2020 New Random Pics

[rcooled]

Originally Posted by masraum

What the hell would these be used for?

House movers use blocks like that.

[GH85Carrera]

Photo: c.1936, Amidst the hardships of the Great Depression, a resilient mother in a skirt crafted from a flour sack cares for her baby. She tends to her family of nine, all living in a makeshift settlement by the Tennessee River adjacent to U.S. Route 70.
Photo source: Carl Mydans, Farm Security Administration.


Kerr-McGee Deep Rock service station
Oklahoma City , Oklahoma
60’s or 70s.






“CAUTION - DO NOT DIG.” https://bit.ly/3VT4H2n
Located in Willow Springs, Illinois, this epitaph marks the burial grounds of Chicago Pile-1, the world’s very first nuclear reactor, as well as other reactors that were built and then buried under the watchful eye of the Manhattan Project. The site is open to the public, and poses no danger to visitors, but just in case, leave the shovels at home.

[Robert Coats]

[gregpark]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Cribbing for FD emergencies?

Red neck jack stands for sale?

[GH85Carrera]

The gangs all here.
David Lindley, Don Henley, Don Felder, Linda Ronstadt, Glenn Frey, Jerry Brown, Randy Meisner, Dan Fogelberg, Joe Walsh, Jackson Browne.




Drafted men reporting for service at Camp Travis in San Antonio, 1917. It shows the men lining up to go in as civilians and then coming out of the building as soldiers. Incredible historic image.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by flatbutt

Cribbing for FD emergencies?

Interesting. Maybe so.

Originally Posted by rcooled

House movers use blocks like that.

Another interesting idea. Certainly could be for that around here

Originally Posted by gregpark

Red neck jack stands for sale?

They would definitely support just about anything you'd be able to set on them.

Second batch of bluebird soon-to-be-babies in the top of a semi hollow fence post.


The Gulf "lollipop at the top of the Gulf building. 53' rotating Gulf logo.

"It was the end of an era on this day in 1973 as Gulf Oil went ahead with dismantling the "lollipop" atop its building downtown.

Since 1965, the 53-foot-high, rotating Gulf logo had served as a distinctive downtown beacon and advertisement. Blame the need to conserve energy for its removal.

"We did some homework and figured the amount of kilowatt hours it uses a year could heat 30 typical Houston homes in the same period," Don Pratt, a Gulf spokesman, told the Chronicle.

"And, to be perfectly frank, there had been some concerns about the sign, aesthetically.""

[GH85Carrera]

The William A. Clark House in Manhattan, New York City.
The mansion was completed in 1911 at a cost of $7 million (equivalent to over $200,000,000 today). It was reported that Clark bought a quarry in New Hampshire, at a cost of $50,000 (equivalent to $1,454,000 in 2021), and built a railroad to transport the stone for the building. He also bought a bronze foundry employing 200 men to manufacture the bronze fittings. In addition, he imported marble from Italy, oak from Sherwood Forest in England, and parts of old French châteaux for the interior.
The mansion was demolished in 1927 and replaced with a luxury apartment building.




Oregon, 1941...
Children of Ray Halstead playing around the well. An electric motor is arranged so that it pumps water and supplies power for the washing machine. He is a FSA (Farm Security Administration) rehabilitation borrower. Dead Ox Flat, Malheur County, Oregon...
Source
Farm Security Administration Russell Lee photographer

[Steve Carlton]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

In the '80s, he went on to become a Hollywood actor, starring in The Terminator and Aliens, for example.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

The William A. Clark House in Manhattan, New York City.
The mansion was completed in 1911 at a cost of $7 million (equivalent to over $200,000,000 today). It was reported that Clark bought a quarry in New Hampshire, at a cost of $50,000 (equivalent to $1,454,000 in 2021), and built a railroad to transport the stone for the building. He also bought a bronze foundry employing 200 men to manufacture the bronze fittings. In addition, he imported marble from Italy, oak from Sherwood Forest in England, and parts of old French châteaux for the interior.
The mansion was demolished in 1927 and replaced with a luxury apartment building.

Cue "Ain't That America" by John Mellancamp.



Little Pink House(s) for you and me.

[Steve Carlton]

[GH85Carrera]

1947 - Gilmore Gas Station

[A930Rocket]

Crazy plane lady.

I’m telling you, that mother****er back there, isn’t real!

[Racerbvd]

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[GH85Carrera]

[Racerbvd]

[GH85Carrera]

April 15, 1897 – The first commercial oil well was drilled in present-day Oklahoma. The Nellie Johnstone No. 1 was drilled after George B. Keeler noticed oil seeping from the ground on the south bank of the Caney River near Bartlesville. The well produced more than 100,000 barrels of crude oil before it was plugged in 1948.
(10940.B, Oklahoma Industrial Development and Parks Collection, OHS) #Oil #OilWell #OilDerrick #BlackGold #Bartlesville

[Steve Carlton]

[A930Rocket]

[GH85Carrera]

Discovered accidentally by a farmer in Namibia Africa, the Hoba meteorite remains a mysterious marvel. This mammoth slab of iron, weighing a staggering 60 tons, is Earth's largest natural chunk of iron. It's estimated to have impacted our planet some 80,000 years ago, and one of the most fascinating aspects of the meteorite is that it left no impact crater, despite its immense size.

[Heel n Toe]