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[gregpark]

GH85 Carrera, I love looking at the old settler family shots and imagining what a tough life it was back then. My mom's side of the family were Idaho settlers and when I was a young boy and my great grandparents were alive I would pump them for stories of the old days. My great grandfather told me about how different the area looked when he was a boy. Tall grass in big expanses, I figured out later he was describing the prarie land of long ago. They lived with Indian reservations nearby and he told me about his father (my great, great grand father) owning an Arabian stallion and breeding it with his Nez Perce friend's Pinto pony and selling what became known as Appaloosa horses. My great grandmother told me of when 2 Indians who were best friends got drunk and into an argument one night with one shooting and killing the other. When he woke up and realized what he had done he went to his friends widow, handed her an ax and told her to chop him up. Which she did, into pieces in the middle of the street right in front of my 8 year old great grandmother. My great grandfather's dad was a sheep guy, always wore a gun and never sat in a room with his back towards a window. They were run out of their house a few times by cattle guys and had to hide out in the hills. Grandpop was put to work from the age of 6 rounding up stray sheep with his dog and horse. This is the only picture I have of my great, great grandpa Hoover (the guy with the Arabian)

[Heel n Toe]

Originally Posted by Steve Carlton

Can you give us a little info on this photo? I don't recognize anyone.

[gregpark]

^^two of them are Robert Deniro and Francis Ford Coppola. On the set of the godfather 2 I believe

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[Geronimo '74]

^^

[svandamme]

A Tourist got upset that he did not get to see the pope, and demolished statues in the Vatican.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by gregpark

^^two of them are Robert Deniro and Francis Ford Coppola. On the set of the godfather 2 I believe

The killing of Don Fanucci !

[GH85Carrera]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by gregpark

GH85 Carrera, I love looking at the old settler family shots and imagining what a tough life it was back then. My mom's side of the family were Idaho settlers and when I was a young boy and my great grandparents were alive I would pump them for stories of the old days. My great grandfather told me about how different the area looked when he was a boy. Tall grass in big expanses, I figured out later he was describing the prarie land of long ago. They lived with Indian reservations nearby and he told me about his father (my great, great grand father) owning an Arabian stallion and breeding it with his Nez Perce friend's Pinto pony and selling what became known as Appaloosa horses. My great grandmother told me of when 2 Indians who were best friends got drunk and into an argument one night with one shooting and killing the other. When he woke up and realized what he had done he went to his friends widow, handed her an ax and told her to chop him up. Which she did, into pieces in the middle of the street right in front of my 8 year old great grandmother. My great grandfather's dad was a sheep guy, always wore a gun and never sat in a room with his back towards a window. They were run out of their house a few times by cattle guys and had to hide out in the hills. Grandpop was put to work from the age of 6 rounding up stray sheep with his dog and horse. This is the only picture I have of my great, great grandpa Hoover (the guy with the Arabian)

Great story, thanks for sharing.

[GH85Carrera]

This is my great great grandfather, William Hoefer. His last child with his first wife was my great grandfather, August, and everyone called him Gus. He lived in Driftwood, OK and was the father to my grandmother.




My grandmother as a kid.




Same grandmother while being "courted" by my soon to be grandfather.

[Steve Carlton]

Luca Brasi, about to "Swim with the fishes."

[GH85Carrera]

The trampoline ain't blowing away now!




Extra fast oil drain!


I suspect those or something like it will make a comeback with the lack of people interested in working.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

This is my great great grandfather, William Hoefer. His last child with his first wife was my great grandfather, August, and everyone called him Gus. He lived in Driftwood, OK and was the father to my grandmother.




My grandmother as a kid.




Same grandmother while being "courted" by my soon to be grandfather.

Very cool stuff! Thanks for sharing. I've got some genealogy for my family, but not a ton of interesting stories. Most of what I have is birth, death, marriage records especially on my dad's side of the family. On my mom's side, I have more because one of my aunts has done a bunch of research.

[GH85Carrera]

I have enough of that to bore everyone to death. I started a family tree on Ancestry.com and have it available to others doing family research to access. All living relatives are private, and unpublished. Only dead ancestors can be researched.

I have had several people send a tanks for posting a photo of their great grand uncle or distant cousin. Ancestry.com is a rabbit hole time suck if you let it be. I went back 10 generations on a few family lines. Past that is pointless in my opinion. With a 1,024 ancestors after 10 generations the number of cousins is off the scale. Just spouses siblings of the ancestors make the genetic tree massive.




During the First World War, observation posts were often disguised as trees


Great marketing!






