When I was a kid, the same company also made Nehi sodas in all kinds of flavors.
In spite of all those nostalgic paintings of old Coke machines, what I remember from our long road trips is gas stations and country markets with coolers full of Nehi and RC.
I don’t remember exactly how they worked… anybody?
They had some sort of metal slide that held the bottles suspended by their necks, and you had to put a coin in somewhere to unlock one, and slide it to an opening to take it out.
To be honest, until I got a little older, I was more likely to choose a Nehi Cream Soda than an RC Cola… but eventually my taste changed.
As a young adult, it was what I brought home from the market, partly cos it was a little cheaper than Coke.
Then it kind of disappeared… I thought maybe cos there were so many store brands in that second-place slot, or rather third, behind Coke and Pepsi, but I don’t really know.
Eventually it became the brand sold at places like Big Lots and Dollar Tree, but I don’t really see it any more. Yet it’s still got to be around because I’ve seen ads for it.
Yes, RC is still around. RC Diet also. I find it in Safeway with it’s other in house side Diet Right. I wish i could find Nehi cream soda.
Pop told me that when he was a kid his favorite was RC because it had more carbonation than Coke or Pepsi.
When I was drinking soda with sugar, RC was my cola. Like you, it was partially price based; but I really liked it. When I switched to “diet” soda I decided Diet Coke was the best; a little more carbonation and a little lighter in the flavor. The only sugar free RC cola at the time was Diet Rite which was vile. I loved the flavored soda growing up, especially grape, root beer, and cream. Ginger Ale is my go-to when I’m on a plane.
I remember those coolers. Hated them! I wasn’t strong enough too pull the bottle out in a single pull and if you let go the machine locked back up and you lost your dime!
Don’t tell me we’re going to have AI mucking up retro art as well!
But with the out of scale people, the man running in the street, the weird spidery closure(?) on the woman’s dress… the clothing on the man behind her…
The traffic that makes no sense… the ditch alongside the sidewalk… the unreadable signs…. the general creepiness…..
now that you mention it, there IS something a little wrong with this ‘generally creepy’- sorta looks like NYC illustration….. it might have been done for a short story in a magazine or something
I like it but the first thing that came to mind was a burlesque show that used to be in San Francisco. Except there she would be wearing that as a hat.
I saw a piece where it showed them putting a hat on someone.
She is whering a very sturdy harness. That what’s wearing the hat, not her head, but still! ^^^ THAT is till a heavy load for a backpack!
I see the the teeth… Remember a cat mostly has its fangs (canines but cats prefer not to use that term.)
Its front teeth are tiny, cos it’s an obligate carnivore, that doesn’t graze.
…
It looks like a real photo to me… The serendipitous capture of the moment a cat yawns widely, juxtaposed with the sun breaking through the fog and clouds over the hill.
The lack of depth perception in a 2D medium makes it look like a fire-breathing kitty, if only for a moment.
…
A friend used that same sort of mesh to screen a small patio, so the birds would stay out and the cats in.
I’m not sure about that long pointy thing, but if you look near the cat’s haunches, you can see that it might be a leaf or blade from a plant in a pot on our side of the screening, poking through towards the sunlight.
Thanks to your small hint I found two. The last of them is just too much of a stretch; there isn’t enough there to say it’s part of a loaf of bread or part of the space shuttle.
I found the one near the top and realized it probably represents a loaf of sandwich bread, so I started looking, not for loaves of bread, exactly, but for more things that looked like that thing.
I only found the others I circled, so I figured they must be the ones. And according to Alexi they are. Oh well!
I agree with your findings. It’s just the one in the middle I couldn’t find because it is only a fraction of what the other two are. The other two look exactly like what you said.
In my defense, I’m really happy you’re home safe and sound. Cause when you’re not I worry. And when I worry, something else has to worry with me. In this case, it was the pictures and decorations.
But since you’re kind enough to notice (thanks!) I’ll reply to you instead.
