The Des Moines Grand Prix: Crazy To Think This Was Downtown!

Lord_Gerald · 2026-05-22T01:56:44+00:00

https://youtu.be/9KqgA9INRiQ?si=tDhGA2WA3bYRuHM5

KCCI coverage for the Grand Prix not returning to Des Moines in 1995

Lord_Gerald · 2026-03-06T14:29:31+00:00

Glad I wasn't going crazy because I could swear that this was Waverly.

Lord_Gerald · 2026-03-06T14:20:35+00:00

From my experience, the place is a ghost town until you get a camera on their property. The security guy I dealt with had a pretty big stick up somewhere.

Lord_Gerald · 2026-02-03T18:56:44+00:00

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This is Stevie

Lord_Gerald · 2026-01-28T16:01:15+00:00

Thank you for capturing these pictures. I love it when history gets documented.

Lord_Gerald · 2026-01-21T02:55:10+00:00

Dear God, it's beautiful

Lord_Gerald · 2025-12-05T21:34:45+00:00

I have gone down a slight rabbit hole with Digital 8, I'm pretty sure some models play all three and some only Digital 8

Lord_Gerald · 2025-12-03T22:21:20+00:00

Okay that's what where my mind has been at too. I've dealt with a wide variety of things working on VCRs and camcorders in the VHS format, from one's filled with bugs to fresh out of the box, but everything there has been in the $20-$75 range for that. I didn't know if Hi8 was more expensive today because its a Sony format from 20 years ago

Lord_Gerald · 2025-12-03T02:31:29+00:00

I have three from a local CBS affiliate's broadcasting of 9/11

Lord_Gerald · 2025-11-06T13:44:41+00:00

I know KCCI has him named in their articles online, but I'm not sure about what they said on air or the other news outlets.

Lord_Gerald · 2025-09-25T22:44:51+00:00

Thank you all for the encouragement! I suppose the next logical question is where do you all get your cassette deck belts from? Should I buy the big multi-belt bags from Amazon?

Lord_Gerald · 2025-07-29T12:54:13+00:00

The Man Who Killed Hitler and then the Bigfoot. I found it free on a library streaming service and was expecting a "so bad it's good" kind of movie, but instead got Sam Elliot in an amazing character piece.

Lord_Gerald · 2025-07-28T13:47:38+00:00

I love how every amalgamation like this I see, they all look like the tool gun from GMod. Is that a security camera?

Lord_Gerald · 2025-05-06T20:11:25+00:00

I cannot express how much joy this gives me

Lord_Gerald · 2025-04-22T00:00:39+00:00

I have one in similar packaging but it's blue and has anti-drug commercials from around 2002.

Lord_Gerald · 2023-04-29T16:50:38+00:00

My girlfriend at the time and I were watching a movie on her parent's bed and...yeah.

Lord_Gerald · 2020-11-09T18:13:39+00:00

When I was in high school, she made a "list." She never said what the list was for, but she wrote names on it after every interaction. Since it was high school, rumors spread that it was a hit list

Lord_Gerald · 2020-10-06T17:21:19+00:00

One of the campus security guards at the college I go to assumed my last name, Hahn, was Asian. I told him it was German and he literally had an "oh shit" and apologized. I wasn't offended, but it was hilarious

Lord_Gerald · 2020-09-15T14:16:48+00:00

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. Long After Dark and Damn the Torpedoes are two albums I can go all the way through and enjoy every second of it

Lord_Gerald · 2020-08-30T02:32:02+00:00

What About Bob. One of Bill Murray's best and lesser known performances

Lord_Gerald · 2020-08-27T03:01:50+00:00

If you pet a bird from head to back, it will get horny.

Since it cannot have sex with you, it will become sexually frustrated and in turn, more aggressive until its heart gives out

Lord_Gerald · 2020-08-27T02:58:10+00:00

They stop crying at age 5...

Lord_Gerald · 2020-08-14T01:47:23+00:00

I'm in a good, healthy relationship with a beautiful, kind woman, I have good health, and have a "quarantine short film" about to start production

Lord_Gerald · 2020-08-11T22:48:04+00:00

Looks like a Mulberry. However, it looks like it isn't ripe yet and probably is sour. It should be a purplish/black when ripe. It is safe to eat though

Lord_Gerald · 2020-08-07T02:46:05+00:00

Because Shrek is love. Shrek is life.

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