A few weeks ago Lawrence Wengler had an amazing warehouse video on the show. Chad & I wondered if he could ever top, saying that more as a joke, than a challenge. But then, we got this email.
From: Lawrence Wengler
Hi Dicky Dee and Chad,
I accept your challenge to top my last video.
I don’t know if this will do it, but I gave it a try.
Here’s a video of some Kodak cameras in my collection spanning 95 years.
Happy July! Lawrence.
From the Giz Wiz: Wow, another amazing warehouse video! Here’s his 1st warehouse video:
See or hear this show: www.gizwiz.tv/episode/2049
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Email of the week:
Hi Dick and Chad,
On a trip last month, we thought of you Dick. We rode on the Heber Valley Railroad on a scenic trip in the Wasatch Mountains outside of Salt Lake City, Utah. We thoroughly enjoy the ride on the train (see pictures #1 – 5). They had music entertainment during a portion of the ride.
Not only did we think of you because of your love of trains, but we also saw something that made us think of “clever things that people do when tech breaks”.
I remember the windows in my grandmother’s old farm house. They had what was then great technology – windows with pulleys and weights to help open and close the window. (See the “Window with weights and pully” picture I obtained from the Phelps Company website.) Through time, the ropes would break and the system no longer worked. We used a sawed off broom stick to prop the window open. More than once, someone bumped the stick and the window came crashing down – sometimes on an arm.
On the Heber train, we saw a clever way to solve the problem of what to do when this window tech breaks. They used a piano hinge on a piece of wood to hold open the window. This prevents someone from accidentally knocking out the stick. For extra safety they used this method on both sides. Not sure if we can classify this as a “gadget” but thought it was ingenious regardless.
As always, we enjoy the GizWiz so much and wish you the best.
Selina and Dane Johnson
Link to the Heber Valley Railroad: https://www.hebertrain.com/