For one thing, I have occasionally missed a day in the last several months, due either to Internet problems, which are more rare these days than they used to be, or changes in my sleep pattern, which are more common than they used to be…
Meaning I’m not up every single night till dawn, which is good. But I do a lot of my posting in the wee hours, cos by the time I get up late on the West Coast, only a few of us keep coming back…
…
However… In the last week I think I missed two days, because the county fair is on. It could happen again by the time it’s over… The last day is next Sunday, the 11th.
For years I’ve gotten free tickets and an employee parking pass from a vendor with whom I’ve made friends… Some years a few, some years a lot, but usually at least enough to go every day, so I do. Why not?
I call it my annual vacation.
But it tires me out, and I sometimes get home late, and my appearance here can be erratic. Next week should be more normal, if I have a normal😁
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BTW…
I probably wouldn’t go at all this year, if I didn’t get those tickets.
10 years ago it still cost about $5 to go in, and parking was $4. Before COVID entrance had risen to $8 or 9. It closed for two years and came back at I think $12, with $6 parking.
Inflation, rising prices everywhere, and who knows what have made them decide that this year, tickets are $20, and parking $15, plus both are $5 extra Friday through Sunday.
So if I were to go alone on a Saturday it would cost me $45!
Two adults, three kids ($17 weekend) and parking, $126.
We’re not talking Disneyland here. Quilts and amateur art, goats and cows, and a building full of vendors.
The carnival and food are a big draw for a lot of people, but both are very expensive. Rides can be $7 for a few minutes (not my thing anyway).
I noticed that a hamburger in one booth was $14, a hot dog $9(!), fries another $7. A plastic cup of beer $15 to 17. There are all kind of fried treats, if you call fried pickles or a $16 funnel cake a treat.
Try to feed a family! (I bring a sandwich. It’s ok.)
People are apparently staying away in droves. I’ve noticed that the usually packed parking lots are almost empty, and the vendors of amazing knives and scissors, gimmicky cookware, magical eye creams and other fair staples are not happy.
And everybody will wring their hands afterward and write about the falling popularity of old fashioned county fairs.
The NY State Fair is coming soon. They offer big name music acts as part of admission and I think it’s still $6 plus $5 to park. It’s over an hour drive each way, so we go once every year and occasionally a second time. We always have to go for Herman’s Hermits on senior day (free admission for the over 60 crowd). And wine slushies are generally still <$10 (though they’re small). Food and ride prices are ridiculous (like you, the rides are pretty much done for me anyway).
I’m not sure about the California State Fair prices.
It’s much bigger than our county fair…. but about 85 miles from me.
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That’s another thing about this year’s fair.
Senior day (the two Fridays) was free as far back as I can remember. They never checked IDs… My friends and I used to walk through the gate when we were decades from senior, and nobody said anything.
A few years ago they started checking IDs… Then they started making seniors go to the box office and show ID to get a free ticket. After COVID the tickets were a dollar. This year they’re FIVE.
Handicapped parking used to be free but now it’s the same price as the rest, just a little closer.
….
We’ve always had free shows as part of admission, but this year is different.
The biggest names have always cost extra, and usually played one night… The big outdoor arena also hosts a rodeo, a demolition derby and other paid events on different nights.
The free shows at a smaller one have been kind of B level acts. Sometimes older bands reduced to playing fairs, sometimes “Tribute” (aka imitation) bands. Some animal acts. One night a Mexican band contest. On one Saturday night, an Elvis impersonator contest, which for some reason I love.
This year the fair has sealed that venue and much of the surrounding area with a fenced off tent, showcasing a horse show, supposedly similar to Cavalia, that costs an extra $42, on top of fair admission. There were some $22 seats that filled up before opening.
No free shows this year.
Well, to be fair, (no pun intended)…. there are still unknown bands, fairly local, at a few small stages… some trying to be rock bands, some Mexican, or in between. I heard one playing Arabian music.
