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[Peanut]

This Shell gas station is the last one of its kind in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A handful were built throughout the 1930s as a part of quirky advertising plan to draw in more customers during the Depression.

In 1976, it became the first individual station in America to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

 

[dademoss]

This Shell gas station is the last one of its kind in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. A handful were built throughout the 1930s as a part of quirky advertising plan to draw in more customers during the Depression.

In 1976, it became the first individual station in America to be listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

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We missed during all our trips

 

[Peanut]

1904 Olympic marathon runners at the starting line. Of the 32 competitors, at least 10 had never run a marathon. Three of the most accomplished runners, all Boston Marathon winners, failed to complete this course. In total, 18 suffered from exhaustion and never saw the finish line. William Garcia of California gulped down so much road dust he suffered a stomach hemorrhage and nearly died.

 

[Peanut]

Three thousand pounds of gold bricks and dust at the Alaska Commercial Co.s' store in Dawson (Yukon), June 9, 1901.

 

[Magus]

...Back when you could pick up a girl as easily as a glass of whisky.

From what I have read you could also pick up other things that you couldn't get rid of.

Hate the game, not the player!

 

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[Magus]

Skull and bones? damn! was she going around the world to the left at 90 MPH?

 

[kenv1950]

Sorry about the clarity . I shake really bad , gonna get that fixed next year. Found these when I was looking for the timney trigger for my CZ.

 

[SLC]

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Swedish farm worker on family holiday 1949

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My Grandmother had 15 kids. Never saw her bike.

 

[Peanut]

The bus service from London, England to Calcutta, India (now Kolkata) was considered to be the longest bus route in the world. The bus service, which started in 1957, was routed to India via Belgium, Yugoslavia and North Western India. This route is also known as the Hippie Route. According to reports, it took about 50 days for the bus to reach Calcutta from London. The voyage was over 10,000 miles (16,100 km) one way and 20,300 miles (32,669 km) for the round trip. It was in service until 1976. The cost of the trip one-way was £85 in 1957 and £145 in 1973. This amount included food, travel and accommodation.

The bus service was discontinued in 1976 due to political conditions leading up to the Iranian Revolution and the escalation of tensions between Pakistan and India.

 

[Peanut]

 

[Peanut]

Bonnie And Clyde's Last Kiss... A Few Hours Before They Were Killed, May 23, 1934

 

[Alaskajohn]

 

[Alaskajohn]

 

[Alaskajohn]

Cut and paste from the Woodpile Report, issue 421

https://woodpilereport.lundissimo.info/html/index-521.htm

1945. Yokosuka Japan

. The photo was taken in September 1945 by US occupation forces at the Yokosuka Shipyard, just north of Tokyo Bay. Over two hundred of these two-man Kairyu submarines were built, each carrying two torpedoes and a large explosive charge for suicide missions. The intent was to defend Tokyo from a US invasion fleet. None saw any action.​

The rear section of this sub has not yet been attached. Clearly visible are the two torpedo tubes. The Kairyu class went about twenty tons, fifty-six feet long, with a range of about 450 miles.
The Yokosuka Shipyard was one of the targets hit by the famous Doolittle Raid in 1942. It's been home port for the US Seventh Fleet since 1945.​

 

[Peanut]

Must be that white privilege I keep hearing about....
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A group of children working in the mines in Pittston, Pennsylvania photographed by Lewis Hine in c. 1911.

During the early 1900s, Lewis Hine traveled around the United States as a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee and documented the use of child labor. His photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.

Credit: Melodie Colors The Past

 

[Peanut]

Farm family sitting down to supper, Claiborne County, Tennessee, 1940

 

[Peanut]

Ice skaters in New York’s Central Park look from the top of the Savoy Plaza Hotel at 59th St. and Fifth Ave., Jan. 9, 1944

 

[Neb]

Must be that white privilege I keep hearing about....
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A group of children working in the mines in Pittston, Pennsylvania photographed by Lewis Hine in c. 1911.

During the early 1900s, Lewis Hine traveled around the United States as a photographer for the National Child Labor Committee and documented the use of child labor. His photographs were instrumental in bringing about the passage of the first child labor laws in the United States.

Credit: Melodie Colors The Past

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That could have been my grandfather.

I have seen pictures of dozens of kids perched on planks over the conveyor belts picking rocks out of coal as it passed under them.

Ben

 

[Bacpacker]

Farm family sitting down to supper, Claiborne County, Tennessee, 1940

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My vest radio tech at work lives in Claiborne County. Very nice area and is still fairly rural to this day

 

[Pearl]

Ice skaters in New York’s Central Park look from the top of the Savoy Plaza Hotel at 59th St. and Fifth Ave., Jan. 9, 1944

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My mom could have been there!! She grew up in NY, often skated as a kid there!!

 

[Peanut]

Joseph McCarthy, (1908-1957) American anti-Communist leader and US Senator, was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, on November 14th 1908.

