2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

Altman was one of many towns that formed around the rich mines of the Cripple Creek District. At an elevation of over 10,600 feet, this was the district's highest settlement.




Anyone ever participate in a tractor contest? Here we see men (and a dog) following behind a Case steam driven tractor plowing a field during the Tractor Pageant, near Browning, Montana, 1932

[daepp]

Originally Posted by masraum

Very cool, thanks for the info. As a young kid the P-38 was one of my favorites planes of that era, but I don't really know much about them. I know I had a small diecast of one about 10 years ago that would probably be from the late 70s. I don't know if I've still got it or not.

I loved 'em too.

Random photo I took out the roof of my Targa at Chino Airport. At the time (2013) I was told these represented 100% of airworthy P38's:

[WPOZZZ]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

A fireman from the London Fire Brigade, wearing a smoke helmet, 1908.

I need one of those masks when my dog farts. And I don't get those erasers. They sucked back then ad they still suck. Use it too much and you tear your paper. I liked the Japanese plastic erasers.

[KNS]

Phil Hill, John Frankenheimer and James Garner on the set of Grand Prix

[McLovin]

[GH85Carrera]

Fairbanks was established in 1903 after the discovery of gold in the area. Development of the district was slow as most of the gold was trapped in deep gravel deposits which required heavy machinery to extract profitably. With time these challenges were overcome, and Fairbanks became the center of Alaska's premier gold producing district.




The pink fairy armadillo, probably the cutest and tiniest armadillo in the world!


The Last Tree in Rochina, Brazil
by Luis Bhering

[craigster59]

[Heel n Toe]

[masraum]

Originally Posted by WPOZZZ

I need one of those masks when my dog farts. And I don't get those erasers. They sucked back then ad they still suck. Use it too much and you tear your paper. I liked the Japanese plastic erasers.

Absolutely, the Japanese erasers are far, far better. I remember ink pens that had erasers. Those erasers were similar to the pink erasers, but tougher AND seemed like they had grit like sand paper. Those erasers would tear through paper even faster.



Another great eraser is a kneaded eraser

[masraum]

When I was a kid in Japan, erasers was a big thing for another reason. We collected/traded them.

[GH85Carrera]

They built some tough trucks back then! A 1915 GMC.

[A930Rocket]

Sometimes I feel like this as well, when I let out a big fluff.

[Steve Carlton]

[Steve Carlton]

23 story fall. So far, so good...

[red 928]

Lots of talk about mistake fixers (erasers).

[GH85Carrera]

In 1943, with the operator still in the driver’s seat, a tank enters the paint drying process at the Chester Tank Depot in Chester, Pennsylvania.
For protection against the elements, tanks were painted before being shipped to Europe or the Pacific. Ordinarily, it would take 24 hours to dry but under these infrared rays, it can dry in four minutes. The old saying of something being “more boring than watching paint dry” does not apply here.






Meet Madam Jeanne Louise Calment, who had the longest confirmed human lifespan: 122 years, 164 days. Apparently, fate strongly approved of the way she lived her life. She was born in Arles, France, on February 21, 1875. The Eiffel Tower was built when she was 14 years old. It was at this time she met Vincent van Gogh. "He was dirty, badly dressed, and disagreeable," she recalled in an interview given in 1988.
When she was 85, she took up fencing, and still rode her bike when she reached 100. At the age of 114, she starred in a film about her life, at age 115 she had an operation on her hip, and at age 117 she gave up smoking, having started at the age of 21 in 1896. She didn't give it up for health reasons; her reason was that she didn't like having to ask someone to help her light a cigarette once she was nearly blind.
In 1965, Jeanne was 90 years old and had no heirs. She signed a deal to sell her apartment to a 47-year-old lawyer called André-François Raffray. He agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs on the condition he would inherit her apartment after she died. However, Raffray not only ended up paying Jeanne for 30 years, but then died before she did at the age of 77. His widow was legally obliged to continue paying Madam Calment until the end of her days.
Jeanne retained sharp mental faculties. When she was asked on her 120th birthday what kind of future she expected to have. Her reply, "A very short one."
Here are the Rules of Life from Jeanne Louise Calment:
"I'm in love with wine."
"All babies are beautiful."
"I think I will die of laughter."
"I've been forgotten by our Good Lord."
"I've got only one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it."
"I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry often."
"If you can't change something, don't worry about it."
"Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life."
"I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine."
"I have a huge desire to live and a big appetite, especially for sweets."
"I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit."
"I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky."
“Being young is a state of mind, it doesn’t depend on one’s body. I’m actually still a young girl, it's just that I haven't looked so good for the past 70 years."
At the end of one interview, the journalist said, "Madame, I hope we will meet again sometime next year." To which Jeanne replied, "Why not? You're not that old; you'll still be here!”
The image with the wings is a piece of art by
L. Lichtenfells

[MikeSid]

Originally Posted by McLovin

Why do I feel like this is an old Lubemaster photo??

[masraum]

Originally Posted by MikeSid

Why do I feel like this is an old Lubemaster photo??

The one in red looks like she could be the sister of the roof girl.

different roof girl

[wdfifteen]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Looks fishy to me. I wouldn't be surprised if this was total BS.


Anyone ever participate in a tractor contest?

Yes, a guy let me drive his modified stock antique - a hot rod Farmall M - a few times. I also tried an antique tractor plowing contest. It's tedious, and harder than it looks. Think curling with a tractor.

[GH85Carrera]

Worker bottling ketchup at the Heinz factory. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 1897.


USS North Carolina BB-55 passes through the Panama Canal on the way to the East Coast after the Japanese Surrender - October 1945
LIFE Magazine Archives - Thomas Mcavoy Photographer


Way too much camber!