UFO's Fact or Fiction?

      I have seen enough evidence that UFO's do exist, maybe you do not think so and that is fine with me. The picture below was taken through a window at a US Coast Guard lab in Salem, Massachusetts during 1952.

      This picture below looks authentic to me. I cannot be sure, nor can I say it looks phony.



      This is an article on Wikipedia. US navy incident aircraft carrier Nimitz and cruiser Princeton.

      This is a video from 2004. A US navy video taken from the infrared gun camera of an FA-18 off the coast of California.

      There is the video on Netflix and one available on UTUBE Unacknowledged it is as convincing as anything I have seen or read to prove the existence of UFO's. The video has high ranking government officials and military men speaking about what they have seen and experienced in real time situations up to 2001.

Amazon Alexa Silver for seniors

      An old navy buddy sent this to me.

      This short video is a funny parody of the real Alexa. I laughed all the way through it. Any senior or anyone who deals with an aging person will get a kick out of it.

      Alexa Silver for Seniors

The first car I ever bought, loved and made money on it when I sold the car 200128

      Besides being fun to drive, the 1951 Henry J Kaiser was a car I still have fond memories of having it.

      My Henry J was bought in the spring of 1963. The car I had, a 1957 Mercury Turnpike Cruiser was beautiful, but was disappointing and unreliable. Dad and I did everything we could, even replacing the timing chain and radiator work, but it still overheated and the transmission would not shift properly, so when a man was in the gas station wanting to sell his Henry J because he had just bought a Chevrolet sedan. I asked him how much he wanted for it? He replied $50. That was just a few dollars more than I was making in a week. I bought it on the spot, without even seeing it.

      It was all white and looked like the picture above. There were still a lot of them around at the time, but they had been rebuilt with either big Oldsmobile or Chevy engines in them and were only used on the local drag strips. Mine was all original stock. When I would drive into the local hamburger places around town guys would rush over to ask what engine I had put under the hood. When I responded it was still all stock equipment, they would then just walk back to their cars, no longer interested. I had already met Joyce and we were dating when I bought the car. When she first saw it she asked what it was? I told her and she just shook her head and said it looked like a baby whale. I had already lost a girlfriend when she said she did not want to be seen in my Studebaker, but while Joyce didn't like the baby whale, she still went out with me in the whale. I did have to spend $1 on the car buying new brushes for the generator, but that was it. I installed them myself. I had the car all through the summer and when I joined the navy on a one month delayed enlistment my mother insisted I sell one of the cars. I was still working at the gas station when the man who sold me the Henry J came in and asked me if I would sell it back to him? He said his Chevy was barely running after those few months. I said I would sell it for $100 and he bought it back.

      There are many Kaiser cars available for sale on websites. The car originally sold for $1300. The cars now sell for as much as 30,000 or 23 times the cost for one off the showroom floor. I wish I still had mine to drive today. It would still be original and I would love to drive it around now.

Music then and now 200124

      I must admit that I am not a music critic or a student of music. I just know what I like and that's what is here in this post. I include some history here as I understand it.

      Most people alive today do not remember the 1950's, but I do. One things that strikes me is the origin of rock and roll music. It did not just appear out of thin air. Quite the contrary, it had it's beginning with country music. The fifties, unlike the forties with big bands and wonderful singers, the fifties arrived with slow melodies and singers to match.

      In the early fifties, along came what was termed rock-a-billy. It was a mixture of country music with rhythm and blues. Rock-a-billy rapidly became popular, perhaps because the regular radio tunes, while okay, could put people to sleep. Without rock-a-billy there may not have been rock and roll, who knows?

      Long about 1957, a young man from Tupelo, Mississippi by the name of Elvis Presley arrived on the national scene. His music later took the world by storm and that music was to me the beginning of classic rock and roll. Rock and roll became a giant in the industry. This below is, in my mind, the man who made it happen, Elvis.



Rock held sway until the late seventies and early eighties when the heavy metal music became so popular. Hip-hop music began in the Bronx, New York in the seventies, but I never heard much about it until much later, so I am not sure when its popularity spread and spread it did. Hip hop may be on top; I do not know one way or another.

      This man in the picture below is/was Sam Cooke. He had some of the best and biggest hits in the sixties. I still listen to to his songs today. He was called the godfather of soul and listening to him, I agree.