Plus tiny stages with clowns, jugglers, magicians or whatever… rotating acts that include contests for kids…. Some friends from Renn Faire used to play every couple of years with their funny blacksmithing demo… but not lately.
And I watched a free show with waterskiing squirrels!
I woke up at three. It’s almost four now, i’m going to put the laptop away and try to go back to sleep before the alarm clock goes off.
Good morning Susan! 🙂
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Can’t go wrong with a puppy.
My puppy got his first bandanna yesterday. He’s a handsome boy!
You have a new puppy? In addition to Buddy?
My question too!
No. I can’t have any new pets right now.
I was talking about my two and a half year old full grown goofy idiot of a puppy. Buddy.
Whew!
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I used to prefer RC Cola.
When I was a kid, the same company also made Nehi sodas in all kinds of flavors.
In spite of all those nostalgic paintings of old Coke machines, what I remember from our long road trips is gas stations and country markets with coolers full of Nehi and RC.
I don’t remember exactly how they worked… anybody?
They had some sort of metal slide that held the bottles suspended by their necks, and you had to put a coin in somewhere to unlock one, and slide it to an opening to take it out.
To be honest, until I got a little older, I was more likely to choose a Nehi Cream Soda than an RC Cola… but eventually my taste changed.
As a young adult, it was what I brought home from the market, partly cos it was a little cheaper than Coke.
Then it kind of disappeared… I thought maybe cos there were so many store brands in that second-place slot, or rather third, behind Coke and Pepsi, but I don’t really know.
Eventually it became the brand sold at places like Big Lots and Dollar Tree, but I don’t really see it any more. Yet it’s still got to be around because I’ve seen ads for it.
Yes, RC is still around. RC Diet also. I find it in Safeway with it’s other in house side Diet Right. I wish i could find Nehi cream soda.
Pop told me that when he was a kid his favorite was RC because it had more carbonation than Coke or Pepsi.
When I was drinking soda with sugar, RC was my cola. Like you, it was partially price based; but I really liked it. When I switched to “diet” soda I decided Diet Coke was the best; a little more carbonation and a little lighter in the flavor. The only sugar free RC cola at the time was Diet Rite which was vile. I loved the flavored soda growing up, especially grape, root beer, and cream. Ginger Ale is my go-to when I’m on a plane.
I remember those coolers. Hated them! I wasn’t strong enough too pull the bottle out in a single pull and if you let go the machine locked back up and you lost your dime!
I think my dad must have gotten them out, cos we weren’t allowed to buy it without permission.
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One legged people shouldn’t play in traffic!
Don’t tell me we’re going to have AI mucking up retro art as well!
But with the out of scale people, the man running in the street, the weird spidery closure(?) on the woman’s dress… the clothing on the man behind her…
The traffic that makes no sense… the ditch alongside the sidewalk… the unreadable signs…. the general creepiness…..
Should I be thinking it’s anything else?
now that you mention it, there IS something a little wrong with this ‘generally creepy’- sorta looks like NYC illustration….. it might have been done for a short story in a magazine or something
You think it’s a real illustration, not AI?
But I am curious as to what could possibly be casting that weird shadow on the sidewalk behind the lady in yellow.
Traffic light pole maybe, with arms or brackets in all four directions?
But if it’s actually AI, anything goes.
These are actually pretty funny.
A moose driving that greenish convertible?
Michael Cheval
And he didn’t even have AI to help him!
I like it but the first thing that came to mind was a burlesque show that used to be in San Francisco. Except there she would be wearing that as a hat.
Are you talking about Beach Blanket Babylon?
This ballerina looks like a nun compared to that!
That’s what it was/is! Is it still a thing?
Gone, unfortunately.
Poop!
I had to look that up… wow!
I saw a piece where it showed them putting a hat on someone.
She is whering a very sturdy harness. That what’s wearing the hat, not her head, but still! ^^^ THAT is till a heavy load for a backpack!
