Vintage work crew photos

[Beserkleyboy]

PJ. Big rainy day here...been Google image looking for maker of the green machine! Found a good pic on Pinterest of the EXACT same machine! I've messaged the person to see if she has any ideas...stay tuned...
Jim

[Clockguy]

PJ. Big rainy day here...been Google image looking for maker of the green machine! Found a good pic on Pinterest of the EXACT same machine! I've messaged the person to see if she has any ideas...stay tuned...
Jim

I have to agree with PJ on the metal and the finish, that metal shavings drawer front and the attaching area on the base could well be a heavy gauge sheet steel which was pressed to make the bends as tight as they appear to be. Chances are, the entire "box" or outer casing of the sharpener is heavy gauge steel and the attaching parts are either some other metal or a thinner steel.

Regarding the paint, I would guess that it could be either an original dark gray or black enamel finish repainted with a green lacquer finish. That would sometimes cause the lacquer finish to react with the milder enamel finish and cause the green to shrink and make the antique type finish you are seeing. These two finishes are not compatible with each other, [at least in the autobody repair field], The old style Alkyd enamel would sometimes never completely dry, even over years of use. That accounts for the "punky" or soft rubbery style of older enamel finishes if they were not kiln dried or dried under heat lamps. Acrylic lacquer, on the other hand, has a very strong chemistry and, after the quick drying solvents dried out of the finish's surface, the resulting coating is very hard and brittle and will chip easier from rock impacts or other impacts than the softer slower drying solvents in Alkyd enamel.

The other possibility may be that it was restored and painted with an antique appearing "crackle finish" made purposely to appear "crackled" or "split" apart from age.

[marksbug]

Hmm that kinda looks like our old shop.....kinda, I washed the floors after those guys moved out...

the machine dosent work right because the engineer dont know squat, have never operated anyything but thier computer and phone,not a clue haw the real world works.just do a little on the putter and let it finish the job...without any real input as to what the thingys is supposed to do....Imho engineers that havent successfully worked building repairing and making thongs before they "got engineered on paper" are for the most part full of them selves and brown stuff that stinks and usually clueless but have excuses for everything and can site oh somuch useless stuff thats usually rong but like to hear them selves thinking they are impressing somebody....and yes the uneducated guy/gal can come up with oh somuch stuff that works or is transferable to somany other things..kinda like Heady Lamar.and oh somany others.janators,field hands and somany others that addvanced the world as we know it. even all of us with out solutions to whatever that may or may not work for us but can be added to too do what we are needing it to do. remember there is always a better mouse trap...somewhere else.

[Jon]

Hoisting a 46 ton girder into place during construction of the Consolidated Gas Company building, 15th Street and Irving Place, New York, August 4, 1913

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[Frank S]

I have only just last night completed scanning my late mother's life journal into my computer, She started to write her journal in 1997 hoping that someday her grand children might have a chance to read it her last entry was sometime in 2005 after abruptly ending mid sentence. she passed away I think in 2007 I say I think because I was in Kuwait.
The only relevants' of what I am saying has to do with this thread is the fact that even in her octogenarian years with failing eyesight and crippled hands her hand writing was some of the most eloquently formed of any that I have ever read. I wish I could say the same for my writing and for sure wish many of the younger engineer/ drafts persons had half the command of their drawing abilities and she did of her hand writing.
I have started copying her journal to type I stated in my prolog insert that I will copy her writings word for word punctuation spelling sentence and paragraph formulation exactly as she wrote in her journal. I am currently on page 12 of a 200 page journal and my word program has not issued a single red line query.
I am though adding balloon notations which will be explained in the epilogue of any omissions she may have left out.

[Moby Duck]

I have only just last night completed scanning my late mother's life journal into my computer, She started to write her journal in 1997 hoping that someday her grand children might have a chance to read it her last entry was sometime in 2005 after abruptly ending mid sentence. she passed away I think in 2007 I say I think because I was in Kuwait.
The only relevants' of what I am saying has to do with this thread is the fact that even in her octogenarian years with failing eyesight and crippled hands her hand writing was some of the most eloquently formed of any that I have ever read. I wish I could say the same for my writing and for sure wish many of the younger engineer/ drafts persons had half the command of their drawing abilities and she did of her hand writing.
I have started copying her journal to type I stated in my prolog insert that I will copy her writings word for word punctuation spelling sentence and paragraph formulation exactly as she wrote in her journal. I am currently on page 12 of a 200 page journal and my word program has not issued a single red line query.
I am though adding balloon notations which will be explained in the epilogue of any omissions she may have left out.

Why don't you just scan them Frank, then the handwriting is preserved forever.

[Beserkleyboy]

Wow! You are a lucky man....My mum saved a lot of my childhood stuff, which we found 'disassembling' her home of 40 years! And she passed on the packrat gene to me...seriously, she'll never be far away with that to share..my dad, with a big ego, started a book about the family and the lumber business. He had a big stroke at 49, but one hand typed on 3x5 index cards, both sides, 120 of them. Some absolute gems of stories. The best was as a Captain in the Red Ball Express in Belgium, he had big quantities of 'stuff' going through the warehouse. They had an oversupply of Remington typewriters....so dad arranged a 1 carat solitaire diamond for Mum's engagement ring in exchange for a wack of typewriters to a South African fellow...and I'm sure he took 'orders' for other goods in exchanges as well, a real wheeler dealer he was...Enjoy mum's musings. Cheers
Jim

[PJs]

Good Story Frank. I did similar with Mom's great recipes (Beautiful handwriting also) and published a small book of Dad's great stories (50yr toastmaster) and saying's for the family after I went through all of his stuff, computer and otherwise. Also did his memorial video of his 80 years of Living Life!

These great pictures that Jon finds and post and our own family photos and treasures have some high word counts worth archiving...when we look at the details and faces, clothing, settings and backgrounds, etc., stories abound, and I for one am grateful at my age to have a few and appreciate those of others...hopefully to pass forward something from our time here for others to gain insight.

PJ

[Frank S]

Good Story Frank. I did similar with Mom's great recipes (Beautiful handwriting also) and published a small book of Dad's great stories (50yr toastmaster) and saying's for the family after I went through all of his stuff, computer and otherwise. Also did his memorial video of his 80 years of Living Life!

These great pictures that Jon finds and post and our own family photos and treasures have some high word counts worth archiving...when we look at the details and faces, clothing, settings and backgrounds, etc., stories abound, and I for one am grateful at my age to have a few and appreciate those of others...hopefully to pass forward something from our time here for others to gain insight.

PJ

Humans are genetically capable of passing on all accumulated knowledge known from the mother at the inception of our off springs the father's knowledge is imprinted in the gnomes of his chromosomes and dna which is passed on via the sperm cells, However we do not know how to access this knowledge consciously since our brains have not been trained or evolved to the level of being able to access these memories or knowledge.
the human brain has roughly 78 to 92% more power than the average human ever utilizes.
It is my firm conviction that one day should humans not wipe themselves out of existence we may eventually learn to train our brains to much higher levels. and eventually obtain abilities to not only access but also relay to others all of our accumulated knowledge much the dame way we can bluetooth info from our phones.
Until then these threads with the historical pictures and subsequent discussions of them are the best we can hope for right now.

[Moby Duck]

We think of these construction workers and riggers as being good at what they do, but what about the fabricator that drilled all of those rivet holes and got them all to line up so well. Tens of thousands of matching rivet holes, probably marked out by hand and individually drilled.