Some old Photos for your enjoyment
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Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Pretty sure the patch on the defendants shirt says "Post Office". Wonder what he did?
The holster is an old swivel job in basketweave, the grips are pretty snazzy. I see the officer also has the old style "dope on a rope" tie on so bad guys will have an easier time choking him out! How times change.
On the previous photo- I always wanted a short wave receiver, preferably a late model Zenith Transoceanic. No clue why, just always found them interesting. Ham always seemed rather daunting to me, but then I remember when you had to be able to send and rec'v in Morse before voice, or at least I think that's how it went. I've been around a few Hams but it just seemed overwhelming to me.
The holster is an old swivel job in basketweave, the grips are pretty snazzy. I see the officer also has the old style "dope on a rope" tie on so bad guys will have an easier time choking him out! How times change.
On the previous photo- I always wanted a short wave receiver, preferably a late model Zenith Transoceanic. No clue why, just always found them interesting. Ham always seemed rather daunting to me, but then I remember when you had to be able to send and rec'v in Morse before voice, or at least I think that's how it went. I've been around a few Hams but it just seemed overwhelming to me.
Mitty38
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Morse is no longer required. I looked into it.Even bought me a talky.( You can get a cheap one for about 40 bucks. ) Then passed the General test. Just never finished registration and payment to the FCC for call letters.
To be serious you need room to install a couple different style antenna , Or at least be in an area without a lot of ground interference. Also if you don't have a good reception area and have the time you can travel to one and put up temporary antennas and camp out. I do not have that option, so put and end to those ambitions.
So I just use my talky to listen. I pick up the local repeater, plus a local fire and police "private band".
At certain times if I go to the hill at the club. I can even hold it sideways at night and pick up one side of the conversation from the space station. They talk to hamm guys, a lot of the astronauts and cosmonauts are hamms.
Now I have a GMRS license it is a lifetime deal. But line of sight local, or thru a high mounted repeater. We have a local repeater and a network. So talk to those fellows once a week. A couple are members of our gun club Have a couple talkies for that, use them at the club and when we go to a flee market or something
CB is previlant in our area so I have a few fellows I talk to on the way to work. Or when in my truck and they are on. Channel 32+ (side band)
I stay away from, 19 that is solely trucker now, only truck business, and they will just ignore you, or just crank on the lines and drown you out.
To be serious you need room to install a couple different style antenna , Or at least be in an area without a lot of ground interference. Also if you don't have a good reception area and have the time you can travel to one and put up temporary antennas and camp out. I do not have that option, so put and end to those ambitions.
So I just use my talky to listen. I pick up the local repeater, plus a local fire and police "private band".
At certain times if I go to the hill at the club. I can even hold it sideways at night and pick up one side of the conversation from the space station. They talk to hamm guys, a lot of the astronauts and cosmonauts are hamms.
Now I have a GMRS license it is a lifetime deal. But line of sight local, or thru a high mounted repeater. We have a local repeater and a network. So talk to those fellows once a week. A couple are members of our gun club Have a couple talkies for that, use them at the club and when we go to a flee market or something
CB is previlant in our area so I have a few fellows I talk to on the way to work. Or when in my truck and they are on. Channel 32+ (side band)
I stay away from, 19 that is solely trucker now, only truck business, and they will just ignore you, or just crank on the lines and drown you out.
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JWFilips
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My wife's Dad was constantly on the MARS circuit as soon as he got home from work and had supper during Nam! He helped a lot of GI's "Phone Home"
Dusty Bannister
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Yes, that would mean he could pop the strap with the trigger finger at the time of the draw. That holster appears to be sort of open at the back so the draw is done while rotating the revolver into firing position.
I have to wonder if that did not start as a belt holster, and then have the drop feature purchased as an option.
I have to wonder if that did not start as a belt holster, and then have the drop feature purchased as an option.
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hporter
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I have to admit, the same thought crossed my mind as I pushed the button to post the photo. Sad we have to consider such things in today's world.
hporter
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He was a postal worker, at least according to the caption on the photo on the Shorpy website.
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26616
https://www.shorpy.com/node/26616
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
The strap over the trigger guard was supposed to be opened as you drew and rocked the gun backwards as Dusty mentioned. I had a holster something like that years ago. Horrible thing to use if you were used to rocking forward.
I don't know what define a "cheap" SW radio, but the nicer Transoceanics I've seen for sale run in the $2-400 range, which is a lot for radio IMO. But that's the collector market driving the price. I know there are solid state SW rcvrs in the $40-75 range that would work every bit as well, but they weren't what I was drooling over back in the early 70's reading my Dads Popular Science mags! I see a small number of Ham sets for sale locally every now and then. I've thought of looking into it but between the space issue, time and whatnot, I never quite make it.
CB's. When I was still gainfully employed and working the big trucks, that CB was a good friend. I would often get contacted by local truckers cluing me into some bonehead driving like an idiot, be it big rig or POV, and in return I could get them to find out where someone who was looking for information or who I needed information from was working. Pretty handy! Of course I could also listen in while they bad mouthed me and told wild stories of how I was screwing them over. Funny how quiet they would get when I'd break in and say, "Hey Bob, tell them the rest of the story where I let you slide on the 4 big$$$ tickets I could have written you!!!" The walls of the world have ears!!!
I don't know what define a "cheap" SW radio, but the nicer Transoceanics I've seen for sale run in the $2-400 range, which is a lot for radio IMO. But that's the collector market driving the price. I know there are solid state SW rcvrs in the $40-75 range that would work every bit as well, but they weren't what I was drooling over back in the early 70's reading my Dads Popular Science mags! I see a small number of Ham sets for sale locally every now and then. I've thought of looking into it but between the space issue, time and whatnot, I never quite make it.
CB's. When I was still gainfully employed and working the big trucks, that CB was a good friend. I would often get contacted by local truckers cluing me into some bonehead driving like an idiot, be it big rig or POV, and in return I could get them to find out where someone who was looking for information or who I needed information from was working. Pretty handy! Of course I could also listen in while they bad mouthed me and told wild stories of how I was screwing them over. Funny how quiet they would get when I'd break in and say, "Hey Bob, tell them the rest of the story where I let you slide on the 4 big$$$ tickets I could have written you!!!" The walls of the world have ears!!!
Dusty Bannister
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That is so cool. If the stream liner engine is steam powered, I bet the cab is an incinerator.
Bret4207
At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Yup, it's steam. I forget the designation but that was the height of the Art Deco Era. I would imagine any steam cab could be pretty toasty in warm weather!
ETA- Found it. Pennsylvania Rail Road K4 Streamliner. They started out as a typical looking steam loco but a guy named Raymond Lowey, who also did a mess of other industrial streamlining makeovers, revamped them into works of art!
en.wikipedia.org
ETA- Found it. Pennsylvania Rail Road K4 Streamliner. They started out as a typical looking steam loco but a guy named Raymond Lowey, who also did a mess of other industrial streamlining makeovers, revamped them into works of art!
Pennsylvania Railroad K4 class - Wikipedia
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California's Central Coast Amid The Insanity
Was just reading an Auburn, Washington, newspaper article dated February 1960 about the retirement of the man I knew as my paternal grandfather, from the Northern Pacific Railroad. He said,"I was the first guy to put a diesel engine into the roundhouse. And I was the first guy to put one through the wall at the roundhouse, too."
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Missionary
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I would think the steam exibit was 200 years of steam locomotives.
Peter Cooper built the first US Built in New York 1830.
Peter Cooper built the first US Built in New York 1830.
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