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Ford introduces the Falcon, the first ever American small car.http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ford-introduces-the-compact-fuel-efficient-falcon
On September 2, 1959, at a news conference broadcast to viewers in 21 cities on closed-circuit television, Henry Ford II introduces his company’s newest car–the 90-horsepower, 30 miles-per-gallon Falcon. The Falcon, dubbed “the small car with the big car feel,” was an overnight success. It went on sale that October 8 and by October 9, dealers had snapped up every one of the 97,000 cars in the first production run.In 1959, each one of Detroit’s Big Three automakers began to sell a smaller, zippier, lower-priced car: Ford had the Falcon, while General Motors had the Corvair and Chevrolet had the Valiant.
My buddy had an old, yellow Falcon (dubbed Super Car) after we got out of the Army. If you lifted the floor mats on the passenger side, you could see the road in spots through the rusted out floor board. Some memories there ..... "Hold my beer."
I got my great-grandmother's '63.5 Falcon to drive through high school. 260 V8, 2 speed automatic and quick enough I was even with a 318 Duster in the 1/4 mi.But that article had a bad mistake:The Valiant was a Plymouth. My grandmother had one like this:(Image removed from quote.)
My parents had a Valiant when I was a young boy. Only think I really remember about it was the curb feelers.
Francis Scott Key pends the national anthem in 1814. The last good thing to come out of Baltimore.
Actually he was a Washington attorney and he got out of balmer as fast as he could.
Aside from Babe Ruth, John Waters, Cab Calloway, and Edgar Allan Poe that's probably true.
Edgar Allen Poe never made it out of balmer, he found the opiate epidemic and found it to his liking.
yesterday was the 55th anniversary of JFK's pledge to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
I'd have to do some digging but I read an article years ago about how med students were given case files and symptom lists of real patients to practice diagnostics and determine cause of death. There was no indicator of who the patients were. Someone reviewed one of the cases and said 'Oh. Looks like Rabies.' More practiced actual doctors looked at it and concurred that it was highly likely. The case file belonged to Edgar Allen Poe.
