"Car 52 where are are you."...
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"Car 52 where are are you."...
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Mechanized road grading equipment. LaCreek NWR, South Dakota. 1937
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The 6,000th B-24 Liberator built at the Willow Run assembly plant, with builders.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consol...B-24_Liberator
Ford Tough!
wouldn't you like to have one of those parked in your garage...:thumbsup:
I would need the ground crew to service it for me though
It is amazing what a group of people, of any size, can accomplish when they are all working together for a common purpose.
with non china instruction booklet:rofl:
The sheet metal on it kinda looks like some of the early Galaxy 500's.
Ginger ale bottling workers. Southern California, 1931.
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Bottling, one bottle at a time seems strange.
In foreground;
for being fed manually, that's a lot of machine just to wrap neck with foil and spin a label on.
With sugar [then] instead of corn syrup [now] I'll bet it tasted great though.
Fageol factory workers. Oakland, California, 1918.
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Is that a generator in the back seat?
This could also be a 1918 15-ton Couple-Gear gas-electric powered tractor-truck by the Couple-Gear Freight Wheel Company of Grand Rapids...
looks like it could be a electric train engine. or possibly a tractor of some sort.
The picture is labeled "Fageol factory workers. Oakland, California, 1918."
Googling Fageol is very interesting, the factory produced Peterbilt
For the Fageol pic, I was not able to find any other instances of the pic besides the one I found on social media. Usually I'll verify the pic or find a fullsize version by doing a Google Similar Image search, but even though this one came up with no results, it was too good to pass up. I did find lots of cool stuff at Fageol.com.
they also made cars. highend cars from what Ive read.
Manufacturing Stetson hats. Philadelphia, PA. 1910.
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I was looken at those 3 days ago.Ive never been able to wear a hat, but in this sun I probably should learn to deal with somethen on my head.that aint going to be eazy.
Get a straw hat. Theyre lightweight, cool, and shade the sun well
Stetson factory was a fixture in St. Joseph Missouri too. The plant moved to Mexico, but they still operate a store and warehouse in the same building.
A surprising array of manufacturing there in St. Joe; right off top of my head (bald) Chase Candy, Lifeline Foods, Snorkel Aerial Equipment, Altec Ind, Gray Mfg [auto mechanic equipment], several in packaging, Mead Paper, Triumph Foods [supposedly largest pork plant in US], several niche operations as well; naturally many have relocated away too.
Hall-Scott Motor Company Plant workers manufacturing motors for use in Fageol cars. Oakland, CA. 1917.
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The lighting is rather lacking except for daylight.
Sparse electric lighting yes. Possibly windows surround entire room, just as many plants did; that and their white ceiling would be a pleasant work place indeed. Nicer than any I can recall; some, just plain terrible.
You want marksbug to wear a pizza? Compared to a beret, and sun-burnt ears, it's a good choice I guess.Quote:
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I dont get the pizza reference?
I've worn many hats over the years. to me straw hats were something women wore tending their gardens huge floppy wide brimmed things the would go sailing in the wind like pizza dough being tossed by a master chef unless the wearer had them tied with a bow under their chin, but smaller in diameter than the sombreros men wore. Sombreros had slip bolas you wore under your chin like the women's bows but made from a wooden bead with a hole through it. In the summer time wranglers would store their beaver felt western hats for straw hats shaped much the same as their Stetsons each individual would steam them and create a shape they preferred just like their real hats. The only thing about a straw hat was until the hat and the head band became saturated and stained with sweat every puff of wind meant you went chasing them. My grandpa called the men who showed up for work wearing a fresh bought straw hat new hats. It didn't matter to him if the guy had worked for him for years he was still a new hat until he had put in enough work to build up a sweat stain in their hats do he wouldn't have to chase it all the time. Most would dunk their brand new straw hats in the horse trough early in the morning before he saw them to wet their hats. wetting them did 2 things 1 it kept them from being called a new hat and 2 the evaporative wicking of the wind in the straw kept them cooler throughout the day.Quote:
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Television advertisers now have come up with the newest latest marketing scheme with hats that you wet to keep cool during the day as if this is something new. What people don't know is farm and ranch hands have been doing this since the advent of the straw hat.
Straw Hat Pizza...
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dam i love pizza!!! especialy fresh outa the oven in italy!! ( not not a tourist trap, a real restaurant) I would wear a womans or mans straw hat for that!!!Quote:
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It's a US thing. And wacky humor of yours truly...Quote:
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Putting out an oil well fire. Southern California, 1931.
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Red Adair would have been 16 years old but he would have wanted to help put out that fire...
Clearly I'm not old enough to recall that 30's era; but I certainly remember the 'forests' of oil rigs strewn about. One in particular, along Pacific Coast Highway a bit past Seal and Huntington Beach areas seemed to go for miles.
There surely is still oil down there; but real estate development is more long term revenues; and easier to escalate prices.
So now, most families can't afford to buy a home, and all are dependent on foreign whims for petroleum...
You’re making a good argument for moving away from fossil fuels and towards renewables there. Sadly, most folks are too lazy to do so.Quote:
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Workers assembling a Merlin V-12 engine.
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I always wondered if they really did put those out with dynamite like was shown in the John Wayne movie.
Looks more like they are preparing for a dyno pull.Quote:
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They are not assembling it, they are readying it for a test run...
