Vintage shots from days gone by!

Ike

 

1945 Kansas City, MO

 

The corsage was big in the '50's. Usually pin-on with a few on the wrist. Most guys, esprcially the JD types, bought their mom a corsage at key dates. This one's a little big so prob a special occasion like wedding or anniversary. I'm sure her friends noticed.

 

OK, who is that lady in the top frame 20768

 

Yeah: Who is she??

 

I concur;va-va-va-voooom! Very familiar;I almost said Sophia,but the hair's the wrong color-still looks great!

 

Grahame, that is a GREAT first-hand recollection about John
and the Egyptian blanket he gave you! And I like this photo
of an actual WWI cavalry charge, the only one of this scope
I have ever seen. Probably by Frank Hurley (and it may have
been staged for the old-fashioned, fixed camera, but who cares?).
Beersheba was in the big, flat Negev Desert in the southern part
of what is now Israel. So, with no trench warfare, no barbed wire
and relatively few machine guns, it would have been one of the
few places where such a force could still be effective. THANKS for
posting this! And it gives me a reason to tie it in to the earlier
Autochrome of an Aussie light horseman in a quiet moment in
Palestine. Man, I love this thread.



In a genuine 1918 color Autochrome shot by Australian army
photographer Frank Hurley in Palestine, a cavalryman of the
Australian Light Horse Brigade pauses to pick a bouquet of
anemones (not poppies). Autochromes were NOT hand-tinted
black-and-white shots, but were a three-stage true color process.
The complexity probably limited Autochrome use to still and
slower shots.

 

Wow, LowCat! THANKS for this, especially after we recently
discussed great pix of once-throbbing American steel mills.
But we didn't touch too much on the foundries that turned the
steel into monstrosities like this, "The Mountaineer," assembled
by Marion Power Shovel for Hanna Coal Co.

My dad worked for 32 years at Buckeye Steel Castings Co.
in Columbus, OH, where mega-components for big power
shovels were cast and finished, then shipped to the assembler
who'd ordered the parts. I'm talking about the huge, one-piece
base everything sat on as well as the parts of the undercarriage,
plus the steel tracks themselves.

Dad wasn't at Buckeye until 1963, so I never heard mention
of "The Mountaineer" (Isn't it cool how these things were so big,
they had individual NAMES, just like RR engines???). One I do
remember him talking a LOT about was "The GEM of Egypt," which
Buckeye cast for Bucyrus-Erie about 1966-67. The GEM (short for
Giant Earth Mover) worked for decades in Ohio's Belmont and Har-
rison County strip mines. My memory is hazy after so much time,
so you've inspired me to go do some info surfing, buddy!

BTW, Buckeye always did cast military hardware, from cannon
barrels for WWI to tank armor and turrets for Vietnam and Iraq.
I'll try and find pix on that stuff, too. Also BTW, if you look at the
side frames on RR cars, you can still see the famous Buckeye
"Circle B" logo cast right on them, as they did RR and mass-
transit undercarriages, et .al., as well.

It was my "pleasure" to work there a total of seven months, over
the course of two summers, when I was in school. HOT AS HELL
in summer, COLD AS HELL in winter. Hard work, but a fascinating
place! Founded by George W. Bush's GRANDfather in the 1880s,
it grew to comprise more acreage under roof than any other
foundry in the world, in its day. As I recall, a very young Eddie
Rickenbacker worked at Buckeye, before his racing, flying and
car-building days.

 

Whoa! Here's an oldie, one of the 77 steam shovels built
by the Bucyrus Steam Shovel Co. (later Bucyrus-Erie) used
to build the Panama Canal. What a Herculean job THAT was!
Bucyrus shipped three out of four of the shovels needed for
the years-long project in which some 5,000 men lost their
lives. Photo THANKS to the WikiMedia Commons project.

 

Not a vintage photo, but thought the Merc. deserved a place here !!!

 

Nancy Kovak






She also appeared on Batman TV show


and Star Trek (original series)

 

Marion Shovel, Leroy, NY

This beautiful piece of machinery is located on a back road in the town of LeRoy, Genesee County, NY. It is a fine example of early earth moving machinery. This one was first used on railway tracks to transfer stone but was later converted to the tank track style.
A crew of three men were required to operate it: a fireman, who kept the boiler fed with coal and water; a crane man, who sat on the left-hand side of the boom and tripped the 1 5/8 yard bucket by tugging on a wire rope attached to the bucket; and an engineer (or driver), who raised and lowered the bucket and drove the machine along the track.
This area of New York is rich in mineral resources and had a hay day of quarry activity, producing many kinds of beautiful mineral building material. The machine now sits at the entrance of an operating stone corporation (use caution near shovel viewing area as many stone haulers still travel in and out of the active quarry entrance across the street).
This shovel was rumored to actually have been used in the digging of the Panama Canal. This model certainly was used in that historic job. In 2008, this shovel was added to the National Register of Historic Places. It was in operation until 1949, built in 1906, and is considered the largest steam shovel known to exist intact. Enjoy this mammoth piece of history!

 

Hawaii 1941