Throwback Thursdays - A Trip Down TBN Memory Lane

[5bird7]

That is Sally and her little friend was "CAR TOY"
However, never collected the newspapers and don't know if I was at that event.

[DavidA]

. Who is the special lady featured in the picture and what was her TBN handle? Sally - Redbird Sal

2. What was the name of the event and it's location? Thunder Blues at the Shack

3. What is a bin? It is a silo converted to a room

4. What famous crossroad is nearby and what made it famous? Devil's Crossroad

5. What was her little friend's name? Borla Babe - Julie

[4LOWBIRDS+7]

I believe you missed the name of her famous little friend. Better ask Roger.

[15AGAIN]

Her Little friend could be me, we shared a shack with two bedrooms!!!

[RustyFrye]

2. What was the name of the event and it's location? Thunder Blues at the Shack

For those unacquainted with the Shackup Inn its worth a stay or at least browsing the website. We have stayed there twice and neither time was a TBN event. Our next self-planned road trip through the area will have us back there again, some day. If nothing else, browse their site and read the FAQs for a little laugh.

Thanks again to TBN for drawing our attention to something we would have most likely missed otherwise.

https://www.shackupinn.com/

[4LOWBIRDS+7]

Her Little friend could be me, we shared a shack with two bedrooms!!!

I don't think so Bill. I think her little friend was called Bob, again Roger is the one who knows.

[02-T-Bird]

In April of 2018 I stopped at the Shack Up Inn when I was headed to Thunder On The Prairie. I tried to get a room there but nothing was a available for the night. I will definitely make my way down there again and will plan in advance to make sure I get a place to stay. It sure was quite the place to see and I bet that staying there would be a treat in itself.

[2K2BIRD]

1. Who is the special lady featured in the picture and what was her TBN handle?

2. What was the name of the event and it's location?

3. What is a bin?

4. What famous crossroad is nearby and what made it famous?

5. What was her little friend's name?

We ended up with mostly correct answers. Just for the record these are the answers to the questions.

1. Indeed that is Sally Wisdom aka RedBirdSal. Sally was a one of a kind gal that's for sure. She is really missed arond here. RIP Sally.

2. Thunder Blues at the Shacks was at the The Shack Up Inn in Clarksdale, MS.

3. At The Shacks you could rent share cropper shack or bins to stay in. The bins were hotel rooms that had been built inside the cotton gin.

4. As DavidA said, the Devil's Crossroads is where US 49 & US 61 intersect in Clarksdale. It is said that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at that location to be a great blues musician. There was a scene in the movie "Oh, Brother Where Art Thou" depicting this transaction, but it showed the crossroads as being out in the country instead of in town

5. We never got to say hello to Sally's little friend, but we do know his name was Bob.

[2K2BIRD]

Most folks that have been around TBN for more than a year or two know that I have many things attached to my trunk lid that represent events and places we have been to over the last 19 years. There are dash plaques, name tags, event plaques, hat pins, key chains, patches and other miscellaneous items we collected along the way. Here's one item that seems a little out of place in the trunk of a retrobird:

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1. What exactly is this item?

2. At what event did we receive this thing?

3. What does Romeo have to do with it?

4. All the attendees at this venue received a similar one of these. What is different about this one?

5. Any idea how and why we ended up with one a little different from everyone else?


By the way, the answers to last week's questions are in the post just before this one.

[02-T-Bird]

Stumped again but I can't wait to see what the guesses will be and the answer.

[4LOWBIRDS+7]

We ended up with mostly correct answers. Just for the record these are the answers to the questions.

1. Indeed that is Sally Wisdom aka RedBirdSal. Sally was a one of a kind gal that's for sure. She is really missed arond here. RIP Sally.

2. Thunder Blues at the Shacks was at the The Shack Up Inn in Clarksdale, MS.

3. At The Shacks you could rent share cropper shack or bins to stay in. The bins were hotel rooms that had been built inside the cotton gin.

4. As DavidA said, the Devil's Crossroads is where US 49 & US 61 intersect in Clarksdale. It is said that Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil at that location to be a great blues musician. There was a scene in the movie "Oh, Brother Where Art Thou" depicting this transaction, but it showed the crossroads as being out in the country instead of in town

5. We never got to say hello to Sally's little friend, but we do know his name was Bob.

So it was Sally, I would have gotten them all correct, even her little friend Bob. Bill Green you could never replace Bob.

[2K2BIRD]

Most folks that have been around TBN for more than a year or two know that I have many things attached to my trunk lid that represent events and places we have been to over the last 19 years. There are dash plaques, name tags, event plaques, hat pins, key chains, patches and other miscellaneous items we collected along the way. Here's one item that seems a little out of place in the trunk of a retrobird:

20200926_073756.jpg

1. What exactly is this item?

2. At what event did we receive this thing?

3. What does Romeo have to do with it?

4. All the attendees at this venue received a similar one of these. What is different about this one?

5. Any idea how and why we ended up with one a little different from everyone else?


By the way, the answers to last week's questions are in the post just before this one.

Bueller? Bueller?

[SugarDaddy]

1. What exactly is this item? Engine Finishing Plate

2. At what event did we receive this thing? Motown Thunder in 2007

3. What does Romeo have to do with it? Ford Romeo Engine Plant in Romeo, Michigan

4. All the attendees at this venue received a similar one of these. What is different about this one? Signed by the actual engine builders

5. Any idea how and why we ended up with one a little different from everyone else?Cause you are special! LOL

[5bird7]

I just went and looked at my pictures. Don't remember getting the engine plaque but it may be in my stuff? Would work well with George's truck though as he does have an SVT engine in his truck, built in 2002 though.

[2K2BIRD]

1. What exactly is this item? Engine Finishing Plate

2. At what event did we receive this thing? Motown Thunder in 2007

3. What does Romeo have to do with it? Ford Romeo Engine Plant in Romeo, Michigan

4. All the attendees at this venue received a similar one of these. What is different about this one? Signed by the actual engine builders

5. Any idea how and why we ended up with one a little different from everyone else?Cause you are special! LOL

Jerry is on the ball today. All of his answers are correct, especially the part about us being special!

Yes, each Mustang GT500's engine was built completely from start to finish by two builders. As the engine was finished the plate with the builders' signatures was added to the engine.

As were were touring the engine shop, Rosetta noticed that one of the builders was wearing a University of Oklahoma t-shirt and asked him if he was from Oklahoma. He said he was and I asked what town? Turns out he was from Coweta, a small town south of Tulsa about 45 miles from us. (Sad note - even though Coweta probably only had a population of about 3000 at the time, 8 of its young heroes were killed in Vietnam.) We talked to him for a few minutes and then the tour moved back to the main part of the plant.

The guy giving the tour surprised everyone with a blank engine plaque for us to take home. After he finished talking we went up to thank him for the tour and the plaque. We told him the story about talking with the engine builder and it would have been cool to have gotten one with his signature. He told us to hang on and he literally ran back to the niche-line, got a signed plaque and brought it back to us. We couldn't believe he would go that far out of his way based on a conversational comment. After we got home, it went on display in the trunk and has been there for 13 years. I can't tell you for sure where the blank plaque is these days. Brian Woodward was the young engine builder from Coweta, Oklahoma.

Many thanks go to Steve Legel for putting together a great event.