The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[Desert dog]

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Dallas? Looks more like San Francisco!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Dallas? Looks more like San Francisco!

Don't forget the Austin music scene & SRV, influenced by Hendrix (& obviously with the pipe, Albert King).

 

[BobHufford]

"And the Branson-MO lineman...is still on the line" (or something like that) 1953

 

[BobHufford]

It is May 20th 1956 and we are looking at the largest HO scale layout in the US at that time. The layout covered 1872 square feet in the old Frisco Steam Locomotive Shops in the Frisco West Yards.
We see E. L. Anderson Frisco Chief Engineer ~ who designed it and Harold Ludwigs ~ Central High School Art Teacher who helped with the design.
It cost $8000-9000.00 to build it. That would be around $87,000 today adjusted for inflation.
The layout was the Frisco first hump switch yards being built in Memphis, Tennessee. (FaceBook: Springfield, Missouri History, Landmarks & Vintage photography)

 

[RBH]

Springer, New Mexico, Date: 1912 - 1914
via
Palace of the Governors Photo Archives

Anthropologist Kenneth Chapman (on left)
and unidentified man.
New Mexico
Photographer: Louise Everhardy
Date: 1933
via Palace of the Governors Photo Archives

Native vendors under portal
Palace of the Governors
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Photographer: Natt N. Dodge
Date: 1950s

 

[Hurricane Jack]

This pic reminds me of a commercial slot car track.

 

[Bamaboots]

This pic reminds me of a commercial slot car track.

Yep.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

^^^I wonder if the flag pin was issued in 1912 when both New Mexico & Arizona became states? If so it still would have had only 48 states with 2 (Alaska & Hawaii) still to come.

 

[carouselvic]

Unidentified family, Fall River, Massachusetts, circa 1910. From the original glass negative.

 

[Rmccamey]

Amon G. Carter.

 

[Rmccamey]

From the Traces of Texas website: Circa 1905 portrait of Fred, Warren and Walter Rankin, working cowboys in Abilene, TX.

 

[BobHufford]

Missouri State Highway Patrol training. Somewhere between 1936 and 1945 based on the uniforms.

 

[carouselvic]

The fine salesmen at Knapp Chevrolet in Houston, TX

 

[Hurricane Jack]

The fine salesmen at Knapp Chevrolet in Houston, TX

Photo bomb! The Chevrolet salesmen are standing in front of a Dodge coupe. Or maybe a Chrysler Windsor.

 

[johnnycanuck]

How about a good Canadian Bill Peyto

it’s interesting to see the lemon squeezer style hat with the brim turned up and then his dress hat, a bowler in the last photo. A pale tie worn in both photos. Shows how small a wardrobe people had back then.
Johnny

 

[BobHufford]

The fine salesmen at Knapp Chevrolet in Houston, TX

I'd buy a car from them! I saw a truck of a similar vintage to that one with the push-bar on the back row pulling away from Tractor Supply today with the bed loaded with bags of fertilizer. Good seeing it still being used as a work truck. Cool photo @carouselvic !

 

[BobHufford]

I like the guy on the left's hat (well ... and the other hats too). He apparently likes that boot!

 

[Hurricane Jack]

He apparently likes that boot!

I think he's prepping to light his pipe.

 

[Rmccamey]

Couple of nice derbies as well!

I like the guy on the left's hat (well ... and the other hats too). He apparently likes that boot!

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[carouselvic]

Of all the Weenie joints in all the towns in all the world she walks into mine




Humphrey Bogart double fisting hotdogs at Santa Anita Park racetrack, 1945. Bogey has been quoted as saying, “A hotdog at the park is better than roast beef at the Ritz.”