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Low Overhead = Low Rates

[Street office in Mumbai, India, ca. 2010 found here; same office in 2012 here.]

No Words.

R.I.P. Charlie Kirk (1993-2025)

PSA Movietime Fun

Half a beer, one leapfrog too many, and then she fell off a cliff in Maui.

ALCOHOL AND YOU (28 minutes, color, 1969). Produced by Max Miller for Avanti Films, Bailey-Film Associates, Los Angeles, California:

“This film establishes that young people are growing up in a drinking society in which it is easy for them to slip into the attitudes and drinking patterns of the one-in-fifteen drinkers who become alcoholic. Well known physicians provide concrete illustrations of the health hazards and emphasize that excessive drinking will produce the same physiological and social deterioration as alcoholism.”

[Images found here.]

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Bridge Fire – Wrightwood, Angeles National Forest

[Photo date 10 September 2024 found here. Photo from following day found here. Bridge Fire summary here.]

Online Shopping Frauds

[More misrepresentations here.]

Two Guys

[Found here. LaCrosse Wisconsin Oktoberfest parade ca. 2019 according to Reddit.]

Steno-Disc Records Actual Business Letters

Artist unknown, produced by Jerrold B. Thorpe, Keane Records, Hollywood, CA.  (early to mid 1950s).

No. 507 – “Congressional Record”
SIDE A
Track 1: 9 min. at 150 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
Track 2: 9 min. at 160 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
SIDE B
Track 1: 9 min. at 170 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice
Track 2: 9 min. at 189 WPM Shorthand Dictation Practice

Back cover is from Steno-Disc No. 513 – Business Letters for Students and Shorthand Brush-Up by Steno-Disc Records, Los Angeles CA.

Bet you want to hear a sample, ya? Steno-Disc No.506 is a good ‘un. On Track 4 a guy quits his job at the Globe Sales Co. and gets hired by a competitor. He doesn’t bother to give his name to his boss, Mr. Carl Fox, but I assume Carl figured it out when the guy didn’t show up for work on Monday.

There’s a three-car pile up on Track 10. Some guy who just quit his job went on a bender and ended up in court.

Some reasonably priced copies of several editions are available at Discogs.
The woman on the covers of the series? Carol Burnett.

False Advertising

[Found here.]