Description: If you're in the Great Lakes region and looking for custom excavators, look no further than JT’s Heavy Equipment in Spread Eagle, Wisconsin. From this small town with the lewd sounding name, JT’s configures excavators with their in-house designed and built accessories, including progressive link thumbs, heavy-duty buckets, continuous rotating grapples, monster rippers, and free hanging and rotating clamshells. They also take new and used hoes, and rebuild them to better than factory spec, with more power, better reach, and of course, their bulletproof armor. So if you're looking for the big hoes, make the trip out to Spread Eagle, as JT's doesn't mess with the lightweights, and only deals in the biggest hoes in America.
Description: Based out of the suburban city of Santee, in San Diego County, California, McBurnie Coachcraft was a coachbuilding company best known for their replicas of classic European sports cars. McBurnie's builds weren't just another kit car, premium replicas of the highest quality. The accuracy and craftsmanship made them popular with car aficionados and Hollywood productions alike, with several of them appearing in TV and movies where a genuine article would be too costly or simply too risky. McBurnie Coachcraft cars are still sought by collectors wanting a classic driver today, so on the rare occasion that they come up for sale, they're usually snapped up pretty quickly.
Description: Cup 'o Pizza was a St. Louis icon, or it least it was in 1979's 'The Jerk.' The fictional restaurant with the "the best pizza in a cup ever" has long been a thing of mystery – a fast food white whale to some, an object of culinary disgust to others, but one thing is for sure, it's forever burned into the annals of cinema history.
Description: Motor Freight Corporation (MFC) was started in 1926 by Harry Adams with one truck operating between Terre Haute and Brazil, Indiana. About a year later another truck was added and service was extended to Bloomington and Bedford and a little later to Indianapolis. Adams would proceed to buy up smaller truck lines year over year until the '60s when MFC was operating terminals in Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Nebraska, and Tennessee, and maintaining ICC operating authority on multiple routes. Increasing public interest in deregulation of the trucking industry in the early '70s had Adams seeing the writing on the wall, and he looked for a buyer for MFC, finding one in Branch Motor Express out of Pennsylvania.
Description: The Burning is a 1981 American slasher film that follows a summer camp caretaker who is horribly burnt from a prank gone wrong, leaving him to seek vengeance at a nearby summer camp years later. The screenplay is loosely based on the New York urban legend of the Cropsey maniac, and was theatrically released on May 8, 1981 by Filmways. While the film did not generate the interest nor revenue achieved by other slasher films at the time, it has since become a cult classic and received positive reappraisal from film critics.
Description: During the gold prospecting period of the early 1900s, non-Natives named the village north of the Nome Census Area in Alaska "Mary's Igloo," after an Inupiat woman named Mary, who welcomed miners, trappers and others into her home for coffee. During that period, Mary's Igloo was a transfer point for supplies for the gold fields upriver on the Kuzitrin and Kougarok rivers. The supplies were offloaded from ocean boats onto barges, which were towed to their destinations. A post office and store were opened at Mary's Igloo in 1901. By the 1910 census, Mary's Igloo was a community of 141 Inupiat and Anglo-Americans, who were miners, innkeepers, missionaries and support crews for the barges. It had schools, a post office and other services.
Description: Radio 1990 was a thirty-minute music video showcase program that ran during primetime on weekdays on cable. It was intended to compete directly with similar major network programs, as well dedicated music video cable channels and shows. The program ran from March 1983 until September 1986, and was hosted by Lisa Robinson and Kathryn Kinley, and frequently featured '80s rock stars as guest co-hosts.
Description: Opened in July 1852, San Quentin is the oldest prison in California and the state's only death row for male inmates, the largest in the United States. It has a gas chamber, but since 1996, executions at the prison have been carried out by lethal injection, though the prison has not performed an execution since 2006. The prison has been featured on film, radio drama, video, podcast, and television; is the subject of many books; has hosted concerts; and has housed many notorious inmates. The correctional complex sits on Point San Quentin, which consists of 432 acres on the north side of San Francisco Bay. This souvenir style design features an etching of the earliest iteration of the prison, with Mt. Tamalpais standing in the background.
Description: The penny-farthing, also known as a high wheel, high wheeler or ordinary, is an early type of bicycle popular in the 1870s and 1880s. Its large front wheel provided high speeds (owing to its travelling a large distance for every rotation of the legs) and comfort (the large wheel provides greater shock absorption). It became obsolete in the late 1880s with the development of modern bicycles, which provided similar speed amplification via chain-driven gear trains and comfort through pneumatic tires, and were marketed in comparison to penny-farthings as "safety bicycles" because of the reduced danger of falling and the height to fall from. The design is based on a popular '70s iron on, and is perfect for hipsters and cycling enthusiasts alike.
