Some old Photos for your enjoyment

[oscarflytyer]

Oscar.... that is sure flat land farming!

VERY - but... There WAS (IS) a section about 3/4 mi down the road from the farm, take a left, and go about 3/4 mi (iirc). It was called the Lob (no clue why). Creek ran thru it. It was a VERY low area, and would flood regularly. Also where the best corn was grown! I remember as a kid (5-7 maybe), we drove the '61 IHC Scout (my GF was Dodge cars and IHC EVERYTHING else!), from one side to the other of the flooded lob, over the old steel frame and wood plank road. I also remember my Dad telling me about killing enough ducks in the lob to fill the front end on the bucket you see on the old Model H. AND, he also told me he wouldn't take a Winchester Model 97 shotgun if you paid him! Said he split his thumb right down the middle with the hammer! I passed on a LOT of cheap 97s over the years, just because of that story!

 

[JWFilips]

I was looking up Jay County, IN on Shorpy.com to see if I could find old photos for you.
Need to find a town or township to get close to that farm in their search engine, however

 

[RicinYakima]

Portland, College Corner, Westchester, Antioch, Salamonia, Trinity, Jay City, Dunkirk, Red Key.

 

[Cadillac Jeff]

My Dad grew up in Dunkirk In.

 

[Bret4207]

I found a mess of historical photos from the 30's and 40's someplace that were of my area. Pretty sure it was related to soil sampling. Every photo title began with "Sub-marginal farmland in _____________ St Lawrence Co NY". It was depressing!

 

[oscarflytyer]

Portland, College Corner, Westchester, Antioch, Salamonia, Trinity, Jay City, Dunkirk, Red Key.

Ric beat me to it! Also Bryant/Bearcreek township. Look up Bryant on Hiway 18. Go W about ~3 mi. Just W of Charles Hough Auto Salvage, you will see a N/S road N 250 W. Go north on that road and just off 18 to Loblolly creek (where "The Lob" reference comes from). Farm ground was both sides of N 250 W. That's were he grew a lot of the corn.

Then, keep going west on 18 past N 250 W about another 1/4 of a mi. You will see two small short driveways off 18. The real short N drive is the Farm location. Across the road is (was) the old Bob Pyle Farm.

My other GF had a farm/farmed ~1000 acres a few miles west and north of this one. Have to figure out exactly where it is located on the map. Been years since I was back there... I THINK it was off E 1100 S, but not certain.

If you are searching, see if by chance you run into any pics of Addie's (sp?) Store! Keystone IN I think.

also a colorized pic of the farm. Looking NW. Corn cribs were huge!

 

[JWFilips]

You Guys should do a search on shorpy.com! Man there are thousands of historic images! Pretty much anything you can think of!
Their search feature is a bit strange ...but once you get used to it you may find your families homesteads!

 

[popper]

1903 Wright Flyer I

1903 Wright Flyer I Facts. Part of the Wright Brothers Aeroplane Company, a virtual museum of pioneer aviation, the invention of the airplane, and man's first flights.

www.wright-brothers.org

Interesting warp wing control - wires connected to the pilot seat! Front stick is the elevator (front wing) control.

 

[JWFilips]

Wright Bros:
1901. Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Wilbur Wright and glider just after landing. 4x5 dry-plate glass negative attributed to Orville Wright. The fogging of the negative at the bottom of the frame, combined with the skid marks in the sand from an earlier landing, create the illusion that the glider is still flying.


Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. "Start of a glide; Wilbur in motion at left holding one end of glider (rebuilt with single vertical rudder), Orville lying prone in machine, and Dan Tate at right." October 10, 1902. 5x7 dry-plate glass negative attributed to the Wright Brothers.

 

[JWFilips]

If we only had it now! Another from shorpy.com
Los Angeles circa 1955. "New Chiffon -- bathroom tissue that is facial tissue." No. 3 in a series of billboard photos from the files of Pacific Outdoor Advertising.

 

[462]

I suspect there will be the fourth run on the stuff, starting tomorrow, when the county health dictator announces that he will not be lifting the latest partial house arrest.

 

[Jabezkin]

That's an Adirondack Guide Boat the fella is carrying in the last shot. Probably enough copper rivets in it to make up 10 or 20 thousand bullet jackets. IIRC the average Guide Boat had about 5,000 rivets and burrs in it. Every plank is different. Quite an undertaking to build one. and the ribs are Spruce roots selected for shape!

Glad I’m not the only one to notice.
Originally it was 7200 rivets to the lb.
I know this is old. But dear to my heart.
They were pulling boats. Guide boats. About 75 yards on a good pull till the boat stopped.
Blue Mountain Pake Museum has a number. And shows the construction
They have the Sairy Gamp

 

[Bret4207]

Glad I’m not the only one to notice.
Originally it was 7200 rivets to the lb.
I know this is old. But dear to my heart.
They were pulling boats. Guide boats. About 75 yards on a good pull till the boat stopped.
Blue Mountain Pake Museum has a number. And shows the construction
They have the Sairy Gamp

I grew up just a few miles from Blue Mtn Museum. Knew several people that built Guide Boats and used one myself working at a club in the area. Great boats, gorgeous lines. I can recall when you could buy a decent original for about $100.00. Of course at that time a Gruman "A-boom-alum" canoe was the state of the art, high tech marvel everyone wanted...

 

[Jabezkin]

I grew up just a few miles from Blue Mtn Museum. Knew several people that built Guide Boats and used one myself working at a club in the area. Great boats, gorgeous lines. I can recall when you could buy a decent original for about $100.00. Of course at that time a Gruman "A-boom-alum" canoe was the state of the art, high tech marvel everyone wanted...

Spent a lot of time on Third Lake. But some on South,Brantingham(Grants island) long lake. Grew up in Oneida. New Gettysburg now.
Will be logging up in a hunting camp near Brantingham in the spring.

 

[Jabezkin]

Heck of a thread!!! Thank you very much.
I just read the whole thing. Didn’t wanna clog it with a lot of quoting posts.
very new here.
But a few comments in one post.
Along withGreen Stamps.....in Central NY State we had Plaid stamps.
Glad I’m not the only one who uses Kludge(kluge).
The discussion about moving large Runners for the Hydroelectric plants.
One on the Columbia had a 34’ diameter runner. 500+ tons. Moved in sections And welded together. Then bored for the shaft and machined from the shaft. .003 tolerance. Bolts to hold it to shaft were 1250 lbs each. Moved with a 2000 ton overhead crane.

I hunt varmints in the orchards.......but don’t hunt coyotes......they are sorta on our side against the dam deer. Lol

I really enjoy this thread and hearing about you folks.
Rob

 

[JWFilips]

Here is one for Brad and Paul: From shorpy.com:
November 1938. "Omaha, Nebraska, newsstand." Medium format negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.

 

[462]

Omaha's readers weren't overly sophisticated.

 

[Jabezkin]

In a decade or so the comic book rack would be near as big

 

[popper]

Cold winters and tp wasn't great. Played around in the table rock dam as a kid, turbines are huge. Collier Mag, been a long time.

 

[BBerguson]

I wonder about the life span of magazines in this day and age. I still look forward to getting my American Rifleman and woodworking magazines but can read all the articles on my Ipad but it’s not quite the same. Just something about the magazine the Ipad can’t give you.

Phone books too... I haven’t looked at our phone book or yellow pages in years, not really sure we have a current copy. I was responsible for ending our yellow page advertising 7 or 8 years ago at my work place. We were spending about 12K a year for yellow page space and now spend zero. Everyone still finds us...