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| Re: [GMCnet] Halloween in Indiana - Happy Halloween [message #104714 is a reply to message #104712] |
Sun, 31 October 2010 19:42   |
jknezek
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I graduated high school 14 years ago. As part of our senior prank we snuck into the bus yard and made all the buses temporarily inoperable. Let's just say that the next morning everyone got a free day off from school while they put some hoses back on. It wasn't malicious, it was easily fixed, and while some people were brassed off, most thought it was a pretty good senior prank.
Last year some seniors did EXACTLY the same prank. They were arrested the next day, charged with breaking and entering, vandalism, destruction of government property and a few other things. Two of them had their college acceptances rescinded.
Times they are a changing...
Thanks,
Jeremy Knezek
1976 Glenbrook
Birmingham, AL
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| Re: [GMCnet] Halloween in Indiana - Happy Halloween [message #104769 is a reply to message #104713] |
Mon, 01 November 2010 13:39 |
midlf
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Location: SE Wisc. (Palmyra)
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| James Hupy wrote on Sun, 31 October 2010 19:32 |
Some tricksters put a
goat in the mayor's car one year. Goats like mohair like candy. As I recall
they had to find him a new interior. I was NOT involved with the goat trick
but I knew the guys that did it.
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So how many people walking around today even understand the connection between "mohair" and "car interior"?
Steve Southworth
1974 Glacier TZE064V100150 (for workin on)
1975 Transmode TZE365V100394 (parts & spares)
Palmyra WI
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| [GMCnet] Mohair upholstery [message #104779 is a reply to message #104769] |
Mon, 01 November 2010 15:34 |
George DV
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At one time, in the 1980's, I was the head of Lake Aircraft operations [now
defunct amphibious aircraft builder] and we leased space in part of what was
in its heyday, the Goodall Mills. Located in Southern Maine, a suburb of
Boston. A big ole place of several storys, several hundred thousand sq.ft of
New England loomery per floor.
Goodall had developed a position as SOLE contract to supply mohair [woven
goat fur shearings] for Pullman railroad cars in the 1800's and eventually
automobiles in the 1900's. And even then in the 1980's, they had an ongoing
military contract for Army and Navy woolen blankets in a small area of the
facility..
They were so successful vertically integrated that they even owned the goats
in New Zealand and Ireland.
Back in 1980's there I met an active local businessman, Clint Hutchinson,
former Goodall owner, a batchelor who was in his 90's and captivated me with
tales of his business from his youth.
Not surprisingly he owned the local bank.
He bought the very first Staggerwing Beech delivered [partly designed by
Howard Hughes, yes that HH].
And he also bought thru the company one of the very first GMC's made in
1973 upon semi-retirement.
Old money, indeed.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Mohair upholstery [message #104784 is a reply to message #104779] |
Mon, 01 November 2010 15:49 |
James Hupy
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George, a friend of mine who belongs to the same car club that I belong to,
lives in Independence Or at the airpark & has a beautiful Maroon Staggerwing
Beech. It was a pile of parts when he first bought it and rebuilt it. He
and a partner of his maintain the Governors twin turboprop plane. A very
talented guy. Those planes are from a time of creativity and craftsmanship
that seldom is found today. Big Money indeed.
Jim Hupy
Salem, Or
78 Royale 403
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 1:34 PM, george <delve@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
> At one time, in the 1980's, I was the head of Lake Aircraft operations
> [now
> defunct amphibious aircraft builder] and we leased space in part of what
> was
> in its heyday, the Goodall Mills. Located in Southern Maine, a suburb of
> Boston. A big ole place of several storys, several hundred thousand sq.ft
> of
> New England loomery per floor.
> Goodall had developed a position as SOLE contract to supply mohair [woven
> goat fur shearings] for Pullman railroad cars in the 1800's and eventually
> automobiles in the 1900's. And even then in the 1980's, they had an ongoing
> military contract for Army and Navy woolen blankets in a small area of the
> facility..
> They were so successful vertically integrated that they even owned the
> goats
> in New Zealand and Ireland.
> Back in 1980's there I met an active local businessman, Clint Hutchinson,
> former Goodall owner, a batchelor who was in his 90's and captivated me
> with
> tales of his business from his youth.
> Not surprisingly he owned the local bank.
> He bought the very first Staggerwing Beech delivered [partly designed by
> Howard Hughes, yes that HH].
> And he also bought thru the company one of the very first GMC's made in
> 1973 upon semi-retirement.
> Old money, indeed.
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| Re: [GMCnet] Halloween in Indiana - Happy Halloween [message #104834 is a reply to message #104713] |
Tue, 02 November 2010 08:33 |
stick miller
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Location: Americus, Georgia
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| James Hupy wrote on Sun, 31 October 2010 20:32 |
Some tricksters put a goat in the mayor's car one year. Goats like mohair like candy. As I recall they had to find him a new interior.
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Jim - that reminded me of a time many years ago when I attended a family reunion with my first wife. Long story short, we were given a pigmy goat kid that was still on the bottle (we thought). He weighed about 10 lbs.
I had an old, but very nice Mercedes at the time. When we stopped for lunch I left the diesel engine running the a/c. The goat was asleep on the back seat.
When we got back our car was demolished. The "bottle fed" goat had eaten all the seats, the steering wheel, the headliner and the shifter knob and much of it had proceeded to make its way through the little darlin's digestive tract. I had to junk the car and dump the goat.
Somewhere on I-75 there is a herd of goats with the last name Miller.
Stick Miller
'78 Royale - "White Trash" - she left me for another man
'76 Eleganza - "Cousin Eddie" Sold
'84 Bluebird Wanderlodge - "Past Tents"
Americus, GA
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