Monday Night ONT - August 24, 2026 [TRex]

Good evening Horde. The time has come for Monday shenanigans. The bar is open and the refrigerator has been freshly re-stocked with Orange Soda.

Welcome to the Monday night ONT which means vintage overnight fun and games. Pull up a chair and join the fun. Good will offerings of amusing puns are encouraged. Be nice to your fellow commenters and AoS contributors. Pants are optional. This ONT is a Tucker, Candace, Megyn, and Bill Kristol free zone. Fauci is fair game.

Horde prayers this evening for all who mourn.

[Top photo: Crazy Ann's Fireworks, Vonore, Tennessee circa 1984 - there is no evidence that Crazy Ann's is still in business. RIP Crazy Ann's Fireworks.]

The Monday ONT has dialed up the wayback machine tonight with very random results.

The Whistle Bottling Works was located in Washington DC at the corner of 4th Street and F Street NE, just a few blocks from Union Station. Farber Bottling Company operated the Whistle Bottling Works in the 1920s and bottled Whistle orange soda along with other carbonated beverages. 1923 photo.

America's rivers once were the primary means to deliver timber. Each spring, logs were cut and floated downstream from the Adirondack Mountains to sawmills along the Hudson River. 1907 photo.

Drive-in movie theater in Lakewood, California. 1981 photo. It closed on September 3, 1990 with a final double feature: Shrimp on the Barbie and Arachnophobia. It was demolished and redeveloped into a commercial area known as Long Beach Town Square.

The New Orleans Cotton Exchange circa 1900 at the corner of Carondelet and Gravier Streets. The ornate building was demolished around 1920-1921 due to structural problems. A new building was constructed in 1921 and currently houses the AC Hotel New Orleans French Quarter (a Marriott property).

During World War I, some British and American military ships were painted in patterns called "dazzle camouflage." The designs were meant to confuse German U-boat crews trying to target them. Sub crews had to estimate a ship's distance, speed, and direction before firing a torpedo. The patterns were intended to make it more difficult to determine direction and the bow from its stern. Unclear whether the dazzle camouflage was actually had an impact.

Theater in Ouray, Colorado circa 1940. The "Uray" phonetic spelling was common at the time. The theater is long gone but the building still exists at 640 Main Street.

This is a popcorn stand in Iowa Falls, Iowa in 1939. Don't know anything else about it but the guy peeking around from behind the popcorn machine clearly did not want to be in the photo. The girl doesn't look thrilled either.

Bearre's Garage in Davy, West Virginia in 1938. Located deep in the coal fields. Welch is nearby. If you know Welch, West Virginia, that should tell you something. The roadsigns point to Iaeger, Oceana and Baileysville. No sign of a building on that location today but the train tracks remain.

Valley Grand Motor Co. (tractor and farm implement store) in Harlingen, Texas in 1939. Harlingen is in the heart of the Rio Grande Valley's farming region. The interweb suggests a location on or near West Harrison Avenue but don't think the building remains.

If you lived in Rock Springs, Wyoming in 2004, this is where you might have stocked up on Wonderbread. The building still exists but no longer operates as a Wonderbread business.

Movie time - the Ford B-24 assembly line:

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