Some old Photos for your enjoyment
- Thread starter JWFilips
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Big truck inner tube left side shows valve, tied off. Guy is really going to have a headachce when he is done! Garage guy with white coat is probably car owner. Got a pic of unlicensed Dallas taxi lot around here someplace. Has something to do with Binon (horseshoe L.V., Nv.
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At large, whereabouts unknown.
I suspect that the Lube-Seal pic may have been for advertising. Everything looks like it was scrubbed to within an inch of its life. The place shows past use, but the mechanics aren't the least bit dirty, and one of them has a high polish on his shoes. Still, it could all be real. It was a different world from what we live in today. Guys still wore ties to work as truck drivers and everything!
oscarflytyer
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My GF had a grainery with an old dirt floor. Floor was spotless - AND dustless! He would rebuild tractor engines on that floor. Story was, others would get 500 hrs out of a rebuild - he would get 1500 hrs. And his trick, according to my Dad (never saw him rebuild) was that he would slick all the crank/rod bearings and channels with STP oil treatment prior to installation. I believe it, as my Dad SWORE by STP when I was growing up. We NEVER did an oil change but we didn't add a pint of STP! And our old engines didn't burn oil!
Rally
NC Minnesota
In #597, the mason was a tad sloppy, but the carpenter who fit/ made those doors was a craftsman. No comment on the guy trying to blow up the truck innertube.
In 595, interesting choice for a window display, for a tattoo parlor, whom evidently also sold Stanley tools. Looks like somebody puked on the sidewalk so matches my time spent in Norfolk. LOL
Spent three years stationed at NAS Oceana, Va. Commercial fished for crabs and eels and sold plenty to restaurants in Norfolk.
In 595, interesting choice for a window display, for a tattoo parlor, whom evidently also sold Stanley tools. Looks like somebody puked on the sidewalk so matches my time spent in Norfolk. LOL
Spent three years stationed at NAS Oceana, Va. Commercial fished for crabs and eels and sold plenty to restaurants in Norfolk.
Missionary
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"Wad-you say about my dogs" ?
Now it's wind turbines! Got a pic somewhere of gramma and her school house - mud/sod low bulding - she was the only white gal in a class of 20 or so 'Native Americans'. Gramma's dad was some kind of indian agent or sumpthin - the old/large family bible disappeared when I was in teens, had all the old births and history. Wife has a pic of an old cousin in buckskin - old version of the 'coming out' celebrations?
JWFilips
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OK Again not Old..... but new:
My wife and I finally got to see the Comet from our front porch. I have been too tired to go anywhere else This past week I actually had My first real work in 4 months!
A full week of going to work for 8 to 10 hours on my feet is pretty taxing for an old guy after 4 months.
Since last night was good I gave My son Brandt My old Nikon D200 camera with a Nikon 80 to 200 F2.8 Lens to try his luck I had it all set for myself but Too tired to go away from home!
It was set at 3 sec exposure @ f 2.8 and 1600 ASA He went up Marsh wood Road to the top of the mountain and took the Images At the Conservation Area
OK so here are 3 images he got last night (Of about 15 he took) They represent The Beigining, Mid, and end of session.
The camera is old Nikon D technology so I had some color artifacting I had to deal with in post.
Jim
My wife and I finally got to see the Comet from our front porch. I have been too tired to go anywhere else This past week I actually had My first real work in 4 months!
A full week of going to work for 8 to 10 hours on my feet is pretty taxing for an old guy after 4 months.
Since last night was good I gave My son Brandt My old Nikon D200 camera with a Nikon 80 to 200 F2.8 Lens to try his luck I had it all set for myself but Too tired to go away from home!
It was set at 3 sec exposure @ f 2.8 and 1600 ASA He went up Marsh wood Road to the top of the mountain and took the Images At the Conservation Area
OK so here are 3 images he got last night (Of about 15 he took) They represent The Beigining, Mid, and end of session.
The camera is old Nikon D technology so I had some color artifacting I had to deal with in post.
Jim
Missionary
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Can you northerners see the tail without a long photo exposure ?
So far our direction to see it is blocked by some nearby 10,500 hills. I am hoping as it gets higher it will be visible for us. The charts show it a good 20 degrees higher in the morning sky.
So far our direction to see it is blocked by some nearby 10,500 hills. I am hoping as it gets higher it will be visible for us. The charts show it a good 20 degrees higher in the morning sky.