I was born in Milwaukee on April First (No Fooling)!
Here is an oldie, but goodie, in my grandmother's house. Note the telephone to my right. This was apparently what people used to make phone calls before they started "dialing numbers," as arcane as that now seems. Now we just push buttons.
This was perhaps my first
exotic ride out in the open air. The vehicle produced one horsepower. Maybe a portent of
things to come?
Is this nerdy or what?
This picture was always one of my favorites, although I'm not really sure why. Now, it's good for a chuckle. At the time I was actually fairly good at tutoring calculus, things like calculating the surface area of an object created by rotating a parabola around the x-axis. Or was it the volume of a hyperbola around the y-axis? Oh well, clearly knowledge of how to do things that have absolutely no practical application in daily life. But at the time it helped pay a few bills.
At one time I developed an interest in trains, especially electric railways and trolleys. The picture to the left is one of SEPTA's cars on the ex-P&W (Philadelphia & Western) line. My father had briefly worked for the now long defunct North Shore Line (CNS&M), the country's fastest interurban railroad, and the last of the true interurbans in the United States to be abandoned. An excellent web site devoted to the North Shore can be found at http://northshoreline.com/index.html.
And then I turned into a beach bum, after taking a train to Southern California.
And then, as chronicled elsewhere on this site, I developed a passion for motorcycles.
This vehicle produces over 100 horsepower.
