Monthly Archives: July 2014
Signs of the Times . . .
Today was a “Play Tourist Day”, so we all left the park about 11, heading for Cincinnati, about 40 miles away. Our first stop was supposed to be the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center , but before we could get there we got stuck in Cincinnati Reds game day traffic, and traveled about 100 feet in 45 minutes.
So we changed our plans and headed across town to the American Sign Museum. Sounds kind of boring, right? But it was anything but.
Starting outside with the classic Holiday Inn sign welcoming you.
I’m not sure what the Big Pink Pig represents. Maybe a BBQ place?
Much of the museum is in a city street layout with individual storefronts showing off store signs.
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And of course you have other classics like Howard Johnson’s,
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And, of course, McDonald’s. You can tell how old this sign is by the 15 cent hamburger price. And based on the ‘Over One Billion Sold’, it’s from 1963-64. Note that these are full size signs, about 30 feet tall.
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This small sign in a window was one of Jan’s favorites. The letters are actually ‘Bubble Light’s’ like the Christmas Tree ornaments.
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And this is a really interesting display of 3 dimension letters.
After our very enjoyable visit to the Sign Museum, we headed off for a stop at Jungle Jim’s Market, a really neat grocery store we had visited twice before. But not knowing there were actually two of them in Cincinnati, we ended up at the smaller one.
So since it was on the way back to the park anyway, we went on around the 275 loop to the big one. If you’ve never been here, it’s hard to imagine. They even have maps to help you find your way around.
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Pretty much any kind of vegetable, fruit, cheese, meat, etc. that you’ve ever heard of, they have it. They even have about 40 different types of olives.
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And they have a firetruck atop their display of what must be every kind on hot sauce ever made.
Finally leaving Jungle Jim’s, we stopped off and had dinner at a nearby Uno’s Chicago Grill & Pizzeria, a place we ate at two years ago when we were last in the area. Just as good this time.
Tomorrow looks to be a goof-off day. Yes!
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Thought for the Day:
"Posterity! you will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a good use of it.
If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven that I ever took half the pains to preserve it."
~John Adams
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Mister Wants A Hammock . . .
Saw this video online and now Mister wants one of his own.
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A few days ago I posted this amazing video of a quadcopter drone flying around and through a fireworks show. Here it is again if you missed it.
It was done in West Palm Beach, FL, but as I thought it wasn’t this past 4th of July, but back in May during West Palm Beach’s Sunfest..
And now the pilot is being investigating by the FAA because in flying through the fireworks, he may have flown too close to the airport. Of course the question is, how many planes would be flying through the fireworks, anyway, since the airspace had already been cleared for the show.
And it sounds like the guy lives in South Africa, anyway.
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A little before 5 we headed out with Nick and Terry to have dinner at the Sherman House Restaurant in Batesville. We had hoped to eat here on Monday when we got to the park, but they’re closed on Mondays, so we went Mexican.
The Sherman House has been around since 1852 and has a great menu, including a lot of German specialties, as well as a really good salad bar. So we were really looking forward to it tonight.
But when we got to the restaurant, we found a large chalkboard out front that said, “Sorry for the Inconvenience. We closed at 4pm today.”
Bummer!
So we decided to try the nearby Chinese Buffet that had pretty good reviews.
THEY WERE WRONG! And I’m not going to say anymore about it.
We even tried to save the evening with a stop at Dairy Queen on the way home, and they got a coup;le of our orders wrong.
Maybe we should have just stayed home.
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Got this picture today of Landon and his daddy, Lowell. Really looking forward to seeing them in August.
Tomorrow we’re going into Cincinnati to see some sights.
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Thought for the Day:
"America is at that awkward stage. It’s too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." – Clair Wolf’
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