Vintage shots from days gone by!

This is a shot of two loggers replacing the main cross arm that ties the A frame together after they broke it yarding a big turn of logs. You can get a perspective of the size of the rigging blocks and cables these guys had to deal with. The skyline block is nearly as tall as the man hanging beside it.

 

This is a shot of my grandpa in the 40s after landing a halibut that weighed in over 250 lbs. Lots of fishermen plied the BC coast in these days and worked by themselves in small double ender wood trollers. It was a lonely lifestyle but they were exempt from the war draft because food production was considered essential at that time.

 

This is a shot of Al picking up the pieces of a Mooney airplane that crashed in Sproat Lake in the early 60s. Although this is a light load for Al, he told me they would have contests in the logging camps and at his prime he was 5'7" 235lbs and could bearhug lift a 545lb rigging block off the ground.

 

"Stanby for a wheelie" you guys!

 

Wonder what that blonde looks like today?

 

modeleh:
Thanks for writing great descriptions with the logging shots. They are interesting pics - especially as it is an area I know nothing about. The captions add a whole new dimension to the images and really brings them alive.

Your old pal sounds like quite a character.

Mart.

 

Truman birthplace
Lamar, MO 1945 photo
Pine tree planted on the day Harry was born.


Room in which Harry was born.


Owners of the Truman birthplace in 1945.
Peace officers, Walter Earp and son Everett.


1955 Everett Earp,
Waiting for visitors next to the admission sign.



Farm house where Harry was raised, belonged to his brother J. Vivian Truman in this 1945 photo.


his brother




house from post #30115
909 West Waldo, Independence, MO
1949 photo

1886 Queen Anne home to young Harry Truman for 6 years. The area around this house changed from rural to urban after the Truman family left in 1902. The house was changed with the addition made to the east end and the removal of the wrap around porch. What had been garden and carriage house areas are now other home sites.

This house was listed for sale 4/8/11. $279,900

same house in 1922


same house in 1895




1955 photo
Truman owned farmhouse
12301 Blue Ridge Blvd, Grandview, MO

Built in 1894 by Harry Truman's grandmother and was a 600 acre farm. Truman worked the farm from 1906-1917.

Truman on the property in 1955

After Harry returned to private life he sold portions of the farm for the Truman Corners Shopping Center as well as other suburban development.


1945 photo
Wallace / Truman home in Independence, MO
219 North Delaware


Built in several stages. George Gates purchased this property with a small one-story house in 1867 and later built a two-story addition. By 1886, the large Queen Anne front addition had been constructed by the Gates. His daughter, Margaret Gates married David Wallace in 1883. Their daughter, Elizabeth (Bess) Virginia Wallace married Harry Truman in 1919.

In July 1953, following his term of office and the death of Madge Gates Wallace, Harry and Bess purchased the 219 North Delaware home. This house remained the Truman's home until Bess's death in 1982.

1955

Truman is probably one of the few Presidents who never owned his home prior to being in office. He lived with family members in his early life, then the Wallace House, rented apartments and houses in Washington (including 4701 Connecticut Avenue)




Jackson County Courthouse 1955

 

how 'bout some 1950 Cheesecake

 

I'm so sorry to try to pull this thread "O/T" ( On-Topic) So,... we'll go slowly,....

 

Little Rock, Arkansas

 

Do any of these cars still exist?

 

Buick and Plymouth slugging it out for #3 position in the sales race.

 

More vintage photos to enjoy?

 

Before the Chryco bump?

 

I don't know if any still exist. It looks like a stretched station wagon. I think this was the Wawona Tunnel Tree at Yosemite that fell over in 1969. I wonder why the car has 2 plates. The driver's side one appears to be a CA commercial plate, but I wonder what the other was? Maybe some sort of taxi or tour permit?

 

Thanks for the nice History Lesson

 

One last set before supper. Got some odd ones in here!

 

Not done yet.

 

Some 40's cheesecake - on linen:

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one last set

 

Great photos!

Can anyone tell me what kind of car this is? It has the same rear bumper that I put on my 36 GMC tow truck. I got mine from a pile of bumpers from a museum and it has no identifiable markings at all and I've never seen another till now.

 

Heres one I always liked...
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Lana Wood

 

#5 Buffalo Wire wheels. 1927-29. Could be Marmon, Stutz, Sterns Knight, a couple of others that are not coming to me.

 

Just a month or so back there was a nice article about these Tire Promo cars in Hemmings Classic Cars. Pretty interesting.