VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

That was me in a former life.....

 

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Early century Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science embalming class.

 

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In 1913, automobiles replaced horse-drawn stages on the 14-mile route from El Portal to Yosemite Valley, reducing travel time from four hours to just one hour and thirty-five minutes. Visitors rode in open-air motorized stages, similar to the one seen here, ushering in a new era of travel to Yosemite.

 

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I’m betting alot of people were just umm, dying to get into that class. Hehe.

 

Scaffolding in place on top of the County Courthouse in preparation for demolition in 1936. The Spring Street tunnel entrance is shown. ​

 

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Farmers in town, Fairfield, Montana 1939

 

Market and Mason, San Francisco 1959​

 

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River Walk in San Antonio in the 1930s​

 

The White Wagons; Collection & Distribution wagon #2 in Washington, D.C., circa 1897. Collection and Distribution wagons operated like mail trolleys. Tables were set up in the wagons so clerks on board could process and cancel city mail as the wagon passed through city streets.​

 

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Late Victorian SC Pease & Sons white, eight column, carved horse drawn hearse advertising photo, Merrimac, MA.

 

Sunset & Vine 1936​