Author Topic: Vintage photos (Read 23500 times)

jägermonsta · « **Reply #15 on:** February 05, 2009, 01:01:28 PM »

Quote from: Waffle Whiffer on February 05, 2009, 12:58:52 PM

I think we may be related. We have the same eyes.

ReCycled · « **Reply #16 on:** February 05, 2009, 01:45:04 PM »

Sigh...it was just a matter of time.

PANTONE 7717C · « **Reply #17 on:** February 05, 2009, 03:02:01 PM »

Sgt. Dick · « **Reply #18 on:** February 05, 2009, 04:36:54 PM »

Waff,

In your family picture, which one is you

Waffle Whiffer · « **Reply #19 on:** February 06, 2009, 07:28:38 AM »

hehehe Sometimes I feel that old. Mom is in the picture. One of the babes in the front row. Uncle Vic (in the back with the hat) was a bad boy and got dis-inherited. LOL

jägermonsta · « **Reply #20 on:** February 06, 2009, 08:17:53 AM »

Yeah, he looks gangsta

ReCycled · « **Reply #21 on:** February 06, 2009, 09:09:14 AM »

Winter street scene - 1928.

jägermonsta · « **Reply #22 on:** February 06, 2009, 09:15:26 AM »

Amazing people were capable of driving in the snow period in 1928 when they still till this day even with all the advancements in automobiles, cannot properly drive in the snow.

Chocobo Joe · « **Reply #23 on:** February 06, 2009, 06:24:26 PM »

Back then, it took a lot more to be a good driver, all the bad ones ended up dead. Plus, people drove way more slowly...

ReCycled · « **Reply #24 on:** February 07, 2009, 10:47:03 AM »

Houses a little too close to the water - 1929. Those logs in the water are not docks but pilings, in preparation to fill in the shoreline with more sand to create more beachfront. There have been massive dredging and fills to make more artificial land in Toronto going back to the 20's. Boston is also a city that has a huge amount of filled-in real estate.

DaHanG · « **Reply #25 on:** February 07, 2009, 10:20:16 PM »

Don't know if this quite qualifies as ReCycled's intent, but I've known about this picture for a long time and think it's interesting enough to share:

From Wikipedia: "Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken in 1932 by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the RCA Building (renamed as the GE Building in 1986) at Rockefeller Center.
Lunch atop a skyscraper 1932

The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932, and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in its Sunday photo supplement on October 2. Taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction, the photo Men Asleep on a Girder shows the same workers napping on the beam."

ReCycled · « **Reply #26 on:** February 08, 2009, 01:52:25 AM »

Heh...close enough DaHang. I remember that photo. It must have been a calm day, because it's a whole different weather system up there. Oddly enough back then, there was a small group of Canadian Indians who specialized in working the NY skyscrapers. Lack of fear, presumably.

ReCycled · « **Reply #27 on:** February 08, 2009, 02:04:30 AM »

Horse drawn streetcars - 1893. Before there was electricity this was what powered public transportation. The streetcars were open-air as well. Can't imagine what they did if they encountered steep inclines. Must have been a hard life for these horses.

Project[420] · « **Reply #28 on:** February 08, 2009, 01:10:26 PM »

The great earthquake of 1906 registered 8.25 on the Richter scale, by comparison the 1989 quake was 6.7. San Francisco was an inferno and showed no signs of letting up so they used Van Ness Avenue as a firebreak. Everything on the East side of the street was burned to the ground.

S.F City Hall-before the fire

- after the fire.

now-

Then came the world renown bridges, parks, and Victorian mansions.
So, whoever said, "nothing good comes from destruction" lied. I'm praying for mayhem!

[BTF]DeathStalker · « **Reply #29 on:** February 08, 2009, 07:49:06 PM »

I know it's not generic, but i'de still like to share them.
Photos of my town.

Author Topic: Vintage photos (Read 23500 times)

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