Posted on February 23, 2009 by thewayofthings
AWAITING DESTRUCTION–Old Pacific Electric cars are piled up like toys at junkyard on Terminal Island, California, awaiting dismantling and destruction. -image from The Los Angeles Times - March 19, 1956
It used to be said that: “What’s good for GM is good for the country.”
Between 1926 and 1950, General Motors (together with Firestone Tire, Standard Oil, Phillips Petroleum, the Mack Truck Company, [...]
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Posted on June 28, 2008 by thewayofthings
And seldom is heard a discouraging word in that place called Alberta.
That’s why the folks at Travel Alberta and Discover Alberta have their vacation knickers in a knot. And so it falls on the current ’Alberta Booster Boy’ and Premier, Steady Eddy Stelmach to turn on his oily charm and show that the clean, green, vacation machine that is ”Wild Rose [...]
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