A Blast From The Past - Classic Ads or Images

[teeceetx]

Handley Page were four-engine biplane airliners designed and manufactured by British aviation company Handley Page, based in Radlett, Hertfordshire. It held the distinction of being the largest airliner in regular use in the world upon the type's introduction in 1931. Refueling Hanno at Samakh, Tiberias, Palestine, October 1931

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Look how close that propeller is to the fuselage!!!!

 

[kd4ulw]

Here’s an image that invokes the past. Was watching a documentary on the Ohio River and this pole, not sure where, was shown with markings for the height and year of major floods. The lowest is the flood of 1997 and I remember manning the 2-meter radio at the Red Cross in downtown Louisville one night. Other floods were a bit higher… now look near the top where the marker is for the Great Flood of 1937! Incredible!!

 

[Bacpacker]

WOW. We lived in Louisville from 84 to 86. Luckily never saw anything near that bad, flood wise

 

[dademoss]

Here’s an image that invokes the past. Was watching a documentary on the Ohio River and this pole, not sure where, was shown with markings for the height and year of major floods. The lowest is the flood of 1997 and I remember manning the 2-meter radio at the Red Cross in downtown Louisville one night. Other floods were a bit higher… now look near the top where the marker is for the Great Flood of 1937! Incredible!!

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There is a similar marker at "Coney Island" in Cincinnati. I may or may not have a picture of it, someplace.

 

[Peanut]

Fred Astaire was a drummer too? Didn't know until i found this photo. Evidently he was a well known drummer before the dancing gig.

 

[Peanut]

 

[Peanut]

 

[Peanut]

I remember flour sacks being reused as a kid. Cloth was cloth, country people didn't waste anything.
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Amidst the hardships of the Great Depression, a resilient mother in a skirt crafted from a flour sack cares for her baby. She tends to her family of nine, all living in a makeshift settlement by the Tennessee River adjacent to U.S. Route 70. Circa 1936.

Photo, Carl Mydans, Farm Security Administration.

 

[Peanut]

Some people didn't have to reuse cloth...

Railway carriage of King Ludwig II of Bavaria, Germany (1860.)

 

[Peanut]

Mr. and Mrs. Emory Harrison of Jonesborough, Tennessee, had 13 children, all boys, making the largest all-male American family in 1955.

 

[Pearl]

I remember flour sacks being reused as a kid. Cloth was cloth, country people didn't waste anything.
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Amidst the hardships of the Great Depression, a resilient mother in a skirt crafted from a flour sack cares for her baby. She tends to her family of nine, all living in a makeshift settlement by the Tennessee River adjacent to U.S. Route 70. Circa 1936.

Photo, Carl Mydans, Farm Security Administration.

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We have no idea what BAD is!!

 

[Bacpacker]

Mr. and Mrs. Emory Harrison of Jonesborough, Tennessee, had 13 children, all boys, making the largest all-male American family in 1955.

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Get offa her!!!

 

[Peanut]

Two women stroll by a line of horse-drawn carriages. NYC, 1899.

 

[Peanut]

First metered taxicab in New York - 1901

 

[Peanut]

Long Beach Pier, Los Angeles - 1900

 

[Peanut]

Thought this is sort of neat... My first year of high school typing we had manual type writers. The second we had electric. Probably the one class from school that has served me more than any other. Then computers came along. Actually knowing how to type is a good thing!

This rare, vintage typewriter from the 1950s lets you type sheet music.

 

[Peanut]

@Neb can you check this photo? Don't know about the caption. I don't recognize the rifle but the photo looks period.

What's the website you use for searching photos?