      I have many country singers that I think are great, so that makes it difficult to decide on my absolute favorite. My choice goes to Alan Jackson, based on the fact I have more of his music than any other. His picture is below.



      There are countless hip hop artists and I must admit I do not have expertise here, so I will go with the one I like more than the many, perhaps more popular artists. His name is Bruno Mars and like his music. His picture is below.



      Joyce and I listen to all kinds of music, but my favorite is country music. It has changed a lot since the fifties and for the better I believe. I realize I am in the minority with that opinion; but I've been there before, in fact most of the time.

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2026 and beyond.

The Bay and beyond 200123

      Joyce and I both have fond memories of San Diego during our navy time there. Below is a recent picture of the bay, a lot different than when we were there. The lower part is the San Diego side of the bay and the upper part is North Island where I was stationed.



      On the right side of the picture you can see where the bay opens into the Pacific Ocean. All ship traffic passes through there. My memory goes to being right there sitting on the "round down" at the back of the flight deck of the Kitty Hawk, watching San Diego until it disappeared over the horizon and thinking about how long it was going to be before I saw Joyce again. It's a fond memory now of a sad time.

      There is a song we both love titled: "Sitting on the dock of the bay." I have it on several of my music playlists. Whenever it comes on we both think of San Diego. Me remembering working on North Island and Joyce remembering her sitting on the dock of the bay waiting for me to get off work and cross the bay on the old "Nickel Snatcher" boats. She would sit there listening to the WolfMan Jack show on the radio.

      Our last 10 years in California Joyce and I both had good jobs, made more money than any other time in our lives and got to have what Joyce still describes as her "WOW" home. It wasn't just the jobs, we had a wonderful time there, had some great friends. We are still in contact with many of them. The engineering meetings after work were okay, but the parties afterward were wonderful! Kevin, Gary, Jeff and I had some legendary times at those parties. Working in the product engineering department was interesting, developing and bringing the company's new products to life was a sense of pride in our work. Our engineering lab was shared with the memory chip development lab and there I met and worked with Steve, one of the most laid-back yet sober guys around. We are still in contact too.

      My work in engineering was under the supervision of an engineer named Ted, a very smart engineer and we are still in contact. I should also mention Roy, a supervisor in the data processing department. He helped me get into computer maintenance and was another good guy to work with. We are still in contact. It is a wonderful thing to still be friends and in contact with those mentioned above 33 years after I left the company. There are no more people that I can say that about. I will say that with friends from my Litton days, we are still are still in contact after 13 years and I am happy about that.

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2026 and beyond.

Jeep and other terms 200122

      We Americans have a habit of shortening terms such as Federal Bureau of Investigation to FBI and the main topic of this post, the General Purpose Vehicle being shortened to Jeep.

      The Willys Overland company made the first Jeeps. The government realized that there was war on the horizon in 1940 and they put out a contract for a light reconnaissance vehicle to 135 automobile companies. The contract listed a limit of 1/4 ton in weight and it be tailored to army specifications. Only 3 companies responded, Bantam, Willys and Ford. It had to be a 4x4 vehicle. Willys made their prototype called the "Quad" for the 4x4 capability. There were only 2 made. That developed to the MA model that had a column shift. They won the contract and the majority of them were shipped to the UK and to Russia. There are only 30 known left of the MA out of thousands that were made. Modifications were made in 1941 in the form labeled the MB. The army dubbed the MB as "General Purpose Vehicle" the soldiers shortened it to Jeep and there you have it. Later the modern company we call Jeep today started as a humble reconnaissance vehicle and now produces some fancy vehicles in the form of the "Grand Cherokee" and others. I wish I had one of the originals when I was on the farm.

      Here's a term, "GI" and it was frequently used in the army years ago. Its origin was a reference to galvanized iron used in the military, but the colloquial use came to be general issue or more frequently ground infantry. During world war 2 GI was just used to describe the guys in the army.

      Conscripts into the Japanese army during WW-2 were derisively called Yuben Kitte. The term refers to "Postage stamp". Regular army used the term because they felt a conscript's value was basically the cost of the stamp used to bring them into the army. I think about that and wonder how any people could think that way.

