved to kedzie now???snackville junc. and rainbow cone kinda in the right proximity, for another road trip......lol brian d aka big dog

  
  
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  James Dart the original location was at 108th and Western...Where Chesterfield Savings is...across street from County Fair Foods (Queen Pet Store was there)