Vintage work crew photos

[Toolmaker51]

I doubt masks of that period were any more effective withholding odor than current masks and one particular micro-organism.
What has improved though, the sales pitch. Sufficiently thorough enough to convince some folks are now safe within their own car! But they'll stand 6' behind another imagining the same bubble? I've asked a few, 'Which one works?' More often than not, the deer-in-the-headlights expression is next.

I'll add this. Anytime a declaration this or that makes user 'Safe', I find instantly suspicious. "Safe" does not exist.
"Safety" itself, not far behind.
Only "Safer" has potential effect.

[the harmonious blacksmith]

Today they won't even let kids have a paper route. So many successful businessmen (and women) got their start in business with a paper route learning to show up, get the route done in time, and, unfortunately, dealing with customers who don't pay readily. Now I can't get reliable paper delivery at all.

[hemmjo]

Note the kid in the foreground, at the near end of the table on the right. He sure has a big smile on his face!!!

Unfortunately, like blacksmiths and canneries, many newspapers are closing up shop. I remember when I was a little kid, back in the 50's, walking with my dad, by the blacksmith's shop in a tiny town where my great grandparents lived. They were "really old" like around 50!!!!! I have an anvil from my great grandpa's little barn in my shop.

As of 2019 about 20% of newspapers have closed up.
Just like loosing blacksmiths, loosing newspapers is not a good thing. Now, even if we do have access to a newspaper, they still get their much of the news they prints from the internet.

[marksbug]

our local newpaper moved about 80 miles away to another town,in other words they closed most of it and downsized the last time I saw one of those papers it was about 10 pages and aboyt 4 inches smaller. 15 years ago I buddy of mine with a automotive/machine shop got the job of reworking some of the machines so they could print on much thinner/cheeper paper.. I reckon it wasent thin enough so they moved...or out sorced.or sold out. I used to work on the owners 34' Scrab boat to make it and keep it faster than hos buddies( witch I also did). he was a great guy,he dies about 18 years back before all the downsizeing changes came into play in the printworks. I miss doing that kind of work. my mm once said they wanted more for thier online services than the printed paper....and the obits were only on line..how am I to know when I die?

[hemmjo]

snip.....how am I to know when I die?

Either the "Fire and Brimstone" or the "Pearly Gates" will be your first clue.

[Toolmaker51]

Either the "Fire and Brimstone" or the "Pearly Gates" will be your first clue.

"Honey Do", snipped for poetic license

Well I dreamed I died
And went up to heaven
No more weedin', mashin' and shovelin'
I'm standing in line at the old Pearly Gates
Up steps the woman
And hands me a rake

John Fogerty, Deja Vu (All Over Again) 2004

[marksbug]

hmm I was hoping there was a nice brimstone wall& fireplace adjacent to the pearly gates to hold up said pearly gates in the waiting area when there is a long line from a disaster or somethen.

[Toolmaker51]

hmm I was hoping there was a nice brimstone wall& fireplace adjacent to the pearly gates to hold up said pearly gates in the waiting area when there is a long line from a disaster or somethen.

Nope. I'll require only a kennel, holding all my past dogs. That insures social aspect falls right into place

[Jon]

Clerks calculating benefits for World War I veterans. Computing Division. Washington, D.C. 1924.

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[jimfols]

Clerks calculating benefits for World War I veterans. Computing Division. Washington, D.C. 1924

Couple of dudes in there. I'd want and escort to my car after work.