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Pennsylvania Railroad Ad - June 1944 1940: First early morning air-raid alarm is heard in London. 1940: At 1:35am, all acts of war between the French and German armed forces officially cease. Churchill says France is not freed of her obligations. The German army has moved thru France even faster than expected. As Field Marshal Erwin Rommel puts it, "The war has become practically a lightning Tour de France." *K.T. Stevens 1941: Major Russian forces are close to being surrounded in the Bialystok area by Panzer units of Army Group Centre. Panzer Group 1 captures Lutsk and Dubno, in what was before September 1939 eastern Poland. 1941: The Red Air force launches an a number of air attacks against Finland's airfields, in the hope of destroying German aircraft which were believed to be stationed in Finland. K.T. Stevens 1942: The RAF launches its third 1,000-bomber raid, with 1,006 aircraft against Bremen. This time Coastal Command provided 102 Hudson bombers, after Churchill's insistence that they take part. As with the previous 1,000 bomber raids, a full moon had been selected to aid in finding the target. The raid caused heavy damage to the Focke-Wulf plant and devastated 27 acres of the inner city. The RAF lost 49 aircraft, a high proportion of them being manned by trainee crews. 1942: German troops drive a wedge into Sevastopol's defenses. The Russians are running out of men, space and time. Surviving fighter aircraft are sent to the Caucasus, conceding the skies to the Luftwaffe. Soon the Russian AA guns are out of ammunition and the defenders face Stukas with rifles and machine guns. Artillery shells are running low too. 1942: The Germans capture Sidi Barrani, Sollum and the Halfaya Pass in Libya as the Eighth Army retreats to Mersa Matruh in Egypt. General Auchinleck relieves Lieutenant General Ritchie and takes personal command of the Eighth Army, with plans to hold Rommel if he could at Mersa Matruh, but more definitely at the El Alamein line, or if that failed the Suez Canal. 1942: Eisenhower arrives in London. K.T. Stevens 1943: Newly built gas chamber/crematory III opens at Auschwitz. With its completion, the four new crematories at Auschwitz have a daily capacity of 4,756 bodies. 1944: The British Second Army begins a major offensive in the area of Caen 'Operation Epsom'. After a naval bombardment, street fighting is reported in Cherbourg. General Koenig is appointed C-in-C of the Free French forces. 1945: The allies announce the division of Austria into four administrative zones. British Second Army in Germany is to be disbanded and sent back to Britain. 1945: The UN Charter is signed by representatives at San Francisco. K.T. Stevens *K. T. Stevens was born Gloria Wood on July 20, 1919 in Los Angeles, California. She certainly had the requisite genes for an acting career as her father was the legendary director Sam Wood and her mother a stage performer. K.T. Stevens wasted no time either. By the time she was 2 years old, she had made her film debut in her father's silent classic Peck's "Bad Boy" (1921), which starred Jackie Coogan. Christened Gloria Wood, she was billed "Baby Gloria Wood" as a toddler. Following high school she decided to pursue acting full time, taking drama lessons and apprenticing in summer stock. In 1938 she toured in two productions: "You Can't Take It with You" and "My Sister Eileen." The following year she made her Broadway debut in a walk-on role in "Summer Light" which was directed by Lee Strasberg. At this point she was calling herself "Katharine Stevens" (after her favorite actress, Katharine Hepburn), as she did not want to ride on her famous father's coattails. Eventually, she settled on the initials "K.T." which she felt added mystery and flair. Although her film career subsided, she flourished on radio ("Junior Miss") and on the Broadway stage where "The Man Who Came to Dinner" (1940), "Yankee Point" (1942) and "Nine Girls" 1943) helped boost her reputation. K.T. met actor Hugh Marlowe after they appeared together on Broadway in "The Land Is Bright" (1941). Co-starring in a 1944 Chicago production of "The Voice of the Turtle," they married in 1946. The couple went on to grace more than 20 stage shows together, including a Broadway production of the classic film "Laura" in which she played the mysterious title role and he the obsessed detective. In the 1950s K.T. moved to TV episodics with "Perry Mason," "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" and "The Big Valley" just a few of her guest appearances. She possessed an open-faced prettiness and seemed ideal for film noir, but her chance to break through never materialized despite decent roles in "Kitty Foyle: The Natural History of a Woman" (1940), which was directed by her father, "The Great Man's Lady" (1942) starring Barbara Stanwyck, "Port of New York" (1949) with Yul Brynner, "Vice Squad" (1953) featuring Paulette Goddard and the sci-fi film "Missile to the Moon" (1958). Following her 1967 divorce from Marlowe, K.T. abandoned acting for a time in favor of teaching nursery school. She eventually returned to TV and made some strides in daytime soaps, most notably "The Young and the Restless" (1973). She also served three terms as President of the L.A. local branch of AFTRA. K.T. had two sons, Jeffrey, born in 1948 and Christian, born in 1951, the latter best known these days as sportscaster Chris Marlowe. She died of lung cancer on June 13, 1994.