In 1910, the youngest member of the Oakland, California motorcycle club was 12 year old W. Wright. Wright’s Indian bike frame was cut down in a unique way to allow the young rider to fit the single-cylinder machine.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I have enough of that to bore everyone to death. I started a family tree on Ancestry.com and have it available to others doing family research to access. All living relatives are private, and unpublished. Only dead ancestors can be researched.

I have had several people send a tanks for posting a photo of their great grand uncle or distant cousin. Ancestry.com is a rabbit hole time suck if you let it be. I went back 10 generations on a few family lines. Past that is pointless in my opinion. With a 1,024 ancestors after 10 generations the number of cousins is off the scale. Just spouses siblings of the ancestors make the genetic tree massive.


Great marketing!

I believe my aunt has my mom's side of the family shared on ancestry.com. I have my more limited tree on Ancestry too, although I can't remember if it's shared or not. I don't currently have an active account (can't see any of their data) but they keep my tree. I'd like to pay for access again and do some more research. It can be a deep rabbit hole. You have to be careful because some folks just add every recommended link even if they don't make sense. I've gotten hints that said something like "someone has so-and-so in their family tree and have spouse and parents." So I think, great, I can add some new folks to my tree, but then when I go and look at what they've got, the people that they have listed as parents were 5 years old or 95 years old when the relative was born. Clearly, they got a hint and just clicked "add to tree" or whatever the process is.

[GH85Carrera]

One of the local Cemeteries has a lot of my relatives. My parents, grand parents and several aunts and uncles. I took photos of the headstones, and graves of all of them, and I received a lot of thank yous for that. Evidently that is a big side hobby of ancestry, having a photo of the grave and headstone of a relative. Most people assume the birth and death date listed is accurate on the headstone.





A pioneer family posing with their farm equipment in front of their sod farmhouse, Nebraska, 1880s.


The flying wing trinity. The 3 aircraft pictured are the XB-35 the YB-49 and the B2.


U-118, a World War One German submarine washed ashore on the beach at Hastings, England. 1919


Satisfying to get that thing removed!

[GH85Carrera]

^^^^ Nope, nope nope, no way in hell.

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/\/\ Thank gawd he is f*&%$#* nobody............. /\/\

[GH85Carrera]

W.C. Fields said that The Marx Brothers was the only act he couldn't follow on the live stage. He is known to have appeared on the same bill with them only once, during an engagement at Keith's Orpheum Theatre in Columbus, OH, in January 1915. At the time the Marx Brothers were touring "Home Again," and it didn't take Fields long to realize how his quiet comedy juggling act was faring against the anarchy of the Marxes. Fields later wrote of the engagement (and the Marxes), "They sang, danced, played harp and kidded in zany style. Never saw so much nepotism or such hilarious laughter in one act in my life. The only act I could never follow . . . I told the manager I broke my wrist and quit."
Groucho Marx suffered from insomnia, which he claimed was due to a financial loss in the stock market. On those evenings that he was awake, he used to call people up in the middle of the night and insult them.
"Because of my fake mustache, eyebrows and eyeglasses, I was rarely recognized in public during the 1930s and 40s. However, one evening in 1938, I was out at a local Hollywood restaurant with my wife having dinner when this man walked up to my table and asked me, 'Are you Groucho Marx?' Annoyed, I politely said 'Yes, I am.' He then went on to say he was my biggest fan and asked me for a favor. More annoyed, I said 'Sure, what is it?' The guy pointed to a woman seated at a nearby table and told me that was his wife and he wanted me to tell an insulting joke about her. I told the guy, 'Mister, if my wife looked as ugly at THAT, I wouldn't need to think of anything to insult her with!'"
In the 1950s, Groucho was invited to take a tour of the New York Stock Exchange. While in the observation booth, he grabbed the public address system handset and began singing "Lydia the Tattooed Lady." Upon hearing silence coming from the trading floor, he walked into view, was given a loud cheer by the traders, and shouted, "Gentlemen, in 1929 I lost eight hundred thousand dollars on this floor, and I intend to get my money's worth!" For fifteen minutes, he sang, danced, told jokes, and all this time, the Wall Street stock ticker was running blank.
"The greatest compliment I ever got was from (Charlie) Chaplin. He came up to me and said, 'I wish I could talk like you on the screen'. I said, 'I think you're doing alright.' He had made $50 million by that point. He was the best comedian we ever had." (IMDb)
Happy Birthday, Groucho Marx with and without makeup above.

[svandamme]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

During the First World War, observation posts were often disguised as trees

Early on perhaps, but not really, Anything that stood out in the landscape was a reference point for artillery and as such did not stand out long in the landscape.

We do not have trees older then 105 years here.
No such thing.
Anybody dumb enough to climb into such an observation post, would have had to have a death wish