LARRY'S RAMBLE

Our backyard in Carmel, not now - click   I get antsy in the Spring.  I am always waiting for the "fringies", those tiny openi...

A magazine ad for Packard, c.1949   Before television auto ads by manufacturers were in magazines, and I think some things went in the m...

  Advertisers often use the word "FREE", whether it's a free gift or free shipping, people like the word free.  In my humble...

  Yesterday in Bangor, Maine a man standing on an observation deck overlooking Kenduskeag Stream wanted a closer look; he climbed under th...

  Recent TV ads for Toyota cars offer "Zero percent" or "Zero down" if you buy one, the disclaimer fine print states ...

  When I was born things were a little different than now, that's probably true for most people, unless they're only 2 or 3 years ...

As seen from the air.  Fort Knox and the Penobscot Narrows Bridge. Bangor Daily News Photo - click   Now in the news in this neck of th...