Description: Despite what kit car ads in the back of magazines say, claims of easy assembly and performance are dubious at best. Jim Kellison set out to change that in the late '50s with a grand vision and a beautifully designed car body. Kellison's J-4 was initially offered as a fiberglass coupe ready to be mounted on your choice of chassis. Wanting to deliver a more complete offering, Kellison hired an Indy chassis builder to design a custom box tube frame that was both lighter and stronger than any donor chassis, and could be finished with readily available components. The result was a car that didn't just keep up with the best European models but outperformed them. This design is based on the Kellison 'Springy Thingy' mascot that showed up in 1968.
Description: Greeves Motorcycles was a British motorcycle manufacturer founded by Bert Greeves which produced a range of road bikes, and later, competition mounts for observed trials, scrambles, and motocross racing. By 1962 there were eleven models in the Greeves range. Greeves also built a successful export business and at one time most of the motorcycles produced were going to the US. After many wins in European trials competitions, Greeves entered the US market. The invention of the trail bike with their street-legal off-roader, the Ranger, Greeves had a significant influence on the growth of off-road motorcycle use. As the Japanese entered the market in the early '70s, sales slowed and the company ceased doing business in 1977.
Description: Flesh Gordon is a 1974 superhero sexploitation comedy serving as a spoof of the original Flash Gordon serial from the 1930s. The story sees Emperor Wang, the evil leader of Planet Porno, firing his mighty sex ray weapon at Earth. Wang's sex ray turns everyone into sex fiends, and the only person who can save the Earth is star football player Flesh Gordon. Filled with sexual innuendo and gratuitous nudity, Flesh Gordon is about as campy as they come. It's cheesy and silly, and the fact that it mirrors many of the scenes from the original serial shot for shot makes it even more amazing and a true cult classic.
Description: The Wild Goose opened its doors in 1966 at 11604 Aviation Blvd. in the unincorporated Los Angeles neighborhood of Del Aire. Sitting just south of LAX, Boasting to have 'the world's most beautiful girls,' (don't they all?), The Wild Goose was a strip club that became a popular spot for pilots and airport workers wanting to grab a drink or ten and catch a lap dance after their shift. The club closed in 2011 after just over 45 years in business so that the six-acre property could be redeveloped and replaced with 112 apartments and some commercial space.
Description: WGAY signed on December 7, 1946, airing a beautiful music (easy listening) format at 1050 AM from their deco-style studio in Silver Spring, Maryland. The WGAY calls are said to refer to the station's 'bright and gay' happy sound. Despite its sobriquet of elevator music, WGAY was a popular station throughout the DC Metro Area and eventually doubled its power to 20 kW for better reach. On February 1, 1960, the WGAY calls were moved to the FM band at 99.5 with a 50 kW stereo signal, and the station's easy-listening broadcasts became even more ubiquitous in homes, stores, and offices throughout the region.
Description: Carolina Western Express was founded in Charlotte, North Carolina in 1972 by David Lee Bayne, Sr. Known as a pacesetter of the industry, Bayne equipped his fleet of red trucks with plenty of chrome and configured them with the largest engines available to ensure the weekly 5,000-mile coast-to-coast journeys were turned as quickly as possible. Carolina Western Express maintained a scheduled two-day transcontinental service from the Carolinas to California while also pioneering nationwide less-than-truckload (LTL) shipments.
Description: Magnat-Debon was founded by Joseph Magnat and Louis Debon in 1893 as a bicycle manufacturer in Lyon, France. After getting up and running, they relocated to Grenoble where they built a modern factory. In 1902, Magnat-Debon began making motorcycles powered by two- and four-stroke engines. The company was procured by Terrot Cycles in 1923, and by 1929, Magnat-Debon was a 'sous-marque' of Terrot whereby Terrot bikes would be the latest models, Magnat Debon being identical but a season later and lower priced. Often self-defeating, since the financially cautious French public often bought greater numbers of the lowest-priced. The strength of Magnat-Debon was their reputation of being light, economical, and immensely reliable machines.
Description: Brandy is a liquor produced by distilling wine and is typically consumed as an after-dinner digestif. Some brandies are aged in wooden casks, while others use caramel coloring to imitate the effect of aging. Varieties of brandy can be found throughout the world, with most containing 35–60% alcohol by volume (70–120 US proof). Quevedo was a brandy produced in Spain from the 1920s through the 1940s that used an anthropomorphic cat as their spokesperson, er, spokescat.