Description: The blue oval guys started developing the Edsel in 1955, based on polling data from car shoppers, but unfortunately, the company disregarded much of the data from the polls and plowed ahead with what they thought consumers should want. The marketing team then proceeded to overpromise the Edsel through a yearlong teaser campaign, promising the car of the future... something the Edsel clearly was not. When the first 1958 models were revealed in 1957, most people simply didn't think the Edsel looked very good. The cars were also saddled with quality and reliability issues from the very beginning, and coupled with a higher than average price point, the Edsel made for a tough sell, with approximately 116,000 sales between 1957 and 1959.
Description: The Galaxy Railways (銀河鉄道物語,) is a Japanese anime television series about flying trains set in the far reaches of outer space. It began airing on October 4, 2003 in Japan and debuted on American TV on June 19, 2006. The story takes place in an alternate future, where trains are capable of interplanetary travel. The fleet of the Galaxy Railways is protected by the Space Defence Force, or SDF, against intergalactic terrorists, meteor storms and malicious alien life. In the series, it seems that the Galaxy Railways serve as both an establishment and government presiding over a large sector of the galaxy. The railways are made up of a series of large rings that create energy shields to protect the trains that move between them.
Description: Emil Kliese was a 35-year-old, German-born brewmaster who had emigrated in 1883, and by 1890 was working at a brewery in St. Louis. In the mid-1890's, Kliese made his way west, securing a position with Capital Brewing Co. in Tumwater, Washington, and by 1899, he was their head brewmaster. An opportunity arose when some investors in Tacoma wanted to open a brewery and required an expert brewmaster. Kliese wanted to run his own brewery. So he, along with, William C. Kiltz, filled for articles of incorporation in February 1900 to brew and sell at wholesale and retail beer and other malt beverages at as the Columbia Brewing Company. The brewery was located at 2120 on South C Street in Tacoma in a five-story building built over an artesian well.
Description: Trashman is a fictional character, a superhero who appeared regularly in underground comix and magazines between 1968 and 1985. Trashman is a hero of the working classes and a champion of the radical left causes. The Trashman stories are set in a dystopian near-future America, which after having been ravaged by nuclear weapon attacks, has become a fascist police state, with "vast urban conglomerations. The Trashman series is one of the very few superhero stories depicted in underground comix of the '60s and '70s, particularly as a recurring character. Trashman's post-apocalyptic setting and Marxist-anarchist overtones expressed many social and political beliefs, as well as the feelings on the Vietnam War and counterculture of the era.
Description: Takara (タカラ) was founded by Yasuta Satō in 1955 as Sato Vinyl with the motto "playing is culture," and one of his first successes was securing the license to produce a line of popular American dolls for the Japanese market. In 1960, they changed their name to Takara Vinyl, though this new name would be shortened to simply Takara in 1966. In the '70s, Takara exploded with new products, ranging from actions figures to transforming robots. Over the following decades, Takara would continue to grow and thrive through an increasingly convoluted chain of licensing, evolving, and re-licensing of toy franchises, some of which remain near impossible to unravel even today.
Description: In 1973, British tuner Spike Anderson went solo, launching Race Head Services, and his new Datsun 240Z was his first customer. The cylinder head specialist worked his magic on the 151-hp straight-six, which lead to developing his own exhaust manifold. Next came a custom triple carb setup, tuned suspension, and big brakes. Now delivering 250-hp and handling like a true race car, the Z was suddenly in direct competition with Germany's fastest coupés. He took his Z to the '74 Modsports race, and fought off all comers, including factory backed racers. With requests to build copies of his Z piling up, Anderson started Samuri Motor Company to build track ready Datsun's, calling the resulting car's 'Super Samuri.'
Description: In 1984, the world descended on Los Angeles, California, and were greeted by a very American mascot – a bald eagle named Sam. This cartoon bird of prey was friendly, cheerful, and embodied the optimistic spirit of the games. With his name a nod to Uncle Sam, and wearing USA's red, white, and blue colorways, Sam was clearly American and did a great job representing the country to a global audience.
