The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[Hurricane Jack]

I think Cleveland had the first parking meter, too.

And then stands to reason, the first parking ticket ever written.

 

[Frunobulax]

And then stands to reason, the first parking ticket ever written.

Wikipedia says I'm wrong. Oklahoma City, apparently.

Ah, here it is. Cleveland had the first traffic light. I knew it was something like that.

 

[BobHufford]

Me and ol' "Mich" are beginning to look alike...

 

[Zombie_61]

The Gent in the straw boater and "suit" reminds me of Leonard "Chico" Marx. "Hey, getta' you tires here! Two for 'da price of three, or four for five! 'At's-a some deal, eh Boss?"

 

[BobHufford]

Cleaning up old emails. Did I post this already? Is that @Redfokker the time-traveler?

 

[jlee562]

Digitized some old family slides....

Nobody is really quite sure when this is, but the city eventually widened the street and that sign unfortunately had to go. The shop opened in 1946.

Pres. Truman motorcade. So these ones were 1948 (click for higher res)


Nice diamond this guy has going on!

 

[BobHufford]

^^^^^ Cool pics Jared! Nice to have a pic of the store from back in the day.

 

[BobHufford]

1912, Columbia, Missouri.

 

[jlee562]

^^^^^ Cool pics Jared! Nice to have a pic of the store from back in the day.

It is! I asked my dad if we had any and he had to think about for a bit. A lot of the slides that were in the same box I had never seen because I don't even think we had a slide projector left by the time I was born in 84.

 

[Cornelius]

February 7, 1923, on the frozen surface of Lake Charlevoix, Michigan: Dr. Robert Armstrong stands in front of a De Havilland DH-4 of the U.S. Army Air Service, piloted by Captain Russell “Luff” Meredith. On nearby Beaver Island, 25 miles offshore, a young man, Jesse Cole, had suffered a skull injury in a logging accident and been unconscious for days. The lake was frozen solid, preventing boat traffic, so Meredith flew Armstrong through snowstorm conditions over Lake Michigan to land on a frozen lake in the middle of Beaver Island, where they were met by locals who brought them to the injured man via horse-drawn sleigh. The pair stayed three days and Cole eventually recovered his health, later becoming a successful businessman in Chicago.

Capt. Meredith received one of the first Distinguished Flying Crosses ever issued for this flight, which sparked the start of regular air service to Beaver Island. Meredith would go on to receive the Soviet Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class, in early 1945 due to his WWII work directing Lend/Lease equipment deliveries to the Soviets from an US Army Air Corps base in Montana. Full story here.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

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February 7, 1923, on the frozen surface of Lake Charlevoix, Michigan: Dr. Robert Armstrong stands in front of a De Havilland DH-4 of the U.S. Army Air Service, piloted by Captain Russell “Luff” Meredith. On nearby Beaver Island, 25 miles offshore, a young man, Jesse Cole, had suffered a skull injury in a logging accident and been unconscious for days. The lake was frozen solid, preventing boat traffic, so Meredith flew Armstrong through snowstorm conditions over Lake Michigan to land on a frozen lake in the middle of Beaver Island, where they were met by locals who brought them to the injured man via horse-drawn sleigh. The pair stayed three days and Cole eventually recovered his health, later becoming a successful businessman in Chicago.

Capt. Meredith received one of the first Distinguished Flying Crosses ever issued for this flight, which sparked the start of regular air service to Beaver Island. Meredith would go on to receive the Soviet Order of the Patriotic War, 1st Class, in early 1945 due to his WWII work directing Lend/Lease equipment deliveries to the Soviets from an US Army Air Corps base in Montana. Full story here.

Great story! Great men! I thought for sure you were going to close by revealing either Dr. Armstrong or Meredith were ancestors of your. Thanks for posting that!

 

[Cornelius]

Great story! Great men! I thought for sure you were going to close by revealing either Dr. Armstrong or Meredith were ancestors of your. Thanks for posting that!

You're welcome. Not my ancestors, but I do have some family connections to the island (population ~600) and stories like these get retold often enough there that they seem recent.

A 2015 local TV news story on prop plane flights to the island can be found here.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

...stories like these get retold often enough there that they seem recent.

Of course some 23 yrs ago Charlevoix became noteworthy for a flight that never happened.

 

[Louis Mountbatten]

1912, Columbia, Missouri.

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That tan hat is fascinating, Bob. Wonder what it is made of?

 

[BobHufford]

That tan hat is fascinating, Bob. Wonder what it is made of?

Isn’t it? Interesting shovel brim.

 

[deadlyhandsome]

1912, Columbia, Missouri.

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Not only different styles, but different ways of wearing their hats too. There never has been just one way or a “right way” to wear a hat.


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[Rmccamey]

Love the cowboy hat. Love the story even more. I saw the TPR in 1978.

Willie Craig was 56 years old when he won the Top Hand Buckle at the Texas Prison Rodeo in Huntsville, Texas, in 1976. The Top Hand Buckle was the award given to the top rider. The prison rodeo, which had been an annual event, was stopped in 1986 by falling revenue and mounting fears of litigation from injuries. This photo is courtesy the Texas Prison Museum.

 

[RBH]

Passing the time of day on the steps of a bank in Memphis, Texas, 1937
Photo- Dorothea Lange

 

[hatophile]

Passing the time of day on the steps of a bank in Memphis, Texas, 1937
Photo- Dorothea Lange

Those hats have some years on them.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Passing the time of day on the steps of a bank in Memphis, Texas, 1937
Photo- Dorothea Lange

^^This guy sure makes me think of John Carradine.