Some old Photos for your enjoyment

[smokeywolf]

We had some interesting characters in Dad's family.

His mother's mother lived in Naples, Italy until the end of the 1800s. Great Grandma apparently had a thing for naughty boys. At some point, her boyfriend got tossed in jail for something that was not so violent, but surpassed mischief. Great Grandma decided she was going to break him out of jail. One night she sneaks into the jail, finds the keys and opens his cell. They scamper out of the jail and go running pell-mell up the street. They finally stop in front of a saloon to catch their breath. Great Grandma turns around and in the light streaming from the door of the bar she sees that, in the darkness of the jail, she had sprung the wrong man.

They fell in love, married and produce 13 children who all lived well into adulthood.

 

[462]

Smokeywolf,
Great story.

My father's mother was born in the Indian Territories to parents who immigrated from Southern Italy at some unknown date, but prior to 1893 when she was born. His father, too, was a Southern Italy immigrant, possibly in 1902, but no record exists. He was killed in an Oklahoma coal mine accident a month before my father was born.

My mother's parents were from the old Austro-Hungarian Empire, and listed Hungary as their country of birth. Wherever in Hungary they were from became Czechoslovakia after WW I. When they immigrated is not known.

 

[JWFilips]

A brand new B-24 at the Willow Run bomber plant in Ypsilanti Michigan. In the month of April 1944, this plant was producing a complete B-24 every 60 minutes. Shorpy.com

 

[JWFilips]

Also A male tune up for the Spring season:
Washington, D.C., circa 1920. "U.S. Public Health Service." Dubious nostrums for, um, down there. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative

 

[Bret4207]

"Gleet". Never heard that one before. Patent medicines they called them. Often nothing more than a little cheap alcohol with some added bitters.

 

[JWFilips]

Every Month I try to find some old Photos that pertain! Best I could come up with for April!
After all in the Spring a young man's fancy turns to ? Guess it is best to get a system tune up!

 

[JWFilips]

Here are 3 young men in my yard this morning!:

 

[Bret4207]

Nice pic!

 

[JWFilips]

Prices like this are a thing of the past! Another Shorpy.com image:

June 1940. "Diner along U.S. Highway No. 1 near Berwyn, Maryland." Acetate negative by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration.

 

[JWFilips]

This is am interesting one In Stereo!:
"Artistic Stereo Gems of Gettysburg Scenery -- Implements of Modern Warfare." 1875 stereograph by William Howard Tipton (1850-1929).

 

[Bret4207]

I recall a few years back watching a Sterling Hayden movie. He's driving across the country and stops at a drive in diner. Orders a hamburger and a BEER...delivered to the car! Times have changed!

 

[JWFilips]

Well I think Gravity may win here! Old Style family canning! From Shorppy .com
April 1939. Coffee County, Alabama. "Mrs. Peacock and daughter Mary, Rural Rehabilitation clients for four years, getting some of their supply of canned foods for dinner. Many families keep their jars on shelves along wall in bedroom and living room." Acetate negative by Marion Post Wolcott.

 

[Gary]

Lot a Zinc caps on those jars.

 

[Pistolero]

Note that they have a few jars in the center in each shelf below the second, they are using the jars as their center brace.
Don't pull the wrong jar or the who darned thing might come down!
A lot of work there, they really needed to add a center brace to avoid catastrophe, and missing a LOT
of meals.
We have had to toss a bunch of our old relish. Seems that 25+ years will still cause it to taste off.
We got real amibtious a few years in a row and made about 30 quarts or more each season. Turns out
we only use about 2 quarts per year....oops. Hate to toss it, but getting ugly. Tasted it and it really isn't
BAD, but not good, either. Into the garbage disposal.

Bill

 

[462]

Still hard times in many areas of the country, in 1939, and the Peacocks may have had higher priorities than wood for bracing.

 

[Pistolero]

Losing that much food and that many canning jars in an accident doesn't seem like a good plan.
Gotta be a piece of scrap here or there, but SO FAR they are getting away with it.

Bill

 

[462]

I don't disagree, Bill.

 

[Pistolero]

You can take the structural engineer out of the company....but you can't make him stop
seeing things in structural engineering terms.

Bill

 

[462]

I don't go out of the way to earthquake-proof the house, but for sure would with that setup.

 

[fiver]

I'm pretty sure they just got the boards from the home depot, they ain't sagging from the weight they just come that crooked.
evidenced by that lower shelf that has like 4 jars and both an up and down bow in it.