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Neither a team of reluctant engineers nor gravity itself could keep architect Frank Lloyd Wright from achieving one of his most daring designs in 1939. His cantilevered construction was built directly over a waterfall of the Bear Run tributary to house Kaufmann’s Department Store owner Edgar J. Kaufmann Sr. and his family.

Fallingwater in Mill Run, Pennsylvania

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Flatiron Building in Atlanta, Georgia

In 1897, five years before construction was completed on New York's Flatiron Building, Atlanta unveiled the original wedge-shaped edifice downtown. Impressively, the sliver of a building boasts 44,000 square feet and includes 11 floors occupied by businesses large and small.

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Santa rides the surf instead of a sleigh in California's Laguna Niguel Surfing Santa competition.

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Buffalo Bill's house puts on a fantastic display in Nebraska for "Christmas at the Cody's."

When I was a kid I remember seeing adds on TV that said in 20 years Florida would be under water due to rising global temperatures. That should have happened more than 20 years ago. I've never bought into the global warming hoax.

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According to the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), there are three grades of ketchup: A (which is the highest grade and it's called "fancy"), B (or "extra standard"), and C ("standard").

Grades are assigned to different types of ketchup after four different factors are assessed: color, consistency, presence of defects and flavor (it's almost as fancy as grading diamonds!).

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The Rock of Gibraltar

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Yellow peppers are an infinitely better source of vitamin C than oranges are.

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50 years later, it still boggles my mind that you could walk into a Dodge dealership and drive away with one of these (same for the Plymouth Superbird).

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1969 Q-code GT convertible with manual transmission: 9

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Have you ever noticed how all the fries are the same color and look particularly fresh for having been stored in the freezer for who knows how long? You can thank chemicals for that. After the fries are cut, they get covered in sugar so they are all the same color. Then, they’re coated in sodium acid pyrophosphate to keep them from turning gray when frozen.

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Lisbon

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Istanbul

One of the cities I visited while my mother was working for Air France. I remember drinking their beer. It was ice cold with no carbonation. We had a mantra . . . don't order American food - order local dishes. In one restaurant I ordered the house special - no idea what it was. Out came two fist sized lumps of meat covered in cheese and a tomato sauce with lots of garlic. After I finished I called the waiter over and asked what it was I ate. He said something and my mom started laughing. So I asked her what's so funny. She replied; "you just ate camel's balls!"

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Shanghai

Good looking city right? Maybe go visit it? Think again . . .

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Shanghai has a severe smog problem.

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Reykjavik

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Hong Kong

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Abu Dhabi

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Colmar, France

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Cologne, Germany

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York, United Kingdom

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You'll shoot your eye out kid!

Amazon has leg lamps, if you ever wondered where to get one...

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Back-to-back earthquakes measuring 7.0 and 5.7 shattered highways and rocked buildings Friday in Anchorage and the surrounding area, sending people running into the streets and briefly triggering a tsunami warning for islands and coastal areas south of the city.

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Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel, Liberty, USA

What a cryin' shame. The indoor pool of Grossinger's Hotel. In November of 1968 my mom was offered the position of Director of Corporate Sales at Grossingers. We left Forest Hills, NY and moved to the hotel. I graduated high school from Liberty Central High. I had my own room in a different building from mom. Mine was in the staff quarters while hers was in the executive staff quarters which was part of the main hotel. I became friends with Mark Etess who was Jennie Grossingers grandson. He later went to work for Trump in Atlantic City and was killed in a helicopter accident. My business partner and I had gone to AC and I ran into him - a week before he was killed.

I had numerous jobs at the hotel: waiter, bar waiter, carhop, lifeguard (at the indoor pool), bus driver and eventually became chauffeur for Paul Grossinger and his wife who maintained an apartment in NYC. I would go back and forth to NYC from Liberty about 2X per day driving Grossinger family and VIP guests. Drove a brand new Lincoln 4 door.

One of the side benefits to moving to Liberty was the ability to see my grandmother (my mom's mother) who lived about 15 miles away in a town called Loch Sheldrake.

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What’s in a brand name? It can convey an aspirational idea, conjure up images of paradise, or forge a sense of connection between consumer and product. Hawaiian Snacks seems to cover all three. But it would seem that name doesn’t quite deliver on its promise, and a recently-filed lawsuit seeks to prove it.

According to the Honolulu Star Advertiser (article is behind a subscription paywall), Michael Maeda of Honolulu and Iliana Sanchez of LA were frustrated when they found out that the chips they assume originated in the 50th state were actually produced by Pinnacle subsidiary Tim’s Cascade Snacks. Their production facility is in Algona, Washington, located some 2,670 miles away from the Aloha State.

Though that little detail is mentioned if one reads the fine print on a Hawaiian Snacks bag, Maeda and Sanchez still feel like they had a case to sue. According to the Associated Press, the suit filed last week argues that consumers likely wouldn’t pay nearly as much for the chips had they known that neither the product nor its ingredients originated in Hawaii. The plaintiffs are hoping to win both an injunction and class-action level monetary damages for “false and deceptive marketing and sale of the Defendant’s Hawaiian brand snacks."

I have detailed 1000's of cars in my day and when I find a french fry under a car seat that has been there since the 80's and STILL looks edible...kinda wonder what really is in the frys.

Dave
67 Nova Boy

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Christmas at . . . . come on . . . you know where.

Potatoes, Vegetable Oil (Canola Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil, Natural Beef Flavor [Wheat and Milk Derivatives]*, Citric Acid [Preservative], Dextrose, Sodium Acid Pyrophosphate (Maintain Color), Salt. Prepared in Vegetable Oil: Canola Oil, Corn Oil, Soybean Oil, Hydrogenated Soybean Oil with TBHQ and Citric Acid added to preserve freshness. Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent. Contains: Wheat and Milk. *Natural beef flavor contains hydrolyzed wheat and hydrolyzed milk as starting ingredients.