      The term "Pawn" is defined as the lowest value chess piece because it can only move one space at a time. A second definition is: a person used by others for their own purposes. I sometimes think the military/industrial complex views our soldiers and airmen as pawns in wars in order to gain their profits that would be nil without the constant wars we have been involved in since the fifties. In President Eisenhower's final address to the nation he included the words "beware the military/industrial complex." I now see what he meant.

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2026 and beyond.

Top Brands that no longer exist 200121

      Burma Shave, back in the fifties on the old 2 lane highways there would be sign posts with humorous poems on them, leading up to the final post that said Burma Shave. I remember them on the old highway 66 going to California with my grandpa on a visit to people he knew out there.



      Another was Ipana toothpaste. Their commercial was Bucky Beaver singing "brush a brush a with the new Ipana with the brand new flavor, it's dandy for your teeth."

      Another brand gone was Brylcreem, here is the Brylcreem commercial from the fifties It was a hair cream that made your hair oily, supposedly to make the girls love to run their fingers through your hair.



      As far as I know Sally So Good was the first potato chip company but now they are gone and the old cans they came in are now traded on EBAY. The company was apparently taken over by Frito-Lay. As in many cases, good brands start out well, only to be devoured by larger companies, the result of which does not often turn out well.

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2026 and beyond.

Changing Life Experiences

      Everyone has life-changing experiences, these are a few of mine.

      My first big life changing event was joining the navy. I wanted to learn electronics and see the world on uncle Sam's dime. I didn't realize how many other things I would be doing, not all of them fun. I did see almost half of the world, maybe not the pretty side, but then I will never know at this point. I can't complain though; I was satisfied with what I did see.



      Shortly after joining the navy the biggest life changer of all came in a most delightful package. Joyce and I were married just 4 months into my navy enlistment. We had a wonderful first year; we had nothing but each other and that was all we needed.



      3 1/2 years later along came our daughter and what a change that was in our lives. Having a child turns things upside down, but in a good way; we had a whole new life form to take care of instead of just a free and easy lifestyle, but it was worth the change.



      The fourth real life changer I classify as the 3 times we got to live in California. The navy put us there 2 of those times and we chose to go back there the 3rd time. We were there during the good times, before what I have heard it is today. I do not want to demean the state, more to speak of the wonderful times we had there in past years. There are a lot of people living there and as far as I know they are not running for the exits.



      The 5th life changer was moving to the farm. We spent 27 years there. Living in a small rural area requires a learning curve. Work was 23 miles each way, near 30 for Joyce. Anytime we needed more than basic items it was 25 miles each way to big stores. Anyone who was not born there or at least went through the school system there was forever an outsider, after all our years there it still didn't make a difference. The picture above is an aerial view of the farm. To give you a little perspective of its size, look at the barn halfway down and just to the left of it there is a tiny white dot. That dot is me standing in part of our garden.

      We got too old to keep the farm properly and moved to an apartment in a real town, causing another changing life experience. Old age, retirement and living in a nice more comfortable place was not as tough as other life changes, but it sure has been different.

      One common thread through all of our life changing experiences is broadening our horizons. I cannot begin to imagine how many people we have met. We have met people from around the world, we've dined with them, partied with them, learned about so many different cultures. There is a Mark Twain quote that sums up our philosophy. It goes like this: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness."

      

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2026 and beyond.

Circular Beads 200119

      I am of Irish descent and like the Irish, superstitious. I see signs in everything, signs that direct decisions for the day and some for the future.

      My grandpa was a devout Catholic, knelled down every night to say his prayers and went to services. I was raised Catholic; I don't think I left the church as much as it left me. That's water under the bridge at this point. I am still a religious man. I follow the teachings of Jesus in my life and those of the Buddha who taught the same basic teachings as Jesus, just 500 years earlier. I still say my prayers to Jesus every night, though not on my knees. I do not pray to Buddha because he said he was not a god, but merely pointed the way.

      I joined the navy and the night before I left grandpa gave me a small plastic beaded rosary. I carried that rosary with me everywhere I went in the navy. It was mainly that Irish thing with superstition. I never went to church in the navy but I always carried that rosary on my person. When grandpa died and mom went through his meager belongings, she found his rosary and then gave it to me and it is my most prized possession. I have it in sight every day and one thing I immediately noticed was how many times the metal loops between the beads had been repaired and at some point one or more of the beads were lost I suppose during one of its many breakages. I cannot imagine how many times he prayed on that rosary. I feel a sense of him every time I touch the rosary.

