If you are in the NYC area, come visit us. Also, the East Penn Traction Club is focused on Light Rail and Trolleys. Tomorrow they have a display at the American Helicopter Museum in West Chester PA.

Well, come on down and let's start talking. The club days are Wednesdays.

It took me three reads to get it right, some of the alternative reads are discomforting and worthy of a Data & Lore Meme.

(11) Did others have this shift in Zeitgeist? I see postings about "fur babies." My wife hates that term. I see it as a problematic term of endearment. But at the very least our weltanshauung has shifted to endearment, as opposed to barely tolerated Tom & Sylvester that are beaten with impunity.

(10) Cats are not pets, not children, but great housemates. Yes, they pay rent as pest exterminators and rodent repellents. Yes, they pay the rent as emotional support counselors. And yes, this is a two relationship and you need to respect your housemate for who they are.

(9) Did our attitudes on cats change with the shift of Zeitgeist to a more libertine outlook in the 1960's / 1970's? Was it also a realization of practicality? People complain about cleaning the cat box but I don't have to walk a dog at 5 am and pick up warm dog feces with a plastic bag.

(8) Returning to Disney, "You can't tell them what to do." For all the hyperventilating in our society about Freedom and Liberty and Free Will and Choice, many in this country believe it is the Freedom is the ability to tell others what to do.

(7) Ever since then, I've had cats and my real shift in attitude began in the 1990's when I adopted a very very smart Maine Coon that was also fairly loving. I completed a review of cat domestication and realized that USA cultural weltanschauung was attempting to force a cat into a dog form.

(6) We had a Collie from 1976 to 1978 that was a total disaster. Eventually he bit a neighbor and went to live on a farm. (Yes, really.) Somewhere around 1980, we got a Persian cat that was very nice but sorta intellectually limited.

(9) Did our attitudes on cats change with the change of Zeitgeist to a more libertine outlook in the 1960's / 1970's? Was it a realization of practicality? People complain about cleaning the cat box but I don't have to walk a dog at 5 am and pick up warm dog feces with a plastic bag.

(8) Returning to Disney, "You can't tell them what to do." For all the hyperventilating in our society about Freedom and Liberty and Free Will and Choice, many in this country believe it is the Freedom is the ability to tell others what to do.

(7) Ever since then, I've had cats and my real shift in attitude began in the 1990's when I adopted a very very smart Maine Coon that was also fairly loving. I completed a review of cat domestication and realized that USA cultural weltanschauung was attempting to force a cat into a dog form.

(5) Was it the cultural zeitgeist of the late 1960's early 1970's that led to this change? In the 1970's, only three friends had cats. I remember reading "Cats, little tigers in your home" by National Geographic (1974) and starting to view them differently.

(4) Is this all encompassing? Of course not. But as a child in the 1970's, dogs were the acme, Humanity's best friend. Cats seemed to occupy a position of barely tolerated rodent control and manipulators.

(3) Pyewacket in Bell Book & Candle kept making poor Jimmy Stewart's Shep sneeze and was the master manipulator. Who turned out the lights in the end? Pyewacket.

(2) Si & Am in Lady & the Tramp. Oh dear. Evil & Manipulative with a good helping of Anti-Asian Racism. Did Walt Disney hate cats? "You can't tell them what to do." The Aristocrats (1970) were in developmental hell for close to a decade and wasn't finished until after Walt's death in 1966.

4:23. Is that the Suydam Dr Whyte Airplane Bungalow? I'm using my kit to make an 0 scale version.

I guess we will post a video for you.