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Morning all. It's not raining!!! Much cooler and less humid. 60F with clear skies and a high temp reaching 82F. Heat and rain returns Friday night through Sunday. Fortunately, the big flood worries are south of us so far, though we are far from out of the woods yet.

Eveready Battery Ad - May 1944 1940: An armistice is signed between France and Italy at Villa Indusa near Rome. 1940: China protests to France over closure of Indo-Chinese border; Japanese request closure of Burma Road controlled by Britain and used to supply Chinese forces. Peggy Corday 1941: House of Commons votes for £1,000 million war credit as war expenditure now exceeds £10,250,000 per day. 1941: Germans sweep west into Lithuania and White Russia, taking Vilna and Kaunas. Hungary breaks off diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. 1941: President Franklin Roosevelt pledges all possible support to the Soviet Union. Madelon Mason 1942: Major General Eisenhower is appointed commander of all US troops in Europe. 1942: The German, Italian and Croatian forces in Yugoslavia, begin another offensive against Tito's partisan army. 1942: The RAF launches its third 1,000 bomber raid, this time on Bremen. The Luftwaffe launches the first in a series of night raids against Birmingham. Mary Ann Hyde 1942: The Germans advance into Egypt as the British retreat continues. Sollum and Sidi Barrani are evacuated by the Eighth Army. 1943: The RAF conducts a heavy raid on Elberfeld in the Ruhr. Peggy Drake 1944: The Russians report major advances against Army Group Centre. Hitler orders all but one of the five German divisions of the 53rd Corps that are encircled at Vitebsk to fight their way out. 1945: A Great Victory Parade in Moscow’s Red Square, sees Zhukov takes the salute in Stalin’s presence. Spud Cigarettes Ad - 1942

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Woman Waited Decades to Claim Fame in Times Square Image Rest in Peace Edith.

Morning. Heavy rain falling. Currently under a tornado watch and a flash flood watch. Already an inch of rain has fallen since I got up at 4:30. Going to be raining for a few more hours, at least that's what it looks like via radar. High temp of 86F today.

