On 5/7/2010 9:33 AM, Clive wrote:

Not me.
Only time I ever went was once in the 80s. It was an immense
disappointment and
way over-rated. The local fests are far better for many reasons. It's
amazingly become
a religion with some guys but I think they really just want to get away
from home for
a day or so. Neat hamfest? No. Fat men and masculine women wearing
stupid callsign
baseball caps and computer crap? Yes.

Clive, it's "fat-unwashed-men", and scary women. I know where your
coming from. I always have fair luck at the bigger fest. but, i'm
a collector, so it's a bit different for me. the local fest means
a bag full of small parts, and a few less orders from mouser. also
a good BS session with some old friends, and bad coffee.

Drifter...

A couple of years ago when David Hartman was doing some stormy weather
news updates an WAPT tv news, one of the weather map thingys he showed
on tv is a community in Mississippi by the name of Dayton.
So,,, Dayton is in Mississippi.There is a Dayton/Dayton Bluffs suburb
city of Minneapolis/Saint Paul area too.When did they get electricity?
cuhulin

On May 8, 7:22*am, wrote:
A couple of years ago when David Hartman was doing some stormy weather
news updates an WAPT tv news, one of the weather map thingys he showed
on tv is a community in Mississippi by the name of Dayton.
So,,, Dayton is in Mississippi.There is a Dayton/Dayton Bluffs suburb
city of Minneapolis/Saint Paul area too.When did they get electricity?
cuhulin

There's a Dayton, NV, too - an important town long ago in the Comstock
Lode days, the V&T Railroad hauled lots of silver from mines near
Dayton. Nowadays it's just a little place outside Carson City, with a
neat set of stamp mill ruins and a fascinating cemetery full of dead
miners from 120 years ago.

Bruce Jensen

Those old Ruins in Nevada and elsewhere around America,,, I would just
Luvvvvvv to get out there and looksee at that old stuff, Indeed! I would
also just Luvvvvvv to see those old Wagon wheels imprints/ruts in Oregon
and wherever else from many, many years ago.I remember when I lived in
Bozeman,Montana in 1956, my dad and I stopped an a restaurant place out
in the sticks somewhere, there was an old Stagecoach strongbox sitting
out front on the ground for the tourist to check out.

Yeahhh, Dayton,Ohio.Some of my old power tools have Dayton electric
motors on them.People in Indiana used to call it (Ohio) O H 10. (Oh Ache
Ten)
cuhulin

On May 8, 3:17*pm, wrote:
Those old Ruins in Nevada and elsewhere around America,,, I would just
Luvvvvvv to get out there and looksee at that old stuff, Indeed! I would
also just Luvvvvvv to see those old Wagon wheels imprints/ruts in Oregon
and wherever else from many, many years ago.I remember when I lived in
Bozeman,Montana in 1956, my dad and I stopped an a restaurant place out
in the sticks somewhere, there was an old Stagecoach strongbox sitting
out front on the ground for the tourist to check out.

Yeahhh, Dayton,Ohio.Some of my old power tools have Dayton electric
motors on them.People in Indiana used to call it (Ohio) O H 10. (Oh Ache
Ten)
cuhulin

You'd love Nevady, it's got ghost towns by the score. A knockout
little RR museum too, with the most gorgeous operating train engines
from 130 years ago...

Some pix...

http://www.panoramio.com/user/1314131/tags/NSRM

Bruce Jensen

http://www.devilfinder.com
Panaramio Mississippi

One time about eight something years ago, I emailed that Panaramio
guy.He sent me back a nice email reply.If I remember, I think he said,,,
Thanks.
cuhulin

Anderson,South Carolina was the first City in the South to have
continous electricity.
http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=10693

Howsoever, before that and before any Cities up North had continous
electricity, electricity was only available for two or three hours in
the evenings.
The old electricity power plant in Buffalo,New York was restored years
ago for the tourist people to look at.

I don't know when Mississippi first had electricity.The big old house
where I was born in Carthage was built by my grandfather and his brother
back in the early 1900s.That house was the first house in Carthage to
have electricity, we had indoor plumbing too.I remember the old style
twisted insulated wires and the white porcelain insulators.Back in the
1970's, I disconnected the double row push button light switch that was
in the hallway by the front door.(nobody was living there anymore) I
brought that old light switch home with me, I still have that old light
switch right here.
cuhulin

And Dayton-a Beach and Dayton-a Beach and Dayton-a Beach
Shores.(Daytona,Florida) I have been there a few times before.
cuhulin