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[Racerbvd]

[Bill Douglas]

[GH85Carrera]

[jcwade]

Originally Posted by jcwade

That picture is actually Signal Hill California in 1944. Taken by Andress Feininger.
You can see the address at 6014 Atlantic Ave in the uncropped version.
The position of the cars are different, so it was taken from the same tripod position but a different negative.
I drive by there often, but it looks a little different today.

Originally Posted by masraum

A lot of the cool old photos that Glenn posts with blurbs like this, I believe, come from Facebook. I often see the same photos and blurbs that he posts within a couple/few days± of him posting the photos. A lot of the photos are verifiable (if there of famous people or places, but I do occasionally see photos that seem a little unbelievable. I figure that they are probably usually real photos (not AI generated) but potentially with erroneous blurbs either to make them seem more interesting or just because the person didn't know or made something up or was quoting someone else that was wrong.

I wasn't trying to criticize, just correct an incorrect caption. I just thought it was much more interesting that the photo was from Southern California rather than Oklahoma.

The photo was taken from Atlantic Ave looking north. Today, at the crest of the hill, to the right of the road is a Home Depot. There are still working grasshopper pumps on the left side of the road. In fact, over a billion barrels of oil have been pumped out of this oilfield over the last 50 years. And the photo was taken 80 years ago.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by jcwade

I wasn't trying to criticize, just correct an incorrect caption. I just thought it was much more interesting that the photo was from Southern California rather than Oklahoma.

The photo was taken from Atlantic Ave looking north. Today, at the crest of the hill, to the right of the road is a Home Depot. There are still working grasshopper pumps on the left side of the road. In fact, over a billion barrels of oil have been pumped out of this oilfield over the last 50 years. And the photo was taken 80 years ago.

I believe I have driven/ridden through the area (or one like it) at some point in the past (probably 40-45 years ago) and been amazed at the number of wells/pumps. I'd never seen anything like it.

[pmax]

[Jim Horton]

Was accepted into a PhD engineering program at MIT, but chose to go into acting, instead. Ran into an engineering prof from MIT years later in the security line at an airport (iirc) and the prof told him that he probably made the right choice.

[Jim Horton]

Originally Posted by A930Rocket

I’d vote for Marsha or Nikki.

Agreed.

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by Jim Horton

Was accepted into a PhD engineering program at MIT, but chose to go into acting, instead. Ran into an engineering prof from MIT years later in the security line at an airport (iirc) and the prof told him that he probably made the right choice.

To be fair, Bill Nye is a science explainer. He does not claim to be a scientist. He tries to explain the work of real scientist to the lay public. Nothing more. Yea, he goes by Bill Nye, the science guy only because that is catchier than Bill Nye, the science explainer.

But the meme above is accurate as far as science degrees.




Oct. 18, 1954 - The Texas Instruments "Regency TR-1" — the first transistor radio, was introduced. Finally, music you could take with you anywhere. One year after the TR-1 release, sales approached 100,000 units. Surviving specimens are sought out by collectors.
In those days, all AM radios (home, car, and portable) were required to mark, with little triangles, 640 and 1240 kHz, which were Civil Defense (Conelrad) stations, where you were supposed to tune in the event of a nuclear attack. Thank goodness those days are over.






Computer pioneer and mathematician Kathleen H.V. Boothą in the 1950s, loading a program into the All Purpose Electronic X-Ray Computer˛, known as the 32-bit APE(X)C which she co-designed and built with her husband Andrew D. Boothł. She helped to design and build three of the world’s first operational computers and wrote two of the earliest books on computer design⁴ and programming⁵; she was also credited with the invention in 1947 of one of the first assembly languages⁶ for their Automatic Relay Calculator called ARC Contracted Notation⁷. On November 11, 1955 Kathleen Booth typed some French words into a computer: ‘C’est un exemple d’une traduction fait par la machine ŕ calculer installée au laboratoire de Calcul de Birkbeck College, Londres.’ Out came the English equivalent: ‘This is an example of a translation made by the machine for calculation installed at the laboratory of computation of Birkbeck College, London.’ It was probably the first public demonstration of what today we call a translation app⁸. With husband Andrew Booth, together they developed the Booth multiplier⁹, a highly complex algorithm that she once jokingly dismissed as an ‘arithmetical routine devised over egg and chips in the ABC tea shop in Southampton Row.’