Nash Kelvinator Ad - June 1944 1940: The German advance continues down west coast of France. Pierre Laval is appointed as Vice-Premier, while de Gaulle is cashiered by Weygand for announcing the formation of French National Committee in London. First British commando raid on France is made at Le Touquet. Hitler makes a brief sightseeing visit to Paris. Driving through nearly empty streets, he makes a special point of viewing Napoleon's tomb, ending his tour at the Eiffel tower. 1941: US Under-Secretary of State, backs Churchill’s aid-for-Russia policy. 1941: The Red Army launches an armored counter-attack near Tilsit in Lithuania, but this is repulsed with heavy losses. German forces cross the River Bug, bypassing Brest-Litovsk from the North and South and penetrating 50 miles into Russian occupied Poland. Slovakia declares war on the Soviet Union. *Luba Malina 1942: The Russians withdraw to the South side of Sevastopol's bay, preserving their front, as the bombardment and German attacks increase. 1942: German advanced elements reach the Egyptian border. Rommel signals Kesselring for permission to continue the advance in to Egypt, pointing out that at Tobruk his forces has captured large quantities of fuel and supplies. Luba Malina 1943: A coal strike is Appalachia is finally settled. President Roosevelt warns the miners that if they strike again, he will draft them into the army so that they will be forced to work. 1944: Eden tells the Commons ' the facts' about the killing of 50 ‘escaping’ RAF officers at Stalag Luft III, saying 'These prisoners of war were murdered'. Luba Malina 1944: Generaloberst Dietl, C-in-C of 20th Gebirgs Army on the Arctic front in northern Finland, is killed in an air crash. 1944: In one of the largest air strikes of the war, the U.S. Fifteenth Air Force sends 761 bombers against the oil refineries at Ploesti, Romania. Luba Malina 1945: The San Francisco Conference Co-ordination Committee, completes the text of the UN Charter. Luba Malina *Luba Malina was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, the daughter of Vatali Malina, a member of the Moscow Art Theater. She started her career on-stage at the age of five, as a member of Anna Pavlova's children's ballet. The family fled the hardship of post-revolutionary Russia when she was seven and came to America after seven years in Shanghai and three years in London and Paris. Malina studied in Greenwich Village, and her good looks opened lots of doors for her as a performer, although she was initially looked upon as a very serious singer, rather than a comedienne. She appeared in musicals produced by the Shuberts and sang in clubs such as the Copacabana and the Versailles in New York, and the Chez Paree in Chicago. Malina also showed up in a handful of "soundies" (Soundies were an early version of the music video: three-minute musical films, produced in New York, Chicago, and Hollywood between 1940 and 1946, often including short dance sequences.) during the early '40s, including "Cuban Pete", "Minnie From Trinidad", and "A Gay Ranchero", playing Latina roles of the Carmen Miranda type, although, with her physique, she more resembled Charo crossed with Katy Jurado. In fairness, those appearances, for which she was billed as Luba "Molina," and the fact that she was also apparently billed at one point as Raquel Malina, and some inconsistencies in the dates and accounts of her family's Russian and Shanghai travels, raise some questions about her background. Regardless of the details, however, she made her Broadway debut in Mike Todd's production of "Priorities of 1942", in which she first showed off her comedic, tempestuous side. Her subsequent credits, in addition to "Mexican Hayride", included "Marinka", "Festival", "Roberta" (as Scharwenka), and Noel Coward's "Nude With Violin". When Universal Pictures brought the Broadway musical "Mexican Hayride" to the screen in 1948, they threw away a big chunk of Herbert and Dorothy Fields' book -- and all of Cole Porter's score -- and they rebuilt it all around the talents of rotund, roly-poly movie comic Lou Costello in place of Bobby Clark, who'd done it on Broadway. The only thing they kept from the play, apart from its title and a few character names, was Luba Malina. In the play, she was Dagmar Marshak, the overeager phrenologist who torments Bobby Clark, and in the movie she was the gorgeous, tempestuous confidence woman Dagmar, who torments Lou Costello. It was Malina's only feature-film role, but it was enough to leave generations of young male Abbott & Costello fans totally enamored with the fiery actress. Malina worked steadily through the 1940s and '50s, juggling her career -- which included engagements in Las Vegas alongside veteran comic Bert Wheeler -- and a marriage to prominent New York attorney (and one-time Congressional candidate) Myron Sulzberger Jr. Among her later credits was the topical comedy "Julia, Jake and Uncle Joe", with Claudette Colbert. She was a guest on Ed Sullivan's "Toast of the Town" early in its run, and her last small-screen appearance was a role in an episode of "Diagnosis: Unknown" in 1960. Whatever her origins, Malina proved in "Mexican Hayride" that she could mangle the English language as comically as Carmen Miranda, declaring to the hapless Lou Costello, "I will work my bones to the finger."

Yep! But had to cancel today due to storms and power outage. Rescheduled for Monday.

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Wolf Guts, 86, the last surviving Oglala Lakota code talker, died Wednesday afternoon at the South Dakota State Veterans Home in Hot Springs. Rest in Peace and thank you Clarence

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Morning. Storms approaching bringing heavy rains. Yippee frickin' ki-yay. 88F and tropical. Carpet cleaning guy is supposed to be here today sometime between 10am and 1pm.

