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gearhead1960
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Hit an estate sale yesterday. Found this one that will feed SWMBO obsession with anything alien dating from 1950...
It was an interesting bookshelf of books, the following were the leave behinds.
I will return tomorrow, so might have to liberate more as the estate sale company didn't even charge me for the aliens...
It was an interesting bookshelf of books, the following were the leave behinds.
I will return tomorrow, so might have to liberate more as the estate sale company didn't even charge me for the aliens...
Outlawmws
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I'd have got all three!
gearhead1960
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LOL....I'll see what's left and be happy to distribute as needed.....
gearhead1960
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Mission accomplished @Outlawmws & @bmwrd0. Got the 3 plus others. Will post and PM later with all titles and which ones might be available.LOL....I'll see what's left and be happy to distribute as needed.....
gearhead1960
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...so here's the haul from the estate sale. Undecided which ones I want to keep.... $.75ea was the cost! More than they were new! 
...unfortunately someone got The Last Parallel which I posted previously....
...unfortunately someone got The Last Parallel which I posted previously....
Own now (or once did): Samurai, Great Flying Stories.
Have read: Bridges at Toko-Ri, Dam Busters, Escape From Colditz, Flying Saucers Are Real.
Need to chase down: Sunk!, Deep Six, Calendar Epic.
Great collection — thanks for showing!
Have read: Bridges at Toko-Ri, Dam Busters, Escape From Colditz, Flying Saucers Are Real.
Need to chase down: Sunk!, Deep Six, Calendar Epic.
Great collection — thanks for showing!
Outlawmws
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I read Samurai in HS a couple of times great read I thought at the time. I'll put my hand up for that one if it becomes available.
Interested in several others; Please keep us posted on availability.
Interested in several others; Please keep us posted on availability.
WisJim
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I picked up a few magazines at a thrift store today. It's fun to rediscover what was considered an important invention, trend, or discovery not that many years ago, and notice which things actually happened, what ended up making a difference, and what "important" discoveries or inventions at the time have been forgotten. "How H-Bombs Will Dig A New Panama Canal" for one.
RalphInCA
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I am hankering for a good book on walking/hiking.
Not A Walk in the Woods. Already read that one.
Especially interested in someone who is older or retired.
Suggestions?
Not A Walk in the Woods. Already read that one.
Especially interested in someone who is older or retired.
Suggestions?
Aaron_W
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Hit an estate sale yesterday. Found this one that will feed SWMBO obsession with anything alien dating from 1950...
It was an interesting bookshelf of books, the following were the leave behinds.
I will return tomorrow, so might have to liberate more as the estate sale company didn't even charge me for the aliens...
I read Battling the Bombers in high school, I didn't remember the title but seeing the cover that is definitely the book.
@Aaron_W
A classic
A more modern story along the same lines
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A classic
A more modern story along the same lines
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Mis…
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyo…
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Private Lugnutz
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Nice! That era of pocket paperbacks (Avon, Signet, etc) was so cool, with many of them the original printing, not a mass market edition of a hardcover.
I may have posted this find from a few years ago before - a Fawcett classic. It's provocative premise keeps on accumulating meanings and interpretations and spins it couldn't possibly predict, about which I will not expound further here.
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DrinkMan
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Before retirement, I used to keep a few text books and reference books at my desk to help out at my job (Engineer). Everyone I worked with kept a Marks' Handbook at his desk and I came across at a yard sale an older one and decided I'd use that one. I compared it to some more recent editions and found that it was still relevant in many areas (not very good with polymers or adhesives, though). So for a few decades, this 1939 edition was always within an arms reach. I still have it on my shelf in my home office.
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DrinkMan
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After having fun using the 1939 Marks' Handbook as a reference source, I started looking online for more old books. I found this very nice condition old reference book - 1946 edition of the Handbook of Engineering Fundementals. So, it was placed right next to my Marks'. Sometimes, for fun if my desk was clean (a rare occasion), I'd place this book, my Marks', and 3 of my old slide rules in a prominent position on my desk when it was time for my young employees monthly one-on-one. Fun way to get conversations started about progress and technology. You will notice a bookmark on the page on how to use a slide rule because a frequent question I received was "how to use a slide rule" and since I had forgotten how to much more than multiply and divide, we would open the book together and do a few sample tasks.
DrinkMan
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This post is not about very old books. But somewhat moderately old. Background - when I was a pre-teen, one of my close friends introduced me to Doc Savage books. He had collected every book in the series (these books were compiled from the old serial magazines) and had a wall of those books. I bought a few at that time and really enjoyed them. For years, I would go to the used book store and buy a few. Then about 25 years ago when my daughter was the same age that I was when I discovered Doc Savage, I went to Ebay and bought a nice size collection of about 80 of the books. She enjoyed them just like I did and even took a few to college and has them with her to this day. I still have them (spread out between our houses so I can grab one for light reading). All of them are from the late 60's, early 70's.
