The 50 Plus Cafe, Pub, All-Nite Greasy Spoon and Dive Bar

Of course, they used 8 bolts where Henry Ford would have bitched about the 2nd one.
I like bolts. Bolts are good.
Had a Chevy Blazer back in 2001... had 3 bolts holding the engine block in place.

One oil change my mechanic told me, "It's time to get serious about finding a replacement."

Seems one of the bolts was sheered off. A stiff breeze would likely finish the job on the third... and there was no way one bolt would hold that engine in place.

I really liked that car. The engine had over 200,000 miles and was raring to go for 3, but the body was disintigrating. If that 2nd bolt didn't break off, the windshield was a couple milimiters from rusting out.

Driving it in weather was... an adventure :LOL:
 
I remember being six years old and hearing my mom and dad talk about needing a new used car. The discussion was more about how they were going to afford it.
Later, there was an ad on TV for a used car shop. It was selling used cars for nineteen ninety-five.
I remeber thinking, "Just how poor are we?"

That would be $1995
Not $19.95

We didn't do dollar sign math until 2nd grade 🤭
 
It’s a weird state… but a really good one! (Also too expensive…)

But with one of the best magazines - Weird NJ!

Yea. I couldn’t afford the taxes.
Weird or not, I believed those stories. So much so even Boardwalk Empire seemed real. Interesting Gillette was new during prohibition. Women were just figuring out to shave their legs!
The women, Jersey Girls, good catholic girls of south Jersey were also something special. Not to be crude, but so many naturally large breasts. They all loved their dads and grandads. Knew the words to Blue Moon or that one about under a silvery moon, more than one lullaby. Lines from old movies like they had lived them. And could make a visit to the shore seem like traveling back in time. Always making sure there was an outdoor shower before renting the house. They all had something different they cooked when it snowed. And oh yea. They knew how to cook!
I enjoyed the creatures in the water there too. Fresh water fish had teeth there. In August there were never seen insects that showed up. I called them dinosaur bugs. Some were colorful some had horns. But only in August.
Liked living amongst the revolution too. Here there is some civil war history but that is largely concealed now. In Jersey I lived below the Mason Dixon line. Living in south Jersey and a little time west of Philly I learned all the history they tried to reach us in high school. So interesting you could see and touch it everywhere. Even in heavily populated Marlton if you could find a place to park there was a wooded lot where you could attend as a friend to Quakers. Like real church without a church. On the Main Line it was a bit more formal but still ever present.
Jersey knows where it came from. I hope they know where they are going.
 
I recently read an article about sleep habits before we had electric lights. It was often the case where humans would go to sleep at sunset then wake around 2-3 am. They would tend to the fire and other tasks and back to bed for sleep. The modern 8 hours of continuous sleep is not normal!

I feel better knowing waking at 2-3 is normal 😂. We are normal 2 -3 am club!
 
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