Kodak Aerial Film Ad - June 1944 1940: Second London County Council evacuation scheme completed, with 100,000 children moved to the West Country and Wales. 1940: Germans troops cross the River Loire in strength as an armistice between France and Germany is signed at Compiegne. Its terms are read out loud to the French delegation by Generaloberst Keitel and provide for the occupation of the entire Channel and Atlantic coastlines, all major industrial areas, Alsace-Lorraine is to be returned to Germany. Most of southern France will remain unoccupied, with a French administrative centre at Vichy. The French Army and Navy is to be demobilized and disarmed and France is to bear the cost of the German occupation. All French prisoners of war are to remain in Germany until a peace treaty is signed. 1940: French representatives fly to Rome to negotiate with Mussolini. 1940: Italians bomb Alexandria, Egypt. 1940: Marshal Pétain closes Indochina route to China. Churchill closes Burma Road to avoid war with Japan. *Penny Edwards 1941: Just after midnight the Red Army is given orders to come to combat readiness, although they were still not allowed to occupy battle positions. At 3:15am, Operation 'Barbarossa' begins with German and Axis forces comprising 183 divisions (3,500,000 men), 3,350 tanks, 7,184 guns and 1,945 aircraft launching the biggest military operation in history on an 1,800-mile front from 'Finland to the Black Sea'. Three Army Groups supported by powerful Panzer armies and Luftwaffe bomber fleets, Army Group South (von Rundstedt) with Panzer Group 1 (von Kleist), Army Group Centre (von Bock) with Panzer Groups 2 (Guderian) and 3 (Hoth), and Army Group North (von Leeb) with Panzer Group 4 (Hoepner), go into action against 132 Soviet divisions (2,500,000 men), 20,000 tanks and 7,700 aircraft. The overall objective of the campaign is to destroy the Soviet forces in western Russia by the Autumn and to occupy the European part of the Soviet Union up to the line Archangel - Urals - Volga - Astrakhan. By the end of the first day, the Luftwaffe had destroyed 800 Soviet aircraft on the ground at 60 airfields and 400 in the air. The Red Army along the border seemed unprepared for the assault and offered only limited resistance, which allows the Panzer divisions to advance up to 50 miles and maul 12 Soviet divisions. 1941: Churchill calls the German invasion of Russia, ‘the fourth turning point of the war’ and offers to give whatever help we can. U.S. Army Air Forces Recruiting Poster by Artist Stanley Ekman - 1942 1941: Italy declares war on Soviet Union. Romanians enter Bessarabia to regain it. Slovakia severs diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. 1941: Japan proposes 120-day plan to conquer South by March 1942. 1942: A Japanese submarine shells Fort Stevens at the mouth of the Columbia River. Penny Edwards 1944: President Roosevelt signs the GI Bill of Rights which promises generous benefits for returning US servicemen. 1944: Allied planes drop 1,100 tons of bombs on Cherbourg. 1944: An all-out ground attack begins against Cherbourg. 1944: The communist organized sabotage group BOPA, attacks the Danish arms factory "Riffelsyndikatet" ("the Rifle Syndicate") in Copenhagen. Penny Edwards 1944: The Russian summer offensive, operation 'Bagration' begins against Army Group Centre in Byelorussia with assaults by the Soviet 1st Baltic, 3rd Belorussian 2nd and 1st Belorussian Fronts against Army Group Centre on a 450 mile front between Polotsk and Bobruysk. Soviet forces amount to 124 divisions, 1,200,000 men, 5,200 tanks, 30,000 guns and 6,000 aircraft. Against this, the German can field just 63 divisions, including 900 tanks and 10,000 guns. The Luftwaffe launches a surprise night raid (60 aircraft) on the US 8th Air Force's shuttle base at Poltava in the Ukraine, destroying 44 B-17s and 500,000 gallons of fuel. 1944: The British 2nd Division and 5th Indian Division meet on the Kohima-Imphal road, which is now completely clear of Japanese, lifting the 88-day siege of Imphal. The 'Chindits' begin an offensive on Mogaung in northern Burma. 1945: Japanese resistance ends on Okinawa as the U.S. Tenth Army completes its capture. Penny Edwards *Vivacious blue-eyed blonde Penny Edwards was born in New York City on August 24, 1928 and displayed signs of musical talent as a youth. She began studying dance by age six and, as a teen, appeared on Broadway in "The Ziegfeld Follies of 1943". After a couple of other musicals and a stint with the St. Louis Municipal Opera, she was signed by Warner Brothers in 1947. She showed great perk and promise as a second lead, singing and dancing opposite the likes of Dennis Morgan and Ben Blue in her film debut, "My Wild Irish Rose" (1947). She continued on winningly in the Shirley Temple vehicle "That Hagen Girl" (1947); then alongside Morgan again in "Two Guys from Texas" (1948); with Donald O'Connor and Marjorie Main in the rube musical "Feudin', Fussin' and A-Fightin'" (1948); and in another musical, "Tucson" (1949). After a successful vaudeville tour, Penny was signed by Republic Pictures and started off in a series of "prairie flower" ingénue roles while temporarily replacing a pregnant Dale Evans in a number of Roy Rogers oaters. In 1951, she wed agent Ralph Winters and had two daughters: Deborah Winters (born 1954), who would go on to become an actress in her own right, and Rebecca (born 1956). After a succession of "B" movies, Penny left Hollywood to focus on religious work. She later reappeared on the more popular TV shows of the day, including the westerns "Tales of Wells Fargo" (1957), "Wagon Train" (1957) and "Bonanza" (1959), and in light-hearted entertainment alongside Robert Cummings and Red Skelton in their respective shows. Penny's lovely, ladylike features also made a significant dent in the commercial market, appearing as "The Lux Girl", "The Palmolive Girl" and "The Tiparillo Girl". Following her divorce in 1958, Penny married Jerry Friedman and they had a son, David. That 1964 union would end up in the divorce courts as well. Penny retired from show biz completely by the mid-1960s and died, in 1998, of lung cancer, just two days after her 70th birthday.