 

[Peanut]

Manhattan Bridge, 1909

 

[Peanut]

Moving IBM's 5MB hard drive in 1956

 

[Neb]

Moving IBM's 5MB hard drive in 1956

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Our district manager would comment when learning a severe outage was forcing a complete system replacement...

Freight trains are going to roll.

Ben

 

[Peanut]

Our district manager would comment when learning a severe outage was forcing a complete system replacement...

Freight trains are going to roll.

Ben

The first harddrive I serviced was a ‘Zebra Drive’. The size of a washing machine and held a whopping 90MB of data. Each catscan had two drives. One for the operating system, the other for patient data. It was common to fill the data drive. The tech had to swap platters, a stack of disks mounted to a handle, then keep scanning.

The drive had series/assembly of read/write heads. The r/w head assy would lock out of the way so the platters could be changed.

On mobile ct’s the tech was supposed to lock the heads on each drive before moving the trailer to a new location. They’d forget, then go bouncing down the road behind a semi-truck. Invariably, they’d lock the data drive but forget the operating system drive. So not only did I have to replace all the r/w heads (ceramic tips)… I had to reload software and calibrate the system… a 12hr job. Luv that overtime!!!! Not!!!

Bit of movie trivia…. The 80’s movie ‘War Games’. An early scene where the stars (teens) go see the tech guys to ask about hacking. They walk into a room, along the wall are a row of Zebra hard drives. I guess I noticed because I worked on the darn things!!!

The first two are zebra drives, there were other brands.

Someone being funny... i don't recognize the manufacturer, think it's the 180MB model, has an extra set of r/w heads.

 

[backlash]

I serviced dual systems at the Naval supply center.
They filled a large room. Today we carry much more computing power in our pockets.

 

[Neb]

The first harddrive I serviced was a ‘Zebra Drive’. The size of a washing machine and held a whopping 90MB of data. Each catscan had two drives. One for the operating system, the other for patient data. It was common to fill the data drive. The tech had to swap platters, a stack of disks mounted to a handle, then keep scanning.

The drive had series/assembly of read/write heads. The r/w head assy would lock out of the way so the platters could be changed.

On mobile ct’s the tech was supposed to lock the heads on each drive before moving the trailer to a new location. They’d forget, then go bouncing down the road behind a semi-truck. Invariably, they’d lock the data drive but forget the operating system drive. So not only did I have to replace all the r/w heads (ceramic tips)… I had to reload software and calibrate the system… a 12hr job. Luv that overtime!!!! Not!!!

Bit of movie trivia…. The 80’s movie ‘War Games’. An early scene where the stars (teens) go see the tech guys to ask about hacking. They walk into a room, along the wall are a row of Zebra hard drives. I guess I noticed because I worked on the darn things!!!

The first two are zebra drives, there were other brands.

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Someone being funny... i don't recognize the manufacturer, think it's the 180MB model, has an extra set of r/w heads.

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My X purchased this book because it looked like me.

He is standing in front of a pair of CDC 9766 hard drives. They were also sold as DEC RM05s. I rebuilt many of them along with smaller version RM 03. I met The Princess fixing her RM 03s.

In that book they defined a Laundromat as...

A place were they have rows and rows of coin operated disk drives.


Ben

 

[Peanut]

An oddity about those drives... I was working on a mobile ct behind a hosp in Jamestown NY, during a snow storm in January. Couldn’t turn on the heat in the trailer because the environmental controls were locked until the system booted. The cpu would not boot to the drives.

5 hrs into trouble shooting I saw something odd thru the little plexiglass window in the top of the drive, just a glimpse. I had just turned it on (for the 100th time). I turned it back off, then on again and looked closely. The platter stack was spinning backwards!

That’s when I learned those drives were phase dependent… 3-phase 480 was supplied from the hosp. Their maintenance guys had switched two phases on the umbilical. This caused the drive to spin backwards!!!

Duh! No wonder the system wouldn’t boot! Froze my butt off for hours out in the snow!!! It was about 20 degrees in the trailer.

6" view port in the top of the drive.

 

[backlash]

In Phoenix I had a mobile CT that was down for 3 days before they called me.
When I arrived the CT Tech had the computer dissembled. He was talking to our tech support guys and they had him working on the problem.
That was a big mistake. The guy had no idea what he was doing.
I put everything back together, ran some tests and found the problem was with the CDC drive.
I called CDC to come out and repair the drive.
They guy asked me where I was and he started laughing and said I'll be there in a couple of minutes.
Sure enough he was onsite in less than 2 minutes.
He said it was the first time he was close enough to walk. He was in the building next door.

Another job with Burroughs Corp working on mainframe computers.
We had a new drive ready to bring on line so while the big shots were giving the operators a pep talk and the system was in standby we powered up the new drive. The heads loaded and unloaded as fast as they could move. It sounded like a machine gun.
Everyone was looking at us.
Turned out the servo drive was wired backwards from the factor and the machine thought the heads were retracted when the were not and vis versa.
We destroyed a 20 disk platter and 20 read/write heads. Not our best day.