Some old Photos for your enjoyment

[CZ93X62]

The California condor's econiche was to consume megafauna carrion. Megafauna has been conspicuous by its absence for some time. The world has evolved away from the condor's econiche, and they should be allowed to go extinct naturally and with some dignity. The efforts and money spent to continue doing CPR at their autopsy can be better spent in other areas.

 

[popper]

Yes, condors are buzzards. Most condor young die from choking on the LARGE food tidbits fed them by parents.

 

[JWFilips]

 

[358156 hp]

12-ish years ago the Bird Flu was gonna kill us all. I'm one of the group that thinks all this use of antibacterial soaps and gels ends up working against you. I've never had a flu shot, I've never had a serious flu episode. Maybe it's being outside a lot in the fresh air? Not like my wife and kids don't bring home every illness that goes around. Youngest girls gets EVERYTHING, shes the canary in the coal mine around here. Gord gets almost nothing. He's outside all the time, she avoids the outside world unless there's shopping invovled. She uses that anti-bacterial stuff, we have to make him wash the dirt and manure off his hands before eating. Makes sense to me.

I agree quite a bit. Humans are evolving animals, and build natural immunities from contact with various germs and bacteria. When we kill them all before we have contact with them, we don't build natural immunities to them. This is both good and bad in all directions. Everybody knows the old story of smallpox immunity coming from exposure to lesser poxes, I think cow pox was specifically mentioned.

 

[JWFilips]

The Spanish Flu in the WW1 Period was spread at first by pigeons! The use of carrier pigeons during that time of the war made it easy!

 

[Rally]

There is also current legislation in Ca. to ban trapping and sale of fur garments, waiting on the governors signature I guess. Funny thing is I just sent 7 dozen snares for beaver, to a Damage control trapper, today, in Ca. !!

 

[Bret4207]

Never underestimate the ability of emotion to take opinion and make it become "fact". Add in an agenda that is desirous of an outcome that would otherwise be unpopular and the emotional massaging will be sent into over drive. Just look up the DDT/eagle eggs myth for an example.

 

[462]

Never underestimate the ability of emotion to take opinion and make it become "fact". Add in an agenda that is desirous of an outcome that would otherwise be unpopular and the emotional massaging will be sent into over drive. Just look up the DDT/eagle eggs myth for an example.

Well said, Bret!

 

[JWFilips]

"Lunch Box Brigade" From Shorpy.com:
January 1941. Ambridge, Pennsylvania. "Employees of American Bridge Company (United States Steel) waiting for the bus." Acetate negative by John Vachon.


Those lunch pails remimd me of my father! My Father left the coal mines of Scranton in the early 50's. I was born in 53. One of my earliest memories was getting up with him and my Mom in the mornings and she would make up his lunch pail while he had breakfast! He had a new job recapping truck tires at Roche Tire in Scranton. My Mom invariably put a "tasty kake" 3 pack of chocolate lunch cakes in his pail every day!
When I knew it was time to come home I used to watch for him every day and meet him at the garden gate. ( He didn't have a car but got a ride from his co worker who lived 1/2 mile away) He would hand off his lunch pail to me and I would carry it to the house for him and then my reward was ...he always saved one of those little round chocolate cakes for me.....
when I opened the lunch pail!.....just good memories!

 

[Hawk]

Nothing like great memories of your Dad to warm your heart!

 

[358156 hp]

You made me smile, Jim.

Thanks.

 

[Bret4207]

Notice there's no Carhatt type coats seen? I've always noticed that working men used to wear what they could find. Reminds me of those old English black and white movies and documentaries I watch with farmers, masons and carpenters in a suit coat and tie while working. Different times.

 

[JWFilips]

When I did My 18th century Gunsmith impression for the museum I was working at I came dressed as a gunsmith did then !
When I was actively working I stripped down to Small clothes which was a Vest over a White linen shirt breeches Long woolen socks Buckle shoes ( straight last) and A proper Tricorn hat Oh yes I could use a leather apron!

 

[358156 hp]

We became a more casual dressing nation in the late '50s & early '60s. I still vaguely remember not being able to wear blue jeans ot T shirts in school, and girls all wore dresses or skirts. "Good" restaurants required ties at the evening meals, and suits were the norm. "Decent" restaurants required shirts with buttons & collars at a minimum and again no jeans. Mom would put new clothes on lay away for me in July, and I'd get my new clothes just before school started in September. After school I was required to change out of my school clothes into old clothes (grubbies). Shoes were leather for school, and tennies after school.