Description: Deputy Dawg is an animated series produced by Terrytoons that ran from 1960 to 1964. The series focused on the titular Deputy Dawg, an anthropomorphic canine deputy sheriff in Florida, although as episodes progressed, the location changed to Mississippi, and later to Tennessee. Most of the storylines involve Deputy Dawg pursuing local miscreants Muskie Muskrat, Ty Coon, and Vincent van Gopher for petty crimes. When the scofflaws aren't causing trouble, Deputy Dawg pals around with the trio, often engaging in their favorite pastime, fishing for catfish.
Description: Alice in Videoland opened its 2,500-square-foot store in Kingston, New York back in 1982 with an inventory of 600 movies on VHS. By the late '80s, the store had outlets in Phoenicia and Saugerties, along with the main Kingston store, and their library of titles grew to 25,000. Like other mom-and-pop video stores, national chains moving into the area made a dent in Alice in Videoland's business, but customers soon found that they liked their local video rental store a lot more and helped to keep the lights on all the way until 2007. Today, the once bustling Alice in Videoland store at 738 Ulster Ave. sits vacant as a silent reminder of days gone by.
Description: Tutankhamun was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh who ruled c. 1332 – 1323 BC during the late Eighteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt. His tomb was discovered in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter in the Valley of The Kings. The quantity and spectacular appearance of the burial goods created a media frenzy, and the tomb became the most famous find in Egyptology. Between 1972 and 1981, an extensive exhibit called 'Treasures of Tutankhamun' toured the world, bringing the artifacts of the tomb to several major cities. Six of those cities were in America, one of them being Seattle, Washington in 1978, and this design is reminiscent of the souvenirs available at this particular show.
Description: Poloron Products was based in New Rochelle, New York, and produced a wide range of products from lawn ornaments and camping equipment to snow blowers and lawnmowers. In 1970, Poloron decided to get into snowmobiles and brought two models to market - the 295cc Cyclone and 299cc Tornado. Manufactured at their Michigan City, Indiana lawnmower factory, Poloron differentiated themselves as an American-made snowmobile manufacturer, putting them in the minority among their contemporaries, though while they made some nice machines, they were terrible at marketing. While the competition was taking photos in the mountains, Poloron used fake winter sets in the studio that looked incredibly cheesy. Needless to say, they never quite caught on.
Description: Dr. Claw is the main antagonist of the Inspector Gadget series, who is always plotting and scheming with his sidekick, M.A.D. Cat. Claw is a psychotic criminal mastermind that will stop at nothing to take over the world. Most of his plots consist of terrorism and global attacks, and even though he is an evil mastermind, he believes Gadget's stupidity is an act to mock him and views him as his arch-enemy. He has no idea that Penny and Brain do all the real work, and that Gadget is really just a fumbling doofus with dumb luck that always manages to foil his sinister plans.
Description: Tom Hoover, whose work at Chrysler included development of the legendary Max Wedge and 426 Hemi V-8 engines, the 1970 Plymouth AAR ’Cuda, and the 1978 Dodge Li’l Red Express truck, is best known as the “Father of the Hemi.” Hoover trained as a physicist at Juniata College in his hometown of Huntingdon, Pennsylvania. He received his master’s degree from Penn State and later earned a master’s degree in automotive engineering from the University of Michigan while working for Chrysler. Tom led the team that designed the mighty 426 Hemi that was so powerful and so successful, that it lead to NASCAR changing their rules to attempt to eliminate it from competition. This Hoover Performance tee is an homage Tom Hoover and his indelible mark ...
Description: Lake Chaubunagungamaug, also known as Webster Lake, is a lake in the town of Webster, Massachusetts, United States. It is located near the Connecticut border and has a surface area of 1442 acres. Since 1921, the lake has also been known by a much longer name having 45 letters comprising fourteen syllables: Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg. The lake's name comes from Nipmuc, an Algonquian language, and is often said to mean, "Fishing Place at the Boundaries - Neutral Meeting Grounds." A map of 1795 showing the town of Dudley, and a 1795 map of Massachusetts indicated the name as "Chargoggagoggmanchoggagogg." A survey of the lake done in 1830 lists the name as "Chaubunagungamaugg," the older name.
Description: Sand dunes aren’t the first thing to come to mind when you think of Idaho, but they not only have them, but they are big, and when you sit at the base of St. Anthony Sand Dunes and stare at a near-vertical 300-foot mountain of sand, there is little else that comes to mind. The dunes cover over 41,000 acres and the 5,000-foot elevation means snow in the winter, making this an excellent dune getaway from spring through late fall. Knowing this, it only makes sense that there would be a dune buggy shop nearby in the town of St. Anthony, and that shop was Bob's Buggy Werks. From tune-ups and repairs to custom sand rails and high-performance racing engines, Bob's had ever sand racer covered.
