"user314" (user314)
06/28/2020 at 15:59 • Filed to: None
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Was going through some boxes, and found a folder full of stuff from roughly 1989-1991. I managed to get some of them scanned and stitched together (w ith varying degrees of competency ...)
A tour guide/map from !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! in Charleston, South Carolina, circa 1989 . We went down on vacation to see my uncle’s family. H e was a navy doc, so they moved a fair bit. We’d also flown down to see them in Orlando, with the requisite trip to Disney Land, in ‘86 or ‘87 I think, and we’ve been down to their place in VA Beach at least a half dozen times.
Anyway:
I remember going through the Cla mag ore and the Yorktown, but not the others (I want to say the Savan nah was closed for one reason or another). If we took pictures, I haven’t found them yet...
OPERATION: Desert Shield/Storm
Remember when Newsweek and Time were actually published magazines? I had subscriptions to both at the time, and there were pull-out maps/breakdowns of Saddam’s and the Allies forces. Timely, being we’re about 5 weeks out from the 30th anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait.
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Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.
ttyymmnn
> user314
06/28/2020 at 17:02 |
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I had that forces of the Iraq war posted, and I laminated it (I was working at Kinko’s at the time). No idea where it is now. Pretty sure I still have some Newsweeks from that era.
facw
> user314
06/28/2020 at 17:11 |
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They couldn’t afford to keep Savan nah, though it’s apparently been its just been moored in Baltimore, sometimes open to the public, which doesn’t seem like it should be a big money maker either:
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user314
> ttyymmnn
06/28/2020 at 17:18 |
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Pretty sure I had multiple copies of the Time map, I recall having one of each side tacked on to a wall at home. This one’s in good shape, no pinholes, tape or Handi-tak residue so I don’t think it was hung up. The Newsweek one is really rough though. There’s some kind of tape on one panel, so I couldn’t scan it.
ranwhenparked
> ttyymmnn
06/28/2020 at 19:07 |
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I had the set of Desert Storm trading cards in the camouflage tin box, believe they came with bubble gum that was somehow already stale in 1991. Not sure what happened to the cards, but still have the box somewhere, its useful to put things in.