      In recent times I have noticed many religions have some similar type of beaded circles. There must be something about that; I'm not sure exactly what that might be. Perhaps it is to remind us of the circle of life and better yet to indicate to us that our souls never die, only bodies die and decay, but never souls.

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2019 and beyond.

The Big Secret 200118

      I watched a movie back in 1991 titled "City Slickers."

      The movie had Billy Crystal and Jack Palance. I enjoyed the movie immensely. There was one scene when Crystal and Palance are riding along a trail out west. Crystal was having trouble with his marriage and life. He knew Palance was a happy man, so he asked him what was the secret of life? Palance raised one finger. Crystal asked the secret of life is one finger? Palance replied "one thing." That scene puzzled me for decades now. What does one thing mean?

      I kept thinking about that all through the years, more so as the years went on, until this morning. I had become like so many people these days, multi-tasking and dealing with what is called monkey mind. Monkey mind is when a person's brain has a constant track of things running through one's head like a movie reel, making it difficult to concentrate on one thing at a time. I had trouble getting to sleep at night because my brain was going like a runaway train. I could't meditate properly and was making a lot of mistakes in daily life because my mind was always one or two steps ahead of what I was trying to do, so I was making those simple mistakes.

      Today it suddenly made sense to me. The answer is to live in the moment. The past is gone, the future is uncertain and perhaps non-existent. Think about the one thing you are doing and then your life begins to change. Maybe some of you already know this, but for those who are yet to realize this simple thing, I hope it may change your life for the better.

      

      

      

      

      

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2026 and beyond.

A Life 200117

      The picture below sums up a great point.

      I spent all of my life seeking the approval of others, first parents, then friends, teachers, bosses and now even on Facebook. I have told others through the years that you cannot please everyone, so you have to please yourself. At this point I suppose I might have to follow my own advice. For the first time, I realize how difficult that is for me to do.

      One thing I have learned from an old sailor I had training classes with decades ago is to listen to people, yet another thing I knew, but failed to practice for years. That is never easy for a man to do. It is unnatural for a man to just listen. Most women do it naturally. Those that don't are usually very unpopular. A majority of women will listen to a man as he complains about sports, work, people he works with and the woman he is living with at the time. Men usually start offering solutions before a woman is finished with what she wants to say.

      One thing I learned quite by accident is this: it is easier to learn what people think just by listening to them rather than questioning them. It seems to me that people like to talk, but don't like to answer questions. It is true that you learn by listening, not by talking.

      Joyce has told me that when she worked as a customer service representative that the best thing to do when someone calls with a complaint is to listen to the customer, let him/her say what they want (that takes the wind out of their sails) and then offer what can be done to take care of the problem. Joyce is a wise woman. I didn't just marry her for her looks, although her looks did not detract from her character.

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2026 and beyond.

Way back in a special time, long ago and far away. 200114

      This post will perhaps be more appreciated by those of us who worked many years together at Litton. The maintenance man stories were popular during the days of his fantastic adventures,

      Perhaps it all started when his first came was made by grandma Mickey. That cape seemed to give maintenance man some awesome powers, the cape and grandma's sending delicious pork products such as grilled bacon and barbecue shredded pork.



      Of course every hero has a sidekick or an apprentice. This picture has maintenance man and his apprentice up on the roof.



      Maintenance man gained his powers and was a big help to the then current president.



      There came a time when maintenance man had to accomplish his superhuman good deeds not only in the daytime, but at night. A lot of bad guys sleep in daytime and do their misdeeds at night. His flashing blue cape was a detriment after dark, so maintenance man needed a stealth cape. Grandma Mickey got the call and went to work immediately, knowing the danger a flashy cape could put maintenance man into during night operations. She hand made his black cape as quickly as she could.



      Grandma's cape arrived in time for maintenance man to assist another president in his time of need. You may recognize him in the picture below.



      Of course maintenance man, being the man he is, decided to thank grandma in person at a local dining establishment. He was a huge hit with grandma; she fell in love for the second time in her life when she met Maintenance Man. The staff at the restaurant were also enthralled with the caped crusader.



      The picture below is maintenance man on patrol in halls of Litton.



      This shot is maintenance man with the editor of his adventure tales.



