A village in Holland .. With no roads AT ALL! It is the village of Giethoorn ..
When the Northwest logging industry was still young…
Just look at the length of the hand saw they needed…
an…. two-man saws… check this one out…..
…and look at the size of the heavy duty axes…
The work required very strong and courageous men…
After a tree was felled the real work began - a week or more to cut it up…
Maneuvering the logs down the mountain to the train was a complex job…
Some of the logs were larger than the train engine…
A hollowed out log became the company’s mobile office…
Hollowed out logs were also used to house and feed the crews…
DON’T LOOK BELOW FOR THE ANSWERS UNTIL YOU HAVE TRIED IT OUT A TEST FOR ‘OLDER’ KIDS
The answers are printed below, (after the questions) but don’t cheat! answer them first…..
01.After the Lone Ranger saved the day and rode off into the sunset, the grateful citizens would ask, Who was that masked man? Invariably, someone would answer, I don’t know, but he left this behind. What did he leave behind?________________.
02.When the Beatles first came to the U.S. .In early 1964, we all watched them on The _______________ Show.
03’Get your kicks, __________________.’
04.’The story you are about to see is true. The names have been changed to ___________________.’
05.’In the jungle, the mighty jungle, ________________.’
06. After the Twist, The Mashed Potato, and the Watusi, we ‘danced’ under a stick that was lowered as low as we could go in a dance called the ‘_____________.’
07.Nestle’s makes the very best . .… _________ ______.’
08..Satchmo was America ‘s ‘Ambassador of Goodwill.’ Our parents shared this great jazz trumpet player with us. His name was _________________.
09.What takes a licking and keeps on ticking? _______________.
10. Red Skeleton’s hobo character was named __________________ and Red always ended his television show by saying, ‘Good Night, and ‘________ ________.. ‘
11.Some Americans who protested the Vietnam War did so by burning their______________.
12. The cute little car with the engine in the back and the trunk in the front was called the VW. What other names did it go by? ____________ &_______________.
13.In 1971, singer Don MacLean sang a song about, ‘the day the music died.’ This was a tribute to ___________________.
14..We can remember the first satellite placed into orbit. The Russians did it. It was called ___________________.
15. One of the big fads of the late 50’s and 60’s was a large plastic ring that we twirled around our waist. It was called the __ ______________.
ANSWERS :
01..The Lone Ranger left behind a silver bullet.
02.The Ed Sullivan Show
03..On Route 66
04..To protect the innocent.
05.The Lion Sleeps Tonight
06.The limbo
07.Chocolate
08..Louis Armstrong
09.The Timex watch
10..Freddy, The Freeloader and ‘Good Night and God Bless.’
11.Draft cards (Bras were also burned. Not flags, as some have guessed)
12.Beetle or Bug
13.Buddy Holly
14.Sputnik
15.Hoola-hoop
Send this to your ‘older’ friends, (Better known as Seniors.) It will drive them crazy! And keep them busy and let them forget their aches and pains for a few minutes.
