ok not what you said! you did say HMS
Pixelmaster wrote:
The iconic smoke stacks of the HMS Queen Mary. Located in
Long Beach, California.
Very good job on the pictures... Was there a number of years ago with the wife.. We are both Amateur radio operators and were invited to a private tour of the radio room and asked if we wished to operate the station... :thumbup:
Evie
Loc: Sacramento
I miss being able to go to Long Beach
Thanks for the corrections. I usually do not post so early in the morning but saturday was a busy day and my usual checking was not done after the coffee.
Those were the days when ocean liners really looked like ocean liners.
Today, they are floating box hotels.
Many of the social graces have been exchanged for the down and dirty way of living. We had a friends who were having a yard sale and we talked about how the current generation does not set a table or even care what they eat off of.
Their idea is to sit in front of the TV with their baseball hat on backwards, a plate of some Mexican food while they watch a football game. When the family use to sit together around the table they got to be a family. Sometimes they even learned a few things that they still carry with them today. As for the change in ship design the architecture reflects profit by pandering to pleasure.
Pixelmaster wrote:
Many of the social graces have been exchanged for the down and dirty way of living. We had a friends who were having a yard sale and we talked about how the current generation does not set a table or even care what they eat off of.
Their idea is to sit in front of the TV with their baseball hat on backwards, a plate of some Mexican food while they watch a football game. When the family use to sit together around the table they got to be a family. Sometimes they even learned a few things that they still carry with them today. As for the change in ship design the architecture reflects profit by pandering to pleasure.
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Good points. Not all that is new is good.
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