Some old Photos for your enjoyment

JWFilips

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Better yeat how can you ignore this old photo: Shorpy.com
March 1941. "Children of construction workers in trailer camp. Portsmouth, Virginia." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
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RicinYakima

High Steppes of Eastern Washington
Family Picture. Girl in the middle is my grandmother, LuVerna next to her twin brother Orville. The woman on the right is her sister Mae. Seated is my great grandmother Lucy Clark, holding my uncle Charles. Picture taken by my grandfather Pleasant in the summer of 1909 in Cow Creek, KY.

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Nobody remembered the dog's name.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Lucky. Well fed, well clothed and out of the weather.

I was thinking the same thing. And at least one of the boys has new jeans on. This must have been during the Lend Lease era when industry was picking up prior to WW2. Probably Dad got a job in the ship yard and put the whole family in the trailer and left Rhode Island (Pretty sure that the "R.I." on the plate) for the job.
 

JWFilips

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Well Not the most antique photos from Shorpy....but I recently had a chance to scan some old photos of My Brothers and I target shooting! Had to be early 1970's! My Nephew dropped them off at my house ( I actually remember this outing!) I had 4 living brothers during my life time...Although my Mom had 5 other children that never survived for me to know them.....big family it would have been 9 kids....& I was the youngest!
But of the 3 I grew up with, My Brother Frank was most likely in Vietnam at this time So this are photos of my eldest Brother "Edge" Edward Jr. and my brother Bernie who past a few years ago!. Those two brothers are who I learned to hunt with and shoot with...they started me at age 11.....My Dad at that time was not hunting anymore but he did his best to also train me in the skills of the hunter and shooter in our living room!.

Anyway these photos are very special to me and I would like to share them with you folks.

Now it is only me ( the youngest) and My Brother Edge (the oldest) of the family left....they are bad quality snapshots and even my skills in photoshop can not make them any better but they mean the world to me!

Below: L to R Brother Bernie, Me and Brother Edge Posing under the 100 yard target we all took turns at!

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Edge , Me and Bernie as he checks out my Marlin 336 35 Rem

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Left to right Me and My Marlin, Edge with his 300 Savage ..99 carbine and Bernie with is antique 300 savage 99 Rifle
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I would give the world to be back there again!
 

Ian

Notorious member
I'll share this one, also family.

My grandmother's grandfather, George Washington Braddock, 1814-1890. He served in the Confederate army, Company E, 32nd infantry regiment, along with several of his sons from 1862 until the end of the war. In 1870 he moved from his farm in MS to AR, and later to Texas where he again bought land and farmed. His estate is still in the family and farm is the oldest, continuously worked farm in Brown County, Texas.

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462

California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Here is the only known photograph of my paternal grandfather, Antonio Troiani, who I have mentioned before. He immigrated from Italy, and though there aren't any official records to be found, I figure about 1905 or early 1906. He married, worked as an Oklahoma coal miner, fathered a son, and was killed in a mining accident five weeks prior to my father's birth. He was 23 and left an 18-year-old widow, almost 2-year-old son, and my yet to be born father.
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Grandma, of Italian ancestry and born in the Indian Territory, remarried and had another eight kids.
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Grandma and the man my father called Dad and I called Grandpa, on their wedding day.
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JWFilips

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Ok..... This one could make you think! -Shorpy.com

March 1941. "Bedford, Virginia." Would you buy a used DeSoto from these men? Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration.
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
1. At least they are honest.
2. The shine on the DeSoto proves there is not a need for today's clear coat and its shedding.
 

Rick

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Way back in the late 60's when I was living in Rockford, Ill the largest used car lot in town was . . . "Crook Brothers". Had billboards all over town that read "Get your used car from the Crook Brothers".
 

JWFilips

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Sometimes Sir Names don't match well with a profession!
When My Dad was young he had a Dentist by the name of "Reckless" and I remember we used to go to a veterinarian group called "Pannic & Payne" ! Seriously I think they should be changing their names!
 

Ian

Notorious member
We have some doozies here. A neurologist named Dr. Moody, dermatologist named Dr. Speck, a chiropracter named Bilderback, husband/wife dentists named Bone, Rayne Roofing, and a few others.