Description: Brothers Cyrus, Frank, and Charles Jones opened Jones Brothers Tea Co. in 1872 as a single store in Scranton, Pennsylvania, with shelves stocked with coffee, tea, spices, baking powder, and flavor extracts from around the world. The brothers expanded the business steadily with new stores in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New York, and eventually changed the name to Grand Union Tea Company to better reflect their growing chain of stores. By 1912, the company had relocated to Brooklyn, New York, and had well over 200 stores across the country as well as 5,000 door-to-door salesmen and a fleet of horse-drawn wagons for deliveries.
Description: Tenspeed and Brown Shoe is an American detective comedy series originally broadcast between January and June 1980. The series revolved around two private detectives in Los Angeles. E. L. (Early Leroy) "Tenspeed" Turner is a hustler who worked as a private detective to satisfy his parole requirements. His partner Lionel "Brownshoe" Whitney is an archetypal accountant, complete with button-down collars who had always wanted to be a 1940s-style PI. A running joke was his penchant for reading a series of hard-boiled crime novels. Brownshoe was sharper than he seemed (albeit a little naïve) and more reasonable than his career path demanded; he had even received a black belt in karate.
Description: Hawaiian industrialist Alfred Hocking formed The Honolulu Brewing & Malting Company in 1897. Four years later, Hocking's brewery released its first branded beer, Primo lager. The new brew was a hit locally and just as it was getting traction stateside, prohibition hit, causing Primo to halt operations between 1920 and 1933. After prohibition, Primo reopened and operated under the ownership of Hawaii Brewing Corporation for the next three decades. Over the following three decades, Primo changed hands several times, but the one thing that stayed the same was the original recipe and Hawaiians' love of their original local lager.
Description: Arthur Heisdorf was a geneticist for Kimber Poultry, but left to start his own poultry breeding company in 1945. Setting up shop in Kirkland, Washington, he started selling Kimber Leghorns, while simultaneously importing stock from leading breeders across America, Europe, and Japan. He crossed them with the Kimber Leghorn and found one that "nicked" (combined well) with the Kimber line, creating what would become known as the "Nick Chick" Leghorn. The new breed proved to be championship layers, making them extremely profitable for egg producers, and quickly became a success. In 1947, Heisdorf partnered with Bert and Cliff Nelson to establish Heisdorf & Nelson Farms.
Description: Cats are excellent at catching mice because they have evolved with strong natural hunting instincts, making them adept at stalking, pouncing, and quickly capturing small prey like mice. This ability stems from their need to hunt for food in the wild, where mice are readily available and considered an easy target due to their size and lack of defense mechanisms. This '80s Mouserschmitt Squadron design plays on cat's well known reputation for hunting mice and keeping their owner's environment clear of these pesky rodents.
Description: Septic Death was an American hardcore punk band formed in 1981 in Boise, Idaho. Despite only releasing a single full length record, the foursome was a major influence on the development of grindcore, thrashcore, and speedcore genres. The group disbanded in 1986, and the EP Burial Mai So was released posthumously in 1987 and included five tracks: Insanity, Disinfect, Forest Of The Megalomaniac, Burial, and Glue/Step (New Year's Eve Mix).
Description: Legendary northern California fuel racer Ted Gotelli opened Gotelli Speed Shop at 321 El Camino Real in the city of South San Francisco in May 1962. Selling hardcore speed equipment in the front and building racing engines out back, Gotelli Speed Shop outlived most of its contemporaries across the country. For 57 years, Gotelli's was the go-to place for northern California drag racers and speed freaks looking to shave their elapsed times and get a little more punch off the line, but in 2019 it finally came to an end with the shop lost their lease.
Description: Diamond T Motor Truck Company was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1905 by C. A. Tilt. Initially called the Diamond T Motor Car Company, the firm started out manufacturing cars but became known for its heavy-duty trucks in the late '20s. Eventually changing the name to Diamond T Motor Truck Company in the '30s, Diamond T produced both commercial and military trucks until 1967 when the company merged with Reo Motor Company.
Description: If you were a trucker traveling along U.S. Route 30 in the Midwest, needing new radio gear, or wanted to get your CB radio professionally tuned, you would have pulled off at Big Springs, Nebraska, and visited RJ's Radio Supply. RJ, aka Rachetjaw, was a master of all things CB and could give any radio better reach and better sound. He also built what those in the know would call 'big radios' that boosted the power and pushed the signal well beyond what the FCC allowed, making them highly desirable to over-the-road truckers who wanted to know what was ahead of them.
