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A sawbuck or sawhorse resembles "X," which is also the Roman numeral for "10." The first $10 bills issued by the U.S. government in the 1860s prominently featured the Roman numeral 10; the huge Xs looked like sawbucks' side. So "sawbuck" became a way to refer to a 10-dollar bill.




Here's a great Classic Film about how living conditions were for the very young and old. It clearly shows how the Depression Years affected everyone in America and were very bad times for people of all races. Wild Boys of the Road (1933) chronicles the hard-luck life of literally hundreds of thousands of teens (boys and girls alike) who were forced out into the world at large when their family life at home collapsed during the Great Depression.




US bandleader, trumpeter & actor Ray Anthony celebrates his 102nd birthday today. Pictured here in 1956 with former wife (divorced in 1961), Hollywood vixen Mamie Van Doren (1931-) & their son Perry Ray (1956-), and together again in 2019. He is the last surviving member of the Glenn Miller Orchestra.


Hard to believe she is 88 in that 2019 photo. What's her secret? A whole lotta sex? Maybe it's the wine.

First 3 films from 1951 produced by Howard Hughes RKO Radio Pictures.




One of these things is not like the other...









LMAO!!!!!!!!!




One for the ladies..Happy Birthday ultimate ‘40’s beefcake hunk, GUY MADSON! (Jan 19, 1922-1996) Seen here in the movie that made him a star, David O. Selznick’s WWII extravaganza, SINCE YOU WENT AWAY (1944). Yeowza!


ICYMI, WAVES (for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service), was the women's branch of the United States Naval Reserve during World War II.

Elizabeth Ender and Betty St. Clair wrote "WAVES of the Navy" in 1943. It was written to harmonize with "Anchors Aweigh".

        WAVES of the Navy

    WAVES of the Navy,

    There's a ship sailing down the bay

    And she won't slip into port again

    Until that Victory Day.

    Carry on for that gallant ship

    And for every hero brave

    Who will find ashore, his man-sized chore

    Was done by a Navy WAVE.

The Wiki actually has a decent page on the WAVES. In a past life I'm betting NightskyeB4Dawn was a WAVE.




Big Ooops!!!


https://twitter.com/NavyLookout/status/1...6842487289

HMS Chiddingfold (M37) is a Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel launched in 1983. HMS Bangor is a Sandown-class minehunter commissioned by the Royal Navy in 1999. She has a fibreglass hull, designed to minimise risk to magnetic mines, but not collisions with her sister Chiddingfold.