As always, I try and find the history of some of the really excellent photos you post.

Not much history. I did find another view:

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Keep them coming!

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Patio Process at the Gould & Curry Mill - Virginia City, Nevada ca. 1864. Note the horses mixing the crushed ore in the pans.

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By 1890 Tombstone’s population was 1,900, down from a peak of about 14,000. By 1900 it had dropped to just seven hundred. The all-time low was 646 in 1910.

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Main Street - Helena, Montana 1870.

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Stone Age Mother Cradling her Child in a ancient grave : Around 4,800 years ago, a young mother died near the Taiwanese coast. When she was lifted from her grave as part of a scientific excavation, archaeologists discovered that she had been buried with a six-month-old infant tucked into her arms. Interred near a stone dwelling, it appeared the pair had been sent into the hereafter in a loving embrace. According to the researchers, the mother was just 160 cm tall, or 5 foot 2 inches.
The infant in her arms is 50 cm tall – just over a foot-and-a-half. The find was among 48 sets of remains unearthed from graves in Taiwan, including the fossils of five children.Carbon dating was used to determine the ages of the remains which included those of five children.

A California serial killer nicknamed the Golden State Killer preyed on neighborhoods similar to this in a suburb of Sacramento. He found he could watch his prey from afar, as he had an easy view of the insides of their homes, and could determine when a man left, or when a couple went to sleep etc. NO thank you!

Nobody on the show liked Radar. He also is missing numerous fingers on his left hand. That's why he never shows it.

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James Doohan served in the Canadian Infantry in World War II, landing at Juno Beach on D-Day. After taking down two snipers and holding position on higher ground for the evening, he was hit by six rounds of friendly machine gun fire, including one in his right hand. His finger was amputated. He got four rounds in his leg, and one in his chest, which was blocked by a silver cigarette case.

It's good when supply and demand works in your favor.

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Some 40 miles east of what would become the boom towns of Bonanza and Custer City, Bayhorse got an earlier start in 1864 when a few small gold veins were found.
Let's Go to Bayhorse, Idaho – Silver in the Yankee Fork Mining District –

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You are looking at the face of a person who lived 15,000 years ago.
The finds of a modern human found in a limestone cave in France in 1911 were thought to belong to a female individual due to the size of the pelvis, and because the wisdom teeth in the skull had not yet erupted, it was named the Girl of Magdalena. However, in the later X-ray scan, it was determined that the wisdom teeth were impacted, and it was claimed that it belonged to a woman who died between the ages of 25-35.
The image of the skull, which was damaged during its discovery and then restored incorrectly, was reconstructed by scanning using the possibilities of today's technology, and French sculptor Elisabeth Daynes, based on these data, prepared the model you see now and gave life to the Magdelena Woman.
Named after her time, the Magdalene Woman has high cheekbones and a mysterious smile similar to that of the Mona Lisa. She lived before the ice age and at a time when dogs were domesticated.

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A family at their ramshackle homestead shack outside of Guthrie, Oklahoma, 1889.No doubt they were homesteaders from the 1889 land run. A free 1/4 section of land if you build a place to live, and raise crops.
Tough people making a hard living. No electricity, no running water, no cell phones! Gasp.

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that's quite a sound system!

Not my dad or his speakers, but he used to have a set of these speakers, Acoustic Research AR9LS. My dad had a pretty nice sound system.

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When my dad was still just a Capt. we lived in Hawaii (early 1960s) and he had flown a C-124 to Japan for the flying time to keep current. All the crew loaded up on goodies to bring home. Dad picked up his first stereo component system. A Sansui amp, and two speakers, each the size of a washing machine and a high end reel to reel tape recorder.

Many years later he laughed about teaching our neighbors about the 1812 overture with the walls of our house only paper thin, and windows open they had a good listen.

Shortly after he got the system they were playing scrabble with another couple and used the word tweeter and the would not believe it was a word. He had to get the instructions and show them tweeter in the manual. They still disallowed it as it was not in the dictionary.

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Byron's grandma?

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Adelnietze stands in the center of this group of 18 men, women and children photographed by C.S. Fly at Geronimo’s camp, before the Apache “surrender” to Gen. George Crook on March 27, 1886. The next decade, death found him.

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Brandt Station, Atlanta, Illinois on Route 66. They have all the lights on and appear to have all the staff out for this photo.
This photo is courtesy of the Atlanta Museum and 66postccards.

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From Lumen, the University of Adelaide Magazine:
'It was a Prosh Day prank to beat all Prosh Day pranks - and it was a great demonstration of the ingenuity of University of Adelaide engineering students. At a 30-year class reunion in 2003, engineering graduate David Gray told the story of how, in 1971, his fellow students suspended an FJ Holden under the University Footbridge.
"Under cover of the early hours of one Friday morning, a group of volunteers pushed the FJ Holden under the bridge next to the water on the southern bank of the Torrens," said David. "The car was lifted using beams and lifting gear attached to a small hand-operated crane located on the footbridge.
"The crane, with car attached, was then pushed out to the center of the bridge. The car was firmly secured to the bridge using a large chain. The crane and volunteers then quickly disappeared into the night and were never found."'

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Funny, we were stationed in Japan (twice, actually), and that's where he got his system. The second time that we went back I got a system. We both had Sansui components.

THis is one that he had.
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And the system that I bought looked similar to this. It was a mid-80s component system with turntable, double-auto-reverse cassette deck, CD player, equalizer and amp/preamp. I had Kenwood speakers
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I just got a little sick to my stomach. My Dad was an audiophile and bought a pair of these new in the early 1960's. Not his but his were in perfect shape:

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Altec Lansing 838A CARMEL 414z / 804A + N800F.

He gave them to me about 20 years ago. I basically gave them away a few month later since they were huge.

I decided based on the pics to see what they go for: On Ebay for over $5,000. Yikes.

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Man! - How beautiful are those?