Some old Photos for your enjoyment

[richhodg66]

Victorian ladies playing cards in the woods.

 

[richhodg66]

My uncle was a sky pilot. At the age of 8, he told his family he was going to be a minister. Ended up an Air Force Chaplain. Hero? Just a very good man. Don't know too much about him; my mother's brother. Only met him 3 times. Always felt absolutely at ease with him.
He retired a Bird Colonel and for several years he and his wife flew all over the world on MAC flights. His wife stayed in contact with my mother and said whenever and wherever they flew, the crew treated them like royalty. She died a little earlier than expected, he died 3 weeks later. No obvious cause of his death; heart just stopped.

Desmond Doss: if what I've read is even slightly accurate, he was a hero.
Pretty worthwhile movie made about him: "Hacksaw Ridge". I'm sure there was some poetic license taken in the screenplay, but even so...

I've done some informal looking through MOH narratives. Considering how low density the two specialties are, medics and chaplains seem to be over represented. I guess it makes sense, both of them really shine when it all hits the fan.

 

[Bret4207]

Victorian ladies playing cards in the woods.
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Lots of photos like that of people "taking their leisure" in the Adirondacks back in the 1870-1920 period when the mountain air was considered a tonic and a train ticket would get you into the mountains and out of the city. Of course, the more $$$ you had, the nicer the accommodations.

 

[richhodg66]

Maybe by that point in our history, society was becoming civilized enough to think the great outdoors was nice and adventurous. Seems like many if not most in the earlier days were living close to a camping lifestyle as their daily routine indefinitely.

While the wife and I were in Salina, yesterday, we dropped by their DAV thrift store to look around for a few minutes, Salina's is bigger and better stocked than most. On the counter by the cashier was a basket which said "pictures, .25 cents each" so I looked, several were neat old postcards, which I like post cards and they seem to be a thing of the past now, but most were just plain old family snap shots, mostly from the 40s and 50s. Seems they run across a lot of these when people bring grandma's stuff to them after she passes, I guess there's something of a market for such things amongst antique collectors. If I'd had more time, it would have been fun to go through them all. Maybe some of the older locals could identify some of the people in them. It still seemed sad that family photos were just cast away.

 

[Missionary]

Hopefully some were scanned onto DVD or whatever is the route today. We still use a map and directions.

 

[richhodg66]

 

[richhodg66]

The oldest known documented wheelie, 1936.

 

[JWFilips]

And Drag Racing was Born!

 

[BudHyett]

Shriners?

 

[Missionary]

#1846.... My Grandfather from Russia after the Great War (White Russia) via Latvia, Warsaw and the SS America about 1921 possibly stood near that spot.

 

[Bret4207]

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I'd like to see the internal structure of the tower. Laying up rough stone like that that isn't cut, even with the mortar, is an art. All it takes is one joint being in the wrong spot and the whole shebang can fall into a pile!

 

[richhodg66]

The man.

 

[richhodg66]

Hunter Brothers doing some mid-air mechanical checkups during their 23-day-long flight without landing in 1930. Over the 23 days, food and fuel were delivered to them periodically by another airplane. I bet that took some big, brass ones.

 

[Winelover]

No chute, either.

 

[richhodg66]

Doesn't look to be tehered to the airplane either.

 

[JonB]

ain't those rotary engines kinda noisy?

 

[popper]

Must be an experimental rig due to the runners in front of wheels, or a wing walker plane. Not that far above ground but higher than I'd want to be!

 

[richhodg66]

Must be an experimental rig due to the runners in front of wheels, or a wing walker plane. Not that far above ground but higher than I'd want to be!

Supposedly, that plane and those guys stayed airborne 23 days, wth carefully planed refuels and resupplies from other planes. That was the era when everybody was attempting to break records.

 

[richhodg66]

Found this with the caption; "Sometimes when we are out exploring we come across some pretty weird stuff. This is a stump with tons of brass ammo cases pounded into it. It looks like someone was shooting at a nearby hillside a hundred years ago, then pounded the empty brass into this stump. Near this site was an old lumber mill used to build a very large dam back in about 1915.
Juneau's Hidden History"

 

[JWFilips]

From Shorpy.com:
November 1935. "Household supply store. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania." 8x10 inch nitrate negative by Walker Evans for the U.S. Resettlement Administration.