WisJim
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I had a few dozen of the Doc Savage books but passed them on a few years ago. I decided that I wasn't going to read them again and it was time for someone else to enjoy them--the last couple that I reread seemed formulaic but I can see why I have enjoyed them in the past.
WisJim
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I have a lot of older engineering related books. I started buying them in used books stores in the 1970s partly due to my interest in old wind turbines and nickel iron Edison cell batteries, and I found lots of useful information on the wind turbines, slow DC generators and Edison cells in those old references. More recently I have gotten more books on steam power, old machine shop references and texts and similar books. Lots of interesting stuff! And a long the way I have accumulated a lot of old gardening, farming, and fruit growing references. My problem is becoming what to do with all of these thousands of books, and who will be interested in them when I no longer can manage them or am around to read them.
@Aaron_W
A classic
A more modern story alOnt the same lines
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Mis…
A deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyo…
I think this reply is for both of you —
Colin Fletcher's The Complete Walker books (I have all editions except the fourth) were fundamental for me many decades ago. Also his other books, including the Grand Canyon hike. In The Thousand Mile Summer, he walked north through California from the Mexican border to the Oregon border along the Sierras. Those hiking/backpacking books were central in my imagination and doings, though living then on the East Coast I found my own hikes there.
Yet the book of his that now sticks most in memory is The Man From the Cave. Very different and recommended.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Fletcher
RalphInCA
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I agree that Colin Fletcher was an awesome writer. He just had a special talent with words.
I have all his books, including all editions of the Complete Walker series.
Now that I’m retired, maybe it’s time to revisit Mr. Fletcher’s works.
rustyzman
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Just read Peter Jenkins "A Walk Across America". Written in 1979 detailing his walk that started in 1973. I really enjoyed it and plan on reading his others. A good perspective from a time dealing with issues.
Farmer J.
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The Wainwright Guides - Wainwright Prize
The Wainwright Guides Discover A. Wainwright’s definitive walking guides to the Lake District fells, now in two stunning editions A. Wainwright’s definitive walking guides to the Lake District fells have been treasured by generations of walkers. After a holiday at the age of 23 kindled a...
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Beerhippie
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Most of my knowledge of the Lakes District is that there's a mountain there named Great ****-up. It's on my bucket list.The Wainwright Guides - Wainwright Prize
The Wainwright Guides Discover A. Wainwright’s definitive walking guides to the Lake District fells, now in two stunning editions A. Wainwright’s definitive walking guides to the Lake District fells have been treasured by generations of walkers. After a holiday at the age of 23 kindled a...
I have climbed Mt. Great ****-up many times, at least according to my wife.
Anyhoo, I picked these up on Saturday at a steam festival:
Nine copies of Model Engineer from the mid forties, a magazine on steam cars and planes(!) from the thirties, a book on model stationary engines, and a motorcycle repair guide form '53.
Anyhoo, I picked these up on Saturday at a steam festival:
Nine copies of Model Engineer from the mid forties, a magazine on steam cars and planes(!) from the thirties, a book on model stationary engines, and a motorcycle repair guide form '53.
Beerhippie
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^ I don't think steam aviation ever really got off the ground.
Outlawmws
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Private Lugnutz
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They were all STOL!
Seriously, now, the engineering, the attempts and the apocryphal stories are an interesting read, though.
Beerhippie
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As Lugz notes, there were actual attempts to use steam for powered flight.Just hysterical!
But, as I note....
There were attempts at nuclear powered flight, which is kind of steam. The joke was what if it crashes. You start with bulldozers 10 miles away to build a monument to the first nuclear powered flight crash site. Government money. In the 50’s I think.
four.cycle
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Beerhippie
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See "Operation Crowbar" for some real nuclear terror. Who cares about fallout when it's a doomsday device?
Also see the long list of "Broken Arrow" incidents during the '50-'70s. US military came within one simple fail-safe from nuking NC.
Provincial
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Besler Steam powered Travel Air 2000. It actually flew!
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Private Lugnutz
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I snagged this at the flea market this morning. Published in 1970 by the Museum of Art at the Rhode Island School of Design, it was the booklet that accompanied the exhibition of the George H. Waterman Jr. car collection there from July to September of that year. It has an excellent foreword discussing "the Golden Age" of racing with black and white photos of several races, including the "concours" from Paris to Rouen in 1894. A dirt road with some white wooden fences on the curves. Car photos are a 1911 Tipo S-74 Fiat (in classic red), a 1908 Grand Prix Mercedes (in classic white), and a 1903 Gordon Bennett Napier (in British racing green, of course).
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Outlawmws
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Some from last week:
Some from last week:
I have that Eric Sloane book and love it! And many of his other ones too, especially those on weather phenomena and how American landscapes have changed over the centuries.
Outlawmws
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Someone else also mentioned liking Sloane's books. First one for me.
Beerhippie
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You're gonna like it!
"Taking to the Woods" was also a classic when I was growing up. I haven't seen that cover in some fifty-odd years.
