Looks like a good place for the guy that everyone on the crew hates (like the boss) to "accidentally" fall off at the highest point.
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Looks like a good place for the guy that everyone on the crew hates (like the boss) to "accidentally" fall off at the highest point.
As a young teenager I lived for a time in the Canary Islands. We visited the Volcano in the center of the island. While standing near the edge there was always a swirling wind blowing that would suck your cap off your head. I imagine the winds in the Kimberly Diamond Mine could be about the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by mlochala
Did you notice at the top right corner of the picture how the cables curve up toward the surface? This picture is taken near the bottom of the ride after the cables curve out more horizontally than the upper part of the ride. This picture is after the ride has slowed down. You know after the screaming has stopped!
Women delivering ice. 1918.
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I would bet that those ladies are just models...
just look at their shews.... and the fresh fold creases in their brand new clothes..... better ask for the girls dna,I think were being raped. or at least screwed with.:hattip:
MMMmmmm 1918 Ice Hotties!
While I can't exactly point to the exact item the girls are wearing etc, as a whole it looks staged to me. Shoes too shiny I think and fold creases in a new pair of store bought overalls etc. However I dont think that because this pic looks staged it didn't happen that women carried ice chunks of that size. I do feel that they could represent other women that actually did that work.
My grand parents had a frozen food locker at the Ice Plant in town 8 miles away. I remember in 1958 my grandmother swinging a huge chunk of ice over her shoulder with tongs when she picked it up. She loaded it up in the pickup and drove home to cook for tomorrows 30+ men in the thrashing crew. I think I will go out this spring and look around to see if I can find one of her set's of tongs around the estate.
I think I mentioned before that my grandmother had been a novice Nun before being called home to take care of her mother and twin sisters. Women were tougher then. ....... ESPECIALLY........ the NUNS!
Cool!
Maybe they're the actual delivery people but they were warned to look nice for photo day.
I'd bet your Grandmother had bigger arms then those two...Quote:
Originally Posted by greyhoundollie
I'm 49 and I still have nightmares about nuns.. :)
They appear to me to be younger young ladies quite possibly in their late teens and most probably the daughters of the ice-man. Possibly posing for the photo to be in an add for his ice business. If this were the case it could explain a few things their lack of muscular development in their arms the apparent newness of clothes and or shoes. Also note both have many similarities in their facial features the height difference could be explained as a couple years between their ages.
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Originally Posted by Rikk
Does a the sight of a 12" wooden ruler make you cringe wither or not it has a metal edge on one side?
Indeed, as does a wooden paddle the size of a loaf of bread....Quote:
Originally Posted by greyhoundollie
It's funny, when I am in public and catch sight of a nun, my back gets straighter and I check to see if my shirt is tucked in. I wonder if they have a private nod and smile when they notice people like us in public who have flashbacks. "Ah Sister, another one who still remembers..."
Making a big handle on a big machine for another bigger machine! Date unknown but must be early 1900's
You can't bring in the big guns without these guys making 'em first! Cue some AC/DC! Circa 1911
I wonder if these big machines are still in service in the United States? Somehow I doubt it. If I had to put my money on it these machines have either been scrapped or relocated in Asia. It’s a crying shame what has happened to the manufacturing capability of the United States of America.
No it’s gone. I lived in Billerica for 20yrs. The one that’s there now is 20x the size.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ralphxyz
I’m wondering if it’s in the same location as the new one? This is the first time I’ve ever
scene this photo. Great piece of history for the town of Billerica.
P.S.- I graduated Billerica Memorial High School.
It certainly is!!! More than being a "shame" it is down right SCARY. I taught Industrial Technology (the old Industrial Arts with more emphasis open ended problem solving) for 35 years, retired in 2009. Since I left 11 years ago, the shops have been shutdown and replaced with "Tech Prep" using teachers who have no how to do real problem solving. Instead they give the kids "problems" then the kids "solve" the problem b duplicating the solution the teacher had in mind. Rather than letting them REALLY explore possible solutions.Quote:
Originally Posted by Radioman
It is bad!!
