Art & Inspiration Can any of you approximate the year of these vehicles?

They don’t necessarily have to be power poles, could be Telegraph.



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Look like telephone poles to me.

 

Hey I grew up in South Dakota, cow pies and flies are the states major products.

 

Stogy, I was definitely looking for a strip-down.
Nothing but street rods.

Those really old really huge race cars are something. A small boat tailed body and a big long bonnet. I wanna build one. Two big-blocks inline. LOL

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Armored motor cars, particle accelerators, aircraft pilot ejection seats ...

ALL South Dakota patents, baby !

Poles are likely telegraph, but maybe telephones. Telegraph took nearly thirty years to arrive, after 1844. So who knows, maybe they decided to fast track telephone ? But I'd gander that building is a telegraph office, in downtown. Since it's off of the main street. Electricity came in the '30's.

2nd non contribution to this thread. I'd be a great politician.

 

The white tires puts you right in the middle 1900's....
Phil

 

If you take a long time exposure moving people and vehicles disappear. One of the oldest photos is of a street in Paris, there are only 2 figures in it, a shoe shine boy and a guy getting a shine. The boy's hands are blurred where he was working the brushes. They are the only ones who stood still long enough to get photographed, the other pedestrians and carriages moved away too fast.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/oldest-photograph-of-a-human-is-back-in-the-spotlight-159766