A historical marker sits along the road just a few miles from where I live...by some remote large hills near Canton, South Dakota (Iowa/SD border)...that tells the story of a large ski jump was made for U.S. national championships and Olympic trials back in the 1920s and 30s. I love stories like...
The luge has always been deemed a dangerous sport, though. Such reasons held it from becoming an Olympic sport until 1964, which surprised me until I looked up the history of it recently.
The faults are starting to come out regarding the death of the Georgian luge athlete up in Vancouver yesterday. One is that the track was made to be too fast. I wondered if it is the track that will make luges and bobsleds go faster should any world records count? Even if one is broken, in this...
Well, since the top two are mine. The 'V' is easy to date as early 40s mainly because 'V for Victory' was a WWII slogan. I've never seen tie clasps from the 20s. The 1930s seemed to have these 'paper clip' backs...went into the 40s, too. I've found many of these 'clips' to be identical....just...
Watched 'Sargeant York' (1941) on TCM last night. It has some great quotes in it. One of my favorites is Alvin telling him mom: ' I'm gonna *get* us a piece of bottom land!'
Anyone else watch 'American Pickers' on History Channel last night? Apparently there's a real love/hate thing going on with viewers over how they operate. I think it's a fun show. It takes place in my neck of the woods, also.
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