Vintage work crew photos

[tonyfoale]

Each of the 3 workers is wearing a tie!!!

Of course. It is Lincoln.

[tonyfoale]

Been there there, done that, got the tie.

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Finished device.

Obviously I am a sucker for punishment and I followed that with:

[carl blum]

I knew a fellow in Kansas City that worked in a cigar factory. His doctor told him to stop smoking since it was damaging his lungs. He never smoked.

[12bolts]

Why is that Carl? They roll cigars at the factory, not smoke them

[hemmjo]

Quoted from Wiki, "Snuff is a type of smokeless tobacco product made from finely ground or pulverized tobacco leaves."

Have to assume the dust created by the tobacco processing was the cause.

The whole article is here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snuff_(tobacco)

[carl blum]

Tobacco's Nicotine is very potent. Children that pick tobacco are said to be exposed to the equivalent of smoking two packs a day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunus_Mussa

[philippacificnw]

Grown . . . I must drink my Morning Coffe, before Reading Anything !

philip, from the Great Pacific NorthWET, Oregon, USA

"The Truth spoken softly, is LOUDER . . . .
. . . . . . . . than the Lies that are SHOUTED."

[tonyfoale]

"The Truth spoken softly, is LOUDER . . . .
. . . . . . . . than the Lies that are SHOUTED."

That was true in pre-social media days. Not anymore.

[philippacificnw]

What function of the post office would this be? They look like type setting machines for small books to me. And USPS isn't plastered all over everything either.

perhaps, making POST OFFICE BOXES?

Those machines look like there is enough durabilty to bend small sheets of metal . . .

philip, South of the Border

[Duke_of_URL]

Ask any battle wounded GI., and they’ll all say the same, whoever his nurse was, she was the most beautiful lady he’d ever seen.