2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

Cheyenne camp on the Canadian River west of the Darlington Agency, Oklahoma. c.1877.


A family and their dog outside of their Florida log home, c.1890.

[Seahawk]

Originally Posted by MikeSid

I studied that picture when I was a kid like I was studying for an exam.

Awesome!

The Village of Sar Agha Seyed from above:

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by red 928

Its a shame that our schools do not teach children about great men like these:


Ed freeman and Bruce Crandall








from comments:

So true. Edited. This is not PARF, Byron. Best.

[GH85Carrera]

Breaker Boys were used in mines to separate impurities from coal by hand. Pennsylvania, 1911.


The Kimberley Diamond mine in South Africa in 1872. After a massive 83.5 carat diamond was found here, fortune hunters flocked to the area, with 800 land claims made near the mine.

[Captain Ahab Jr]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Glen, I always enjoy your picture posts as they're full of picturesque places I need to to my 'places to see bucket list'

Can't believe I've not heard of Palmanova ^^^ especially as I only lived 3hrs drive away from it for 7yrs and drove past within a couple of miles on the Autostrada dozens of times

I'll definitely visit it this summer

[GH85Carrera]

A Junkers Ju 90 of Lufttransportstaffel 290 turns for land as it comes under attack from a Martin Marauder piloted by Wing Commander W S G Maydwell, the Commanding Officer of No. 14 Squadron RAF, off of Bastia, Corsica - July 1943
Maydwell and his crew, who had taken off from Protville, Tunisia, on a low-level reconnaissance sortie over the Tyrrhenian Sea, continued to attack the Ju 90 until they were shot at by AA guns on Corsica and forced to break off. The Ju 90 crashed in the water off of Bastia.
The wreckage of this Ju 90 was filmed in 2016
Only 18 Ju 90’s were produced
IWM - No. 14 Squadron RAF Photographer


From The Marin Independent Journal: "In 1977, the water pipeline installed on the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge in Marin County (California), rescued the residents of the county, bringing millions of gallons of water across the bridge until the wet winter of 1977-78 brought relief from drought." (Marin Independent Journal photo)


Virginia City, Montana is one of the West's richest and most notorious historic gold camps. In the five years after the first gold discovery an estimated $30-$40 million in gold was recovered here. Also abundant were the murders by road agents, with around 100 travelers killed between 1863 and 1864.


Manufactured by Boeing Aircraft at Wichita, Kansas and delivered to the United States Army Air Force in March 1945, the B-29 Superfortress 44-69972 was sent to Birmingham, Alabama for its first major modification. In May 1945, it was assigned to the Third Air Force. One year later, it was placed in storage at Pyote Army Air Force Base, Texas, where numerous B-29s were housed between WWII and 1950.
The aircraft was pulled out and readied for action in the Korean War. It was modified for Radar Calibration and flew Radar Defense Evaluation Flights on the East Coast of the United States from July 1951 until February 1955. Later, the 17th Tow Target Squadron received the B-29 and converted it to a Tow Target aircraft for the Air Defense Command, Yuma County Air Force Base, Arizona.
For its final mission, B-29 Superfortress 44-69972 was transferred from the United States Air Force to the United States Naval Weapons Center, China Lake Naval Air Station, Ridgecrest, California, 14 March 1956, to be used as a ballistic missile target for air combat training.
In 1987, an army of volunteers led by Tony Mazzolini and backed by the United States Aviation Museum mobilized their forces for a incredible mission -- recovering a World War II B-29 Superfortress Bomber and restoring it to flying condition.
The aircraft was the last remaining B-29 available for restoration. This B-29 had spent 42 years exposed to the elements of the desert on China Lake's electronic warfare range. It had survived intact, unlike its sister ships, which were used for ballistic missile drone and ground targets.
In 2000, the B-29 made its way to Wichita for restoration. Volunteers in Wichita, Kansas have now brought the massive airplane close to completion and are getting ready to return the bomber to the skies.
On July 18, 2016, the B-29 known as Doc took to the sky for the first time since 1956. The bomber now tours the United States as a flying museum, and along with 'FIFI' is one of only two airworthy B-29s on the planet.

[daepp]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

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Sacre Coeur! We visited her in 1988, and even climbed to the top of the dome/lantern. Such sights to see - thanks for the memories!


Random (from a visit to the Smithsonian overflow warehouse...)

[Gretch]

Originally Posted by daepp

Sacre Coeur! We visited her in 1988, and even climbed to the top of the dome/lantern. Such sights to see - thanks for the memories!

Interesting. I have been there several times (in the 90's) and did not recognize that particular profile.

Have a piece from the artist colony market I acquired while there. brings a smile every time I look at it. Back then Paris was such a nice place to visit.

Rando:

weird I cannot edit in a picture........ though I tried.

[Racerbvd]

[KNS]

[GH85Carrera]

[asphaltgambler]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

So true. Edited. This is not PARF, Byron. Best.

I'm still hopelessly in love with her...

[GH85Carrera]

Seven Troughs, Nevada was established in 1907 after after gold was discovered in the area. The district thrived for about 10 years but by 1918 was in serious decline.




A crowd cheers as a beer truck leaves a brewery in Chicago after Congress passed a bill legalizing 3.2 percent beer in April 1933.


Iceland

[scotricker]

But wait, that's a salt water fish tank back there, and is that a Clown Trigger ?

[Captain Ahab Jr]

[GH85Carrera]

This colossal and extraordinary structure was captured for posterity and its great architectural wonder. Standing at such lofty heights in Pennsylvania is the Sibley Breaker, constructed and raised in 1886 (after its former self burned to the ground earlier that year), presumably with local timber. It is a colliery, or breaker, constructed for the purpose of breaking pieces of coal from, I would imagine, the mine underneath it. Lumps of coal would be processed in the breaker.
As timber and coal are never a friendly combination, the Sibley Breaker burned-quite dramatically, one can imagine, in 1906. Nearly 200,000 tonnes of coal was produced in its day, with-as one might expect-a handful of fatalities along the way, tragically.
Witnessing its initial construction would've been a sight most incredible...


Ran when parked! Some surface rust.


The Valley Of Fire, Nevada 🇺🇸

[Heel n Toe]

[GH85Carrera]

Imperial County, California whirlwind on desert
c. 1910


When European explorers and settlers first pushed westward, the Ute occupied the entire central and west portions of Colorado, and the east portion of Utah, and the upper portion of the San Juan region of New Mexico.


Soviet soldiers go through German smart phones they confiscated during WW2. No wait, those are German medals on the steps of the Reich Chancellery in Berlin in May, 1945.

[mjohnson]

The sad part is that the completion date is likely more wrong than the rest...


(not my photo, but my town)

[craigster59]

Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there's so much to smile about.
-Ernest Hemingway