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    What are you listening to?

    Radio Free Amsterdam, with "Frantic" Ernie Durham. A recording of one hour of his show on WBBC, Flint Michigan from November 1958. Ernie was a prominent R&B DJ on this and WJLB in Detroit in the 50's and 60's. One story about Ernie is that he used to close out his show in Flint, jump in his car...
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    Vintage Telephone Ringtones

    The ring tone on my cell for my wife's number is "Caledonia" by Louis Jordan, how's that?
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    DETROIT CITY COUNCIL VOTES TO DEMOLISH M.C.S.!

    The last publicized plans were to renovate the depot and use it as Detroit Police Headquarters, replacing the building downtown at 1300 Beaubien. This was during the Kwame Kilpatrick administration. The city does not own the building or property, it's owner is the same person that owns the...
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    The one that got away.

    1946 Buick Roadmaster 4 dr. Two days before we were to pick it up, my wife was suddenly unemployed. And the day before that I just bought my new pickup truck. Fate I guess. But everything happens for a reason, so I've been told.
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    Caledonia, Caledonia, What Makes Your Big Head so HARD - The Swingingest!

    Vitanola, good to see another Antique Radio Forum member here. I prefer the Louis Jordan version, in fact that is the ring tone my cell announces my wife is calling.
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    What are you listening to?

    40's channel on XM, played through a SStran low power AM transmitter, being received by a Zenith H500 Trans-Oceanic (ca 1953) radio.
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    Zootshooting

    .45 cal ammunition has doubled in the last couple of years. I used to shoot a 1911A1 in a PPC league, it ran me about thirty bucks a night before the jump in prices. 50 rounds of the Remington green box or the Winchester White Box (both REAL cheap stuff is over twenty bucks today. So sixty bucks...
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    If I had to pick one girl from the golden era

    Did anyone mention Ann Sheridan?
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    favorite cars of the golden era

    '39 Buick. Loved that "waterfall" grille.
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    Where did your user name come from??

    Shovelhead comes from the nickname given to Harley Davidson big twin (74 & 80") motorcycle engines built from 1966 to 1984. I was known at the Harley dealership I worked at as the Shovelhead guy as everyone else rode newer bikes. I also own a newer one, a '02. But the nickname of that is less...
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    Guns and shooting advice?

    Also, check with some of the local gun clubs and ask if they offer the NRA sponsored Women On Target program. It is a one day shooting workshop for women to acquaint them with the sport. My club sponsors one of these in the summer, and I have acted as a instructor in the past. We have stations...
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    What Songs Have Your Name in Them?

    Hank Ballard and the Midnighters also recorded this, along with the sequel "Annie Had a Baby" which was promptly banned "back then". Anyhow, "Smokey Joe's Cafe" for me....

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