Saturday, September 05, 2026
there's no one source of info that can be interesting... and things can be found in the strangest places that are often random, and this post is an example of the cool things I love to discover, and research into, that makes a information and historical connection surprise, like the one between neon signs and cars that you probably would never guess
The inventor of neon signs and neon lighting, was French engineer and chemist Georges Claude, who 1st demonstrated the glowing red-orange neon tube publicly at the Paris Motor Show in December 1910.
After a successful display at the Paris Art Show in 1910, Claude conceived the idea of bending glass tubing in order to form letters, developing the first neon sign.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-neon-lights/
Neon signs weren’t introduced to the US until the 1920s when Earle Anthony is believed to be the first US business owner to use neon signage – in 1923, he ordered two signs reading ‘Packard’ to be used by two car dealerships in Los Angeles.
Neon sign usage quickly caught on after this throughout the rest of the country.
In 1924, the first neon sign was installed in New York’s Times Square advertising automaker Willys-Overland.
In 1924, the first neon sign was installed in New York’s Times Square advertising automaker Willys-Overland.
the coincidence that Neon Signs were given a public debut at a Motor Show, then that the 1st in the USA were for a Packard dealership, and the 1st in Times Square were for Willys Overland? Amazing
that random strange place that I learned of this in?
An artist's book that I got at Comic Con, Ryan Claytor: One Bite at a Time, 20 Years of Elephant Eater Comics
and there are OBVIOUS reasons that this book is an Eisner Award nominee, and I can't imagine what some other book had that would outshine this in the award competition, this book is an outstanding example of fantastic publishing, overlays, foldouts, comfortable exterior fabric, heavy paper pages, great illustrations.
truly old roads from before Alabama was a state, there were at least four early roads that converged near Ardmore
their routes are highlighted here on a detail of the Limestone County 1914 Soil Survey Map.
With the exception of the Mooresville Road, there's little reason to doubt the other three were viewed and marked along ancient trails, mostly established by animals following the paths of least resistance between their intended destinations.
Along the right-hand edge of this image would have been a significant ancient trail that had fallen out of use long before 1815, but is likely picked up by the Elkton Road (green line).
The earliest survey found that may have been of that road is from 1802, when Col Thomas Butler was commissioned to nominate a route for the first federal commerce highway, and he followed a "road no longer in use", starting about the intersection of today's Page Road and Post Road in Belle Meade, southwest of Nashville, passing through here, and ending at a ford on the Tennessee River, probably near the mouth of Indian Creek.
remember that Minnesota fraud news about Somalian day care fraud a couple months ago? Here's a news item about that I forgot to post, that you probably didn't hear about
dozens of these medical transportation companies don’t actually provide services and are fraudulently filling out paperwork to receive government funds.
dozens of these medical transportation companies don’t actually provide services and are fraudulently filling out paperwork to receive government funds.
three transportation companies allegedly listed at one address — all of them which shared the same name with slight modifications.
$18 billion in Medicaid services were fraudulently paid out in Minnesota
a military guy bought this '66 Honda S600 new in Japan, brought it home to the states and drove it for a decade before selling it to a Honda dealership, who has displayed it for 4 decades... and now it's up for sale on BaT
and it has dual outboard chain-drive assemblies powering the wheels... that has to be the most recent and probably the last chain drive car from a mass manufacturing factory
The original Caballo was a homemade special created by Ak Miller and Doug Harrison, and it was the only American-built-and-driven car to complete the final running of the original Carrera Panamericana in 1954
https://bringatrailer.com/2026/08/21/this-weeks-weird-and-wonderful-august-21-2026/
Friday, September 04, 2026
Dallas put cameras on garbage trucks to scan homes on the routes, to use AI to find code violations to raise revenue from fines
Dallas homes are now being "blight scored" by AI-powered cameras the city recently mounted on trash collection trucks to identify possible code violations, to raise funds via fines. Welcome to the new age of taxes
before inflation, the 21 drinking age, the 55 speed limit, unleaded gas, and radial tires... there were lots of mom n pop businesses like this all across the country, with gas pumps and a bar
Government Lake in Lake County, Michigan, within Webber Township, on the west side of highway M-37, about one mile north of Baldwin, Michigan.
For over 50 years, it was famous for the historic Government Lake Lodge and Cabins, originally established in the 1930s as a beloved community gathering hub.
Baldwin resident George Duffing established the Government Lake Park in the 1930's, as a privately owned recreation area with a lodge and overnight cabins "built on the high wooded shores of Government Lake."
The resort offered a picnic area, and a bathing beach, along with boating and fishing guides.
The eight cabins along the edge of the lake were described as "one, two and three bedroom, built of varnished logs with hardwood floors and three windows each for ventilation and cool comfort."
https://mail.michiganlakes.com/counties/michigan-lakes-by-county/lake/government-lake.html
the only thing this could rescue is small town cops from a boring weekend
some police dept is out to have fun offroading, just my 2 cents
https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1456055622886758&set=pcb.1456077969551190
a hairpin on the Amalfi coast by Sorrento Italy
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