Vintage work crew photos

[Scotsman Hosie]

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If OSHA was on the job, they'd be wearing a harness and safety line — and there would be doors on their little floating cubicles. (Wouldn't want to forget where you're at — and step out for a break.

[mklotz]

"Consisting of cabinets arranged from floor to ceiling tiers covering over 4000 square feet containing over 3000 drawers 10 feet long."

And to think, all that would probably fit on a single 64 gigabyte flash drive you could carry in your shirt pocket.

[philipUsesWood&Brass]

mklotz, the Europeans have LONG been using "Vertical Space" to meet their Needs, I was in Germany in 1971, and visited a Jewelers Supply Store. Think Diamonds, Emeralds, Saphires, Rubies, etc.

From the BASEBOARD to approx 6 feet, drawers, 1 inch tall 8-10 inches wide maybe 18 inches in length . . . . On a wall 15 - 20 FEET Long.

Request your needed Gem and they would walk to an UNMARKED DRAWER, and bring you your specified Gem in several sizes, and maybe Cut Shapes as well.
My Friend (a German Citizen) ran the Language Barrior for me, Not that they did not speak ENGLISH, but out of Respect for their trade. We Spent $500.00 (combined) and they treated us like we were Old Time Customers, Tea & Biscuits don't you know!

BTW, to Enter that room we were buzzed in after Video/Voice reply to their "door Bell", 12 foot hall Video Monitors both ends! Double Electro-Mechanical Latches both doors. Foyer with Door Bell. ground floor. First their elevator opens, enter and (of Course a Video Monitor) we are taken to the Second floor where the Hall way had a small meeting room thenthose DOORS!

All in All, a very exciting memory, and an Understanding of German Enginneering.

philip, from the Great Pacific NorthWET, todays Weather a Light Washington Mist, It HIT Oregon & Missed Washington.

[bruce.desertrat]

You're right on the money, Marv! Using the standard that 1 page of text ~ 1kilobyte, and 1800 pages/lineal foot from here https://www.ilmcorp.com/tools-and-re...ges-or-images/ it comes out to ~54Gb.

Heck you would have room left over for a decent photo or music library! :-)

[ranald]

"Consisting of cabinets arranged from floor to ceiling tiers covering over 4000 square feet containing over 3000 drawers 10 feet long."

And to think, all that would probably fit on a single 64 gigabyte flash drive you could carry in your shirt pocket.

Hi Marv, your comment on tech changes made me think of the Brisbane City computer room which was about the same size. The small Dec 10 mainframe was used for file movements within the staffing area (about 15,000) during the 70's & 80's.

I would deliver the software cards for the readers of the proper mainframe housed in a giant room with its own back up aircon to manage the proper temp & it was in a fully sealed room that had a 7 second warnibg to staff if it was about to inject poisonous gasses to protect the mainframe from possoble fire. I would see reels spinning everywhere. card readers were clicking away but not heard through the bullit proof glass unless one was invited into the room. Although it was the third biggest municipality in the world at the time & way smaller than our state & federal govts, it had the biggest computer in the southern hemi. About 300000 rate payers, stores, libraries, water supply , electricity generation until 1976, works, parks etc etc etc.

All that could be done on a much small piece of kit now, but I am privaliged to have been one of a few who were allowed onto the floor let alone into "the room".
The mind boggles re NASA etc

[Frank S]

Jon this may give some insight to the why of the women pulling plows. Fore warning a bit of a read
The Doukhobors' Place in Canadian History

[Clockguy]

Jon this may give some insight to the why of the women pulling plows. Fore warning a bit of a read
The Doukhobors' Place in Canadian History

Author Edit: [Sorry for lagging behind in the replies to the posts, I have been taking advantage of the late March and early April weather here on the FL Panhandle. Sunny, 70's, time to get the kayak ready for a paddle!]

I had no clue to the settlement of that great Northern country above us! I wonder how many peoples in other parts of the world have been significantly stifled while trying to maintain their sense of identity and ethnic background? Thank you Frank S for opening another door to my never ending education of all which surrounds me on this planet!

As I grow older, I become more and more curious about the world as we know it today and how events in each of the countries played a major part in shaping and building one nation after another throughout our history? We all know the history of our birth country or that in which we have spent the most of our lives, but how many of us have any clue to how other countries, which pop out of the historical shadows occasionally to reap a few passing headlines of unrest or rebellion, have come to be as they are today? Case in point, and we have seen these events in many of our own lifetimes, the teardown of world Communism and the breakup of the Balkan countries into one level of another of independent nations. In school, back in the 50's, I knew the names and locations of most of the Balkan countries and Russian satellite countries as a matter of course. Presently I probably could not recite more than a handful of ****-istan nations which have risen from the results of the '89 demolition of the "Wall" and the renaming of all those little nations and Russian holdings which had been given their rights to govern themselves as they pleased.

Now I am finding out how very little I know about our Canadian neighbors to the north of us and how their exploration and settlement of their country parallelled ours and also how they differed from our own development. We had minorities which have grown from a handful of Displaced African slaves and Chinese laborers on the railroads and in our mines and on our highways and certain religious groups as the Mormons, Amish, Mennonites, and so many others to mark our country's history with changes the likes of which have shaped and altered our country's structure forever. And also, as a scar on our historical endeavors to expand and settle every square inch of land within our domain, the many and varied cultures of Native Americans, who we literally stole land from and herded the survivors of so many conflicts and battles for more and more land into smaller enclaves of poor unworkable land until they literally have been placed in human bondage within unmarked territorial "walls" we call "reservations" and left to subsist as best they could.

I should imagine the every country of worth, on this thing we call our Earth, has similar "skeletons" which are not talked about nor have any role in the positive growth of those people who have strived to build a place for everyone to live in relative peace and harmony with each other. Nobody wants to discuss the dirty hands and the blisters and the sore backs and also those ethnic groups who got in the way of history as we know it today. Those groups have become the homely little red haired kid who hides in the closet whenever company comes over to visit. We all know he is in there but nobody wants to drag him out and show him to the visitors.

[Ralphxyz]

So what years was this wall used?

Ralph

[Jon]

The Reel Cove Coal Mine near Whitwell showing the workers' train. Marion County, Tennessee. 1952.

Fullsize image: https://diqn32j8nouaz.cloudfront.net...w_fullsize.jpg

[ranald]

More sardines or Sheep as Frank would say.
Cool train , looks like a kids one in a theme park but dustier, deadlier, & more riveting.