I could not imagine a worse place to be.
I hate crowds.
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I hate crowds.
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Me, too.
Can ya'll imagine what cities smelled like in 1890? Those of us who farm are reminded occasionally. (excluding the sh*tfest in san fran)
Quick check of the net... In 1880 new york city had 150,000 horses providing transport of some type. Avg 50lbs of manure per horse per day..7,500,000lbs. Avg of 3750 tons of horse crap in the streets each day.
That's why they invented poop catchers for under the tails. They don't show those in the movies. Call me old fashioned, but I like the smell of manure way better than the smell of pulp mill or refinery or exhaust.
Guess thats why they filmed Back to the future in the '1880 wild west' instead of ny city. It was bad enough in a one horse town, at least for the stupid people. 
Hey, they had plenty of fresh air! Needed it!
Hey, they had plenty of fresh air! Needed it!
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Oh, you should smell around here when manure is spread on the huge fields. It'll hit you in the face for a day or two.
But I am glad that manure is used instead of chemicals.
But I am glad that manure is used instead of chemicals.
When I see all the chemical crap people put on and in their horses I have to wonder how safe the manure is in the garden.
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I don't know if people do that here. Why would they do that?
Fly sprays, dewormers, vaccines, etc.!
Miners of the Charbonnagge de Mariemont-Bascoup crammed into a coal mine elevator after a day of work. Photograph taken in Belgium in c. 1900. Credit: color_byangelina
Niagara falls in the winter of 1883... I lived near the falls. It has it's own micro-climate. On a sunny day, blue sky... it'll still be snowing at the falls.
Robert F. Kennedy stopping for a meal at a drive-in in Bluefield, West Virginia during the campaign for his brother John F. Kennedy to become the 1960 Democratic presidential nominee.
Birger Gang, Southern Illinois bootleggers, pose with guns, 1924...
Found this photo. Have to say i've never heard of the Birger Gang. Guess the criminals in chicago took up all the print in '24.
In chicago... the Leopold and Loeb kidnap/murder happened that May. The Beulah Annan & Belva Gaertner shooting happened that year. And Dean O’Banion was murdered that fall.
Found this photo. Have to say i've never heard of the Birger Gang. Guess the criminals in chicago took up all the print in '24.
In chicago... the Leopold and Loeb kidnap/murder happened that May. The Beulah Annan & Belva Gaertner shooting happened that year. And Dean O’Banion was murdered that fall.
Pretty good firepower in that gang. I see at least 3 Thompsons.
Pedestrians make their way in between cars stalled on the bridge while crossing the Grand Central Parkway at Union Turnpike, Kew Gardens, Queens, Dec. 27, 1947.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, during the 1939-40 winter. I guess double parking hadn't been outlawed yet.
1970s TWA glory days. Ambassador Class
Mummy of a 3,500-year-old dog,
It was the little dog of Pharaoh Amenhotep from 1427 BC.
Found mummified with his necklace, a bowl of water and his own perfume bottle.
This mummy of a dog was found inside tomb KV50, known as the Tomb of the Animals, in the Valley of the Kings.
It is believed to be one of the pets of Pharaoh Amenhotep II, who ruled Ancient Egypt between 1427 and 1401 BC, due to the proximity of this tomb to that of the pharaoh.
It was the little dog of Pharaoh Amenhotep from 1427 BC.
Found mummified with his necklace, a bowl of water and his own perfume bottle.
This mummy of a dog was found inside tomb KV50, known as the Tomb of the Animals, in the Valley of the Kings.
It is believed to be one of the pets of Pharaoh Amenhotep II, who ruled Ancient Egypt between 1427 and 1401 BC, due to the proximity of this tomb to that of the pharaoh.
Virginia Ferry. 1956
Woodcutters in North California, 1915.
Bet those were chestnut trees.
I LOVE all this cool stuff you come up with Peanut!! Thank you!!
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Red wood.
https://www.pbssocal.org/shows/lost-la/old-growth-infrastructure-redwood-in-los-angeles
Ben
PS
On my android using Chrome I can hold down on an image to get a pop-up menu.
One option is "Search with Google Lens"
That will search the web for the image.
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Bottling ketchup at the Heinz factory, Pittsburgh, 1897
Comic fireman floats over Broadway during the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York, Nov. 25, 1948
And... 30yrs later everyone was wearing plaid pants, remember the 70's? I guess we can thank these jerks...
And... 30yrs later everyone was wearing plaid pants, remember the 70's? I guess we can thank these jerks...
Family heads down Park Avenue, New York, on a dog sled following the blizzard of 1948
I know I have posted before that my Mom grew up in NYC!! These old photos are so special to me!! Thanks again Peanut!!
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My wife's grandfather sold pumps to industry including Heinz. The acid and viscosity of ketchup was a nightmare, or so I was told.
Ben
