My great-grandpappy lost the family fortune investing in the Trans-Continental Tethered Zeppelin Line. Basically they were gonna cable airships to freight trains and pull them from New York to LA. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
"Just look-it all that, Edith! Dad said this would all be ours if those damn Commies hadn't broken up the Standard Oil Trust. What do those people know about business anyways? Dad and Uncle Bill and Mister Flagler were just trying to make a living, darn it!"
Wot! No bike ?
ReplyDeleteMy great-grandpappy lost the family fortune investing in the Trans-Continental Tethered Zeppelin Line. Basically they were gonna cable airships to freight trains and pull them from New York to LA. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
ReplyDeleteSeemed workable... till the first tunnel.
Delete"...airships crashing every day into the bay..." (Be Bop Deluxe)
ReplyDeleteBicycles are for the plebs, don'tcha know?
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That's not a lyric I could pull out of my head... 50 years old.
DeleteA bike lane would be a start.
ReplyDelete"Just look-it all that, Edith! Dad said this would all be ours if those damn Commies hadn't broken up the Standard Oil Trust. What do those people know about business anyways? Dad and Uncle Bill and Mister Flagler were just trying to make a living, darn it!"
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