The previous U.S.S Hornet (CV-8) made it about a year before being sunk in WWII, so the Navy recycled the name for CV-12, the museum ship we have berthed in Alameda these days.
That’s your Lesson of the Day.
Now, pour yourself a drink:
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Here’s my offering of a shot from back in the day, from back when the Hyatt at Embarcadero Five had giant jelly bean art hanging about:…
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…but here’s a better effort.
Come back, come back, sometime, oh great Jelly Bellies!
This thing is straight outta Shanghai, People’s Republic of China, but it’s the biggest red-white-and-blue whatever that you’ll ever see:
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These days it’s just hanging out in the East Bay, looking for work, as many others are.
When will it be moved, when will it get used again?
Nobody knows…
[UPDATE: In other news, a Great Blue Heron in Golden Gate Park thinks a beer can is a fish...]
This hungry gull on San Francisco Bay made quite an effort to take a chunk out of an empty floating Snapple bottle. (Birds get confused when things show up in their environment that their ancestors didn’t evolve with, of course)
The problem with recapping your empty glass bottle and tossing it into the Pacific is that the thing is going to float forever and end up in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch or someplace like that.
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