      The picture below was from one of maintenance man's most dangerous operations when his apprentice was captured and disappeared for a period of time. Those many days were filled with apprehension from everyone at the factory, wondering if they would ever see the apprentice's smiling face again. Prayers and vigils were held in the hopes the apprentice would be saved and unharmed.



      Times change and things happen beyond even the awesome powers of our hero maintenance man. The factory went into total shutdown and our hero ended up with no more factory and people to protect. He fell upon hard times for a bit.



      Of course all good stories come to a good ending and maintenance man bounced back and has had a wonderful life as did his apprentice. They are both loving grandpa's at this point.



      One final thing here; one very special Christmas, maintenance man presented his bard with a one of a kind desktop statue of him in his stealth cape. This bard misplaced the statue during his monster downsizing move some 4 years ago, but just this weekend his daughter found it with the tons of things she took with her during the bard's big downsizing. The statue once again has its place prominently upon the bard's writing desk. I can only hope that you the reader enjoyed this pictorial as much as the bard did creating it.

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2026 and beyond.

Top Gun, the movie 200113

      I watched the movie "Top Gun" again a day ago.

The pictures below are of Ocean boulevard on Coronado, one of the scenes like what was shown in the movie.

      There were a lot of scenes in the movie that reminded me of my days in San Diego and working aboard an aircraft carrier at sea.

      One scene has Tom Cruise riding a motorcycle along the shoreline leading up to the old Broadway pier. I remember driving along the route and seeing the fishing boats there. It was a beautiful area. I used to catch the old nickel snatchers (small boats) from the foot of Broadway across the bay to north island to go to work. On days when Joyce needed the car she said she remembered sitting there listening to Wolf Man Jack on the radio as she waited for me to cross the bay after work.

      Another scene Cruise was riding along Ocean Boulevard on Coronado California. We used to go there and and walk on the beach in the evenings. We fished there and sometimes just sat on the rocks and soaked up the sun and salt air. The homes on Ocean blvd. were old, but were a sight to see. I found some google street views this morning and it looks like those old homes are gone now, replaced with newer, more modern homes. No matter though, because I still think that Ocean blvd. is still the nicest oceanfront property possibly in the world.

      Another scene was shot in the old San Diego airport that has many memories for me. One thing that always amazed me was when landing in San Diego in an airliner the descent to the airport is fast and very low. I could look out the window and see that we were flying below the hills and buildings there. It was like I could reach outside the window and scrape along a big hotel.

      Now for the mistakes in the film. Joyce said that no one would realize them unless they had worked on a navy flight deck and she is correct, but they just annoyed me to no end. The first was when Cruise was in Top Gun school the F-14 pilots were told they would be flying against the A-4 aircraft and that the A-4 was more maneuverable and faster than the F-14. Maneuverable, yes, but the A-4 is a subsonic aircraft while the F-14 can fly at 3 times faster than the A-4. Another scene, Tom Cruise racing his motorcycle down the tarmac as a jet lands on the runway beside it, not going to happen. Lastly the biggest mistake of all comes at the climax of the movie when the enemy jets are heading toward the USS Enterprise and the two combat air jets from the Enterprise run into six enemy planes instead of the 2 that were thought to be there. Tom Cruise is sitting on the flight deck catapult as the ready backup for the combat air patrol. Cruise is sitting on the catapult burning fuel while waiting to hear the reports of the air combat. The backup combat air patrol jets would never just be sitting burning their precious jet fuel. A jet burns a tremendous amount of fuel at sea level. The way it would have happened is this: the backup plane would have the pilot in the plane which would be hooked up to the catapult and a huffer (a small tractor with a small jet engine) would fire up its power to start the jet and as soon as the jet started, the pilot would give the okay and the shooter would signal the cat operator to push the button and launch the plane.

      To demonstrate my point, during Vietnam when the big air strikes were happening all the jets would be started as soon as possible and those at the back of the line would burn so much fuel waiting in line and launching that they would have to rendezvous with an air tanker to top off their fuel so they would have enough before going in country to their targets. Without air tankers, a lot of missions could not be done. On the Kitty Hawk a day out of Japan the Soviet bombers would fly over to check us out. We always had the ready combat patrol jets sitting on the catapults waiting. The huffers were beside them and the pilots and radar officers were sitting in the plane waiting. When the bombers showed up on radar, the huffers would start the combat jets and they would launch to greet the incoming bombers. The 3rd backup jet was also at the ready.

