Odd Lots

[jeff_duntemann]

• I've posted a significant update of my Carl & Jerry page, with new material on John T. Frye, including the conclusion I've drawn (with help from 1910, 1920, and 1930 census records provided by Bob Ballantine W8SU) that Bailey Frye was not John Frye's brother. Bob also

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[daisy_knotwise]

"I'm in the Chicago area for a few days, and found on my arrival that the legendary Choo-Choo Restaurant in Des Plaines (just down the street and around the corner from our condo) is in danger of being razed to make room for a new police station. There's a Web site for gathering protest and forwarding it to the City of Des Plaines, which apparently can either raze the Choo-Choo or the defunct Masonic temple across the street. I don't quite understand why that's a hard decision."

Simple.
The Choo Choo is on the same block as the municiple complex while the temple is across the busy street.
There is a good deal of utility in havng it all in the same place.
I'm not saying I like the idea, but I understand why the town finds it preferable.

GHR

[jeff_duntemann]

I guess. But something like the Choo-Choo is a historical relic and probably won't come back if destroyed. Now, what would be very cool would be if the city built the station around the Choo-Choo, which is a smallish building at one edge of a fair bit of land. Odd, but I'm guessing there'd be enough space left for the police.

[madtechie2718]

Yes, the european robin is a much smaller bird - not much on it to eat and anyway, their song is far too attractive to want to kill them...

[jeff_duntemann]

Eating songbirds was once a commonplace in Europe, and there are areas where certain birds are still hunted for food. I read somewhere that French officials still arrest bunting poachers from time to time, and the late President Mitterand was supposed to have eaten one at his final meal.

It was the smallest songbirds that were eaten most often, because (at least as I heard back in college) cooking them softened the bones to the point where the plucked and gutted bird could be eaten whole.

Cheap Gas?

[madtechie2718]

Yes, recent falls (plus changes in dollar/pound exchange rate) means that I only (!) paid $5-35 per US gallon when I filled up at the weekend.

Fortunately, since I use my e-bike most of the time, that tankfull will likely last me until January, or more likely, end of February.

Take that, OPEC!

W9EGV in QST.

[n8ux]

Hi Jeff. Searching the QST indexes, I see that Mr. Frye wrote a letter to the "Correspondence From Members" section of QST in Aug 1940. He also won a monthly article contest for a story titled "The Most Interesting Band" in Jan '41.

The Phone-Band Phunnies consisted of 14 articles during 1947-48. There are a couple other miscellaneous correspondence pieces by him in 1948 and 1954.

I have .PDFs of all this if you want it.

72/73,
Rich, N8UX

[samwinolj]

Huh.

As a lapsed Lutheran, I can tell you that I never thought of Luther as "humble".

Logically correct, perhaps, if one assumes from the get go that a literal reading of (edited) Scripture trumps tradition and common sense, but humble?

Only if you weren't paying attention.