OT-America, pre-WW-II

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skycarp

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• Feb 4, 2009

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Some very nice pictures taken pre-WW-II using Kodak Kodachrome film.

There is even a picture of a tractor working in the field.

http://www.openmyeyeslord.net/ALookBackInHistory.htm

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Feb 4, 2009

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Things were sure alot simpler back then. Those were some great pictures. Stan

 

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Stan - Florida

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Outstanding!!

Thanks a million!

The other Stan

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Interesting set of pictures. That looked an awful lot like Judy Garland though, and the color on some of them has been substantially enhanced.

 

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Leroy

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• Feb 5, 2009

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I only got 11 of the pictures, the rest the red X

 

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Bret4207

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Nice pics, too bad the host bought the FDR New Deal myth hook, line and sinker. Far too much political correctness in it for me.

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Nice pictures,but could have done without the abundant history lesson about how hard it was for the blacks,Jim Crow,Mexicans,etc.

 

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LEH

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Nice pictures! Too bad some of us are still in the same mind set 60+ years after. The 'New Depression" may be worse than the old one. Wait till the unemployment benefits run out. Ever see a Caddy Escalade with an out house on the back???

 

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greygoat

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• Feb 5, 2009

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WOW!!, so interesting, the railroad roundhouse
photo brought back memories of going in one as
a child, never dreaming i"d go back after my
army years to begin an apprenticeship there,
and retire as a journeyman machinist and
locomotive mechanic. I"ve had so much pride in
working there, and learned the motto: "if you
don"t take the time to do it right the first
time-when will you find the time to do it over."

 

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jay-eye-see

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• Feb 5, 2009

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I enjoyed it. I luckily dont find an agenda in every thing i see. (some of the old crows on here watch for that for me)

 

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Anonymous-0

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Good stuff, you just don't see many shots like those in color. It really provides some perspective, the farmall with the drill and the team with the seed on the wagon, is a great photo. There is a tractor in use and can't be that old at the time, oil and dirt on it, in use, I've always wondered what they looked like new back then and after a few years of use, that photo captures the answer to that question, it looks old then

 

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Walt Davies

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Born in 1938 an moved to farm in Loomis, Ca in 1943 this really brings back memories. But we were poor not Hungry or living in dumps. Yes the old houses looked bad on the outside but very nice on the inside. It was time to enjoy life and not worry about the War the old folks could do that we just had lots of fun with thousands of acres to run on and hunt and fish and ride horses and swimming in the river. Of course grampa made us work in the morning but the afternoon was ours, Grampa was a kid also and remembered how it was for us to enjoy being kids.
Mom had a brownie box camera and took many pictures even got a roll of color film once.
Why would any kid wear shoes in the summer anyway. Never had a problem with my feet in my life and still go barefoot in the house.
Walt
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Bill in Colo

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Can anyone tell me where the C-D ranch is in Montana? Thanks Bill

 

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Glen D Anderson

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Great pictures!

 

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Mark

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Speaking of a roundhouse..thirty something years ago when I was a young fireman on the railroad, I was hostling engines at the C&O roundhouse in Russell, Ky. I was down in the old engine house one day, where the engine carpenters worked. Hanging there on a beam about 8 feet high was a very large electric motor. I found a ladder and climbed up for a look. It said Edison Electric on it and the installation date was 1910! Whatever it had driven had since disappeared. The old engine house and coal dock has been gone now for 15 years or better...all that remains is the "diesel house". I retired 5 years ago with a bad knee and haven"t missed a day of it...but I do miss many of the men.

 

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Paul in MN

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Thank You! Brought back some memories of a very different way of life, some things may have been better then, but most were not. As a kid, I saw some of that small town poverty, and some of the big town row houses, winos still laying on the sidewalk or slumped in the gutter in the early morning. My most vivid memories of this began about 1950. I remember WW2 vets with both legs shot off moving about on the sidewalks of Baltimore on little wood platforms with 4 caster wheels, pushing themselves along with their knuckles on the pavement, begging and selling nickel pencils. The small towns and rural areas may have had poverty, but they often had a sense of pride, whereas the poverty in the big cities seemed to have no pride whatsoever. Surviving from one day to the next was their main goal, there were no dreams for the handicapped and poor. The disparity between rich and poor was unimaginable.

Paul in MN

 

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John S-B

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Hey Greygoat, what railroad did you work for? I've had the pleasure of riding behind N&W 611 and 1218, along with some other great steam locomotives at Steamtown and on the Ohio Central. There's nothing like that.

 

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barn E

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• Feb 5, 2009

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Thank you skycarp. Really takes you back. Sent emails to 9 people my age (65) who really like this stuff. Dave

 

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Chester5731

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• Feb 6, 2009

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I have a McCormick grain drill that looks like the one pictured. It still gets used to plant oats, but I use horses.