Ferris Wheel Day

The first Ferris Wheel was the highlight of the1893 World's Fair. It was created by Pittsburgh, PA bridge builder, George W. Ferris. Supported by two 140 foot steel towers, its 45 foot axle was the largest single piece of forged steel in the world at the time. The wheel itself was 264 feet high. It had 36 wooden cars that could each hold 60 people. It cost 50 cents per ride - a high price in 1893.

Well you beat me while I was fooling around trying to find my gif....I guess Tom will get me anyway....LOL

UB

Hi Uncle Bob!

**It happens - we'll just have to hang out today and make sure we use both threads - then Tom can't gitcha for wasting a few bytes and pixels. LOL

Got a couple of boats on Small Wall and Charlotte popped in to visit!

TODAY'S TRIVIA:

1573 - 1st European, Francis Drake, sees the Pacific (from Panama)

1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opens

1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat

1858 - 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes, France

1878 - 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms

1922 - "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1

1941 - 1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo)

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS:

1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor (held 1200 patents)

1917 - Sidney Sheldon, novelist (Bloodline)
1922 - Leslie Nielsen, actor (Naked Gun)
1934 - Mary Quant, fashion designer (Mod Look)
1934 - Tina Louise, actress (Ginger-Gilligan's Island)
1936 - Burt Reynolds, actor (Evening Shade)
1964 - Sheryl Crow, vocalist (All I Want to Do-Grammy 1995)
1969 - Jennifer Aniston, actress (Rachel-Friends)

Whoa is me. I feel like jumping off a ferris wheel. PC froze at a critical moment in upload. Grrr.

TODAY'S TRIVIA:

1573 - 1st European, Francis Drake, sees the Pacific (from Panama)

1752 - Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opens

1809 - Robert Fulton patents the steamboat

1858 - 1st apparition of Mary to 14-year-old Bernadette of Lourdes, France

1878 - 1st US bicycle club, Boston Bicycle Club, forms

1922 - "April Showers" by Al Jolson hits #1

1941 - 1st Gold record presented (Glenn Miller-Chattanooga Choo Choo)

Caught a couple of lucky folks at the gate - woe is me - they're there, I'm here. Oh well. Somebody needs to watch the cams and post the pictures!



TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS:

1847 - Thomas Alva Edison, inventor (held 1200 patents)

1917 - Sidney Sheldon, novelist (Bloodline)
1922 - Leslie Nielsen, actor (Naked Gun)
1934 - Mary Quant, fashion designer (Mod Look)

1934 - Tina Louise, actress (Ginger-Gilligan's Island)

1936 - Burt Reynolds, actor (Evening Shade)
1964 - Sheryl Crow, vocalist (All I Want to Do-Grammy 1995)
1969 - Jennifer Aniston, actress (Rachel-Friends)

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OMG.....I had a file locking error!!! Wassup?

I'm leaving a hug here for Emma and Annie Today is also Terrible Tuesday......

Rusty and Uncle Bob! Today is Margarite's Hair Day. I get to go in for cut and color!! Takes a while, so I'll see you later1

Mr. Ferris was a graduate of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, NY. Amusing bit of trivia.

Jake, Linda, Faith and I all met at RPI.

mornin' rusty, ub and margarite! tina louise is older than burt reynolds? hooda thunk!

woke up and it's RAINING! it never rains in southern california....

getting ready for the work gig, capture some good ones here is one that will hold me over for the momento...

Hi all. Someone coming in head-on. Could almost be a squid, although with my monitor, it's hard to tell.

Another distant question mark. And some surface activity.

Maybe that was Pierre in the previous post. Meanwhile, waiting for the bus.

Hi Everyone....

Let us know how your hair turns out Margarite


Seems very quiet here today. Where are you all?

Hello Charlotte

Dan, my Dad always felt sorry for the cheerleaders at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute...

Gimme an *R*!

Rusty, there's a song that the RPI Glee Club sings that, throughout the song, continually spells out the name Rensselaer. The first time I saw them do it live, they started out with the first line, and when they got to where they spell out the first half -- "R-E-N-S-S" -- they all came out with different letters! They stopped, stared at each other, then shrugged and carried on with the second line. When they got to the end of the second line -- "E L A E R" -- they again came out with a jumble of different letters! By now we were all laughing hysterically. They huddled together, looking very concerned -- then one of them pointed up to the Rensselaer banner on the wall, whereupon they all brightened up and started up again. Start in on the first line, and when they get to the "R E N S S", they all break off from looking out at the audience and whip around to where the banner is and read off the letters from there. Same thing with the second line. It was a riot!

And we used to occasionally do a cheer at the hockey games, where one of the guys in our section would start out with "Gimme an *R*!", and go through and have us yell out every letter in Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. When he got to the final "What does it spell?" we'd all yell out "TUTE!"

We also occasionally referred to the place as Rensselpoly Institechnitute or Rensseltute Polyensselaer Institechnic.

I think this was part of why the place was always known as RPI -- engineers can't spell... I feel sorry for the current crop of students -- the place has stopped referring to itself as RPI and started insisting on Rensselaer...

Faith