Some old Photos for your enjoyment

[Brad]

And now we know how he met his wife.......

 

[Mitty38]

Those pictures are really cool. I wish I had some to show but do not. To stay away from the political religious thing. We will just say I did not celebrate Christmas's for a few years and Destroyed all my holiday stuff including pics. I do celebrate now and regret my former decisions.

 

[quicksylver]

After looking at these photos....Folks we have come a long way! Wouldn't you say

Hey Jim where are you storing your photos on line?

 

[JWFilips]

Dan,
Well I do not store any photos on line except for my own webservers ( jimfilipski.com and liv18thc.com) and none of those are personal ...more like forum stuff!
Being a commercial photographer for 48 years I know the importance ( since 1995) of Large hard drives and secure digital storage on my computer systems at home and at the studio!
The stuff, personal stuff, I post here comes directly from my archive drives and goes up to this forum site!
The photos I gleen from shorpy.com are brought down on my system and resized and uploaded to the forum ( their files are huge & too big for this forum to accept

 

[JWFilips]

Mitty,
One big part of my job for near 50 years has been the preservation of memories and history!....especially family histories...sometimes people make grand mistakes in their lives: to destroy memories of a specific time but it is their recorded time line on this earth! I have spent the better part of my life trying to keep these alive for future generations
Jim

 

[JWFilips]

OK here is one of the strangest Xmas trees I have found on shorpy.com
can you say wide?
Circa 1920. "Houck Christmas tree." Everyone gather round for eggnog and carols! National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

 

[Rick]

Looks like the bottom half only of a much larger tree.

 

[RicinYakima]

Forwarded these to my older brother who lives in an 1860's house in Ohio and is really into Victorian "stuff". Trees were only put up a couple of days before Christmas and pruned to fit the space. Cut top, bottom and back to get it into the space. The tree was to show off your decorations so wide and full to the front was good. The "natural" tree shape is an Art Deco thing from the 1910's and 20's. FWIW

 

[JWFilips]

Ok Here is a Neat one From shorpy.com
May 1955. "Actor Fess Parker on a 22 city promotional tour as Davy Crockett. Includes public appearances at department stores." From photos by Maurice Terrell for the Look magazine assignment "Meet Davy Crockett."

 

[RBHarter]

Somewhere in the stuff I have an autographed 45 of the theme song .

 

[358156 hp]

Why did they insist on covering the muzzle with their hands? I've even seen it done in 19th century photographs. That sort of thing drives me nuts for some reason.

 

[RicinYakima]

It keeps the rain from running down the barrel.

 

[462]

Read when he died he owned a winery somewhere down by Santa Barbara. Went from skinning 'coons to stomping grapes.

 

[RicinYakima]

Fess Elisha Parker Jr., was an American film and television actor best known for his portrayals of Davy Crockett in the Walt Disney 1954–1955 TV miniseries, which aired on ABC, and as Daniel Boone in an NBC television series from 1964 to 1970. He was also known as a winemaker and resort owner-operator. Wikipedia
Born: August 16, 1924, Fort Worth, TX
Died: March 18, 2010, Santa Ynez, CA
Height: 6′ 5″
Spouse: Marcella Belle Rinehart (m. 1960–2010)
Children: Fess Elisha Parker III, Ashley Allen Rinehart

 

[Missionary]

That's what getting screen famous will do for you.
But is paying the price worth the $$ ?

 

[Bret4207]

Why did they cover the muzzle with their hands? I'd imagine because the guns weren't loaded and it was picturesque and handy. I doubt there's a lot more to it than that.

I saw a TV interview with ol' Fess some year back. He was not a happy camper at all, felt he'd been cheated out of millions through his role as Davy/Daniel and the royalties the studios got that he didn't. Talked of himself in the 3rd person too. I always felt kind of let down after seeing that, no idea why.

 

[Rick]

Having worked for the studios for 34 years I can assure you they would cheat their own mother out of a dime if they thought they could get away with it. Checking every paycheck for accuracy was just part of the job.

 

[RicinYakima]

I think it is like working for a bank. The "Vice-President for Commercial Loans" from one of the local banks, being bought out by Wells-Fargo, became a probationary firefighter 25 years ago. They said they got a pay raise when they got the union firefighter position.

 

[Bret4207]

Having worked for the studios for 34 years I can assure you they would cheat their own mother out of a dime if they thought they could get away with it. Checking every paycheck for accuracy was just part of the job.

No different than working for the any big business/entity. You can't hide anything when you work for the gov't, not at worker bee level anyway. I never held the film industry, or any arts type industry in much regard once you got beyond the average worker bee. It all looks like a "we're royalty and you're trash" set up. After seeing the under belly revealed with the whole Harvey W thing, I have less respect than ever. And then seeing the special treatment during the Plague...well, no politics, so 'nuff said.

 

[358156 hp]

The problem with actors, politicians, and media broadcast "personalities is that they live in a world of make-believe, pretending to be this or that, to believe this or that, never knowing or caring about the realities of everyday life. Kind of like Marie Antoinette.

Let the peasants eat cake, then.