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| | | (...) OLD GLORY NEVER LOOKED BETTER! Chris MichLTC (19 years ago, 18-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | | | | Re: SCLTC Raises the Flag at OCF —Ted Michon
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| | | | (...) Chris- Thanks! Everynow and then something just execeeds your most optimistic expectations. Guess the subject matter helped, too. -Ted (19 years ago, 18-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: SCLTC Raises the Flag at OCF —John Neal
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| | | | (...) Beautifully done, Ted et al! I'm sorry if I missed this info elsewhere-- what will be the fate of the flag? JOHN (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: SCLTC Raises the Flag at OCF —Ted Michon
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| | | | (...) John- I posed questions about disposition when we first proposed making it to the OC Fair people who financed it. In particular, I asked if they wanted to be able to reuse it. Their definite answer was no. With that in mind, we used their (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: SCLTC Raises the Flag at OCF —John Neal
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| | | | | (...) Pity. That's the coolest thing I've ever seen built from 2x2 bricks! JOHN (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | | | | | | Re: SCLTC Raises the Flag at OCF —Ted Michon
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| | | | | | (...) John- In fact, it's over 95% 2x2 bricks. They were the cheapest per stud of any brick we could find on BrickLink (in large volumes, of course). David prototyped the construction concept, which is 8 bricks (yup, it's an 8 wide) thick. Aside (...) (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: SCLTC Raises the Flag at OCF —John Neal
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| | | | | | (...) Ahh, David is already subconsciously building 8 wide; soon he will be building his trains thusly as well;-) I just hope that it works out that the flag can somehow be preserved for posterity! JOHN (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | | | | | | | Re: SCLTC Raises the Flag at OCF —Ondrew Hartigan
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| | | | | | (...) i say haul it to brickfest!!!! lol ondrew (19 years ago, 19-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: SCLTC Raises the Flag at OCF —Darrell Urbien
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| | | | Really nice work, Ted! I went to see it the other night, and was happy to see a line of people waiting to get a photo in front of it.. Couple more questions: Could you post the instructions you gave fairgoers who wanted to help? I'm curious how (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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| | | | | | Re: SCLTC Raises the Flag at OCF —Ted Michon
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| | | | (...) Darrell- Thanks for the comments. I actually haven't been back since completion (after being there every day since opening the week before), though the rest of the family and all the other Irvine members of the club have been back. The (...) (19 years ago, 21-Jul-05, to lugnet.trains.org.scltc, FTX)
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