Spirit of 76

 

With this being the USA's Two Hundred and Fiftieth Birthday year, maybe I should have featured this on July 4th.

But, what a bit of boring trash memorabilia. 

Nope.

Bonus - 

This is how life was

 

...in the aspirational homes of the mid sixties.

What's interesting (amongst so many thoughts) is the TV Dinner tray and stand, but no TV. Weird.

Bonus - 

The First Commercial Oil Well in Oklahoma

 

Yup.  That's what the stone says.

A.K.A. Nellie Johnstone Number One.

and

Completed April 15, 1897.

Fascinating

Bonus - 

The Duct-Tape B-17

 

Hmmm.

How rare.

It appears to be a scale model of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress, with a skin fashioned from Duct Tape. Or, being an aeroplane, Speed-Tape.

How curious.

Bonus 1 - Slim Gaillard - B-19

Bonus 2 - 

Just a Souvenir...

 

Just a hideously dull souvenir of a safari trip to ...somewhere.

Why, people, WHY?

Bonus - Animals in space

Bonus 2 - 

Thru' Your Mind

An American Home, I suspect.

 

Call it ... a hunch, but I think that this display might be related to the American nationality of the owner.

A strange thing to be proud of, IMHO.  (  :-D )

Bonus - Scientists Just Uncovered Fossils Of An Unknown Prehistoric Creature In A Welsh Sheep Field

Bonus 2 - 

It's ... It's ... It's a gun.

 

From a collection of slides identified as "Oklahoma".  And that's it.   No other info.

I'm sure some militaria aficionado could identify it ...but I can't.

Bonus - “Margret: Chronicle of an Affair – May 1969 to December 1970”

and in the Daily Mail 

Happy Birthday Aileen

 Yes, I know that this pictured cake says Happy Birthday Megan, but that's because it's not of Aileen's cake, and it's Aileen's birthday.

Obviously.

Bonus - "This truly makes me think of the good humanity can do… that and the fact that cellphones are now becoming more and more waterproof… pretty soon we’ll be able to push people into pools again."