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(12-19-2022, 06:16 AM)GoldOxide_imp Wrote: (12-19-2022, 04:26 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: Parts of my town do some nice Christmas decorating. I made a quicky video:
[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD-07hl8Oiw&t=8s]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD-07hl8Oiw&t=8s
Nice flick Gone.
In the age of LED Christmases, punks have a harder time find light bulbs to unscrew and smash. This is good.
The soundtrack though - hard to hear the lil 'ol' lump putter during the journey.
Ha! Over a few miles an hour, it's mostly wind noise. The simple Windows video editor doesn't let me lower the volume on the audio, it just puts the chosen music over it.
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(12-19-2022, 04:40 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: You mean the fake snow we staple to our lawns?
Gone, this is even pre-junior kindergarten stuff....
..but geeez, in Canada, we spell snowflake, not fake
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(12-19-2022, 08:27 AM)Gone in 60_imp Wrote: 
I did a New Years Eve in southern California and I recall folks packing up holiday gear immediately after Christmas. Would have been nice to see anything, ... even fake.
These days I would be happy seeing riders enjoying their bikes during the holidays. Possibly even HD riders.
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We have snow in Southern California, but it only comes in paper cones and there's flavored syrup poured on it.
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Cool video. Makes me think it would be enjoyable to see more members video vaunts through some of the streets of their towns.
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GO, your comment about doing a New Year's Eve in Southern California reminded me of my first NYE in SoCal. I hitch-hiked from Edwards Air Force Base to Van Nuys to my girl-friend's house. I was 19 and she was 16 and her parents treated me like one of the family. It was 1959-60 and when I got there, we all went to a friend's house. The friend was a racing enthusiast who was friends with a drag-racer who was fairly well-known at the time, named Tommy Ivo. Our host and I were talking cars and he took me out back to show me his recent acquisition. In the alley was a car covered by a tarp. He pulled the tarp off to reveal a 1937 Cord 810 Convertible, my all-time favorite car. Sitting in an alley, covered by a tarp.
A very Southern California New Year's Eve.
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Wow, what a swell story Nach. I can imagine what you describe. Must have left quite the impression indeed.
If I recall well enough (thankfully I wasn't driving), I was up on Mulholland Drive past midnight and up to and behind the Hollywood sign to take in all that was Los Angeles. Seemed vast at night with the almost infinite city lights. Anyway, seemed like the thing to do while there.
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Ah yes, winter in Southern California. Beautiful indeed. Just this morning, I turned the hose on two undesirables exchanging stolen merchandise behind my warehouse and peeing on my dumpster.
Actually, it's not too bad. Nacho, that's a very cool story about Tommy Ivo. They've got his four-engined car at the Wally Parks museum in Pomona. Or at least they did last time I was there. Along the lines of your story, a few weekends ago, I was taking in the Christmas lights on Balboa Island here in Orange County. It was drizzling, and I saw something similar to your 810 Cord under a tarp - a '56 Lincoln Mk2 in primer, no hubcaps, with a surfboard on the roof.
