amylsacks' photos with the keyword: train

My astrologist tells me that from the 20th of May to the 20th of June, a passing freight train will be blocking the main outlet down the street. So I may just as well stay home. No need to waste time trying to reach the office. :P From the October issue of Sunset magazine.

On the back: "This space for correspondence. Published by Edw. H. Mitchell. San Francisco." For more about this historic landmark (near the Oregon border) and other postcards with alternate views of the same region, click here .

"...Many of the berries from this plantation are sent to the two nearby Ocean Spray canning plants where they are made into delicious jelly, sauce, cranberry juice cocktails, and a thousand other concoctions that were dreamed up to tickle the palates of those who really appreciate delicious tasting food. Others go directly to market as fresh berries under the Eatmor label... "Until I see you again, 'So long.'"

"Ever taste a cranberry frappe? What? You haven't? Well, let me tell you, you've really missed something in life. I know because I just smacked my lips over one and can truthfully testify that it's about the tastiest concoction that ever slid over my palate..."

Front of a postcard-sized, 20-page "letter-booklet" promoting a cranberry farm and "Home of the World's Smallest Railroad." Published by Richard Bennett Talcott of Boston, Massachusetts.

"...When repeal brought the end of the long 'drouth' in 1933, distillation of Gin was resumed and operations in the liquor field expanded..." You've gotta' wonder why the word "drouth" has fallen out of favor in popular discourse.

"...Basically, it's a device that lets the whole body of the car slide up to as much as ten inches on its chassis." Yeah, yeah. Accept one drink from a guy and then you have to stand there for the rest of the night pretending to be mesmerized by all his "device"-related bragging.

"The highway code requires driving on the right, overtaking on the left." And please, no flinging empty beer steins out the windows of moving vehicles, either.