Bill Engelhardt

"Never clots or clogs...."

Gregg Wilson

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Now that is a really cool T-Shirt!

Gregg Wilson

How long until unca Joe blunders us into World War III?

We do have the 25th Amendment, but then we get a little bunny rabbit, who giggles.

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

I never want to see 13  American flag draped coffins, ever!

Bob Beveridge

...and therein lies the rub!  I witnessed my mother's journey through dementia into her death from Alzheimer's.  During the last campaign, I noticed that Joe Biden was exhibiting some of those early symptoms. I kept yelling at him to quit but he wouldn't listen!  His advisors should have ensured that his VP was experienced enough to move into the "Big Office", but they were more interested in having the first female President be a Democrat.  Consequently, here we are with a President encumbered with this handicap backed up by a VP who can't manage her way out of a wet paper bag (witness the southern border!) with a war raging in Ukraine by a criminal opportunist in Moscow!  At least the Dems could have given us a female candidate who had the experience and skills to assume the Office of President...

Bonnie West (Armstrong)

I trust everyone understands this is not the forum for political discussion.

Marian Bechler (MacLean)

Thank you Bonnie!

Michael Gray

Thanks Bonnie

Janet Magneson (Engelhardt)

Ditto what Bonnie, Marian and Michael said.

Karen Buck (White)

Agreed! Thanks Bonnie!!!

Marty Ellison

I'm with Bob.

Bill Engelhardt

Bill Engelhardt

Howdy knows! 

Steve Morris

There's a wing in the Winslow, Arizona, museum that's devoted to Andy Devine. "Standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona..."

Steve Morris

i drove by the new HHS and thought it looked pretty good! Same sort of brick front but a little updated. Sorry I didn't take a picture.

Did you know there's a Highline Heritage Museum? It's on 152nd of course - ha. It'll tell you where the Ambaum name came from amongst lots of other stuff.

Bill Engelhardt

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Neat poster. When I was 13, I went on Pee Wee's Big adventure, Los Angles to Seattle on a Greyhound Bus by myself.    Every stop we made, I ate pie and drank chocolate milk.  What a rebel!

Tim Jones (Jones)

We traveled quite a bit via Greyhound bus in my youth. The older Greyhoud buses were stuffy, I suppose because everyone smoked back then; I was allergic to cigarette smoke, so riding the busses was 'NOT FUN'. Then in 1955, the first delivery of Greyhound's new Scenicruiser buses came on line. 

The Scenicruiser was designed but the Raymond Loewy Industrial Design Group, was 40 feet long and double deck in design. One thousand Scenicruisers were built by the General Motors Coach Division, all for Greyhound.
The biggest Diesel engine General Motors had at the time was the venerable 6-71 of about 200 horsepower. That wasn't enough power for the huge Scenicruiser, so GM installed two of the 4 cylinder model 4-71 engines side-by-side and connected them together via a fluid coupling. The twin engine configuration proved problematic. 

One of the great features of the Scenicruiser was the very powerful air conditioning system. People were still smoking on the busses, but at least the air was fairly clean. The bus also had a lavatory, big windows and skylights. Compared to the older Greyhound busses, the Scenicruisers were the 747 of busses back in the day.

The iconic Scenicruisers were America's favorite buses (except for Greyhound that owned them and GM that built them).  Numerous mechanical issues with the twin engine design strained the relationship between Greyhound and GM. Finally in 1960, GM completed design on the V-8 two stroke Diesel engine of around 300 horsepower. 

Greyhound bit the bullet and replaced the twin engines with the single 8V-71 on the entire fleet. It cost Greyhound millions to do, but solved the mechanical issues. Greyhound continued to operate the Scenicruiser into the 1980's. 

I had toyed with the idea of restoring a Scenicruiser into a motorhome for years. Finally concluded it was beyond the scope of what I could do, not only the technical part, but the cost as well. There are some nicely rebuilt Scenicruisers out there, but they are huge. Can't imagine taking one into the typical RV park.

Realize in hindsight, that the Greyhound Scenicruiser was my Symbolic Spaceship Freedom Bus, taking me away from the Northwest and Catholic school. That bus changed my life for the better. No wonder a ten year old mechanically inclined kid became enamored with a big-ass state-of-the-art bus. They really were cool buses. Very 1950's post war-ish. Lots of innovation and functionality. 

