Folks can learn a lot on their own by reading every back issue of Mother Earth News & Home Power Magazines they can.

Home Power is no longer published but complete issues in PDF format are available online for free, (and it covers more that just power)

This is the ORIGINAL Boy Howdy Band from Fresno, CA.

Not the same as the top-40 C & W band of the same name that came later.

https://youtu.be/C9nsYAf1qnQ?si=xVSI4eRYsNBjePjJ

KNYO-lpfm is celebrating 20 years on the air (May 7th, 2006.

It's a community station in Ft Bragg, California.

The seagulls like it... and the station also streams.

KNYO.org

KNYO-lpfm is celebrating 20 years on the air (May 7th, 2006.

It's a community station in Ft Bragg, California.

The seagulls like it... and the station also streams.

KNYO.org

Does anybody remember "suicide" 3rd lanes on some roadways?

We had one on Foothill Blvd in the south San Leandro / Hayward area.

Were there others in the B.A. ?

These were 3 lane roads, the middle land was the Suicide Lane... it was a PASSING lane that could be used by cars going BOTH directions. These were deadly.

You were supposed to turn your headlights on, but that did little to prevent accidents when 2 cars going 35mph ran into each other head-on.

The one on Foothill Blvd were replaced by hwy 580. Hard to think in THIS day & age these was even permitted, but that was the 1950's.

UPDATE... I'm amazed at the amount of 'flaming' here on Reddit in general, and in this post in particular... it seems folks enjoy being RUDE, and cop an attitude... saying things they would not say to me face-to-face.

Commenters are also making a lot of offbase assumptions about me... WAY OFFBASE !

There also seems to be a high level of rudeness in younger people,,,, WHY IS THIS ???

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That IS what we were told growing up in the 1950's...

So, WTF happened ?

Bay Bridge & the other Bay Area bridges (excluding GGB) were supposed to be TOLL FREE !!!. When I was a kid it was 25¢ to cross the bridge. There were also rail lines on the lower deck for the Key System of electric trains that ran in the East Bay.

We all know that politicians can't pass up a cash cow if they see one... and then come the justifications (& at times also lies)...

Toll on the Bay bridge doubled in 1970 to 50¢;

Politicians count on the collective memory of a community to fade out over time, so broken promises are not remembered... after all, we can't have politician's promises to actually be kept... that would get in the way of "progress"...

So, how are promises of yesteryear to be kept today, and what faith are we to have that promises made today will be kept tomorrow?

I recently turned 75 & remember riding one of the last ferry's to Marin before the Richmond bridge was opened.

I also remember when Hwy 580 was being built, and they said t here would NEVER be medium & large trucks on it... and now... there is a controversial proposal to permit big rigs on hwy 580.

It's my personal opinion that the Bay Area has REALLY gone downhill, on many levels... I was born there & glad I live a more serene life in MendoLand...