1970, Quang Tri.
I call my photography my "Third Act". I spent about 25 years on radio, about 25 years on TV. Now, in "retirement", I'm focusing more on photography, though I have used a camera most of my life. On these pages you'll find photos I have taken since childhood. Hope you enjoy! Please do not post these photos anywhere without permission.
Spotted this today...one of the most frequent grammatical errors I see regularly:
"....there's a number of things you can do..."
"THERE'S" is an abbreviation for THERE IS...and it is an error when the subject of the verb is a singular noun.
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The first building, with a jeep and the truck containing the guts of the TV station, and a tower. Year unknown.
Much later, 1970 or so, with several buildings, including out "studio, on the left."Hyundai’s most productive car plant sits on a former cotton plantation on the southern edge of Montgomery, Alabama, where it pumps out Tucson crossovers, Santa Fe SUVs and other models on three shifts, 24 hours a day, sometimes seven days a week.
The factory and its popular models have propelled the South Korea automaker and its affiliate Kia into the No. 4 spot in US sales for the first time in 2023, surpassing Jeep and Ram owner Stellantis NV. Its high levels of output, close-knit supply chain and low labor costs have buoyed Hyundai Motor Co.’s profit margins, which are among the best in the global auto industry.
But this crown jewel has been tarnished by its low wages, a major engine recall and lingering fallout from the use of child labor in its local supply chain. And Hyundai’s future success in the US will rely less on its Alabama operation as it plans a rapid shift to electric vehicles despite uncertain demand and government support given the potential return to power of former President Donald Trump.
“Hyundai has to be careful not to grow too fast for its own good,” said Sung Hwan Cho, a former executive vice president at the carmaker and current president of the International Organization for Standardization. “A stalk that sprouts too quickly will tumble over.”
FULL ARTICLE HERE.
My empty mailslot.
Leaving with some of the MANY
neckties I bought and wore hosting
"For The Record" on APT.
(Speaking of, just for the record, just this week in
2024, I bought the first NEW neckties in years. They
are solid colors...black, yellow, and aquamarine!)
Photo by Tim Lennox |
An article in today's Washington Post details the attempt to save some of the physical structures that remain along the trail.
In 1900, the Alabama Legislature established a mental health facility on the former site of the Mount Vernon Arsenal to relieve overcrowding at Bryce Hospital.
The property received its first patients from Bryce Hospital in 1902. It was renamed Searcy Hospital in 1919, in honor of Dr. J. T. Searcy, the first superintendent. Searcy was a segregated hospital and was restricted to African American patients only until 1969, when it was integrated by court order.
The hospital served the southern third of Alabama until it closed in 2012. The campus is now closed to visitors due to safety concerns.
(I took these photo during an escorted tour of the property)
‘Silent Cavalry’: Not all Southerners wanted the Confederacy to win
Howell Raines calls it the most amazingly counterintuitive fact in all of Civil War history: “White volunteers from the Alabama hills helped Sherman burn Atlanta.”
A mounted regiment of nearly 3,000 subsistence farmers from the state’s hard-scrabble hill country not only joined the Union side in the battle of Atlanta, they were “the point of the spear” in Sherman’s relentless march through Georgia to the sea.
Source: The Atlanta Journal:
The photo was taken about 1980 in front of WERC Radio's location on 2nd Avenue North. That building was torn down to make way for.....a parking lot....as shown in these photos.
I moved from Manhattan in NYC to Birmingham in 1976.
That's the same year the "Moon Tree" was planted at the Alabama Capital building.
It's a loblolly pine that is a good 80' tall now.
I'm more or less the same height. er, age in Alabama 😎 now.
Read More about it HERE.
Immediately left of statue. |
Today is a VERY cold day---not the best day to visit....but when you have a chance, take the kids and introduce them to the Moon-Tree on the Alabama Capitol grounds.
HERE is a list of where the moon trees were planted, including five in Alabama.
Note that another Loblolly Pine Moon Tree, like Alabama's, was planted on the White House grounds in 1977....though it did not survive.
Winter is short, here in the South, but I still don't like
the
cold.
So here's a temporary
visual
Fall extension.
😎
"After some training, pilots come out looking like they are 100 years old," another test pilot said.
Source: HERE.
I think they intended to use the seven pointed star, no?
One way or the other, the star marker sits between the center columns at the front of the Alabama Capitol building, though there are reports Davis actually stood on a wooden platform built for that purpose over the stairs.