Vintage work crew photos

[Jon]

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

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[Clockguy]

of course the Susquehanna River was not named after a indigenous tribe of Indians that lived in the river basin
but after a tribe (Susquehanna) that was moved into the river basin by our government to sell their native lands.

Ralph

It most certainly was, but I guess I missed your point in this discussion. I was merely reliving a few moments of my childhood, not trying to disparage a group of original "Native Americans".

[Jon]

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

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[ranald]

Axe factory, I buy. Side job for Broadway actors, instead of waiting tables? Dunno
But WTH is this? Bullet-proof chamber pot? R&D 'Fat Man' prototype? An early Reuben Garrett Lucius Goldberg [#1] device with contributing designers? No, wait he'd only be 2 years old by then...
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R2D2's great-great-great grandfather? Notice casters hadn't been invented [or available] yet.

I have made a couple of real mistakes with this block making machine. As a youngen I'd help dad mix concrete for the back yard. Each time some mix was left over we would make concrete blocks. 5 decades on i needed a spot to store the machine (big mistake number 1= I stored it in a shed I had converted from a badly leaking concrete water tank that i converted into a shed complete with wooden hinged door, glass side panel for loght to see the jo blakes & an awning over the doorway: the humidity in ten years has almost destroyed it). Mistake number2 = I decided to restore it by chelating (10%molasses & bal water). I didn't have a container big enough so dug a large hole and lined with viscreen (very durable plastic sheet used under concrete slabs etc). I had help to lower the heavy inem into its temperory home. Alas we had a very big wet and suffered a small land slip of shale & clay which almost buried it.


When I went to dig it out there was a dangerous resident in the black plastic so i left well alone until my son visited and we dug & lifted it out. Rather than land fill I have advertised it for restoration or as a garden ornament that a Pandora or other vine can crawl over.



If I had the time & space I could make many parts (using rusted ones as templates) from quality hardwood but that isn't the case here. I'm culling and storage is a big issue.

[12bolts]

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

[Jon]

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]

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

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[ranald]

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

[Frank S]

That's not a torch it is a pint gun in the spray booth

[ranald]

One would think that of all there he would need a mask/ppe with such a small booth. guy on left must be subjected to the fumes etc.