2007/5/14 birdie99 on 43things was greeted this morning with news that daimler chrysler is being sold.
birdie99 hears that today the cost of mailing one letter by first class mail is forty one cents.
birdie99 fears that industrial america is vanishing.
birdie99 knows that math can take you places but the place she most fears is the shelter for homeless people.
birdie99 remembers six flags over texas. her graduating class went there all night back in may of 1963.
birdie99 remembers Disneyland.
john crotty took his wife and two daughters there the summer of 1962. people were sleeping every where as birdie99 recalls.
automobiles that run on fossil fuel have had a long run. not as long as the horses they replaced though. amish people never gave up their horses. amish people still know how to live close to nature.
birdie99 will make her film about henry ford and how he disliked horses. henry ford and how he was interested in soy beans. henry ford and the way he continued to counsel with thomas edison as the plans for the quadricycle went forward. henry ford and his assembly line. henry ford and his sense of his own place in history.
birdie99 will also look at howard hughes and aviation.