Description: 96.7 FM signed on as KVOE-FM in 1947, simulcast with KVOE (1480 AM, now KVNR) with its studio on East 5th Street in Santa Ana. On July 1, 1954, KVOE-AM-FM changed their call signs to KWIZ and KWIZ-FM, but still under the same ownership. By 1970, the FM and AM stations had separate programming. The AM station aired a full-service middle-of-the-road format of popular music, news, and information, while the FM station had an automated easy listening format, which would change to soft adult contemporary music in the mid-1980s. Fast forward to 1997, KWIZ-FM took on a Spanish-language format playing classic Mexican ranchera music and the name ‘La Ranchera.’
Description: Mt. Wank is a mountain in southern Germany, situated in the Loisach valley close to the Austrian border in the southwestern Ester Mountains range near Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It rises from about 700 metres (2,300 ft) above mean sea level up to 1,780 metres (5,840 ft) at the summit. The mountain is crowned by a grassy summit that has views over Garmisch-Partenkirchen and the surrounding region. The grassy summit of the Wank is topped by a cross, set up in July 1904 by the Werdenfelser Heimat Partenkirchen society. Nearby is an observatory and the Wank-Haus, also known as the Alois Huber Haus, a mountain hut that provides food and accommodation to visitors. The summit can be reached via the Wankbahn cable car system in the summer.
Description: Tijuana Toads is a series of 17 theatrical cartoons produced by DePatie–Freleng that were released between 1969 and 1972. The series concerns two toads, El Toro and Pancho, who live in the Mexican city of Tijuana. Throughout the cartoon, they try to eat their prey, but always get outsmarted. They would sometimes be targeted by a bird, Crazylegs Crane, and would in turn outsmart him. The series introduced two characters who later got their own series. The Blue Racer first appeared in "Snake in the Gracias" (1971) before getting his own series in 1972. Crazylegs Crane first appeared in "Go for Croack" (1969), and also spun off to his own series for television in 1978.
Description: The forestry industry has been central to Washington State’s economy for nearly two centuries. In the early days, the virgin forests that covered the state helped fuel Western expansion and turned small logging camps into flourishing communities. Washington has over 22 million acres of forestland and is the second-largest producer of softwood lumber in the United States. Private logging companies like Frontier based in the town of Forks play an essential role in harvesting timber and getting it to the mills across the state.
Description: G.I.S.M. was a Japanese punk metal band formed in Tokyo in 1981. Although the guitar style resembled heavy metal in many aspects, GISM was one of the first Japanese hardcore bands, while at the same time drawing influence from the early industrial/avant-garde music scene—something uncommon in punk bands at that time. The acronym GISM has many different variations including Guerrilla Incendiary Sabotage Mutineer, God In the Schizoid Mind, Grand Imperialism Social Murder, among many, many more, though no official definition has ever been given which only added to the band's mystique. GISM came to be widely known in the global punk scene after the song “Endless Blockades for the Pussyfooter” appeared on an International P.E.A.C.E. compilation.
Description: San Francisco, which is Spanish for 'Saint Francis,' takes its name from Mission San Francisco de Asís, which in turn was named after Saint Francis of Assisi. The mission received its name in 1776, when it was founded by the Spanish under the leadership of Padre Francisco Palóu. The city has officially been known as San Francisco since 1847, when Washington Allon Bartlett, then serving as the city's alcalde, renamed it from Yerba Buena (Spanish for 'Good Herb'), which had been the name of the first civilian pueblo in San Francisco, as well as the name of Yerba Buena Cove, which the pueblo was on the shore of. Earlier in San Francisco's history, the uninhabited area on the northeastern side was called El Paraje de Yerba Buena.
Description: 96.7 FM signed on as KVOE-FM in 1947, simulcast with KVOE (1480 AM, now KVNR) with its studio on East 5th Street in Santa Ana. On July 1, 1954, KVOE-AM-FM changed their call signs to KWIZ and KWIZ-FM, but still under the same ownership. Fast forward to 1997, KWIZ-FM took on a Spanish-language format playing classic Mexican ranchera music and the name 'La Ranchera.' Ranchera is a traditional Mexican music genre that originated on ranches and is characterized by its dramatic emotion and poetic lyrics. It's often performed with a guitar and is frequently accompanied by mariachi bands. This traditional style of Mexican music dates back to before the Mexican Revolution and draws on rural traditional folk music.
