Happy Labor Day

Posted on September 2, 2013 by lmsinca

labor day

I’ve always been rather partial to Labor Day.  When I was a kid we started school the Tuesday after.  It was sort of summer’s Last Hurrah.  The kids here have already been in school for two weeks.  The pool’s exceedingly pleasant right now though and it’s been hotter and muggier than any other time this summer so we’re lighting up the barbeque and enjoying one more swim party with the kids and a few neighbors.  We brought back smoked albacore and salmon yesterday from one of our favorite restaurants in Carlsbad.  Walter’s barbequing ribs for the meat eaters and I’m making a fancy pasta salad and barbequed corn and of course watermelon and homemade peach ice cream.  Everyone brings their own drinks and so I never know how wild things will get.   Tomorrow I start working on last years taxes……………boo hoo.

Happy Labor Day everyone!

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Today in history – September 2

Posted on September 2, 2013 by ScottC

1969 – Chemical Bank in Rockville Center, New York introduces the automated teller machine to its customers, the first ATM to appear in the US. ATM’s will go on to alter the face of personal banking across the world, and have become an indispensable feature to every day life.
atm

1959 – Responding to the increasing appeal of smaller imported cars, Ford introduces the Falcon, its first compact, fuel efficient car dubbed “the small car with the big car feel”. Priced at only $1,900, the car is a huge hit, with dealers ordering 97,000 of the cars on the first day alone, and more than 2 million of them are sold in its first two years. My dad had a Falcon when I was a kid.
falcon

1945 – Aboard the USS Missourri, Japanese Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezu of the Imperial Army formally sign unconditional surrender documents, officially ending World War II. The surrender ceremony in color.

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