Vintage work crew photos

**Jon** · Mar 7, 2019, 12:10 PM

State fire crew learning features of new John Deere fire fighting equipment at Fall Creek Falls State Park, Tennessee, 1952.

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**Frank S** · Mar 7, 2019, 08:34 PM

Originally Posted by Jon

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Now I direct your attention to the hiemflager reticulation joint that connects the vertical articular beams to the flagging soil discombobulation mentisitzer Note how the articular beams a are used to push the hiemflager reticulation joint forward by exerting force through the retinieal ball from behind. the auto stabilizer lifts the articular beams by means of hydraulic compaction inside of of the moving pressure chamber

**Jon** · Mar 9, 2019, 10:41 AM

Torpedo tube installation during the construction of USS Grayback (SSG-574), 18 November 1955

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**Jon** · Mar 11, 2019, 02:19 PM

Workers making chewing gum at the D.L. Clark Company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1948.

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**Frank S** · Mar 15, 2019, 06:22 PM

packed in like sheep going to slaughter

**12bolts** · Mar 11, 2019, 11:44 PM

Thats an interestingly shaped counterweight on the flow control from the hopper.

**Jon** · Mar 12, 2019, 08:48 PM

A nice work crew photo from the Mesta Machine Company. I believe this is one of their smaller forging presses. 1950s.

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**Jon** · Mar 13, 2019, 08:25 PM

Production of 155-mm artillery shells at the American “Pullman-Standard” plant in Hammond, Indiana. 1943-44.

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**ranald** · Mar 13, 2019, 11:09 PM

seems the only one not wearing glasses is the guy with the torch.

**hemmjo** · Mar 15, 2019, 04:43 AM

Originally Posted by ranald

seems the only one not wearing glasses is the guy with the torch.

That appears to be a war time photo. Rather than safety glasses, I am guessing those glasses are just so they can see. My dad's vision was too bad to be in the military. That along, with being an experienced machinist kept him at home, building airplanes. Most of the men that age were either in the military or had some physical reason not to be.

Just my guess..