A test for young people

Stormin Mormon · 2010-01-28T15:18:03+00:00

Ask people you know who are under 25, you'll be amazed at theanswers!1. What is a record player?2. What is a dial telephone?3. Who were the Beatles?4. What is an 8-track tape player?5. How many major wars occured in the 20th century?6. What is inflation?7. What is the cheapest price you can remember for gas?8. What was the draft?9. How were things done before computers?10. How did people send a letter before e-mail?

Jan 28, 2010 66 Replies

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aslub 16 years ago

Mount Holiday was down for a couple years after the owner was killed running a tractor on the slope. A local group took it over as a non-profit and is doing great with it again. We (in the neighborhood) all contribute and it is great to see the kids walk by with their snowboards and skis in the evening.

Congrats on finishing the IceMan. It finishes at Timber Ridge (formerly Jellystone Park) now and last year was the largest in the nation with 4400 entries (someone said there was a glitch the included an extra 1500). I signed up two years ago, but sudden heart problems kept me from competing. Improved intelligence keeps me from doing so now.

I live 6 houses above the ski hill now.

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Ed Huntress 16 years ago

Do you know the magic number?

It's all urban numbers. The basic CPI-U covers 87% of the US population. Non-metropolitan, non-farm numbers track the CPI pretty well; there is no significant, cumulative separation between those costs and urban costs.

In other words, the prices may be different, but the relationship between them is pretty stable. So an index number that measures trends, such as CPI, reflects the whole pattern across the country, over time. It may lag or lead one region or another by a quarter or so but prices don't spread apart or close up in the longer run.

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Ed Huntress 16 years ago

If you noticed my other post, the old timers say it was Empire. But there's still something I'm not sure about: Why was it called the Traverse City Hillclimb? I'm sure it was. One guy said it was because a Traverse City club sponsored it in the early years. And he described the course, which sounds vaguely familiar -- although still vague. These guys started around 1970; I drove in the '68 event.

I still have a source or two to check out.

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Leon Fisk 16 years ago

WAG, maybe it was Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive? See:

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Michael A. Terrell 16 years ago

What business is it of yours that they want to prevent big companies from putting everyone else out of business, then gouging the customers when there is no other choice?

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Ed Huntress 16 years ago

I'm going to have to get back to some of the guys in the club in Traverse City and probe a little deeper. Some of them are older than me.

But I've driven on Pierce Stocking Drive, not many years ago, when we were vacationing in Charlevoix. My son was about 5 years old and he wanted to tumble down the dune. I wouldn't let him.

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