Vintage work crew photos

[Beserkleyboy]

Ahhh, when high quality old growth logs made fine lumber...I'm happy I was able to experience the timber harvesting in the 60s & 70s in CA, OR and WA...despite the rapacious volumes that were taken. Modern forestry has come a huge distance, but the fast growth makes for good, quick$$, but rubbish wood...oh well..
I'm still trying to use my 25 ton supply of 'collected' wood and specialty plywood from 16 years in the AUS lumber game...
Jim

[Jon]

Lexington Kentucky police cars with built-in gun ports, 1934.

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[jimfols]

"Lexington Kentucky police cars with built-in gun ports, 1934."

Before two radio was in full use, I reckon each car had to be prepared to do battle on it's own.

[Hoosiersmoker]

Could it be figures?

[bruce.desertrat]

That makes much more sense than my guess!

[Beserkleyboy]

Guys, I'm thinking it is an 'instruction' to 'block out sky and all figures on drays', which was done in the photo we see. Cheers
Jim

[Toolmaker51]

re post #1152, the gunport police cars. Officer riding shotgun, literally, in vehicle [second from left] #4931 appears little too enthusiastic.
Very close to period the Smith & Wesson .357 Magnum went public; right along with expected interest from law enforcement. One goal for the designers was sufficient power to penetrate automotive body panels.
Clyde Barrow was not the only criminal using cars to hit remote locations, then escape via speed and distance. It worked until one day in Louisiana. . .

[Jon]

Another find from the Library of Congress. Tampa, Florida box factory in 1909.

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[katy]

FWIW, When I was a child in the early 1950's, there was a small box factory near where I lived in Winnipeg. It was mostly a big barn like building with a small office in one corner. It was mostly women that worked there, not a lot, maybe 4 or 5. The main part of the building was unheated, even in the winter at 30 or 40 below. In those days a lot of homes and small businesses were heated with wood or coal stove(s) or furnace(s) and I assume that the owner was afraid of a fire in the building. With all the sawdust and wood dust it wouldn't have taken much to start a fire. They used a lot of used boxes and crates that were dis-assembled to get the wood for new boxes.

[Ralphxyz]

Cigar boxes!