The Non Shorpy Web All Stars.

[carouselvic]

 

[RossRYoung]

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Mr. Russell had some epic hats, but this one seems to turn up the most and typically unbashed. Don’t know if it’s because of his style, but I wear almost all my hats OC as well. Still need a pencil curl though!

 

[carouselvic]

"I was born in Crafton, Texas. As a boy I sold chicken sandwiches at the railroad station platform at Bowie [Texas]. I waited tables at a hotel, sold soda-pop at the ball games and races on Saturdays, sold newspapers, worked for a doctor for two years taking care of his horse and buggy, sweeping out his office, and, in addition, milked a cow—all for my board to enable me to go to school. I am not ashamed of my early efforts to earn a living."
----- Amon G. Carter, the creator and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and a nationally known civic booster for Fort Worth. It was Carter who first began to refer to Dallas as "East Texas" and Fort Worth as "Where the West Begins." He was a fantastic Texas character. Here's a photo of Amon Carter (right) with his good friend Will Rogers in 1935, just a few days before Rogers' death in a plane crash.

 

[Rmccamey]

I had lunch in Bowie today at the Longhorn Cafe.

 

[RBH]

Men and a chuckwagon.
Origins unknow
Courtesy of :
Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

 

[Hurricane Jack]

"I was born in Crafton, Texas. As a boy I sold chicken sandwiches at the railroad station platform at Bowie [Texas]. I waited tables at a hotel, sold soda-pop at the ball games and races on Saturdays, sold newspapers, worked for a doctor for two years taking care of his horse and buggy, sweeping out his office, and, in addition, milked a cow—all for my board to enable me to go to school. I am not ashamed of my early efforts to earn a living."
----- Amon G. Carter, the creator and publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, and a nationally known civic booster for Fort Worth. It was Carter who first began to refer to Dallas as "East Texas" and Fort Worth as "Where the West Begins." He was a fantastic Texas character. Here's a photo of Amon Carter (right) with his good friend Will Rogers in 1935, just a few days before Rogers' death in a plane crash.

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Amon Carter with his 3rd wife; a Fort Worth socialite in her own right. Yr not noted.

 

[RBH]

Ranchers Roundup, early 1940s.
Texas

 

[carouselvic]

Circa 1906 photograph of Edwin Sanders, cousin of the photographer, Erwin E. Smith, having trouble with "Puddin'Foot," a Percheron cross on a Spanish mare

 

[Mighty44]

Ranchers Roundup, early 1940s.
Texas

What are those big sedans with the suicide doors? Fords? Would so love to have one of those to drive around in.

 

[shopkin]

What are those big sedans with the suicide doors? Fords? Would so love to have one of those to drive around in.

Buick perhaps.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

No known info

 

[BobHufford]

1950.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Family pic ~1880’s. Looks to be a hand propelled wicker wheelchair. And something has come to roost on the ladies hat.

 

[Hurricane Jack]

Unknown

 

[BobHufford]

Feb. 1, 1925: Seven tons of silver are transferred from the Hellman Commercial Trust and Savings Bank at Sixth and Main Streets to the new principal office in the Hellman Bank Building at Seventh and Spring Streets. (LAT)

 

[Mighty44]

Feb. 1, 1925: Seven tons of silver are transferred from the Hellman Commercial Trust and Savings Bank at Sixth and Main Streets to the new principal office in the Hellman Bank Building at Seventh and Spring Streets. (LAT)


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Wow that truck looks like a battleship! Yeah, we just went out in our suits and piled it up on a cart—I think we got em all but with all the people we mighta lost a bag off the back….

 

[BobHufford]

Panhandle of Texas: XIT cowboys holding copies of Bystander.

The XIT was, in a word, vast. It was built in 1885 by a Chicago land and investment company, on 3 million acres acquired from the Texas state government, at a cost of more than 1 dollar per acre. It bordered New Mexico to the west and Indian Territory to the north. By the time Bob Fudge hired on in 1894, the ranch ran around 150,000 cattle. The managers were strict: They banned drinking, gambling, and stock abuse on the ranch, and were not above hiring professional gunmen to “discourage” fence cutters and rustlers. -- C & I Magazine

 

[BobHufford]

"Farmers must often wait overnight or for several days before their tobacco is sold at auction. They sometimes hang around in cafes or pool rooms, sleeping most anywheres. Durham, North Carolina. Sourced from the Library of Congress."​

 

[Mighty44]

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"Farmers must often wait overnight or for several days before their tobacco is sold at auction. They sometimes hang around in cafes or pool rooms, sleeping most anywheres. Durham, North Carolina. Sourced from the Library of Congress."​

That’s a great one.

 

[Zombie_61]

Panhandle of Texas: XIT cowboys holding copies of Bystander.

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I'd guess Bystander was the National Enquirer of those days? Sports Illustrated? Playboy?