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

I like the first one. Wouldn't have been my choice, but looks like it gets the job done with minimum fuss.

I've never seen one of those enclosed hornets' nests (except in the Amazon from a distance).

I took this photo, but it was taken with a 400mm lens, so I wasn't terribly close.


The only sort of wasp nests that I've ever seen in my time in FL, TX, and VA have been regular paper wasps.

[GH85Carrera]

Utah, 1936...
Miner's home, company-owned. Blue Blaze Coal Company. Consumers, near Price, Utah...
Library of Congress Dorothea Lange photographer


Harlan County, Kentucky, 1946...
Mrs. Furman Currington, wife of miner, hangs up laundry in kitchen of her 6 room house which rents for $15.00 per month and houses 12 persons. Black Mountain 30-31 Mines, Kenvir, Harlan County, Kentucky...
Source
National Archives Russell Lee photographer

[GH85Carrera]

Philip Seymour Hoffman in his dorm room at NYU in the 80s.




Michigan, 1937...
Lon Allen, farmer of the cut-over area near Iron River, Michigan, feeding a chicken in his bedroom. Last winter a cow was brought into the house to keep it from freezing...
Source
Library of Congress Russell Lee photographer




Low on headlight fluid!

[Steve Carlton]

[Steve Carlton]

[GH85Carrera]

[Steve Carlton]

[GH85Carrera]

On July 7, 1928, the world saw a small but transformative innovation: pre-sliced bread was sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company in Missouri. This breakthrough was made possible by a machine invented by Otto Frederick Rohwedder, who spent years developing a bread-slicing device that would revolutionize the baking industry. His machine not only sliced the bread into even pieces but also efficiently wrapped it, keeping it fresh.
Initially marketed as “Kleen Maid” sliced bread, the product quickly gained popularity. By 1933, around 80% of bread sold in the U.S. was pre-sliced, giving rise to the well-known expression, “the greatest thing since sliced bread.” This simple innovation dramatically changed household habits, making sandwiches and toast more convenient, and remains a symbol of ingenuity to this day.


Children and home of migratory cotton workers at a camp in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, was taken by Dorothea Lange in November 1936 for the Farm Security Ad

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

same same, high performance, extra rubber on one side for great cornering and less rubber on the other side for wet weather!

[GH85Carrera]

A wall mount refrigerator in the early 1960s


TV showroom at JC Penney's in 1965. Penney's also had a great camera department.


After lying in obscurity for over a millennium, the staggering restoration of the colossal carpet-like mosaic in Jericho has finally been unveiled, flaunting 38 captivating panels of floral and geometric designs, prominently featuring a striking 'tree of life.' This awe-inspiring artwork resides within Hisham's Palace, a historical gem that was all but forgotten until the 19th century. Enter British archaeologist Robert Hamilton, who, in the 1930s, dared to excavate the site more thoroughly and stumbled upon this masterpiece nestled within the palace's main bathhouse. These stunning tiles had been buried in a grave of rubble from a devastating earthquake that rocked Jericho back in 947 AD. Ever since this mosaic was brought to light, the two-story palace has surged to prominence as one of Palestine's most significant Islamic monuments, luring tourists from every corner of the globe to witness its splendor.


Texas, 1937...
Tractor and operator. Navarro, Texas...
Source
Farm Security Administration Dorothea Lange photographer




London Victorian Poverty. Four penny coffins were common during the late Victorian era. Men would be offered a tarpaulin as a blanket, if sleeping like this wasn’t hard enough. If you only had two pennies, you would sit on a bench where a rope would keep you from falling when and if you fell asleep. It was known as a two-penny hangover, the word hangover become associated with alcohol in the past century. It first appeared in the English vocabulary in the 19th century as an expression for describing unfinished business from meetings, but it was not until 1904 that the word began to crop up in reference to alcohol, Based on research, the claim that the word “hangover” refers to the practice of sleeping over a rope is FALSE. In reality, the alcohol-related meaning of the term is an offshoot of its earlier meaning to refer to unfinished business or the aftereffects of other events.