Description: Claude Alexander Conlin (June 30, 1880 – August 5, 1954), known as Alexander the Man Who Knows, was a spiritual author, and vaudeville magician who began performing in 1915. He dressed in Oriental style robes and a feathered turban, often using a crystal ball as a prop, and specialized in mentalism and psychic reading acts. His successful performances made him a wealthy man, but he also had another side to his life, with a significant FBI dossier that suspected him of murder, money laundering, grand larceny, fraud, and drug smuggling. His personal life was just as wild with as many as 14 marriages – many simultaneously – and throughout all of them, he was a serial adulterer that leveraged his popularity to the fullest with countless women.
Description: Love Rastafari And Live is a 1976 single by Jamaican Roots Reggae/Dub band, The Mighty Randells, that very much celebrated the Rastafari belief system. Rastafari, sometimes called Rastafarianism, is a religion that developed in Jamaica during the 1930s, and is classified as both a new religious movement and a social movement by scholars of religion. Practitioners are known as Rastafari, Rastafarians, or Rastas, and share a pair of fundamental moral principles known as the "two great commandments" which are "love of God" and "love of neighbor." Many Rastas believe that to determine whether they should undertake a certain act or not, they should consult the presence of Jah within themselves. In the early decades of the religion's development,
Description: Charisma Records – also known as 'The Famous Charisma Label' – was a British record label founded in 1969 by former journalist Tony Stratton-Smith. He had previously acted as manager for several British rock bands including The Nice, The Bonzo Dog Band and Van der Graaf Generator. The first release was an LP by Rare Bird, in November 1969, that delivered Charisma its first hit single in early 1970. The label would go on to sign some of the most successful acts of the '70s, producing an envious string of hits. Charisma's vinyl records featured a John Tenniel illustration of the Mad Hatter on the labels, leading to them sometimes referring to themselves (and be referred to) as 'The Mad Hatter Platter People.'
Description: The Cherry Popper Ice Cream Company, or simply Cherry Poppers, is a brand of ice cream from a massive online gaming universe. Their mascot is a character called Whoopee the Clown, sometimes referred to as Mr. Whoopee, which is also the name of the ice cream trucks used to distribute their products. It is unknown when the company was founded, but the factory is present in Vice City Stories (set in 1984) but there is no indication as to whether it is owned by the company, as the ice cream scoops on the roof are absent. While Cherry Poppers is an actual ice cream factory that produces a popular line of ice cream products, it's also a front for a cocaine distribution business, so I guess you could say they deal in both kinds of snow.
Description: PaineWebber was a U.S.-based brokerage and asset management firm founded in 1880 by William Alfred Paine and Wallace Webber as Paine, Webber & Co. With a strategy of strong growth and acquisitions, the company was a significant player in the investment banking industry that grew steadily decade over decade through a series of acquisitions. In 1983, the firm developed a national advertising campaign based on the rather cocky "Thank You PaineWebber" messaging and ran with it throughout the '80s. By the year 2000, PaineWebber was the fourth-largest brokerage in the U.S. with 385 offices around the country, but as there is always a bigger fish in the sea, they too were acquired by an even larger brokerage, ending the PaineWebber legacy.
Description: Sidney Phillips, better known as Sid, is Andy’s sociopathic neighbor. Every toy is afraid of Sid, as his idea of fun is using toys for scary experiments and operations, like changing their heads and limbs to create new monstrosities, or simply destroying them. His choice of wardrobe is a tough guy black skull shirt, which makes total sense given his villainous persona as a terrorizer of toys... and sometimes people.
Description: Located in San Francisco Bay, just 1.25 miles from San Francisco, California, Alcatraz is one of the most-visited tourist attractions in the Bay Area. This small island was used as a prison from 1934 to 1963. After the prison closed down, it was occupied by Native Americans in the late '60s, and in 1972, Congress created the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which Alcatraz Island, and opened the former prison to the public in the fall of 1973. By 1976, it was included in the National Register of Historic Places, and would later receive the distinction of National Historic Landmark in 1986. In 1993, developments began to improve the site, as many of the structures had deteriorated.
Description: 2001's Ghost World is the story of neo-cool Enid and Rebecca, who, faced with graduation from high school, take a hard look at the world they wryly observe and decide what they really want. When Enid takes an interest in the offbeat Seymour and Rebecca focuses her attention on their mutual romantic fixation, Josh, the girls' friendship is forever changed. This design is based on Enid's cool raptor shirt that she wears in several scenes of the film.
