2020 New Random Pics

[GH85Carrera]

Marble, Colorado is the location of one of the world's largest and highest quality marble deposits. The marble for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier was quarried from the Yule quarry at Marble. The largest block took a team of 75 men an entire year and three attempts to finally get the piece they needed.


When this picture was taken, likely in early September of 1873, these three men were the most famous westerners alive. On the right sits Buffalo Bill Cody, who earned his name as the greatest buffalo hunter alive before rising to fame as a scout for the United States Army. Across the table sits Wild Bill Hickok, the deadliest gunslinger of his day and perhaps the most fabled lawman in American history. And behind these two men, with his right hand resting familiarly on Wild Bill's shoulder, stands Texas Jack Omohundro.
Omohundro hadn't been a buffalo hunter or a lawman in Kansas cow towns. Texas Jack was a cowboy. The Earl of Dunraven, who hunted with both Texas Jack and Buffalo Bill, wrote:
"Buffalo Bill had always been in Government employ as a scout, but Texas Jack had been a cowboy, one of the old-time breed of men who drove herds of cattle from way down South to Northern markets for weeks and months, through a country infested by Indians and white cattle thieves."
When these three men toured as The Scouts of the Plains, audiences who rushed to their local theaters to catch a glimpse of their heroes were gladly spending their hard-earned money to see the West's most famous scout, its most famous lawman, and its most famous cowboy together on stage. They were so famous that nearly 150 years after they posed for this picture they still shape our stories of the American West. Buffalo Bill became the most famous American, and perhaps the most famous person full stop, during his own lifetime. His Wild West show performed before thousands on both sides of the Atlantic, shaping forever the public perception of the West in his own image. Wild Bill was struck down by an assassin's bullet, but his name lives on, inspiring countless books, movies, television shows, and trips to the small South Dakota town of Deadwood where Hickok was killed and is buried.
Texas Jack didn't live long enough to ensure his name would be remembered forever and he didn't "die with his boots on" to go down in history. But his life and his legacy as America's first famous cowboy, the man who introduced the lasso act to the stage and rode with Pawnee warriors across the western prairie, has influenced every cowboy story that followed. From Owen Wister's The Virginian to Louis L'amour's Hondo, from Tom Mix to Cary Grant, from Clint Eastwood's Man With No Name to John Wayne's Ethan Edwards—every cowboy has been cast in the mold of Texas Jack.

[JackDidley]

[JackDidley]

[GH85Carrera]

Gouyen was born in 1857, into the Chihenne band of Chiricahua Apache. Her Indian name was[1] Góyą́ń meaning the one who is wise, or [2]Wise Woman. There is a story of Gouyen bravery, passed down in Apache history. Her husband was killed in a Comanche, raid while he was visiting the Mescalero Apaches. The revenge of Gouyen, is [3]legendary. Gouyen went looking for the Comanche chief, who had killed her husband. She found him dancing a in a victory dance around a bonfire, he had her husband's scalp hanging from his belt. Gouyen put on buckskin puberty ceremony dress, and joined the dancers, she seduced the chief, and led him away, she killed him. Then she scalped him, cut off his breechcloth and took off his moccasins. She then returned to her camp, to present her husbands parents with the Comanche leader's scalp, giving them his clothing and his footwear, to prove it was him. Gouyen had [4] avenged her husband's death.
In October 14, 1880, when [6]Victorio's band was evading U.S. and Mexican troops along the U.S. Mexican border. [7]The Chiricahua Apache, had stopped at Tres Castillos, New Mexico, for a rest, they were attacked by Mexicans. After the attack, Victorio and seventy eight Apaches had been murdered, among them Gouyen's baby daughter. Only Gouyen, her young son Kaywaykla, and seventeen others had escaped.
Gouyen did marry again to Kaytennae, who was an Apache warrior. Kaytennae was one of the Apaches that had escaped during the Battle of Tres Castillos. [8] Kaytennae and Gouyen joined [9] Nana and [10]Geronimo's band, and helped with their escape from the San Carlos Reservation in 1883. While on the run trying to evade capture, Gouyen saved Kaytennae's life by killing a man trying to ambush him. In 1886 Geronimo and his followers were taken prisoner by the U.S. Army and among them was Gouyen, and her family. They were taken to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, Gouyen [11] died at Fort Sill in 1903.


J W Waldron's Smith & Bicycle Works in Brighton, England. c. 1900

[GH85Carrera]

Manitowoc, Wisconsin saloon that allowed children their own child-size beers. Circa 1890




Interior of a Rolls Royce Phantom 1, 1926.

[GH85Carrera]

[rockfan4]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

Manitowoc, Wisconsin saloon that allowed children their own child-size beers. Circa 1890

Still legal here. You have to be with a parent. Yes, they can drink.

[GH85Carrera]

Maybe too much expanding foam?

[GH85Carrera]

[craigster59]

Saw this somewhere on the inter webs and thought it was both funny and timely....

Fattest man in the World back in 1890 (people paid money to see him)
Today he’d be 3rd fattest guy at the local Walmart

[masraum]

Originally Posted by craigster59

Saw this somewhere on the inter webs and thought it was both funny and timely....

Fattest man in the World back in 1890 (people paid money to see him)
Today he’d be 3rd fattest guy at the local Walmart

LOL!

Too right!

soba noodle delivery man in Japan


Jun 1936 Houston, TX


Wonderful. Where do I sign up for this ride?


Pavlov's dogs and their handlers.


Revenge of the tree on an old manual drill press.


Sunset at my house.

[dafischer]

[flatbutt]

Originally Posted by masraum

LOL!


soba noodle delivery man in Japan


J

How is that possible?

[flatbutt]

Not a random pic but it was a very nice evening. There's not much that's better than a few hours of utter civility with great music, talented dancers, lively conversation and top shelf scotch.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Not a random pic but it was a very nice evening. There's not much that's better than a few hours of utter civility with great music, talented dancers, lively conversation and top shelf scotch.

You are the man! And French cuffs.

I know that they patterned this guy after you. They missed the mark a bit, but then trying to get a mere mortal to mimic a renaissance man like you is bound to come up a bit short.

[flatbutt]

Thanks bro. There are moments in life that are worth savoring and sharing.

[KNS]

[GH85Carrera]

A child worker employed at Brown Mine in Brown, West Virginia, photographed by Lewis Hine in September 1908. The boy was employed as a "driver" which would guide horses carrying coal out of the mine. This boy worked every day from 7 am until 5:30 pm.

[GH85Carrera]

B-29's prop flew into fuselage after the bomber was damage during Yokohama raid; landed safely at Iwo Jima








In junkyard yesterday. On road today. Illegal as Hell...


Benton County, Tennessee, 1930's...
Carl Mydans was a photographer that worked some for the federal government during the Great Depression. He took several heart breaking pictures of rural families, especially in the South. This family was photographed near Benton County, Tennessee. He titled this one "Rural Mother".

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

That looks photoshopped. The fruit looks off somehow, lighting, color, size, etc...