Some old Photos for your enjoyment

[richhodg66]

Were those two bucks sparing or just playing a little? People talk about a second, later rut of much lower intensity, might be some truth to it to see those guys sparring in January.

 

[richhodg66]

A locomotive engine being swung across a canyon with the Rio Grande River below. New Mexico. c.1915.

 

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[richhodg66]

A Guardsman of 1st Battalion, Grenadier Guards, 7th Guards Brigade, 3rd Division rides a Norton Model 18 motorcycle fitted with a special mount to accommodate a Thompson sub machine gun, allowing the rider to fire while in motion. Swanage, Dorset, UK
Date: 9 April 1941

 

[Dusty Bannister]

Good thing it has a drum magazine. Changing stick magazines on the roll would be quite a challenge.

 

[462]

So, it begs the questions: Does the rider let the engine idle while he fires the gun?. Or, has the throttle been moved to the left grip?

 

[Rick H]

That looks like an answer looking for a problem. Maybe the Brit's controls on bikes are on the wrong side just like their cars?

 

[richhodg66]

I suspect a keft hand throttle.

 

[L Ross]

Somehow I picture a German machine gunner telling his partner, here comes that Brit on the motorcycle, watch this.

 

[richhodg66]

I know some controls on British bike were wired. I went and looked at a 60s vintage Triumph a few years ago which had the rear brake pedal and shifyer lever on opposite sides from what we're used to. I'd have probably killed myself trying to ride it. Seems I remember Indian motorcycles used to have a left hand throttle.

 

[Dusty Bannister]

Indian motorcycles were popular with law enforcement at the time because the throttle was on the left hand.

 

[Missionary]

Looking at the helmet.... Is that an early Airborne helmet ?
Also the "Norton" looks rather small framed... Could this be a Airborne experiment that never really proved effective ?
On the other side I had a 1971 750 Norton Commando. That bike was quick and fast.

 

[imashooter2]

We’re replacing our basement door. Apparently the last one was hung Friday October 12, 1945.

 

[richhodg66]

A migrant family says a prayer before a midday meal on the side of a road east of Oklahoma (1930s)

 

[smokeywolf]

Mighty darned hard to feed yourself in the 1930s, much less a family of 7.

 

[richhodg66]

They all look pretty lean.

 

[oscarflytyer]

Mighty darned hard to feed yourself in the 1930s, much less a family of 7.

I do not even want to think how hard!

Raised 5 boys - now 25-38. If I had 3-5 of them home now, in their mids/teens - and had to feed them today!?!? I would be bankrupt, or a cattle rustler or poacher!!! Or an ugly combo, just to feed them all. And gawd forbid clothing and shodding them!

 

[oscarflytyer]

From "Traces of Texas" FB page... "Traces of Texas reader Stan Watty was nice enough to share this circa 1905 photo of a gunfight in El Paso. R.G. McKinney, El Paso photographer, took this and wrote on the back "Gunfight, 7th & South El Paso Streets, El Paso, Texas. City Detective in black suit, back of pole, is firing at a fugitive holed up in (or on roof of) the Popular Saloon." Amazing. For some reason, I love the bicycle at the detective's feet ... like a kid just left it when gunfire erupted. I have never seen this before."

Part that kills me is, someone was able to get a photo, AND the people standing at the front of the saloon/no panic apparent!View attachment 40089

No CLUE what the heck I did, but... on my laptop, THIS photo is now my background splash photo! End of the day, not at all bad! lol!

 

[richhodg66]

Women trainees of the LAPD practice firing their newly issued revolvers, 1948