Vintage work crew photos

[Jon]

Pin boys working in Subway Bowling Alleys, 65 South St., B'klyn, N.Y. every night. 3 smaller boys were kept out of the photo by Boss. April 1910.

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[hemmjo]

My dad used to do that when he was a kid. Told us about how the pins would often fly up and hit them as they stood there watching, waiting.

[Jon]

Striping and painting the crosswalk on SE Hawthorne Boulevard and SE 49th Avenue looking east in Portland (OR), 1939.

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[skibo]

I saw these people when I was a kid in Washington State in my home town doing this with hand held sprayers, this must of caused bad backs after the streets were finished, but. back breaking work was the norm , even in the fifties and sixties!

[Frank S]

I am wondering if they are installing or taping into an existing line This is what it looks like to me.
From my perspective it appears that they dug a huge hole around the existing pipeline then shored up the hole with timbers and planking then laid a huge bridging timber over the pipe and supported it with the chains and rods as would be done in today's world by turnbuckles winches, excavators or a crane, Now that the pipe is supported they will probably clean it then install a saddle clamp with a nipple and Tee with a valve and piercing cutter connect the spur line to the branch of the tee the valve on the run then place the piercing cutter through the center of the open gate valve cut the hole in the pipe back the cutter out close the valve remove the cutter then cap the open side of the valve. More than likely there will be 2 valves one on the branch between the tee and the spur so that can be left closed until the rest of the spur line is completed.
I helped weld a 10" Tee to a 12" line one time. Only I wasn't told it was a hot tie on a live line until after we had finished welding the flange for the Tee to the line. Some of the insane things welders do in their lives.

[Ralphxyz]

I used to ten pin bowl back in the sixties with guys setting the pins.

[Jon]

Workers building the Berlin Wall.

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[12bolts]

They sure dont look like happy workmen

[Moby Duck]

Talking about the Berlin Wall:-
They were not forced labour workers. There were permanent workers, but they actually employed casual labour every day from both sides of the wall. Two oppos of mine whilst on annual leave from the Navy, were tripping around West Germany and actually worked on the wall for 3 days around 1964/65 to get some extra money. They were paid daily and the contractors were paying better money than the Navy at the time. No, they didn’t have Naval permission to step into an Eastern Block country, but the Navy never found out and they all lived happily ever after.

[IntheGroove]

Two guys working and three guys with guns...