NavList:
A Community Devoted to the Preservation and Practice of Celestial Navigation and Other Methods of Traditional Wayfinding
To prevent us from getting TOO serious
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2007 Oct 02, 19:28 -0700
From: Lu Abel
Date: 2007 Oct 02, 19:28 -0700
Back in 1849, in the time of the California Gold Rush, the Tates Watch Company of Waltham, Massachusetts decided there was a burgeoning market for compasses to be carried by Easterners headed for California. Since Tates already made the cases for pocket watches, it was a simple task to fill them instead with compasses. The compasses were so bad that people often ended up in Canada or Mexico rather than California. This, of course, is the origin of the expression, "He who has a Tates, is lost!" --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to NavList@fer3.com To , send email to NavList-@fer3.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