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Perspective fun! Fluffy Godzilla.
– – – – – or “Flufzilla.”
… or not
I see the the teeth… Remember a cat mostly has its fangs (canines but cats prefer not to use that term.)
Its front teeth are tiny, cos it’s an obligate carnivore, that doesn’t graze.
…
It looks like a real photo to me… The serendipitous capture of the moment a cat yawns widely, juxtaposed with the sun breaking through the fog and clouds over the hill.
The lack of depth perception in a 2D medium makes it look like a fire-breathing kitty, if only for a moment.
…
A friend used that same sort of mesh to screen a small patio, so the birds would stay out and the cats in.
I’m not sure about that long pointy thing, but if you look near the cat’s haunches, you can see that it might be a leaf or blade from a plant in a pot on our side of the screening, poking through towards the sunlight.
Good points. My sister had (has) cats, and I expect to see a bit more tooth in a pose like that. So I am not convinced one way or the other.
Boy, I sure hope the moon sees that lighthouse in time to avoid the coast.
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Clever. (After a false start with “Say people as ugly as I am…”)
I almost did that too.
But it’s bottom to top not backwards.
,..
I’m really glad to hear that…
find 3 loaves of bread
… ’cause everyone loaves corgis.
They all look like loaves of bread to me.
So do real live corgis.
Ok… I’m pretty sure I found them.
I’m not absolutely sure I’m happy with them.
But they were the only things I found so they’re probably correct.
They don’t look like anything I was expecting to find.
Forgot to say… I’m thinking this is supposed to be the late Queen Elizabeth and her corgis.
She had a lot of them, but not quite that many.
Thanks to your small hint I found two. The last of them is just too much of a stretch; there isn’t enough there to say it’s part of a loaf of bread or part of the space shuttle.
I agree…
I only found the others I circled, so I figured they must be the ones. And according to Alexi they are. Oh well!
I agree with your findings. It’s just the one in the middle I couldn’t find because it is only a fraction of what the other two are. The other two look exactly like what you said.
Thanks.
Okay… I guess we’re just supposed to believe it.
So is your name “Donald” or “Daffy”?
Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula. (A Eurasian species, so I’ll forgive myself for having to look it up…)
Hmmm, looks like a mullet to me 😉
it’s worth another look!
Buddy just ate a bunch of napkins from a fast food place. Still has to shred something!
In my defense, I’m really happy you’re home safe and sound. Cause when you’re not I worry. And when I worry, something else has to worry with me. In this case, it was the pictures and decorations.
Any word why Susan was conspicuously absent yesterday?
She was active on the page from the 5th.
I was actually about to post about that…
But since you’re kind enough to notice (thanks!) I’ll reply to you instead.
For one thing, I have occasionally missed a day in the last several months, due either to Internet problems, which are more rare these days than they used to be, or changes in my sleep pattern, which are more common than they used to be…
Meaning I’m not up every single night till dawn, which is good. But I do a lot of my posting in the wee hours, cos by the time I get up late on the West Coast, only a few of us keep coming back…
…
However… In the last week I think I missed two days, because the county fair is on. It could happen again by the time it’s over… The last day is next Sunday, the 11th.
For years I’ve gotten free tickets and an employee parking pass from a vendor with whom I’ve made friends… Some years a few, some years a lot, but usually at least enough to go every day, so I do. Why not?
I call it my annual vacation.
But it tires me out, and I sometimes get home late, and my appearance here can be erratic. Next week should be more normal, if I have a normal😁
…
BTW…
I probably wouldn’t go at all this year, if I didn’t get those tickets.
10 years ago it still cost about $5 to go in, and parking was $4. Before COVID entrance had risen to $8 or 9. It closed for two years and came back at I think $12, with $6 parking.
Inflation, rising prices everywhere, and who knows what have made them decide that this year, tickets are $20, and parking $15, plus both are $5 extra Friday through Sunday.
