"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
I was born too late...Again......Ben
The future is forged on the anvil of history...The interpreter of history wields the hammer... - Unknown author...
Didn’t even have deposit bottles back then.. people returned their bottles because they said that they would..
BTW.. back then, what is now Construction Ave was a swampy creek.. across Constitution Ave, below 15th street was the “ruff” section of town and wholesale food markets.. all torn down during depression and Federal Triangle was built, there today,, one section of federal triangle was delayed because Old Post Office had to be torn down.. never torn down, is Trump Hotel today
There are other downfalls to Ben's thriving metal business. I read an article the other day that one of his competitors I don't think he was in Texas found a dead body in the weeds.
OPINION....a view or judgment formed about something, not necessarily based on fact or knowledge.
Numbers one and three would be OK if you got in a shoot out in a boxing ring---while standing in the middle
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” ---Sir Winston Churchill
"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all." ---John W. Gardner
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” ---C. S. Lewis
That is the origin of the saying, "keep your enemies close " cause at 5 paces you can't hit them!