A look at the past...Wooden Stop Signs

I mistakenly called a recent foray into the countryside a ‘day trip’. It was actually a couple of hours ride through the back roads. We do this often. The road less traveled, so to speak. But you never can tell what you may chance to see.
A few years back, we jumped into the car for no reason, other than a break from the mundane. Ended up at a railroad crossing that actually still had a wooden crossing sign.
And for years I have eyed the wonderful Coca-Cola sign on top of a downtown building in Baton Rouge.
Never know what ‘rows your boat’. You never know, from day to day, what changes may take place in the blink of an eye, then we all groan about ‘if I had only known’.
If you are a dyed-in-the-wool stick-in-the-mud, you don’t accept change too easily. I was just getting used to dial phones, as opposed to operator-assisted ones, when they introduced push button ones. Now, I’m trying to understand cells. And for reasons of sanity, I won’t even approach the subject of computers.
Sort of like learning to drive. Back in the ‘old days’, we all learned to drive standard shifted vehicles. Today, there aren’t too many with standard in them anymore. Plus, today a new car costs more than it cost me to build my house, back in the day.
Ah, progress. You can’t live with it; you can’t live without it.

Wooden stop sign
Georgie Manuel
May 11, 2014