Bill Engelhardt

Too good to pass up, Tim. 

Bill Engelhardt

And speaking of the mid 1950s.....

Ted Comstock (Briggs-Comstock)

Any Seattle Rainiers fans? This pic was from the year they won the pennant. They were a lot more fun than the major league stuff today. 

Bill Engelhardt

April 30, 1966

Al Peffley

Imagine,if you will....

• Buying local from a sales person that really cares about the fit & function for your purchasedproduct or service needs; and doesn't track your every online store interface actions, 24/7.
• freedom of speech to discuss observations of concern or interest to you
• a life without fear of man-made, gain-of-function viral pathogens.
• freedom to choose the health services you need or want.
• freedom to choose and buy all of the food that you want or need.
• low energy costs and no unjust control of energy resources (free market selection & development of energy resources.
• law & order in our big cities, like Seatle & Portland, like in the early 60's.
• enabling peace negotiations and not providing weapon supplies to non-American civil wars.
• a secure southern border without human & drug traffickingand inept management.
• a secure and verifiable American voting system.( Ref.; 2000 Mules movie this month.)
• Gregg & Bob's right to openly discuss current affairs concerning America without rebuke.if you don't like their topics, then don't read it -- there are lots of other distractions from the Clowns in America [CIA] Mockingbird programmed news narratives for your reading focus.This forum does not need to mirror censored social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, etc, does it? I don't see any vulgur language or 3rd party observations offered in either of their posts, just obvious concern.
• more tollerance and respect towards other Pirate's views and concerns about America's challenges and national leadership failures today.(who does not see these failed programs and actions?)

Yes, Macdonald's has unique french fries and a process [originally] to produce them. I worked at Mickey D's in my second year of college (making french fries.) The closest fast food, burger restaurant chain I have found to the original Mickey D's is In & Out Burger (as far as fresh-made processes, not pre-made microwaved food and burger& fries menu choices.)

YesBill, I liked taking the metro busses with my mother to going to my doctor appointments and shopping together in old downtown Seattle, but, I would never do that with my grandkids in today's unsafe and filthy streets urban environment.

Tim, Imagine trying to fill up and pay for diesel fuel for a Greyhound bus today and topay by the foot for an RV or park stall to camp. Some towns today will not allow youto park n city streets with that long of a vehicle. Cummins diesels were always superior to GM engines for large commercial vehicles. Dodge recognized this in their diesel-powered Ram truck offerings.

Yes, Ted, i have very fond memories of my father and I at the Rainiers' games ballpark having a hotdog and a Coke(him a beer) enjoying a ballgame for a family price entrance fee in the left field bleechers. It was a sad week the old Rainier'ballpark was torn down to be replaced by warehouses and an impersonal, new sports "King Dome" with its exagerrated seating/food prices and poor viewing from many "'Upper Seating levels.

It is now 2022. We should all be mature adults by now with a desire to speak our observations, respect others' observations, potect the childrens' future, and without promoting a culture of division and cancel culture discourse that is counter to our Constitutions (state & federal).

As faras the remodeled HHS Facility goes,You can bet that the newer high school instruction programs are as different as the students' perception of the world today. JFK's assassination by evil people in our timeby perpetraitors ingovernment and outside the USA governmnt was a verytrajic loss to our nation in many ways (certainlya great political and a cultural loss to us all, carried forward to today.)

Observed actions,failed foreign policies, and verified truth statements will hopefully never be successfuly canceled in American public or private opinion forums like this one .Discussion should be polite and respectful.

Please do your own research about the latest World War [that employs asymmetric information & bio-warfare tactics ] WWIII is being conducted on a worldwid scale by international dark force oligarchs, organized crime mafia networks, [DS]puppets, and WEF-organized bankers and nation state leaders.

Wake up America! This is not about political party politics; it is all abouthuman common good freedoms versus pure evil control of targetted, subjugated humans [transhumanism evolution programs].

To Gregg & Bob:   Dark to Light-- WWG1WGA.

Semper Fi to my US Marine Corps Friends (also a respected Branch of the US Navy), Oorah!

Cheers to all you fully awake HHSPirates,

Awake& Alive, (only by  God'S GRACE)

Al

Virginia Wolfe (Scheffer)

Al....... Thank You!