a cannon on it's way to get delivered? Cool stuff

https://www.flickr.com/photos/14024074@N05/8211421792

I've found I know useless information that I'll never get a job with... but I can instantly identify obscure logging trucks. Oh whoopee. The Daily Timewaster blog posted this image and this question

because I posted a photo 6 years ago,  https://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2014/12/logging-road-in-both-sense-of-word.html  and it was the first Garford I'd ever seen or heard up until then. 

So, I learned what a Garford was once, and it finally has become a useful piece of identification trivia. 

I'd rather know the emails of any of the Grand Tour/Top Gear guys (Clarkson, May, and Hammond) and tell them thanks for all the shows they did that entertain me, or how to find that one perfect job where I get paid to blog and earn a living at it, or how to play the guitar, or how to win at casinos, but, I guess it's better to know something, than know nothing. 

It's not going to solve any problem I'll ever have, nor one anyone else ever will either, except that it does allow me to be the only one to identify this ONE question another blogger had for some unknown reason today  https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/2021/01/what-brand-of-truck-do-you-think-that.html 

I bet I've needed to know a million things in my life that I've forgotten (every wrong spelling, word, test question answer, US Navy quals, job knowledge, etc) when I needed it most. 

Why? Probably because my brain was already full, of useless information from all the things I've seen, heard, learned, read, watched, etc... anyone else read all the Ripley's believe it or nots? All the good books they could ever find, all the good plays (Shakespeare was simply uniquely incredible that he could rhyme that well, write stories that good, and do both at the same time - iambic pentameter, who would guess right?) all the cool comics (Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side) learn just thousands of songs, characters in books, quotes, latin phrases, chemistry, tv shows, movies, streets and freeways, cities and landmarks, and all the car info I've learned and forgotten... 

But just show me a damn Garford, and BINGO! One useless bit of identification trivia finally finds a use the only time in the world it will ever be asked for.

wow, great old trucks!

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/showthread.php?t=444949&page=2

the only Garford service and sales office I've ever seen

http://collections.washingtonhistory.org/details.aspx?id=112339

World War I soldier driving a U.S. Army Medical Department ambulance at Camp Lewis, WA, Sept. 5, 1918. Signs on side of ambulance: Medical Department U.S.A.; Gift of California "Red Men"

it's a Garford.

The "Gift of California Red Men" refers to a small mens organization that originated in revolt to the taxes from the British on tea, and dressed in Native American garb, and held the Boston Tea Party!

"The order itself claims direct descent from the Sons of Liberty, noting that the Sons participated in the Boston Tea Party dressed as Native Americans. Thus, they continue to dress as Native Americans and are organized into tribes and such." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Improved_Order_of_Red_Men

http://collections.washingtonhistory.org/details.aspx?id=112503