Could have. But the area was working class urban central low-income housing and grubby industry. The locals might have owned chickens, but IMO it’s a good bet nobody there owned a cow or a horse. Even as late as 1915. Plenty of landed gentry out in the country did. But these folks weren’t those folks.
[Freight train carrying hot asphalt, molten sulfur plunges into Yellowstone River as bridge fails - guess locals were genuinely lucky there wasn’t a routine shipment of potassium nitrate fertilizer in the train?
Captain Kangaroo orders a lot of them.
As he died 19 years ago, isn’t likely to order many now.
Well, hell.
I’d forgotten about the ping pong ball deluge. Made me smile. Thank you.
The actor I know as Captain Kangaroo was gray and mature looking when I was 5. I’m almost 65. Of course he’s dead now. In other news, so is Ed Sullivan and Art Linkletter. Still. Just like Franco.
If nobody knew you were ancient before, they do now!
I got it instantly. (Hangs head in shame. Strains neck and goes back to bed.)
What, is Franco alive for youngsters?
