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RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Whoops - 12-18-2024

(12-18-2024, 03:59 PM)pdedse_imp Wrote: What do they serve at the Porcupine?

They do brunch on the weekends. My personal favs are their country fried steak with sausage gravy and eggs over easy. The breakfast burrito is a close second. Paired with a memosa, it’s one of our favorite places on the weekend. During the summer, since it sits right at the base of a canyon, we will often go for a drive up the canyon with the top off the Jeep. We have never had a bad experience there in 14 some odd years. I can’t really say that about any other restaurant.

https://porcupinepub.com/

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Gone in 60 - 01-05-2025

Hey guys, time for a new challenge! It's 2025!

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - the Ferret - 01-05-2025

For most of the country going to be tough to get a photo right now, unless you want a pic of their bike under a cover in the garage lol

Here's what it looks like outside my living room window right now and it's still coming down hard. Supposed to quit by 2 pm tomorrow afternoon.

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There were only 3 of us contributed last month. Gone and I have had the choices plenty of times. Let Whoops pick.

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Whoops - 01-07-2025

(01-05-2025, 05:55 AM)The ferret_imp Wrote: For most of the country going to be tough to get a photo right now, unless you want a pic of their bike under a cover in the garage lol

Here's what it looks like outside my living room window right now and it's still coming down hard. Supposed to quit by 2 pm tomorrow afternoon.

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There were only 3 of us contributed last month. Gone and I have had the choices plenty of times. Let Whoops pick.

Oh wow. Not expecting that. Honored just the same. Big Grin

How about a picture in front of a place you used to live or work. Must accompany a short recounting of a motorcycle memory from said era. If you live in the same home or haven't lived in a different house where you are now, then any building that reminds you of a place you used to live or work along with the same memory.

*It isn't necessary to post any identifiable addresses or company names or logo's if you are concerned about putting that out there.

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Cormanus - 01-07-2025

Good one, Whoops. A reminder that the rules for this thread and a list of previous challenges can be found [url=http://cb1100forum.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=14115&pid=235230#pid235230]here.

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Whoops - 01-07-2025

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I’ll go first.

This is the house I grew up in (photo edited to look like and old faded picture). I was 8 years old here when I got my first motorcycle, a Yamaha YZ100. My dad bought it for me after we went and watched the 1978 Widowmaker Hill Climb. It was a modified MX bike from a local racer who was a pretty accomplished competitor and would flip his bike every season.

I remember my father reconsidering giving it to me for my birthday after he took it for a spin and discussing other options with my mother. I won out in the end by telling them all my friends had a dirt bike and I would just be stuck home all summer while they went out riding. Tongue




RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Gone in 60 - 01-08-2025

Looking forward to this one once the winds die down. Just handed in the keys to my office building on 12/31 and the new owner was salivating to start demolition of the interior to turn the place into a car storage garage, so I'm curious as to how that's going. Also curious to visit my childhood home to see if the driveway my Step-Dad and I built is still there.

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Nachodaddy - 01-09-2025

I'll be glad when those fires are all out. It looks bad on the news right now, Gone.

RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Gone in 60 - 01-09-2025

Had my chores done early this morning, and it's my last free day before I start my new gig on Monday. The air was calm, so I set out to get some pictures for this month's challenge.

Up until I handed over my key nine days ago, this was my office and shop. Nothing's changed so far, but there was a contractor wandering into the building, and I know they plan to gut the interior of the place.


Not too far away is this building. I got head-hunted to work here in 2000 and had the top corner office. The company was RaceSearch, a dot-com-bubble startup and was supposed to be the first to offer race car parts for sale online, with direct shipment to home customers. It was also supposed to go IPO in a few months and make us all rich. But, the technology to make it work hadn't really gelled back then, and it crashed and burned within a year. The next day, I started at the company I just shut down.


Back in 1984, this Smart & Final store in Buena Park was a Thrifty Drug store, and was the first place I ever officially drew a paycheck from at 16 (not counting mowing lawns in the neighborhood since I was 12). I scooped ice cream, and Thrifty ice cream is now considered quite hip. A single scoop costs more than 35 cents these days, however.


You can't really just drive up to the entrance to Disneyland, get out and take a picture. But, here's the entrance to the main parking lot as shot from a bus stop across Harbor Blvd. Once I got booted from Thrifty (my high school work permit didn't allow me to work past 9:00pm, and the boss didn't like that I couldn't close the store at 10:00pm) I started at Disneyland and stayed through college. I was a cook, then the kitchen manager at the Blue Bayou restaurant. High school girls liked the guys who could get them into Disneyland for free, so it was a natural choice.


I also spent some time in college working as a mechanic at this Pep Boys store near home. It was neat to work on cars, but they had an incredibly unscrupulous practice of ripping off customers and I didn't stay long. As an example, the boss would squirt oil on certain things and convince the customers their cars were leaking and needed major repairs. The place got raided by the Consumer Affairs Department shortly after I left.

I was hoping to make it out to my childhood apartment building in Torrance, but the closer I got, the thicker the smoke from the L.A. fires got, and I turned around when my eyes started burning. Mom and I moved to Torrance when I was tiny. I still love the neighborhood and wouldn't mind living there.

In 1980, Mom, Step-Dad and I moved into this house in Buena Park. I remember the purchase price of this three bedroom, two bath with a large living room addition was $98,000, and was quite a stretch for the family. Originally, there was quite a bit of gingerbread trim on the eves and around the windows. In fact, the roof over the garage originally sloped downward to the lawn a lot more. So much more, in fact, that when I knew I was going to stay out past curfew, and that the folks would be easily awakened by my old Dodge rumbling up the driveway and me opening the front door, I had a trick. I'd keep my bedroom window, which faced the backyard open. I'd park a few houses away, and could actually hoist myself onto the low roof, sneak over to the back yard, and enter my bedroom window. Worked like a charm. Looks like the place got a new, more modern roof since then.

The brick and concrete driveway that my Step-Dad and I built is still there. We laid the bricks in rows as formers, and as time allowed and we were able to borrow a truck from a neighbor, we'd go get a trailer load of wet concrete and fill in one of the rows. Took about a month to finish.


This rather shabby Anaheim apartment complex was brand new when my best friend and I moved into it out of college - our first home away from the parents.. how proud we were! The Jack-in-the-Box is still on the corner, and I imagine the drive-thru loud speaker still keeps the apartment residents awake at night to this day.


RE: CB1100 Monthly Photo Challenge - Cormanus - 01-09-2025

Thanks for the tour, Gone.