1960s Los Angeles: 20" bike frame + 3hp B&S horizontal shaft (they were all reel mowers back then) lawnmower engine + centrifugal clutch = ‘doodlebug’.

True. Things ramped up again. The Soviets were losing control of their satellite states and Reagan was pushing them into a spending war.

I lived in L.A. during the Missile Crisis. I was terrified at 9 yo.

Context matters. There was a great fear w/the Cuba situation, including a spy-plane shoot down, occurring simultaneously with a missing (or off-course) spy plane. Wrong conclusions could be/were drawn.

The reason they are so far up on the list is that there is a little-known law that the only people legally allowed to cook chicken livers, chicken feet or chicken necks are grandmothers from Georgia, South Carolina, Mississippi, Louisiana, “and certain Caribbean countries.”

Like fingernails on God’s own chalkboard.

The ‘Innocent Bystander’ stance is clearly the most feared by LE.

A person’s ‘consent’ has nothing to do with someone else’s 4th Amendment rights.

The purveyors need to step up.

I’d step over (and onto) chicken parm to get to eggplant parm. Not ‘cuz it’s not meat, but because it’s the best parm.

This!

“ham roast”

I’m ‘not sure’, but you ‘feel’?

For some reason, you don’t see those white spokes around much anymore.

Cool. I had a ‘69 (w/the 225 slant six). The old man had a ‘64 once, with the pushbutton shifter. Both LAFD utility trucks from auction.

I had more issues with the wheel wells when dealing w/ plywood; s/b 4' minimum between them

My ‘69 D100 shortbed worked. But I’m 5'8".

I’m not sure my many greats-grandfather, John Sevier, had this in mind for Franklin.

If he did, that’s the weirdest revenge ever taken.

“They love him like he is the second coming of God...”