A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The last time I was in my hometown, Bellaire, Ohio, I got off of the four lane highway to drive through the town that I enjoyed as I was growing up.
Oh my. What a mistake. ...the Rust Belt ....
For various reasons I can't make a trip back to that area. I think I would like to visit it again but am afraid of what I will find.....

What you would find would not be what you remember, and certainly not what you might be looking for. It's all gone...

Yet, much of the PA that I grew up with and visit, and still have property in has changed very little.......ok, there's a working red light at the intersection of 30 & 75, and building permits are required................I suspect that much of the reason behind the decline in your areas is due to the departure of people to better pastures.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

The last time I was in my hometown, Bellaire, Ohio, I got off of the four lane highway to drive through the town that I enjoyed as I was growing up.
Oh my. What a mistake. ...the Rust Belt ....
For various reasons I can't make a trip back to that area. I think I would like to visit it again but am afraid of what I will find.....

What you would find would not be what you remember, and certainly not what you might be looking for. It's all gone...

Yet, much of the PA that I grew up with and visit, and still have property in has changed very little.......ok, there's a working red light at the intersection of 30 & 75, and building permits are required................I suspect that much of the reason behind the decline in your areas is due to the departure of people to better pastures.

The decline in my childhood 1950's - 1960's area in western PA was due to the exodus of the entire steel industry and the resulting emptiness left behind.

I am very glad to hear your part of the state is so nice, Rufus.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

What you would find would not be what you remember, and certainly not what you might be looking for. It's all gone...

Yet, much of the PA that I grew up with and visit, and still have property in has changed very little.......ok, there's a working red light at the intersection of 30 & 75, and building permits are required................I suspect that much of the reason behind the decline in your areas is due to the departure of people to better pastures.

The decline in my childhood 1950's - 1960's area in western PA was due to the exodus of the entire steel industry and the resulting emptiness left behind.

Exodus is the right word. An unfortunate failing.

I am very glad to hear your part of the state is so nice, Rufus.

Much of the state is very nice still. Come by and sit a while.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Soon.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Soon.

We'll keep the light on for you.................and the bear.

[rogruth]

Ohio and Pennsylvania are similar. The manufacturing areas are kaput and the rural type areas are thriving.
My wifes hometow in eastern Kentucky, Morehead, has gone from @3.000 t0 @15,000 in the same time period.
The Rust Belt is just that but Kentucky is still the home of beautiful horses and fast women.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[sleepmac]

Rufus, that photo says a lot! Hope to see you at Strasburg next week.

Dan Weinhold
Lancaster, PA.

[rogruth]

I like the blanket over the radiator. The horse in the background is the transportation that will be able to go.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I like the blanket over the radiator. The horse in the background is the transportation that will be able to go.

The blanket belongs on the horse (!) I should have thought the horse would have come with its own blankey - don't tell me some smartass took it off the horse to use on the car !? We'll never know, but of course the irony is we know now that a measly blanket would have done little to keep the radiator warm enough not to freeze out in weather like that. Don't horses get shivery cold out in that kind of weather and conditions? Yet, that one seems so calm, but of course, it is a still-photo, not a video .

(P.S. I have the vague sense that this posting by me accomplished nothing and should not be existing.) I could have accomplished the same point by simply saying, "Blah blah blah." Time to go scratch around in the dubious yard a bit.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus, that photo says a lot! Hope to see you at Strasburg next week.

Dan Weinhold
Lancaster, PA.

I'll be there.

[rogruth]

Murph,
I remember radiators being covered with blankets at night in the winter so they would start easier, I was told.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Murph,
I remember radiators being covered with blankets at night in the winter so they would start easier, I was told.

Wow, That is news to me - never witnessed that. Interesting.
The car seen here at the time of my Christening is about as far back as I go with cars. I don't think it needed a blanket, and I have no recollection of any subsequent cars needing or having one thrown over their hoods.

Very interesting difference between us in that regard, Roger.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Murph,
I remember radiators being covered with blankets at night in the winter so they would start easier, I was told.

Wow, That is news to me - never witnessed that. Interesting.

Going back a long ways on that, back to pre-antifreeze and back when blocks and radiators would crack

[rogruth]

Murph,
Some earlier vehicles had the radiator exposed and not under the hood.
Sometimes an under-hood radiator would be cover with something to deflect
cold winter air so the radiator would warm quicker. I still see this idea on
some large trucks.

Rufus,
Look at that car in the photo. The quality of anti freeze may not
have been what we have today. I did not have a car until 1956 but I have
never had a frozen radiator. I did live in the north until 1975 before Georgia.