Well, American Manufacturing output has steadily increased all along, with drops due to recessions and such. What has declined precipitously is American manufacturing employment. The US makes a lot of big complicated stuff...it's just all done by robots and computers. I agree that it sucks that we don't have more universal Industrial Arts Education, if for no other reason that teaching kids how to make stuff with their own two hands, even if they do go on to become accountants, it's still a valuble skill to learn and streches the brain and eye-hand coordination muscles better than video games for sure.Quote:
Originally Posted by hemmjo
Kind of makes my 56" by 140" between the centers lathe look like a toy by comparison now I want that one. I would probably use it to make sewing needlesQuote:
Originally Posted by Hoosiersmoker
Newport News on the East coast or San Diego or San Francisco on the West coast would be only place that MIGHT have that big lathe if they didn't already have one like it when it became available for sale.
More likely if it hasn't been scrapped it is in Asia IE China machining drive shafts for new supersize container ships and oil supertankers. Not to mention China is building it's navy now. Carriers, battleships, and cruisers. You know the USA Navy package in 1935 on forward. Japan wants a few of those and so does North Korea.
Wasn't a lot of that huge machinery warehoused in a mined-out salt mine mountain somewhere? I am thinking the name might have been Cheyenne Mountain, but I can't remember for sure. Not sure if the name is correct though.
When I was training we had a lathe capable of machining ~22 foot diameter LP steam turbine sections, as did every large power station, for on-site repairs, only saw it used once with the operating machinist riding on the tool post at the console.
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Medical staff during Spanish Flu epidemic, Sydney, Australia, April 1919.
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I guess the guys standing on the sidewalk wearing suits thought they were immune to the Spanish Flu? Maybe wearing a tie wards off virus in their part of town.
Bonneville dam under construction...mid 1930s
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Mine crew at Calumet & Hecla Mine shaft No. 2, Calumet, Houghton County, Michigan, ~1906
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Clerical employees of Los Angeles Police Department getting fingerprinted, 1928.
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Under the man's nose at the middle right-hand side of the pic, a label says "Circular File". That's a common joke nowadays for a wastebasket.
Was it a joke in 1928 too? Or did "circular file" ever refer to anything non-humorous?
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That might have been where circulars were filed...
Possibly although the only etymological reference I can find with a cursory googling is this https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us.../circular-file which says it first appears in the 1945-50 time range.
Also, that usage is contraindicated by the fact that the label is on one of the filing cabinets, not the trash bin.
I haven't found a Vancouver California either. Not sure if this is actually California or Canada?
I think IntheGroove has nailed it...
Crime Prevention Tip of the Month - Los Angeles Police Department
Good call guys. Also found this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Look_out_circular
Things like news papers were sometimes refereed to as circulars. Things like weekly or monthly advisories in a government organization are sometimes referred to as circulars also.
It appears the stated date of the photo is off by about 20 years. The dress style is more like 1948.
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"Workers on the first moving assembly line put together magnetos and flywheels for 1913 Ford autos" Highland Park, Michigan
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Giving the men a stool to sit on would allow the line speed to be increased a bit. It would also insure fewer mistakes.
FMC didn't like ideas like that, when they took over a vehicle bodybuilders works near Southampton, where my father was the Union 'works convener' the first thing they did was replace all the lighting, removing old shaded and bare 'bulb' filament lamps and fitting fluorescent strip lights in rows 6 feet apart through out the whole place. Thus eliminating dark areas, good for seeing what your doing, and allowing you to be clearly seen by management, next all the tool cribs and other 'enclosures' were removed, again improving managements views and removing hidey-holes, then they added high level 'inspection' walkways, connected directly to the plant managers offices. From a Union point of view most of this was good, improved conditions, cleaning was done where it had been ignored before, improved safety and no carrying of 'slackers' by the rest!Quote:
Originally Posted by greyhoundollie
In the beginning of the formulation of Unions they were a good thing for workers improving working conditions and installing safety protocols while quelling the greed of the manufacturing owners. However as with anything else when an opportunity for greed and corruption to arise what may start out as a good thing on the surface can quickly evolve into an ever increasingly overbearing monster.Quote:
Originally Posted by NeiljohnUK
Not all but a significant percentage of unions of today are more of a detriment to society than they are a good
Absolutely, and I say that as a 'workplace' and H&S specialist Union Rep. Too many Unions have become monsters, with their very top layers attending the same troughs with the management and owners and helping to keep the workers 'in their place'...Quote:
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