gwalchmai Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 6 hours ago, pipedreams said: 1935, Amelia Earhart flew from Hawaii to California. Here's a photo of her in 1928. I always thought her resemblance to Charles Lindberg was uncanny. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 6 hours ago, pipedreams said: On January 11, 2008: New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary, the first man, with Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, to climb Mt. Everest, dies from a heart attack at the age of 88 in Auckland, New Zealand. OTOH, he bears no resemblance at all to Hillary Clinton... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 13, 2020 Share Posted January 13, 2020 8 hours ago, pipedreams said: 1935, Amelia Earhart flew from Hawaii to California. Here's a photo of her in 1928. Regardless of her sexual preferences, she had balls! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Wabash Station in Pittsburgh, 1905. 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Anti-prohibition demonstrators, 1933. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 Humboldt loggers in the early 1970s. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 2 hours ago, pipedreams said: Anti-prohibition demonstrators, 1933. Pretty hard to argue with their slogan. Lots of thought and insight exhibited. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 An exhausted nurse at the 44th evacuation hospital, Normandy, France, 1944. This photograph was taken a month after D-day at Bricqueville, Normandy France. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 (Jan. 13, 1910) during an experimental transmission at the 39th street Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, Lee de Forest's Radio Telephone Company broadcasted the first public radio broadcast. The broadcast was a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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janice6 Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 2 hours ago, pipedreams said: (Jan. 13, 1910) during an experimental transmission at the 39th street Metropolitan Opera House in New York City, Lee de Forest's Radio Telephone Company broadcasted the first public radio broadcast. The broadcast was a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci. He is the inventor of the Triode Vacuum Tube. The first of vacuum tube technology leading to real radio communications and Amplifiers. He also was a leader in developing sound on film recording. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted January 14, 2020 Share Posted January 14, 2020 26 minutes ago, pipedreams said: They were misled. Don't be misled. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 From WW1. German I think. Used to pull around their heavy guns. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bish1309 Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 21 hours ago, pipedreams said: Humboldt loggers in the early 1970s. No F'n way... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 15, 2020 Share Posted January 15, 2020 2 hours ago, Bish1309 said: No F'n way... I simply couldn't trust the cable. My minesweeper had moored mine, sweep cables. The weave was classified and they never break! We broke one. It caused a full blown Naval Investigation to determine why. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 ~ Moto-Rickshaw - from the 1920's ~ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 (edited) On 11/21/2018 at 10:43 PM, Borg warner said: Gunther Toody and Francis Muldoon. Wow we found car 54! Seriously. I'm late to this tread. Eric posted a picture of Sophie Scholl. Her story breaks a mortal's heart. I just spent 10 minutes reading about her...and i knew about her already....may God welcome her home. May those who condemned her rot in hell for eternity. Edited January 18, 2020 by Historian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted January 17, 2020 Share Posted January 17, 2020 On 1/12/2020 at 7:20 PM, Dric902 said: Is that Chesty? . Who else could that be? Good night, Chesty...wherever you are. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 On 1/9/2020 at 8:04 AM, pipedreams said: Needs the room a kilt provides. Dang. When i'm gone...play The Pembrook. Drink some Scotch. Punch out a jerk...and call me honored. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Historian Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 I am pretty darn sure my dad is in this photograph. I am about to call him. Uss Des Moines 1959, waiting for President Eisenhower. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 On 1/13/2020 at 6:13 AM, pipedreams said: 4TH MARINES CORREGIDOR BEFORE THE BOMBING AND SHELLING In the early 50's a friend of mine was digging through some of his deceased fathers jackets from WWII and he found an unopened pack of Camel's Cigarettes' in one pocket. Many years later we opened the pack and each lit one up. God! The were horrible! They burned very quickly and smelled like a Grass fire. I had to go back to my old standby Pall Malls. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwalchmai Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 9 hours ago, janice6 said: In the early 50's a friend of mine was digging through some of his deceased fathers jackets from WWII and he found an unopened pack of Camel's Cigarettes' in one pocket. Many years later we opened the pack and each lit one up. God! The were horrible! They burned very quickly and smelled like a Grass fire. I had to go back to my old standby Pall Malls. My grandfather used to send me to the corner drugstore to pick up Pall Malls for him. I was maybe six. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 12 hours ago, Historian said: Needs the room a kilt provides. Dang. When i'm gone...play The Pembrook. Drink some Scotch. Punch out a jerk...and call me honored. Yes he does. They always shoot the communications man first. tom. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bish1309 Posted January 18, 2020 Share Posted January 18, 2020 14 hours ago, Historian said: I am pretty darn sure my dad is in this photograph. I am about to call him. Uss Des Moines 1959, waiting for President Eisenhower. The one in the dark uniform and white cap? Yeah, I think I see him. Tell him thanks for his service! That is one long girl. I gotta ask. I'm no physics major but how does the ship not tip over? ? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted January 20, 2020 Share Posted January 20, 2020 San Francisco, 1947 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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