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[Pearl]

After WW2 dad bought a new wood/canvas canoe and he and his friends used to paddle around Belle Isle on the Detroit river. Dad took and old wind up phonograph and made a mount for the canoe so he could listed to music. Here is a picture of the old phonograph, I still have it, and I have the canoe. Maybe next year I will put them both to use on the reservoirs around here. I will have to ask my nephew to send me a few of the old records he inherited. Tommy Dorsey, Benny Goodman, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin. Hopefully the needle is still good.
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Oh wow!! How awesome!!

 

[Peanut]

It was labeled 'Progressive school, 1927'

 

[Peanut]

This one was labeled '1930, California, Buick'

 

[Peanut]

Skagway, Alaska, c.1898

 

[Peanut]

 

[Peanut]

Driving school 1945. I had bumper cars at the fair, a lot more fun.

 

[Peanut]

No idea..

 

[SLADE]

Makes you wanna check under the hood.

 

[Magus]

I want one in my trunk!

 

[Bacpacker]

Looks like a VW swallowed a nice set of legs

 

[backlash]

No idea..

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OK let me explain.
The spare tire is out so my guess is she is trying to get some guy to stop and change a flat tire for her.
She is absolutely using the correct bait to hook a guy into stopping.
See that tank between her knees?
That's a windshield washer reservoir. You had to pump air into it so the washer fluid would squirt onto the windshield.
I wish I had one of those. The car not the woman. The car is worth more now that it's old.
The girl is probably someone's grandma.

 

[kd4ulw]

If you noticed the tank between her knees, you’re into cars a lot more than I am.

 

[Wingnut]

Alternate hypothesis: the girl is probably dead or in prison.

 

[Bacpacker]

I always heard " I like the way hers legs go up and make a nice............out of themselves"

 

[Peanut]

A French woman with her baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, France (1945)

Imagine cutting the crust off a kids pbj! or the kids too drunk to notice!

 

[backlash]

A French woman with her baguette and six bottles of wine, Paris, France (1945)

Imagine cutting the crust off a kids pbj! or the kids too drunk to notice!

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1945 Door Dash.

 

[Sparky_D]

 

[Bacpacker]

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I worked for a while for a warehouse that sold albums to record stores. Some would but 10 to 20. Others 100+ per order. Easy job and got to wonder thru music of all kinds. Bonus, I could buy any album for $1.00 each. I built a nice collection while working one of three jobs at the time

 

[Woody]

 

[Alaskajohn]

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I have enjoyed countless hours in music stores like that in my youth.

 

[Alaskajohn]

 

[Alaskajohn]

 

[Alaskajohn]

 

[Peanut]

Market and Post Streets in San Francisco 1912

 

[Peanut]

Tuckers Station Carondelet Iron Mountain Railroad St Louis M

 

[Peanut]

Only sod high school in the U.S., the Lakeland High School of Brown County, Nebraska was built during the Great Depression.

@Weedygarden thought you might like this...

 

[Weedygarden]

Only sod high school in the U.S., the Lakeland High School of Brown County, Nebraska was built during the Great Depression.

@Weedygarden thought you might like this...

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Thank you. I know many of my family lived in sod homes.

 

[Peanut]

 

[Peanut]

 

[Peanut]

On another site I found a few 1930's photos of sharecroppers in the south. i knew many as a kid, great aunts and uncles, a grandfather was a still sharecropper after i was born.

Bruceton Tenn 1936