      Joyce thinks I am nitpicking, perhaps so. A movie is entertainment, not a documentary. I know I will watch the movie again, no matter what its inconsistencies are.

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2026 and beyond.

56 Years ago a wonderful thing happened 200111

       That wonderful thing was Joyce marrying me. Below is a timeline of Joyce pictures that I could not resist showing.

      This is Joyce's father holding her.



      Joyce is on the right side of this picture.





Joyce before I met her.



Joyce about a month after I met her.



Joyce after we were married.



Joyce pregnant with our daughter.





Joyce at the San Diego airport in the eighties.



Joyce holding Rosalie, her great, great niece last summer.

      Today is a day I celebrate with gusto, for today I have been married to the most wonderful, most beautiful woman I have ever met for 56 years. There's never been another one like her in my lifetime. She has been with me at my side through thick and thin and always supported me with all my crazy ideas and plans. She is kind to everyone and never thinks of herself first.

      I can't imagine how my life would have been without her, nor do I want to do so. I cannot remember how many times someone had told me that I married way up above my level. I know that is a true statement, so it does not bother me to hear that.

      I was thinking a day ago about Joyce's father's ship being sunk on Christmas day during a battle in the south pacific in 1943. Only 108 men survived out of 300. It was terrible to think about. Later I realized had his ship not been sunk and he surviving, he would not have been sent back to the U.S. and had duty doing transits of LST ships from Ohio down the Mississippi river to New Orleans. Those LSTs stopped overnight in our home town. He had liberty on those stops and he met Joyce's mother there. Had that ship not sunk, there would be no Joyce and I cannot imagine where I would be today or who I may have been married to, though a few undesirables do come to mind.

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2026 and beyond.

Technology 200110

      We have come a long way in a short time frame.

      This picture immediately below is a main frame computer system from the sixties.



      All that room full of computing main frames, magnetic tape drives, and printers can now be done with one of these two devices shown below. I find that amazing.

      I remember dial-up internet when it took an unbearably long time to see anything on the computer screen. Speed then was a few thousand bits a second. Then came 2-G where one could get a 1-2 hundred thousand bits per second. Then 3-G with 1-2 million bits per second. Now we have 4-G with anywhere from 10 million to 1000 million bits per second downloads. Now 5-G has promised a minimum of 50 million up to 2000 million bits per second downloads.

      I am not sure, but I think we will also need newer, faster laptops and phones to make use of those download speeds. One downside of all this is despite what download speeds your internet is capable of delivering, the website you may be accessing can still be slow due to old server equipment or heavy traffic on that site. That is something we need to be aware of to avoid disappointment.

      I wish you happy gaming, researching and computing in your future.

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2019 and beyond.

The Great Depression 200109

      The depression was a horrible thing in our history. If you think it could never happen again, look to the end of this post and read the screenshot there. Most of everything that caused the great depression back then is up and running in our government this very day.

      One would have to be nearly as old as I am to to have parents and grandparents that lived through the great depression. The depression lasted from 1929 to 1937, but many historians agree it lasted until the outbreak of world war two. Families lost the bread winner because there were no jobs. Once the soles of their shoes wore out they were replaced with cardboard. There were soup kitchens all over the country to feed people. The banks closed and people lost their entire life savings. Families survived by borrowing against the equity of their life insurance policies. Once wealthy men were so despondent they jumped out of high rise buildings to their death. Factory workers, office workers, laborers were all out of work and they filled the soup kitchens. Families across the nation lost their homes or were evicted from rental properties, that led to the creation of the so called Hoovervilles named after the then president Hoover in office at the beginning of the depression. Hoovervilles were cardboard or shanties built from scrap lumber and scrap sheet metals. They were usually down by rivers so people had a place to get water and have an occasional bath.

      The depression shaped people's lives back then and some of their thinking has come through to Joyce and my thinking. We know what happened and it is always on our mind that it could happen again. If it wasn't for swift government action in 2008 we would have had a world-wide depression. The U.S. could have another depression in short order and that could trigger a world-wide depression.

      There were multiple causes that brought about the 1929 depression. Here are some of them:



      There is greater detail on this link.

Copyright Bill Weber 2006-2026 and beyond.