How far east did you drive on the Parkway?
I was a UK student in the early 60's when they started building the Mountain Parkway. Bert Combs was governor.
One of my fraternity brothers had a new Austin Healey 3000 sports car and he wanted to take it out on the Kentucky back roads. My grandfather lived in Pike County so I asked if he would like to go with me for a weekend and try his new toy out on mountain roads. He agreed and so we left one Friday afternoon.
From Lexington to Rockhouse Holler was quite a drive in those days with steep mountains and dangerous curves. He was from New Jersey and had never been to Eastern Kentucky. The parkway was under construction so you would drive a few miles, then detour and pick up a few more miles. Once we got past Pikeville we had three big mountains to cross. The Mountain Parkway ended in Prestonsburg so it was very narrow roads the rest of the way.
We were doing fine until we hit the second mountain (Bent Mountain) and started up. In front of us was a coal truck and he was loaded and struggling to get to the top. He must have been going 10 mph and there was no room or space to pass. So you just had to be patient. But this boy was not patient and he started honking his horn and acting stupid. I knew he was making this coal truck driver mad and with his little English sports car that was foolish. I told him to knock it off but he kept it up. Honking louder.
When we got to the top of Bent Mountain there was a clearing for vehicles to pull over and the coal truck did. So we passed him and started down. Within a few moments that coal truck was on our rear bumper and running like a runaway freight train with his air horns blasting. I knew we were dead and the truck was going to run us over the hill and that would be our end. Especially with New Jersey plates in the middle of Pike County. Dead, dead, dead. We did make it but that truck was pushing us most of the way. And my buddy was shaking like a leaf. I told him to never pull a trick like that again with me as a passenger. You don't insult coal tricks headed downhill on Bent Mountain.
Those Healeys were nice though. I doubt we would have made it in a regular passenger car.
It's been a few years since I've made the drive, but it's pretty easy sailing from Pikeville to Belfry (and beyond) now.
Your wife would go ape shit over mine. I would take a picture but it would be to hard to admit that I did it.
One of my favorite music groups has a Austin Healey 3000 in one of their videos. It shows up around the :40 second mark.I was a UK student in the early 60's when they started building the Mountain Parkway. Bert Combs was governor.
One of my fraternity brothers had a new Austin Healey 3000 sports car and he wanted to take it out on the Kentucky back roads. My grandfather lived in Pike County so I asked if he would like to go with me for a weekend and try his new toy out on mountain roads. He agreed and so we left one Friday afternoon.
From Lexington to Rockhouse Holler was quite a drive in those days with steep mountains and dangerous curves. He was from New Jersey and had never been to Eastern Kentucky. The parkway was under construction so you would drive a few miles, then detour and pick up a few more miles. Once we got past Pikeville we had three big mountains to cross. The Mountain Parkway ended in Prestonsburg so it was very narrow roads the rest of the way.
We were doing fine until we hit the second mountain (Bent Mountain) and started up. In front of us was a coal truck and he was loaded and struggling to get to the top. He must have been going 10 mph and there was no room or space to pass. So you just had to be patient. But this boy was not patient and he started honking his horn and acting stupid. I knew he was making this coal truck driver mad and with his little English sports car that was foolish. I told him to knock it off but he kept it up. Honking louder.
When we got to the top of Bent Mountain there was a clearing for vehicles to pull over and the coal truck did. So we passed him and started down. Within a few moments that coal truck was on our rear bumper and running like a runaway freight train with his air horns blasting. I knew we were dead and the truck was going to run us over the hill and that would be our end. Especially with New Jersey plates in the middle of Pike County. Dead, dead, dead. We did make it but that truck was pushing us most of the way. And my buddy was shaking like a leaf. I told him to never pull a trick like that again with me as a passenger. You don't insult coal tricks headed downhill on Bent Mountain.
Those Healeys were nice though. I doubt we would have made it in a regular passenger car.
Yeah I'll admit that some of the clutter looks like a plate of spaghetti but it's a challenge now. Unfortunately I have open-air racks so there's not much I can do unless I cover it up with pleasant scenes from, oh I don't know, Tahiti. My goal, hide it all as much as possible. One hell of a challenge given how much stuff I have.
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Looks like an abstract art piece.
We are living high on the hog today, how bout some rice, with carrots, and beef, and imitation crab meat, squash, and eggs, all wrapped up in a seaweed blanket and cut to order.... All seasoned nicely to where the only time you stop is when everything is gone......
Yum, yum...
She's in there somewhere. That's her double up front.Must be Joe's mantra...
Thought I'd saw it all.. I guess the Warriors deserve it.
Kamala said she wasn't going to do it...
Chomping at the bit and salivating for my first trip of the year when the weather (water temp) has the bass jumping and lets me go fishing again.
That photo is pure Florida and the lower Southern states along the coast. From Texas all the way up through South Carolina. These scenes are very common once you get out of the big cities. Live oaks with Spanish Moss are everywhere you look.
Once you get in isolated rural areas you see miles of what we call Canopy Live Oaks across the road. Unfortunately sprawl took a lot of them but there are laws now to protect them.
Cord, using your talents pleases God and your work certainly made my granddaughter very happy and over joyed. It is something she said she would keep forever.
One must pick his battles wisely. All battles are not worth fighting.
Truer words were rarely spoke, Bernie. My wife has been telling me that since I was a hot-headed 20-something.
Great day. What the heck??
As I read this I thought back to childhood and that was a scene one would never see. It just didn't happen. Then I remembered we still had insane asylums back then. Bag ladies and men pushing carts onto a subway were non existent. They were removed from society.
When one pays the price enough times, sometimes he starts to weigh the expenditure against the gain.
Thanks BBUK. We got .69" of rain around midnight and some wind, but nothing nasty.
One referee that may have been black balled from UK games was Max Macon. I was a first semester freshman at UK when the Cats played Southern California. USC had an All American named John Rudometkin and he was a beast. The game was close from the start when late in the game Max Macon missed a travel call that was obvious. It was plain to see. Coach Rupp got into a heated argument with the referee and got a technical. UK lost 79-77.
Musial was also Al Kaline's favorite player when he was growing up. Stan's favorite was a LHP named Carl Hubbell. They once asked Stan how to hit. He said he looked for a baseball and then knocked the sh!t out of it.I was reading this morning that Stan Musial was Mickey Mantle's favorite player. Mantle grew up in St Louis Cardinal "territory" and his dream was to play for the Cardinals. But the Yanks offered and off he went to New York.
Here he is studying that famous Stan Musial grip. Musial had a special way of holding a bat and batting stance.
Also the article said Mantle was the first baseball player to hit a home run in a dome stadium. A 406' blast in Houston, Texas' AstroDome. A little baseball trivia.
One more Musial story. Musial was noted for always being in a good mood. A writer once asked him why he was always smiling. Stan said, "You'd smile to if you knew you were going to hit .350."
