Kevin Stenberg
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Rick even the wife got a chuckle out of that one.
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
I'll give modern medicine a nod. Still, my mother lived to be 92, her mother 96 and her sister (my mother's aunt) 104, all without MRIs and the many types of scans.
Other than the possibility of modern medicine, I could live quite happily in the '60s . . . either the 19s or the 18s.
Other than the possibility of modern medicine, I could live quite happily in the '60s . . . either the 19s or the 18s.
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
I don't think so. You stayed in your home town, worked in the hardware store, went to lodge meetings on Wednesday and church on Sunday. Had one wife and no STD's and raised a nice family of four kids. Just great for me!
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
smokeywolf
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Without the technological advancements (medical in particular), a shorter life would be (and was) considered "normal".
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RBHarter
West Central AR
I would point to the ebb and flow of advancement and loss ......there's the Bagdad battery that may have been for hopping up wine or a battery .
Tethered and free flight balloons in Egypt about the same time .
I once read that if flight had advanced as fast as computers the moon shots may have had us side stepping the depression . To which I though to myself the abacus and stone hinge were computers .......
My great grandmother was born in 1888 and saw Neal make his speech .
I had the opportunity to have hands on a Saturn V second stage motor , they aren't nearly as big as you'd think .
Tethered and free flight balloons in Egypt about the same time .
I once read that if flight had advanced as fast as computers the moon shots may have had us side stepping the depression . To which I though to myself the abacus and stone hinge were computers .......
My great grandmother was born in 1888 and saw Neal make his speech .
I had the opportunity to have hands on a Saturn V second stage motor , they aren't nearly as big as you'd think .
RicinYakima
High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Hope big brother didn't die in the war.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
One of the problems with mankind is that we seem to have a habit of refusing to admit that we don't know, that we don't know, what we don't know! IOW, there is more stuff lost to the fog of history than we will ever realize and we often find ourselves amazed at something "new" that is actually something eons old, but unknown until some archaeologist stumbles onto something. There is a map, which is said to be a copy of the original, showing Antarctica totally ice free. No one knows who made it or when. There is a mechancial computer dating baack tot he Greek era that is dead on in figuring the rotation of the earth and stars. We don't know what was lost eons back. For that matter, Tesla hasn't even been dead 100 years and yet we still can't figure out some of his stuff!
Dusty Bannister
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Must be clearing from fighting a fire. Both engines were parked there for a while as evident by the horse droppings on both sides of the street.
Ian
Notorious member
That was exactly my thought as well.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Percherons! Lovely horses. There were books written on the days of horse drawn fire equipment. I read several of them. They've probably long since gone into the "discard" pile at the old Crandall Library in Glens falls NY, but they used to exist. Quite a science to how they did stuff back then.
Dusty Bannister
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Perhaps the city of San Francisco and some other cities could bring back the "street sweepers" of the old days to clean up the streets and sidewalks of similar material present these days.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Back in the day many cities and villages had people who did in fact clean up the droppings. There are stories of barge loads of manure leaving cities for use in the truck gardens in outlying areas.
I don't think I'd want to put the "night soil" of the various disease ridden addicts of SF on any of my land!
I don't think I'd want to put the "night soil" of the various disease ridden addicts of SF on any of my land!
Dusty Bannister
Well-Known Member
Might cook down for a decent methane source. It would certainly be endless.
Maven
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JWFilips' photo of the B-24 got me to thinking about some slides I took of Chesapeake & Ohio's steam locomotive #614 (born in October, 1948, btw) that you may enjoy. These are scans of slides I took in 1997 - '98 in Port Jervis, N.Y. The first two are hooping up orders and placing flags. The other two are of #614 on the Port Jervis turntable and getting to move east in front of the old Erie Depot. I hope you enjoy them! Btw, they are sharper if you enlarge them + I have other photos of #614 and the American Freedom Train if you're interested.
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