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Tact is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip.
- Winston S. Churchill
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“There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes this whole universe for a vast practical joke, though the wit thereof he but dimly discerns, and more than suspects that the joke is at nobody’s expense but his own.”
Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Yep, that about sums it up….
Homestead Steel Works: 1910
Homestead, Pennsylvania, circa 1910. “Homestead Steel Works, Carnegie Steel Co.” Lots of interesting details in this humongous panorama made from four 8x10 inch glass negatives. Detroit Publishing Company. View full size.
“…A career in flying was like climbing one of those ancient Babylonian pyramids made up of a dizzy progression of steps and ledges, a ziggurat, a pyramid extraordinarily high and steep; and the idea was to prove at every foot of the way up that pyramid that you were one of the elected and anointed ones who had the right stuff and could move higher and higher and even-ultimately, God willing, one day-that you might be able to join that special few at the very top, that elite who had the capacity to bring tears to men’s eyes, the very Brotherhood of the right stuff indeed.”
Beginning in 1920, motor cars raced around the Beverly Hills Speedway, located on the south side of Wilshire between Santa Monica Boulevard and Rexford Drive. Built out of wooden 2-by-4s, the one-mile track ranked among the top speedways in the United States before it was torn down in 1924.
