Born in Deutschland 1965, hometown was Bütthart, parents were not U.S. government employees. However, when father was tricked into joining the U.S. Air Force Civil Service, in 1969, with the promise that we could remain in Germany, we were promptly shipped off to Iran. Due to one of my Iranian educators being disappeared, along with her husband, by the U.S. ally Shah of Iran's Israeli & U.S. created Savak (for the then official terrorist act of promoting the idea that women can vote), and due to my U.S. citizen mother being placed on Savak's Terrorist Arrest List (for supporting the idea that women should vote, at that time the U.S. ally Shah of Iran did not allow women to vote, now they can) we left Iran for the United States in 1973, literally in the middle of the night. At the U.S. Embassy airbase the CIA operated Gooney Bird (C-47) was so packed with other U.S. citizens fleeing our ally Iran (because the Shah gave the OK to arrest any U.S. citizen for such terrorist acts as promoting the concept of voting) that we were turned away by the Loadmaster and had to take a chance on a civilian flight out of Tehran's airport.
My father told me he and my mother had three culture shocks; first when they arrived in Germany as civilians, then after being shipped off to Iran as U.S. government employees, then again returning to the United States as unemployed civilians (because so much had changed in the U.S. while they were gone, their only news source was the U.S. Armed Forces Radio & Television Service which heavily censored information about the home front).
Since I graduated high school in 1982 I've worked for U.S. government contractors and state & local government agencies (in California), convenience store manager in California, retail/property management in Georgia, California and Idaho. Spent the 1990s in the TV news business producing number one rated local news programs in California, Arizona and Idaho. 14+ years with California and Idaho Army National Guard and the U.S. Air Force. Obtained a BA degree in International Studies from Idaho State University at the age of 42.
Unemployed since 2015, so don't tell me the economy has recovered.
The Silver Surfer first appeared on Earth in 1966, maybe the metallic alien drove a 1963 Oldsmobile Silver Cutlass F-85, while giving his cosmic surfboard a rest?
Apparently the lucky owner of this 1932 cabriolet easily won it at an auction because almost nobody else was interested! On top of that, when it arrived it had everything, including a working top and an original trunk.
Perhaps this 1940 Ford DeLuxe made the Burma Run in less than 12 chop suey-ies? (this is my reference to the Burma/China Theater of war during the Second World War)
A Chevy 3100 pickup arrived at the Oldies Rod & Custom car show (for the Pocatello Senior Activity Center), and it’s not the first time I’ve seen this dark horse from 1956.
The City of Blackfoot held its Celebrate Blackfoot (aka Blackfoot Pride Days) event, 27-28JUN2025. The event has been a yearly thing for more than a decade (except during the hyperbolic ‘pland-emic’). Note that Chamber of Commerce officials estimate that between 8-thousand and 10-thousand people attend the annual event and consider the City has an official federal Census population of only 13,380!
Red Bus escaped Scotland to live as a refugee in Idaho?
Many, many years ago the celebration supposedly started out as a community clean-up day, then evolved into three days of various events. Sometime in the late two thousand teens (maybe in 2020? Pland-emic times) the name was changed from Blackfoot Pride Days to Celebrate Blackfoot.
Normally, the events center around the pond known as Jensen Grove and of course involves several water-sporting events, but not this year. There was so much water running high and fast in the nearby Snake River that the diversion dam, which feeds Jensen Grove, was undermined and had to be shutdown.
The only water in the pond is coming from a local canal which doesn’t provide enough to fill Jensen Grove. The City estimates it’ll cost them short of $200-thousand to fix the diversion dam.
Hungry?:
There was still a lot of vendors (especially food), a cool car show…
The Misawa Auto Complex conducted their first ever Cars & Coffee on Misawa Air Base, Japan, 08MAY2025:
Hayden Proffitt’s Hot Streak-2 jet truck races Greg Colyer’s T-33 Shooting Star during the Air Power over Hampton Roads show on Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia.
In April 2025, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina, had their yearly airshow, which includes several super-cars racing against a T-6 Texan training aircraft from World War Two. I had to edit together several videos provided by MCAS Beaufort:
Arnold Air Force Base (AFB), Tennessee, Company Grade Officer’s Council conducted a Burger Burn & Car Show on 27JUL2023, U.S. Air Force report by David Wright:
In September 2023, the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) conducted a car show and fundraiser in Killeen, Texas, for local Army veterans:
U.S. Army Garrison Poland’s Family-Morale, Welfare, and Recreation (MWR) hosts a car show on Camp Kościuszko-U.S. V Corps’ Forward Operating Station Poznań (aka V Corps Headquarters-Forward). Video report by Specialist Jon Cortez, 03AUG2023:
In July 2016, Vandenberg AFB, California, conducted a car-show-BBQ fundraiser for Operation Kids’ Christmas:
In November 2012, a Soviet Ural showed up at a car show on Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas:
The Idaho State Veterans Home in Pocatello, Idaho, conducted a car show and barbeque to honor fellow veterans, on 14JUN2025.
A survivor of the Second World War reported for duty at the 
A couple of old Fords showed up at the 
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