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Dave Zackin

On June 21, 1955 Sam Gray, David Rutford and Fred Hallberg begin their cruise down the Mississippi river from Saint Paul Minnesota on a homemade raft. The raft was built of barrels and planks. Power for the propeller was provided by a 1939 Chevrolet they had paid $15 for the car had 172,000 miles on it. The rear wheels of the car ran against another set of wheels which turned the propeller. The car’s steering wheel turned the raft’s rudder. In Saint Louis Missouri the men had a delay as the Chevy’s valves needed to be ground. Outside of Memphis Tennessee a bearing on the propeller shaft burned out but the men were able to repair it with tools borrowed from a barge crew. The men ran low on food as they discovered a stowaway was eating their food. The stowaway was a rat. The men tried fishing for food but caught nothing the entire trip. Other problems encountered included mosquitoes, driftwood in the river and backwash from passing barges. On July 25, 1955 the trio reached New Orleans. They planned to drive the Chevrolet back to Minnesota.

The three men made it back to Saint Paul driving the Chevrolet in 49 hours. The car used five gallons of oil for the return drive. Photo Ramsey County Historical Society.

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#Three men in a car raft #To say nothing of the rat

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Utsuwaya Mitasu

#to show JP

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Some art from a short Van Helsing comic in last year’s Bezoar No. 2:

http://littlehousecomics.bigcartel.com/product/bezoar-2

#dracula

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From Gaston Velle’s “La Fée aux Fleurs” (1905).

jareckiworld

Willie Cole — “Shoonufu Female Figure” (bronze sculpture, 2013)

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does anyone else look at this and see daffy duck

Puttin on the riiiiiiiitz 🧟‍♂️

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theliteralbear

Stained Glass Can of Sardines : Renske van Barschot

tockthewatchdog

optimization makes so many things better and safer and easier, but we also lose so much sauce and juice. like how every car now is a ridiculous jelly bean because it's all crumple zone so you can flip your car 6 times going 80 mph and walk away from the accident, but the price you pay is that your car is a big dumb jelly bean, and we will never look as cool as they did in the 70s, when 1 milliom people died every day bc they got distracted lighting their daughter's cigarette for her and drove their 10,000 pound oldsmobile cutlass through the steel railing of a bridge and instantly sank to the bottom of a river

#one milliom word of the year 2026