BRF is Ron's book. Welcome to the new media ...Originally Posted by Andrew 4CE
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BRF is Ron's book. Welcome to the new media ...
Since 1925, about 150 different racing outboards have been made.
If we had only exchanged the Cdn PM for the USA Pres??
Andrew! If we sent lyin Brain Mulroney there and brought Ronnie Regan here, we could at least enjoy his movies while Brian in exchange down south would have hastened the sale of the USA sooner to the Saudies etc.!!! LOL! We kep our turkey and tossed him and his outa office where Ronnie got to retire in California with a happy grinn on his face. Those 2 would have seen OMC and Merc merge???????? into one super company???
With respect to the town of Waukegan and supporting OMC, I'll add this. Having done many very high end projects in neighboring Highland Park and Banockburn, there is a strong yuppie movement to take back all the industrialized and extremely valuable north llake shore properties. So, follow the trail of money and you'll see why the town council gave little to no support for OMC's moves when they occured. That factory sits/sat pon some of the most valuable real estate on the lake.
$1.00 Lakefront Property
Several years ago lakefront factory property was sold to Waukegan for One Dollar. Plans for a Casino and land developement did not happen.
In the last twenty years many long time residents were forced to move out. Declining property values has erroded the tax base. Looks like another demise of a city from lack of communication.
demise of o m c
I think there might have been a lot of communication - and most or all of it - B.S. - everybody wanting to get
rich , on somebody else's money . (yeh, i am sort of bitter , the way o m c went down the tubes )
That is a plain shame Michael, but in real estate, everything runs full circle, eventually. I have many fond memories of riding in dad's '53and '68 Chevy trucks pulling a trailer loaded with motors. In those days, I got to see "Mr. Epple" in his office, because my childhood wishes were to be the service manager of Johnson when I grew up. Lemme ask you, is Gordy still around from Waukegan marine or did they go by the wayside when OMC took a dump?
Then there were the returns of my dad from OMC service school. He enjoyed the week up there and really learned alot that he passed along. I know of dozens of folks who lost their jobs at OMC when it dumped, and the scenario reminds me alot of Aurora, Illinois. They had Barber-Greene,
Austin-Western, Thor tool, and Caterpillar, before Cat added robots to several buildings. All but Cat are gone, the interior of the town turned to monkey sputum, and it sounds like that is what happened to Waukegan.
I'm thinking the land transfer may have been altered by the EPA findings in the lake, claims of Mercury and all kinds of self rightuos liberal garbage were supposed to be in there from the plant, and I'm betting then from what you dsay the environmental issues may have made the sale of the land undoable for man investors.
I also take ANYTHING the EPA finds with a grain of salt, because we all know how they manipulate their numbers to prove their cases. Need I mention the small engine and two stroke scare, when the geniouses could not make their claim that small engines create 10% of the worlds air pollution...So, they factored engines under 100 HP into the equation to get the numbers they needed. I will also add, the engine in one of my Cat D-3 dozers is 93 HP, and I might ask if ANYONE would consider that a small engine....
Sorry, sidetracking here...I do know OMC had that environmental issue looming overhead in the late 80's through the 90's.
omc took a dump
I can certainly unnerstan how the lake might have got "Mercury poisoning " , but there's no such thing as "O M C poisoning " . !!! and thas a fack, JACK !
Roy:
They got some flipp'in genious claiming all the skeet shot from the Chicago Rod and Gun club that has dropped into the lake over 75 years is polluting it....Same geniouses down here in boob job central claim that placing dirt on a city street while we work pollutes the ocean...Turns out when San Diego designed it's infrastructure in the 30's of the last century they never installed water treatment plants and dirt residue is said to kill fish....Everyone knows the ocean floor has no dirt on it right? LOL
Sidetracking again....In an old piece of litterature called Johnson's Jottings, it said that by 1965 OMC was the largest aluminum die cast factory in the world. It listed all their star drivers from Lou Epple, to Jack Maypole, to
Johnny Sanders and Geoff Briggs. It makes me cry everytime I hear a sotry because it brings back alot of memories, which hopefuly will never die because of alot of folks in this forum.
I Won't Say Who....
I had a good friend that owned a boat shop out in the desert. When he opened the shop, he opened a trailer park across the street. Because the trailer park and boat shop were in BF Egypt, he decided to install a gas pump, because frequently, he was so far from town a man couldn't get gas...
About 30 years later, the EPA NAZIS came by and asked him where his permit was to have a gas pump??? He said he didn't need no stinking permit....Well, the EPA "DUDE" thought he did.. and said he'd be back...Well, my friend, not one to really trust or like the GOVERNMENT, dug up his gas pump and gas tank...But he was smart enough to take pictures of where he dug it up...
He moved the tank and pump over to the right about 40 feet....The EPA "DUDE" showed up and asked where his permit was to take out the gas pump???
He said, "Well Gaul Dang, I didn't have a permit to put it in the ground, I didn't think I needed a permit to take it out of the ground...."
Well, the EPA "DUDE" said he'd be back.....
Well they came back and made my friend dig down six feet to see if his tank, which had been moved 40 feet, had leaked...Sure enough, they were sure that "Sucker" had leaked..and they required him to dig 12 feet below the surface...
Damn, 12 feet down, and they couldn't find anything...so, they told him to "WATCH IT".....
Forty miles out in the desert, a 200 gallon tank.....if the sucker leaked all 200 gallons what would it have hurt???
Master Oil....I'd like an EPA report from you....
ADD: Santa Barbara has so much oil under it, it leaks on to the shore...but the environmental wackos, don't want drilling there...Anyone besides me ever think that environmental wackos may be financed by the ARABS????
One car, with a closed garage door, will kill you in 20 minutes....but a two stroke outboard is bad for AMERICA???? Let's all move to China and get a job.
I got a better one for ya Ron.
My uncle was a golf course builder and his company existed since 1881 before he stopped work in 1999. At his shop was the last of the underground tanks, a 500 gallon gas tank (most of his were diesel). So, EPA comes along gives him all this BS about it had to be removed and they gave them a list of licensed tank removal companies in Illinois. These morons wanted $10,000 to remove the tank, which had not had fuel in it since 1967. So I hook up with my other uncle who is the chief of the St. Charles fire department. He turns me on to the state fire marshall who, issues permits to become a licensed under ground tank remover. $200.00 later and a stack of paper only a college professor would love, I was licensed and certifed to remove undergound tanks. So, I tugged an excavtor over there, dug around the thing, and yanked it. The firemarshall comes out to check to see if there was contamination, jumps down into the hole, takes his hand, grabs a load of dirt, and a big whiff later he says, no contamination, fill'er back in.
What a freeken sham!
As far as Santa Barbara and drillling.....Oh no not that, if you do that the liberoids will run out of Birkenstocks and have to go shoeless......
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