Some old Photos for your enjoyment

[obssd1958]

snip... Would stop at a bar and leave us in the car ...snip

Don

My Dad did that with my 3 brothers and I all the time. Sometimes he would bring out a bottle of soda for us to share. Of course, once the soda went through, we were to use the bottle to relieve ourselves, because we certainly couldn't go in the bar.
Later, when I was a teen, a local couple left their two kids in the car while they were in the bar drinking. The kids found a book of matches and accidently lit the upholstery on fire. They couldn't get out because someone had removed the door handles from the inside of the car, so they died in the fire. The couple was arrested and prosecuted.

 

[Bret4207]

Who would leave kids in a car like that? I suppose the world has always been full of lousy parents. I can't imagine that. I grew up in a family of alcoholics. I don't think any of my kids have ever seen me drink, much less drunk and certainly not sloppy drunk and traumatizing them like I went through. Lost my sister and father both to DWI accidents, don't have a lot of use for drunks or booze in general anymore.

 

[JWFilips]

A timley image from shorpy.com:

I finally worked up the nerve to submit this one. In this photo are my Grandmother and her two sisters. Their birth years were 1895, '97 and '99. This would have been in Huron County Ohio. The caption reads: "At Gregory's barn, Oct. 31, 1917."

 

[Cadillac Jeff]

Now that right there is cool-----my last name is Gregory


interesting costumes to say the least !!

 

[Bret4207]

I'm pretty sure my mother tried to hook me up with the chick in the indian feathers. Let's see, that was 1917, I met her in '83...yeah, that would have been about right.

 

[462]

Just a bunch of people having good ol' Halloween fun.

 

[JonB]

A few without costumes are wearing a suit & tie, different times indeed.
I'm kinda liking "Aunt Jemima"

 

[JWFilips]

Another interesting one from Shorpy.com:
October 1942. "Great numbers of C-47 transport planes move along the assembly lines at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, California. The versatile C-47 performs many important tasks for the Army. It ferries men and cargo across oceans and mountains, tows gliders and brings paratroopers and their equipment to scenes of action." 4x5 inch acetate negative by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.

 

[Brad]

Martin bomber plant at Offut AFB in Bellevue, NE. Sits maybe 3 miles from me? I have been in the building many times as it is now split into many different sections.
The Enola Gay was built here.

 

[462]

The C-47 was a classic aircraft. Two AC-47 gunships were stationed at Phan Rang when I was there. "Charlie Mountain", a stone's throw North of the base, was a favorite target and an audio and visual treat.

 

[KeithB]

JW - Just can't beat large format fine grained b&w film for visual sharpness and gray scale quality.

 

[JWFilips]

W - Just can't beat large format fine grained b&w film for visual sharpness and gray scale quality.

Just trying to get you the best image i see
You guys got to log on to Shorpy.com and search for your favorites!
Man you can't believe this old stuff!
There are over 8000 old very high res images!

 

[JWFilips]

Another one from shorpy.com:
November 1938. "Saloon near railroad yards. Omaha, Nebraska." Our favorite thing here is the signage: Speed Limit 18 Miles, followed closely by Cleo Cola. Photo by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.

 

[Bret4207]

I love the old signage that used to be used. There are some old building in the town near us being renovated. Several of them have uncovered signs from the 40's or 50's that were covered over way back when. Takes me back to when I was kid. There was a style that you don't see anymore to all of it. Same with the old advertisements in magazines. Different times.

I recall a restaurant we used to go to when I was little. The neon signs in the window said "Steaks" "Chops" "Veal". You see steak signs some today, but not chops and I haven't seen veal offered on a menu or in a store in a good 20 years up here.

 

[462]

Careful stepping through the upper right-hand window's door . . .

 

[JWFilips]

A timely image from shorpy.com"

Some of the "amplifying telephone" equipment that carried audio from the Nov. 11, 1921, Armistice Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, where Warren Harding spoke over the casket of the Unknown Soldier, to loudspeakers set up for the crowds outside as well as in New York and San Francisco. More here.

November 1921. "This is the delicate machinery being installed beneath the Arlington Amphitheater which will amplify the President's voice one thousand billion times when he makes his address on Armistice Day in honor of America's Unknown Warrior." Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.

 

[Rockydoc]

Amazing depth of focus. The woman in the back room is in clear focus as is everything else in the picture.
Rocky

 

[JWFilips]

Another from shorpy.com:
November 28, 1940. "Mrs. T.L. Crouch, of Ledyard, Connecticut, pouring some water over her twenty-pound turkey on Thanksgiving Day." Happy Thanksgiving from Shorpy! Medium format acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration.

 

[philien]

Never noticed one open bolt in the rifle squad photo.

 

[Missionary]

And the C-47 still fly's through the jungle areas chute dropping supplies to oil survey crews out on the wet side of the Andes.
I should have added helicopters handle alot of the work but the bulky heavy drops still require a Gooney Bird to help out.

Capt Charles Farrell Riverside, Michigan flew the "Hump" until no longer needed. Was half deaf but loved the sky and being up there. Any engine noise fro above turned his head heavenward.