Description: Battle Beasts are 2″ tall anthropomorphic animal action figures that originated in Japan in 1986 as 'Beastformers,' as an attempted spin-off of popular transforming robots at the time. When the line came to America, they were called Battle Beasts, to better reflect the 'rock, paper, scissors' game that could be played with them. These nicely detailed action figures were based on animals and equipped with body armor and a weapon. In addition, their chest armor included a heat sensitive sticker that would reveal one of three elements – fire, wood, or water. Later, an invincible symbol known as the Sunburst as be released, and became a true chase item, as having a Sunburst warrior amongst your Battle Beasts, you would never lose!
Description: Jellyfish was a rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1989. The group was known for their blend of '70s classic rock and XTC-style power pop. They released two albums, Bellybutton (1990) and Spilt Milk (1993), that proved influential to many subsequent acts in a similar vein. During their five-year existence, Jellyfish attracted critical acclaim and a devoted cult following, but struggled against prevailing rock trends (hair metal and grunge), leading to them calling it quits in 1994.
Description: The M911 C-HET is a heavy equipment transporter that begin production in 1977 as a more capable and lower cost alternative to the M746 HET. Based on the commercial F2365 truck, M911 C-HET was modified in a number of areas, including two winches added behind the cab, and a non-driven drop axle located in front of the two rear axles. The M911 was to be used with the M747 trailer that was developed in the HET-70 program, alongside the M746 tractor truck that the M911 supplants. This combination allowed for loads in excess of 68.95 tons, including the M1 Abrams main battle tank.
Description: Lama Flex was a line of skateboard decks produced by NorCal originals, Haut Skateboards, beginning in the mid '70s. The initial offerings were longer with laminated rocker/kicktail combos, something that was pretty innovative at a time when boards were largely still well under 8" wide and 30" long. Haut remained at the forefront of deck innovation, releasing increasingly wider boards earlier than most of the heavyweight players, while also evolving new shapes and manufacturing techniques.
Description: 'I'll Fuckin' Do It Again' is a memorable quote uttered by a crudely animated cartoon dog parody that showed up online in 2017. A screenshot of the goofball dog saying the line has become a reaction image macro used to express a lack of remorse for an offensive action and desire to commit it again.
Description: Founded by Ralph Matthews and Karl Hassel in Chicago, Illinois, as Chicago Radio Labs in 1918 as a small producer of amateur radio equipment. The name "Zenith" came from ZN'th, a contraction of its founders' ham radio call sign, 9ZN. They were joined in 1921 by Eugene F. McDonald, and Zenith Radio Company was formally incorporated in 1923. The fledgling company soon became known for its high-quality radios and electronic innovations. Zenith introduced the first portable radio in 1924 and would go on to innovate and define the home television market. Zenith pioneered high-contrast, flat-face picture tubes, and the multichannel television sound (MTS) stereo system, and was one of the first companies to introduce a digital HDTV system.
Description: Starting out as Branch Storage Company in Perkasie, Pennsylvania in 1920, and went into the freight business as Branch Motor Express Company in 1923. It did not take long for the company to make its mark in moving freight, and applied for intrastate certificate of authority on several key routes within Pennsylvania. With two decades of building their intrastate business, Branch applied and received interstate authority from the ICC in 1944, relocated their headquarters to New York City, and began running between key manufacturing regions throughout the East Coast. Billing themselves as "The Main Stem of The Industrial East," Branch was a key player in manufacturing, moving both raw materials and finished goods throughout their network.
Description: Johnson Valley is a 96,000-acre off-road playground in Southern California that is home to two of the toughest trails in America, Jack and Sledge, known collectively as "The Hammers.” Some of the most experienced off-roaders make a trip out here to challenge themselves and their rigs with some of the most unique terrain in the world and more often than not, break stuff. Seeing an unmet need for a hardcore off-road shop in the area, Johnson Valley 4WD opened their doors in Barstow back in the mid '70s, saving enthusiasts from having to drive back into San Bernardino or Riverside for replacement axles, lockers, and whatever else came unglued on the trail. Of course, they weren't just a repair shop, but also a builder of bulletproof rigs.
Description: The history of Bolens snowmobiles begins with another manufacturer, called Hus-Ski Limited from Pointe-Claire, Quebec. Hus-Ski built their first prototypes in 1957, but unlike traditional snowmobiles, Hus-Ski's design was a radical twin-track setup that was front driven. The tracks with the engine on top looked like a garden tractor, and the rider sat on a sled trailer behind the machine. Bolens purchased Hus-Ski Limited in 1965 and moved the production from Canada to Port Washington, Wisconsin. The Hus-Ski line was further refined and rebranded by Bolens and quickly became a top-selling snow machine, as the tow tractor configuration allowed multiple sleds to be daisy-chained together as needed to haul loads of various sizes.
