Made To Be Blacked And Bred. 🤴🏿👸🏼🤰🏼🤱🏼👶🏿

Also, on my Lotto list of cars.

Cadillac Eldorado 1967. - source Cars & Motorbikes Stars of the Golden era.

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USS Houston, CA 30 valiantly fights on alone during the night of February 27-28, 1942 against an overwhelming Japanese Naval Force.

“They Sold Their Lives Dearly” by Tom Freeman.

Sweet. A 69 or maybe a 70. ❤😎

Cadillac DeVille

Can so see her under a BBC Bull begging for his seed. 🤴🏿👸🏼🤰🏼🤱🏼👶🏿

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Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz 1959. - source The Ghosts of Cadillacs Past.

Oh, I so miss mine. Best car I ever owned.

1975 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham

So cool that the Navy did this back in day.

From December 17, 1929 to January 16, 1930, USS Lexington (CV-2) provided electricity to the city of Tacoma, Washington.

"The city of Tacoma, Washington (pop. 106,817 in the 1930 Census) depended for its electric power on the Lake Cushman Dam, near the southeast corner of the Olympic National Park. Very unusual drought conditions in the summer and fall of 1929 caused a severe low-water problem. When the penstock intakes to the hydro-electric plant began to show above the receding water-level. Tacoma found itself in desperate trouble. As there was no power-grid inter-tie system in those days, the city was literally 'out of juice.' The city fathers begged for assistance."

Nearby in the Puget Sound Navy Yard, USS Lexington was undergoing regular maintenance. The US Navy sent her on loan to generate power in Commencement Bay and tied up at Baker Dock. As she would be stationary, her berth was dredged to insure sufficient circulation for her condenser intakes. This was the first time that a ship was used in this capacity.

Power cables were run from the ship's generator to a transformer on Baker Dock.

Footage of the crew running the lines from the carrier and workmen attaching them to the transformers.

About this time, winter rains finally started to fill the lakes necessary for the operation of the power plants. Tacoma was able to once again function normally with Lexington proving 25% of the city's power. The grateful city paid $78,509.60 (1.85 per KWH) for the total of 4.250,960 KWH (Kilowatt Hours) generated to the Navy.

source, source, source

NHHC: UA 474.12, 80-G-647800

Chapin Bowen Collection: G71.1-116, G71.1-114, G71.1-122, TPL-6938

Tacoma Public Library: G71.1-115

Marvin D. Boland Collection: BOLAND-B21835

Anderson, Richard M., and Arthur D. Baker. “CV-2 LEX and CV-3 SARA.” Warship International 14, no. 4 (1977): 291–328. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44890158.

USC: MVTN_4-658_Acc

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A truly interracial prom night!

The only one of the ZRs the USN place in service that survived.

USS Los Angeles (ZR-3) in flight over the Statue of Liberty, 9 May 1930

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