These are great pictures. Fun to look at, especially when they're places and activities that I haven't experienced.

Were you or were you not extremely drunk at a Christmas party in 1979 with long hair and your arm around someone else's wife?

I was very drunk, because I remember my wife had to drive home, which normally never happens. We were all air traffic controllers except for the girl on the right, she was a pilot and a date of the guy next to her. The girl I had my arm around was a controller and that was her husband next to me, it wasn't like I was behind his back. I really have no memory of any of that, I only know about it because of the photo.

Is that a tiparillo in the bottom photo?

Sweet wide tie you don't see those anymore.

The guy on your right seems to be getting to friendly :D

The guy on the right, he had a good looking date, she was a pilot, she use to do a bank run picking up checks along the panhandle of Florida. His name was Doug McLean, before he was a controller he was a Miami school teacher. He wasn't a very good controller, he cared more about how he sounded than what he did. Overall, Doug was a pretty good guy, one of the few bachelors we had at the facility out of 57 controllers at the time.

Out of the 57, there were 46 of us fired by Reagan in the strike of '81.

I was going to ask if you survived Reagan's firing of the illegal strike by the controllers. I thought better not the right subforum. My Dad worked for TWA was a lifelong Democrat but supported and voted Reagan. That firing ended his support.

So was it a Tiparillo?
https://i.etsystatic.com/6191330/r/i...57431_r2c3.jpg

Thanks for your father. There were 11,345 fired. We had union hall and for a couple of weeks we would go there, we had a Pilot come everyday. He was on vacation with his family at Pensacola Beach. He said, I walked the picket line with my wife, she was a stewardess, I'm here to support you guys I can't enjoy myself at the beach with this going on. Then he would call the pilot reporting hotline everyday, and they were reporting close calls everywhere. We thought we would win. After two weeks we got permission to picket and we went to the airport for a while and did that. That was almost 40 years ago, water under the bridge.

Mr. Doggity and me -and some bar chick who was hanging on Doggity- back in 2004 at Neighbor's Landing in Osage Beach. Our band Viagra Falls played this dive once a year for about a half dozen years. Good times.

Sainte-Chapelle, Paris

https://i.imgur.com/Kl1vU36.jpg


Castel Sant'Angelo, Rome

https://i.imgur.com/5TMYPvw.jpg

Just noticed I had this one on imgur... one of the more unique and cooler shots I've taken.

https://i.imgur.com/XDOO5bU.jpg

I didn't pick up on that at first, not a cigar. In the 70's I smoked More cigarettes.

http://cigarettecollector.net/wp-con...D1-353x800.jpg

Ahh ok forgot about More's. I went on a Winchester kick for a bit was a filtered cigar made like a cigarette.

https://img.thompsoncigar.com/produc...0.jpg?v=114443