random stuff

Instead of digging through the old photos and files, some of which might be on disks I don't have a drive for currently, I though I would pull some off the photo bucket and just slide here.

Old receipts

So, Forgotten Figures  made mention of missing Alley Viper figures in the 1997 Rage packages and that made me think about how I ended up getting a second of these Rages at a discount.  Going off memory I think it was $6.90.    Was I right? 

Anyway, after a little digging, I found the receipts from purchases.  There's no telling when these are going to just fade away from age or if everything will get destroyed and lost in a tornado or something. 

I tossed these on the scanner.   I made notes on some of these receipts maybe at the time of purchase or maybe even later when I was sorting and organizing at a later date.

Another local side project or interest area that I've kind of spent more time on is based largely on history.   I considered myself "okay" on local history and current local issues but the more I started to learn, well, I really didn't know a lot.   So, I started asking, and what better way to get the best answer than to ask the people who were there.

That's when I got two relatively different answers from two different sources that lived 2 blocks away from each other during the same time.  I had to investigate and a lot of the information was already out there.   Even the "historical" marker with dates is very misleading on the local "lake."

Putting it all together in a timeline and setting against a larger contextual background (such as, what was popular in a certain decade, or what was available for resources) has led me to take on a completely different view of the little lake bay that is just down the road from the HQ.

The interesting part to me is knowing the lake portion of the history of this city and then meeting people in person or in online history groups who will swear up and down that a certain thing was the way they remember it and when they remember it happening.  And then I can produce dated material and photos that say otherwise.