Morning. A very humid 71F with a high temp of 82F. We dodged the rain yesterday. Hope we do again today. Forecast is more rain, 2 - 6 inches possible through Thursday. We do not need it.

Camels Cigarette Ad - June 1944 1940: Franco-German armistice negotiations begin at Compiegne, during which Hitler informs the French representatives of his terms in the same railway carriage as the German surrender was signed in 1918. Hitler issues a proclamation announcing the end of the war in the West and orders flags to be flown throughout Germany for ten days. 1941: Hitler orders German subs not to attack US warships. *Nina Foch 1941: Prime Minister Churchill comments on the possibility of an alliance with the Soviet Union: "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favorable reference to the Devil in the House of Commons." 1941: British forces occupy Damascus, while another British column invades Syria from Iraq. Nina Foch 1942: The Luftwaffe carries out a night raid against Southampton. 1942: German infantry and combat engineers of 11th Army are gaining ground slowly in their assault on Sevastopol, but the ferocious Russian defense at Sevastopol forces Adolf Hitler do something he doesn't like to do, namely delay the German Summer offensive. (WATCH GERMAN NEWSREEL) 1942: General Erwin Rommel captures the port city of Tobruk in North Africa. The Germans capture 32,000 prisoners, 2,000 tons of fuel, 5,000 tons of food and 2,000 vehicles. Nina Foch 1943: The RAF launches a heavy raid on Krefeld in the Ruhr, but lose 44 aircraft. 1943: Allies advance to New Georgia, Solomon Islands. Nina Foch 1944: The US 8th Air Force carries out raids on Berlin and the synthetic fuel plants at Leuna-Merseburg, which then continue on to Russia. 1944: A further Russians assault against the Finns opens in eastern Karelia. The Red Army begins an offensive between lakes Ladoga and Onega on the northern front. Nina Foch 1945: Organized resistance on Okinawa ends after 82 days of the bloodiest fighting in the Pacific, during which 98,654 Japanese have been killed and 6,922 captured. U.S. loses were 6,990 killed and 29,598 wounded. Nina Foch *Nina Foch was born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock on April 20, 1924 in Leiden, Holland. Her mother was American actress and singer Consuelo Flowerton, who returned to the U.S. after her marriage to Foch's father, Dutch classical music conductor Dirk Fock; they divorced when Nina was a toddler. Foch's movie fame came during the height of the 1940s, when she played cool, aloof, and often foreign women of sophistication. She would ultimately be featured in over 80 films and hundreds of television shows. The actress was a regular in John Houseman's "CBS Playhouse 90" television series. In 1951, she appeared with Gene Kelly in the musical "An American in Paris", which was awarded the Best Picture Oscar. Foch played Marie Antoinette in "Scaramouche" (1952) and Bithiah in Cecil B. DeMille's "The Ten Commandments" (1956), in which she played the Pharaoh's sister who found the baby Moses in the bullrushes, adopted him as her son, and joined him and the Hebrews in their Exodus from Egypt. Foch received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the boardroom drama "Executive Suite" (1954), starring William Holden. She appeared in "Spartacus" (1960) opposite Kirk Douglas and Laurence Olivier as a woman who chooses gladiators to fight to the death in the ring, simply for her entertainment. In 1963, she appeared as herself in the National Broadcasting Company game show "Your First Impression". In 1964, she appeared in the title role of the episode "Maggie, Queen of the Jungle" of Craig Stevens's CBS drama Mr. Broadway. She was cast as Eva Frazier in the "Outer Limits" episode "The Borderland". On television, she was cast as the first murder victim of the "Columbo" mystery series starring Peter Falk, appearing in the pilot movie, "Prescription: Murder" (1968), with Gene Barry as her husband, a homicidal psychiatrist. In the early 1970s, she guest starred on NBC's "The Brian Keith Show". In 1975, she appeared in the film "Mahogany" starring Diana Ross. More recently, she appeared on the television series "Just Shoot Me", "Bull" and "NCIS", the latter portraying Dr. Donald "Ducky" Mallard's elderly mother. Late in her career, she appeared as 'Frannie Halcyon' in the 1994 UK coproduction of Channel Four, Working Title Films and Propaganda Films that adapted Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City". She appeared in "War and Remembrance" as the seemingly-nice librarian who soon advises Jane Seymour's character that the best place for her and her uncle would be the un-aptly named "Paradise Ghetto". Another notable TV role was as the Overseer Commander, (or "Kleezantzun/" in the first of the "Alien Nation--The Series" TV Movies, 'Body and Soul'. Foch taught "Directing the Actor" classes at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, classes she had taught since the 1960s up to her death. She also worked as an independent script-breakdown consultant for many prominent Hollywood directors. Foch lived in Beverly Hills, California for 40 years, and had one son, Dr. Dirk de Brito. Foch married 3 times, the first to James Lipton, the future host of Inside the Actors Studio. She married Dennis Brito in 1959. The couple had one child before divorcing in 1963. Her last marriage, to Michael Dewell in 1967 ended in divorce in 1993. Foch died December 5, 2008, of complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, her son, Dr. Dirk De Brito, told the Los Angeles Times. She had become ill while teaching at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts.

