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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2576 on: November 17, 2023, 10:08:48 AM »
I don't know why it was not color, but sports photographers, which may have taken it, usually shot B&W.  The Tri-X B&W film was popular because it was "fast".  And Tri-X was pretty grainy, which this seems to be also.  

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« Reply #2577 on: November 17, 2023, 10:27:00 AM »
fast wasn't required for that shot
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« Reply #2578 on: November 17, 2023, 10:38:05 AM »
No, but a sports photographer would use B&W film for events, in nearly every case, even if it wasn't Tri-X.  There were slower less grainy versus at 200 and 100 ASA.

I'd never seen this view before with the start of construction of the expansion and folks watching from The Tracks, which was a major tradition back in the day.

Now the west end us open giving one a view from the bridge, which also is a kind of tradition.  Folks would camp out on The Tracks for a major game to secure their vantage point, such as it was, as it was free.  They used to charge a bit to watch from the bridge, now it's closed off for games and used as part of the entrances.
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« Reply #2579 on: November 17, 2023, 01:21:57 PM »


I think my wife would leave me if I ever took her back there.  I'd probably go with her.
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« Reply #2580 on: November 17, 2023, 01:26:10 PM »
At least they planned for the growth. Nice Roadway.
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« Reply #2581 on: November 17, 2023, 04:29:11 PM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
First Computer Mouse Patented (1970)
While working at the Stanford Research Institute in the early 1960s, human-computer interaction pioneer Doug Engelbart invented the first computer mouse, so called because of its resemblance to the small rodent. His mouse was constructed out of a wooden box and two wheels set perpendicular to one another. The rotation of each wheel was translated into motion along one axis, and this information was relayed to the computer to indicate the mouse's position.
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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2582 on: November 18, 2023, 09:29:41 AM »


What 5 megabytes of computer data looked like in 1966: 62,500 punched cards, taking four days to load.
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« Reply #2583 on: November 19, 2023, 08:29:25 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Jay's Treaty Signed (1794)
When unsettled controversies with England in the aftermath of the American Revolution threatened to involve the US in another war, President George Washington named Chief Justice John Jay as an envoy for the negotiation of a treaty. The agreement, concluded in 1794 and known as Jay's Treaty, averted war between the two nations, solved many outstanding issues, and opened 10 years of largely peaceful trade in the midst of the French Revolutionary Wars.
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« Reply #2584 on: November 19, 2023, 04:04:39 PM »
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/lincoln-delivers-gettysburg-address

Today is to 160th anniversary of the dedication of the Military Cemetery at Gettysburg. 

Lincoln gave a speech in which he stated that history would little note, nor long remember what he and the other speakers said.

Most people here probably memorized that speech:

Four score and seven years ago . . .
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« Reply #2585 on: November 20, 2023, 09:08:10 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Diocletian's Army Declares Him Emperor of Rome (284 CE)
Of humble birth, Diocletian rose through the ranks of the Roman military to become a high-ranking commander. His troops proclaimed him emperor after the death of Numerian, and he became sole ruler when Carinus, Numerian's co-emperor, was murdered by his own officers. Seeking to remove the military from politics, Diocletian established a tetrarchy, or four-ruler system, appointing Maximian, Constantius I, and Galerius as co-rulers and proclaiming them all gods.
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« Reply #2586 on: November 20, 2023, 09:49:24 AM »


One last Happy Bday to the one and only Ted Turner, 85 today. Here competing in his great promo idea of doing Ostrich Races at a Braves Game in 1976. Only Ted.
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« Reply #2587 on: November 20, 2023, 09:50:47 AM »
is that Pete Rose?
is that what hooked him on gambling?
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« Reply #2588 on: November 20, 2023, 09:59:04 AM »


1927.

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Re: OT - Weird History
« Reply #2589 on: November 20, 2023, 03:08:42 PM »


Vehicles line the road at Neels Gap in the north Georgia mountains, probably shortly after the opening of the road in 1925. 

It's amazing how much has changed in a century.  Before this road was built, north Georgia was barely accessible.  There was a roll road in a different spot that was good for wagons, barely.  My Dad was born near Blairsville, GA in 1917.  He told me about seeing his first car, it may have been after this road was opened.

The road is still there, largely on the same grade, but widened and paved of course, it's US 19.

This was written by my cousin once removed.

Finally a Paved Road Across Neel Gap (rootsweb.com)



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