I missed the Staff meeting, but the Memos showed that Gunner Asch
wrote on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 00:31:41 -0700
in rec.crafts.metalworking :

Yike, it used to be 70 or maybe 75 in some parts of the UP. But gas was 36
cents/gallon then. d8-)

29 cents/gallon when I was there, Ed. Da signs said 65/55 back then
but they were regarded as suggestions. Might see two other cars on
M-28 in the 60 miles between US-41 and Seney in those days. There
were some notorious speed traps in the L.P. but we never had any
problems in the U.P.


Crom....I remember hitchhiking the Seney Stretch one day in mid
winter......took hours to get a ride.

It was always a toss up. No cars either meant the divers would
take pity and pick you up, or would sail right by you "too".

I remember hitching back from Switzerland, Easter Weekend. Bumper
to bumper traffic, and someone on "autotramp" every twenty meters ...
I got home just in time to shower, change and got to work.
--
pyotr filipivich
"I had just been through hell and must have looked like death warmed
over walking into the saloon, because when I asked the bartender
whether they served zombies he said, ‘Sure, what'll you have?'"
from I Hear America Swinging by Peter DeVries