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Never seen this before. https://www.ebay.com/itm/195749319105?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=5r4paiajqoe&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=bXaTUpW8TnK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Just to cover the bases here, I’m going with MFC🤣🤣🤣

Close! I joined in June 1975 https://www.hullnumber.com/DDG-14

This is typical of polished mibs, I always look for sharp edges on blowouts.

Use a light table when sorting, it is amazing what you find.

Back on the music thread… I had a meeting with a client last week, they want me to add photos to my technical report. I HATE putting pictures in my report. So I made the comment about “27 8-1/2x11 glossies with circles and arrows, and a paragraph on the back”. I got complete blank stares, so I asked who has heard Arlo Guthrie’s “Alice’s Restaurant”. More blank stares…🤯🤯🤯 I sent them a link to the YouTube song, no one watched it, it was too long.😢😢

There is a website, EAPGS.net that has references to all Early American Pattern Glass. we recently joined a local depression glass collection group in the PNW that has been a great help in IDing old glass.

No clue, but wife has been on a “UV” kick since I bought her a UV light. She has a number of UV perfume bottles.

Little slow on the “pickup”…🤣🤣

First time in 20 years I put marbles in a case for sale. I had a booth with my previous wife, we had a high-security gun display case where we put the good stuff. Someone lifted a bunch of higher-end AKROs, the store owner shrugged it off. We packed up that same day we found the loss. Fast forward 15 years and we (my current and last wife) had a locked case in a local store, had an expensive Case knife stolen. Again, pulled and left. this is my 3rd attempt selling in a local store. While we were stocking I noticed 2 knives were gone. Habit kicked in and I was pissed. Turned out the owner had sold them, listed them as being for another seller.🤯 we have talked about opening our own store, even selling from the house. But I don’t want strangers wandering around our “museum”, too many expensive smalls out in the open.

Do you know who made glass dice? I’ve never seen one before.

Trying my best to start downsizing, but it’s hard. I found a Blenko 5616C vase while we were there, too inexpensive to leave it. https://www.ebay.com/itm/364212620687?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=HkiWpCqRQyi&sssrc=2349624&ssuid=bXaTUpW8TnK&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

Wife “ no, you can’t buy those jars of marbles” Me “Why not???” (Whiny voice) Wife “Because you just put them in the case!!!”

haha… I have a lot of memories that are not printable. almost got married in both Taiwan, and Olongapo. Fortunately, neither happened. We are what/where we are now because of our past… wouldn’t trade my life for $100 million.

We seem to have drifted from the music theme…?

I wouldn’t trade one minute of those 5 years for a million dollars. It made me who I am today.

I remember being in a sushi restaurant in Fukuoka, the locals were buying us drinks for being “poor US sailors”. We were singing rock-n-roll songs along with the jukebox, woke up with on hell of a headache.

I have a patch somewhere for the USS Chicago being turned into razor blades in 1980, I was on the decomm crew. The captain was pissed and banned them from being worn.

I remember hearing about that issue… it was expensive, and the Suntory whiskey sucked. The beer was good.

We had nuclear ASROCS onboard DDG-14, but nobody talked about them. I remember hearing about the testing, fire one and book at 30 knots in the opposite direction, the ship still took serious structural damage. Destroyers were expendable, all to save the carrier.

The shellback ritual went woke, no abuse allowed. They saved a weeks galley garbage on a tarp on the aft deck we had to crawl thru. I had my shower sandals on my knees under my dungarees to keep from scraping them while crawling around the decks. got soaked with a firehose on the bow while doing 25 knots.

Never had any issues in Yokuska Japan, even went to Fukuoka in China. They were happy to take our money.

After that we monitored 2 ICBM launches from a sub. Was supposed to by 500yds from launch, it broke water about 200yds out, scared the crap out of everyone on deck. crossed the equator for shellback ceremonies, I have pictures of the event. It was intense, the firehose shelighlies hurt like hell.

In 1977 on Westpac, we did a unrep with the USS Shasta. Our aft boiler fuel pumps tripped and Had to do a breakaway. Shasta cut the cables before we could release, the cables wrapped around our port shaft, which was my engineroom. 85RPM to 0 in a heartbeat, the reduction gears jumped maybe 6”. Hit the main steam stop valve and booked it out of the space, never been so scared. We limped into Guam and spent two weeks there. Crazy times…