 

[Bret4207]

Same era here 156. "School clothes" up into the 70's were definitely NOT jeans. Any pullover shirt was probably striped and had a collar. Not many tees to be seen. Girls mostly wore dresses or "slacks", not jeans. I was in high school before jeans became the norm. I remember the bands at my folks bar wearing suit and tie and most of the patrons did too. Being in the restaurant biz we ate out at other people establishments fairly often. Dad was in a "sport coat" and tie, mom in a dress or "pants suit" and us kids were in good school clothes, often with a tie. Last suit my folks got me was one of those awful "leisure suits" with the white buck stitching and paisley shirt, you wore the huge collar of the shirt outside on top of the coat collar. Fashion! I still remember seeing ladies "dress" to do their grocery shopping- a dress, coat, hat, heels and gloves to go out for the weeks groceries! These days the trash is doing good if they wear clean pajamas to the store up here! Lord, how we've slid downhill!

 

[Gary]

We became a more casual dressing nation in the late '50s & early '60s. I still vaguely remember not being able to wear blue jeans ot T shirts in school, and girls all wore dresses or skirts. "Good" restaurants required ties at the evening meals, and suits were the norm. "Decent" restaurants required shirts with buttons & collars at a minimum and again no jeans. Mom would put new clothes on lay away for me in July, and I'd get my new clothes just before school started in September. After school I was required to change out of my school clothes into old clothes (grubbies). Shoes were leather for school, and tennies after school.

And when the package came in the mail it was just like Christmas; and the smell of new blue jeans was intoxicating. Speigel never seemed to fail!
Thanks for the fabulous memories Jim.

 

[blackthorn]

My Mother was a seamstress before she moved to Canada from England. Our family was always well dressed. That said, we had work clothes and dress/school clothes. If I wanted the latest style, all I had to do was give Mother a picture form a magazine or catalogue and she would make a pattern and then make whatever I wanted. Most of what she made was from old/outdated clothes but sometimes she got new material. Work clothes were either jeans or bib-overalls (I grew up on a farm).

 

[Bret4207]

We had a Montgomery Ward catalog store in town but it seemed like a lot of our clothes came via the old "parcel post" from Sears, Pennys, Spiegel and some I've forgotten. I can still see my mom filling out those order forms. We'd drive the 45 miles or so to the "Big City" of Glens Falls NY and shop at Grants, Kinney shoes, or some of the discount stores. I remember the first pair of hiking boots I got in the mid 70's. Saved a summers wages and spent almost $60.00 on them, but man, was I COOL!!! My feet grew a size that year and by spring they were at least half a size too small. I wore them anyway. As we got older a fair share of our clothes came from the lost and found rack in my folks bar. Got my first LL Bean coat that way.

Anyone else recall the S&H Green Stamps? I don't remember how they worked exactly, but I know they were a big deal.

What I wish I'd kept were the old sporting catalogs we got since Dad subscribed to Sports Afield, Outdoor Life, Field and Stream, Guns and Ammo, Shooting Times, Popular Science, Mechanics Illustrated and I subscribed to Fur-Fish-Game and a couple of others. I remember when Gander Mtn catalog was newsprint and black and white, Cabelas was about 20 pages and Herters used to send out fliers. They'd be worth a small fortune now.

 

[JWFilips]

S&H Green stamp...... I still remember the taste!

How they worked was your parents bought food in the super market.....For us it was Acme Markets.
When you paid you got the stamps as a reward for shopping in that store. Friday was my Dad's pay day so they would go to the "Acme" after supper!
Saturday morning my job was to lick the stamps and paste the in the stamp books for my mother!
I got my first Baseball glove anf fishing box with Green Stamps! The store gave you a catalog of S&H Green Stamp Items When we had enough books of stamps saved up My mom and I would go to town ( Scranton) and The Scranton Dry Goods Store had an area that handled the S&H items Give them you books and you got your prize!
I still remember The Soupy Sales Show in the 1960's ....A popular Song of his Started off like;

"How do I get Me a Cadillac Car? .....GREEN STAMPS GREEN STAMPS" "How do I get Me a Cadillac Car Fill up the Green Stamp Books I got to use them quick the glue just makes me sick ....but I get more value where I get Green Stamps Then I ever got before!

 

[JWFilips]

Humor Me Here!
The next line is ......

"Get a life insurance my family said ( Green Stamp Green Stamps ) They get a million Stamps if I drop dead!"