Due to unforeseen circumstances(involving a young lady and an Infinity), Project MollyFloggin’ has been postponed, following satisfactory performance by Molly Blue in the 50 mph head-on collision test.

Molly Blue has been recovered to the Route 66 Rambler base facility for technical evaluation by the Engineering Services Department.

Seatbelt performed above expectations, for 34-year-old units sporting frayed edges. The collapsible steering column functioned as designed.

Pending further testing, the pilot appears to be functional at this time.

The other driver appeared to be OK as well.
mike

After nearly two years in the same place, the Report has moved off of the BraveNet Free Blog service.  The same reason as the original move from Yahoo! 360.   There is far too much advertising, and the huge thing takes forever to load.  Now it has also become unstable, and before losing everything like what happened at Yahoo!(twice), I have archived, copied, and moved, here into my own space.  This blog is currently the only thing on Route66Rambler.NET.   Since I pay for the space and own the domain name, there is no point anymore in putting up with that free piece of crap.  It was a beautiful looking blog, but it runs so slow, so much advertising, and takes so long to do anything at all with.  So I figured with my monthly traffic starting to reach above 1300 on this journal, that I should just install my own blog software, and use the space that I am paying for.

Everything that was at the old Report 66 is now here as well.  Everything will run WAY faster, and now it can be integrated into the Route 66 Rambler main page, The AMC Heritage Forum, and the RustBucket Image Host, with database tracking of everything I put here, that can be searched and related to the other sites.

Everything Will Be Better Now.  Goodbye to the Bravenet Free Blog.  That blog will be left up with a statement about the move,  until the first of the year,  then the account will be deleted.  Thank you for your patience in the move.

-mike

Flagship of the Fleet: Life and Death of the USS Arizona

 The most common image of the Arizona is of the ship in flames, after the attack in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This exhibit tells the rest of the story. The exhibit’s focus is personal. Using rare artifacts and photographs, the exhibition tells the story of the men on board. It brings the history of the ship up to date with film footage documenting the research work that has been conducted by the National Park Service’s Submerged Resources Center since the 1980s.

- From a current exhibit at the Museum Division of the Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records.

From the Arizona Daily Star in Tucson, a recollection and insights by a survivor: