Around Key West the well known saying, the city's official motto, appears on bumper stickers all over the place. And those with a sense of humor like to cut up and rearrange "One Human Family" to suit their own purposes.
This is how it is supposed to look, All People Are Members of One Human Family. A motto that gets regurgitated frequently in the Citizen's Voices asking if bums, chickens and aliens are also members of the One Human Family and thus deserving of respect.
Love makes a family is not a city sanctioned sentiment but some people, even engineers have been known to get behind that idea. This sort of thing could be considered the ideal Key West home, a quiet street, lots of greenery and a dark blue sky over it all.
I saw this bus across the street and the color scheme attracted my camera, not to mention the typical architecture behind it..
Many years ago I owned a VW bus of a slightly different hue, a sort of gold color actually. However I wanted to go camping in it and I bought one with a Naugahyde bed and small wooden closets to put things in. I drove that machine all over California and Mexico. It was just like the one in the photos with the split front windshield and it even had Grateful Dead sticker son it. The result of that was wispy bearded hippies used to come up to me at gas stations and ask me where the next concert was, man. Like I knew.
The bus had one awful fault, it was six volt. The result was it hated to started in cold damp weather of which we had an abundance in Santa Cruz, California so i was always obliged to find a hill to park it on, so I could bump start it in the pre-dawn mornings when I went to work to read the morning news on the radio. I remember going camping in Yosemite at Christmas one year in the late 1980s. I was into photography and wanted to take black and white pictures of snow. The engine would only start from warm so I had to get up every three hours in the freezing night temperatures and run the van engine for 15 minutes as I couldn't find a hill to park it on in the campground.
This is how it is supposed to look, All People Are Members of One Human Family. A motto that gets regurgitated frequently in the Citizen's Voices asking if bums, chickens and aliens are also members of the One Human Family and thus deserving of respect.
Love makes a family is not a city sanctioned sentiment but some people, even engineers have been known to get behind that idea. This sort of thing could be considered the ideal Key West home, a quiet street, lots of greenery and a dark blue sky over it all.
I saw this bus across the street and the color scheme attracted my camera, not to mention the typical architecture behind it..
Many years ago I owned a VW bus of a slightly different hue, a sort of gold color actually. However I wanted to go camping in it and I bought one with a Naugahyde bed and small wooden closets to put things in. I drove that machine all over California and Mexico. It was just like the one in the photos with the split front windshield and it even had Grateful Dead sticker son it. The result of that was wispy bearded hippies used to come up to me at gas stations and ask me where the next concert was, man. Like I knew.The bus had one awful fault, it was six volt. The result was it hated to started in cold damp weather of which we had an abundance in Santa Cruz, California so i was always obliged to find a hill to park it on, so I could bump start it in the pre-dawn mornings when I went to work to read the morning news on the radio. I remember going camping in Yosemite at Christmas one year in the late 1980s. I was into photography and wanted to take black and white pictures of snow. The engine would only start from warm so I had to get up every three hours in the freezing night temperatures and run the van engine for 15 minutes as I couldn't find a hill to park it on in the campground. Youth is a time of great patience and resilience. And seeing an old vehicle brings back all the memories.
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I see you got your first ad. Congrats - hope it raises some money for you! Keep posting and I'll keep reading!
Diana in Citrus
I've always wanted a VW Bus, but I can only afford one rust bucket at a time. I used to own a 78 Datsun 280Z that ran strong and earned me many speeding tickets. That car met its demise when a nice old lady crossed into my lane and hit me head on. A sad day. I'm currently restoring a '73 240Z. Someday, I'd like to drive it down US1...
Thank you Diana. I worry about all this stuff but I am keeping my eye on taking the pictures and typing the words. The plan is to move to keywestdiary.us as seamlessly as possible whewre I will organize more and better links to Florida and Keys sites. My original content will not change.
Rob: a 240z would be a great car down here. My stepmother had one years ago and it was one of her best cars I think.
That's my wife's car; the sentiments are hers.
As for the bus - it belongs to Bobby and Robert, the owners of the pink house directly behind. Jeff Beale painted the bumpers; Bobby did recent repaint and decorate.
on to 6V systems...
They are absolutely perfectly fine - as long as the connections are free of corrosion, the battery is healthy, and the brushes on the starter and generator are making solid clean contact on the commutator.
A day's worth of simple cleaning takes care of 95% of 6V issues.
We've had a 6V system in the family since '73 - starting has never been a problem.
black and white pix of snow? Wow - that was some good stuff you were on back in the day!
From the land mentioned on one of those bumper stickers,
Chuck on Fleming.
I didn't say a word about whose car it is.
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