Archive for June, 2005

Robert’s Routes – Point of Interest on Interstate Highway 30 in Dallas, Texas -The Women’s Museum and The Hall of State at Fair Park in Dallas, Texas

Saturday, June 11th, 2005

Interstate Highway 30 is the route from west of Fort Worth, Texas eastward to the southern area of Little Rock, Arkansas. If you are traveling down I-30 through Dallas, Texas, off to the south you will notice a group of buildings of the Exposition or World’s Fair types at about the exits at Mile [...]

Playing with pictures

Wednesday, June 8th, 2005

I started with a 1600×1200 photo 670k too big!!!!
Start
Programs
Microsoft Office Tools
Microsoft Photo Editor
Opened IMG_0468 (this is a BIG picture)
Image-Resize-Width-Pixels-25%
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Sunday, June 5th, 2005

Professor Smith and the Time Machine

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

Dr. Andrews Ismay Smith (the first and middle names were those of ancestors who were connected with ocean liners in the 1910’s, but whose last name is not a connection ….possibly, he said , with being a somewhat distant descendant of a ship’s captain of the same period ) is a Professor [...]

Time Out For Some Short Stories

Sunday, June 5th, 2005

Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of Route 66
A complete history of the descendants of Mr. Sherlock Holmes , Dr. John H. Watson and Professor Henry Higgins would take up too much space, but suffice to say, that there were indeed sons and daughters in the three families. A.Conan Doyle and George Bernard Shaw had [...]

What’s Your Favorite Movie ?

Friday, June 3rd, 2005

My favorite movie is:
“The Big Show”, Republic Pictures ( 1936)
Gene Autry, Smiley Burnette, William Newell, Kay Hughes, Sally Payne and supporting cast.
Gene Autry, stunt double for temperamental cowboy movie star “Tom Ford “,is called in to impersonate Ford
( who is off on a fishing trip and can’t be located) at the 1936 [...]

What’s Your Favorite Route ?

Wednesday, June 1st, 2005

What’s your favorite route ?
From recent experience., Route 66 seems to be the favorite of a lot of people, curiously enough also for a lot of the residents of Great Britain and other countries in Europe. There was even a young man from Japan who made the trip on a Harley-Davidson quite recently. Another [...]