So if I were to go alone on a Saturday it would cost me $45!
Two adults, three kids ($17 weekend) and parking, $126.
We’re not talking Disneyland here. Quilts and amateur art, goats and cows, and a building full of vendors.
The carnival and food are a big draw for a lot of people, but both are very expensive. Rides can be $7 for a few minutes (not my thing anyway).
I noticed that a hamburger in one booth was $14, a hot dog $9(!), fries another $7. A plastic cup of beer $15 to 17. There are all kind of fried treats, if you call fried pickles or a $16 funnel cake a treat.
Try to feed a family! (I bring a sandwich. It’s ok.)
People are apparently staying away in droves. I’ve noticed that the usually packed parking lots are almost empty, and the vendors of amazing knives and scissors, gimmicky cookware, magical eye creams and other fair staples are not happy.
And everybody will wring their hands afterward and write about the falling popularity of old fashioned county fairs.
That’s kind of sad!
The NY State Fair is coming soon. They offer big name music acts as part of admission and I think it’s still $6 plus $5 to park. It’s over an hour drive each way, so we go once every year and occasionally a second time. We always have to go for Herman’s Hermits on senior day (free admission for the over 60 crowd). And wine slushies are generally still <$10 (though they’re small). Food and ride prices are ridiculous (like you, the rides are pretty much done for me anyway).
Wow.
I’m not sure about the California State Fair prices.
It’s much bigger than our county fair…. but about 85 miles from me.
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That’s another thing about this year’s fair.
Senior day (the two Fridays) was free as far back as I can remember. They never checked IDs… My friends and I used to walk through the gate when we were decades from senior, and nobody said anything.
A few years ago they started checking IDs… Then they started making seniors go to the box office and show ID to get a free ticket. After COVID the tickets were a dollar. This year they’re FIVE.
Handicapped parking used to be free but now it’s the same price as the rest, just a little closer.
….
We’ve always had free shows as part of admission, but this year is different.
The biggest names have always cost extra, and usually played one night… The big outdoor arena also hosts a rodeo, a demolition derby and other paid events on different nights.
The free shows at a smaller one have been kind of B level acts. Sometimes older bands reduced to playing fairs, sometimes “Tribute” (aka imitation) bands. Some animal acts. One night a Mexican band contest. On one Saturday night, an Elvis impersonator contest, which for some reason I love.
This year the fair has sealed that venue and much of the surrounding area with a fenced off tent, showcasing a horse show, supposedly similar to Cavalia, that costs an extra $42, on top of fair admission. There were some $22 seats that filled up before opening.
No free shows this year.
Well, to be fair, (no pun intended)…. there are still unknown bands, fairly local, at a few small stages… some trying to be rock bands, some Mexican, or in between. I heard one playing Arabian music.
Plus tiny stages with clowns, jugglers, magicians or whatever… rotating acts that include contests for kids…. Some friends from Renn Faire used to play every couple of years with their funny blacksmithing demo… but not lately.
And I watched a free show with waterskiing squirrels!
That’s a good reason for missing a day. Glad you were off enjoying yourself
Thanks!
I don’t think I’m going today, unless I suddenly change my mind. It’s open till 10 but I usually leave by 8 or 8:30.
Just maybe not to up to the every day thing right now, in hot weather.
Looks to me more like she’s going to lose lunch on that dismount.
I woke up at three. It’s almost four now, i’m going to put the laptop away and try to go back to sleep before the alarm clock goes off.
Good morning Susan! 🙂
Good morning, Happy³!
I’m about to put my tablet away and go to bed.
I should not be still up at 4am!
Same. I’ve got to get up at a quarter after five. Good night. 🙂
I saw two young foxes trot along our street at 3 am.
Beautiful animals.
I’m glad that evil, smirking kitty is not one of the judges.
Or I hope he’s not.
From today’s London “Daily Mail”
Boo! 😀