3 Prong Plug

This is a picture from The Online Archive of California a very comprehensive collection of photos of California. You can see that it is the Tejon Pass area. That is a really lovely rocky mountain. The road that connects Los Angeles with Central and Northern California goes up the mountain through Tejon. Its extreme grade and potential for ice or snow has always made that road especially perilous. Truckers have to think carefully before taking their machines over the "Grapevine", if the engines or brakes aren't functioning properly they will probably fail on the road. There are emergency ramps at or near the bottom of the roads for trucks that have lost their brakes. The ramps are little dirt hills a little wider than a truck and the idea is to slow the truck to a stop on the slope of the hill, rather than plowing into something or someone at the bottom of the hill.

I love the look the two women are sporting. I am reading the Worst Hard Time by T. Egan and I want to dress like these ladies and be an Okie in the worse way. I particularly like the shoes. If I could sew I could make myself a costume and play Okie. I bet I could wear them to work and no one would say a word. I took my job because my psychologist suggested that Stanford might have more room for eccentricities. She was a nice lady, but I don't think she really knew what she was talking about. The staff at Stanford is so conservative. I still don't fit in. But thanks to my genius and acting ability I rose to the top of the pack.

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