Lottie's new Taurus was built in Chicago. Ford Edge CUV are built in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Ford Mustang are built at the AutoAlliance International plant in Flat Rock, Michigan. AutoAlliance International plant is a joint venture automobile assembly firm co-owned by Ford Motor Company and Mazda Motor Corporation. Ford Focus are built in Wayne, Michigan. Ford Fusion/Mercury Milan are built in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. Ford F-Series pickups are built in Dearborn, Michigan, Kansas City, Missouri, Valencia, Venezuela and Cuautitlan, Mexico. Ford Ranger are built in St. Paul, Minnesota, Edison, New Jersey and Louisville, Kentucky. Buick Lucerne are built in Hamtramck, Michigan. Chevrolet Malibu are built in Kansas City, Kansas & Lake Orion, Michigan. Cadillac CTS are built in Lansing, Michigan (also in Miaoli, Republic of China Kaliningrad, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia). Chrysler PT Cruiser are built in Toluca, Mexico. Though it was supposed to be dumped this model year due to lagging sales. Cadillac Escalade EXT are built in Silao, Mexico. Other models of the Escalade are built in Arlington, Texas. Chevy Tahoe, Chevrolet Suburban and GMC Yukon are also built in Arlington, Texas. Used to be built in Janesville, Wisconsin too. But that plant has been closed. Chevrolet Avalanche are built in Silao, Mexico. GMC Sierra/Chevy Silverado series pickups are built in Oshawa, Ontario, Canada, Flint, Michigan, Fort Wayne, Indiana, Pontiac, Michigan, Silao, Mexico and Caracas, Venezuela. Those are the vehicles that made the top 3 in each category. And yes, I got a wee bit carried away.

Led by Ford, American car makers out-perform Asian rivals in J.D. Power Initial Quality Survey for the first time. Way to go Ford! Lottie's new Taurus was #1 in the large car category!

Yes, but Whizkid belonged to a very influential family, related to the Royals you know. They had their shotguns and other weapons for the fox hunt, grouse hunting in Sherwood Forest, and shooting the Irish.

LMAO! I didn't know DH was so tall! :rofl:

Good to hear your in the virtual skies again Top Cat!