pipedreams Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Good morning ️️ 1950 ad 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmidt Meister Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 BMW Schneekrad was made in 1936 and it was one of the first motorcycle-snowmobile’s ever put together. There is not too much info about this machine and there are different opinions about it’s heritage: some say it was an experimental BMW-powered snowmobile which was built by Riemerschmidt, a BMW engineer, as a personal project. Another version says it’s Wehrmacht order. The only thing is known for sure: Germans were getting ready for the winter in the Alps so they were in need of machine which could move fast enough in spite of the the snow and mud. There are two versions of where the name Schneekrad originated from. Schnee means snow and krad means caterpillar, but also Krad was the military abbreviation of the German word Kraftrad, the administrative German term for motorcycle. For this snowmobile, Riemerschmidt used a BMW R-12 engine in a “Gleitkettenkraftrad” or “slip-chain” motorcycle design and a Steib TR-500 sidecar. It’s very difficult to imagine how this machine was at turning. There is almost no more information about this snowmobile which make us think it was an abandoned project and possibly only one prototype was built. The pictures you see were made by Kurt Worner, a famous European photographer. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Combat photography from LIFE magazine 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Donna Reed, James Stewart and Carl 'Alfalfa' Switzer, It's a Wonderful Life. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Sigmund Freud with his sons Ernst and Martin who served in the Austro-Hungarian Army in WWI. c. 1914. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Early color photo of Nilov Monastery on Stolobny Island, Lake Seliger, Russian Empire in 1910. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 Photograph of the East Front of the US Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. during the winter of c. 1935. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 11, 2022 Share Posted August 11, 2022 A close-up of Winston Churchill in 1956 at the age of 82 a year after resigning as Prime Minister. Credit: Colorizedhistory 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NPTim Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 14 hours ago, pipedreams said: Old boy is looking for fractured femur if he lets one fly from that Japanese thigh mortar. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 On 8/8/2022 at 8:08 AM, pipedreams said: As a youngster, I spent many hours at our "Quality Ice Cream Store". 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Circa 1900. Miss Sadie Austin, a typical Nebraska cowgirl, Simeon, Cherry County, Nebraska. Solomon D. Butcher Nebraska State Historical Society Photographer's note: Daughter of Charles Austin, a ranchman and old settler of Sargent, Nebraska. When her father was short of help, Sadie, now Mrs. Thompson, would put on a divided skirt and ride the range for her father. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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pipedreams Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Houdini with his mother and his wife. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart on the set of "Casablanca", directed by Michael Curtiz, 1942 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 The 1st Hummer 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 Debbie Harry & Andy Warhol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 A walking library, London, circa 1930s. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pipedreams Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 1967 fashionable girls in London. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deputy tom Posted August 12, 2022 Share Posted August 12, 2022 1 hour ago, pipedreams said: 1967 fashionable girls in London. The blonde looks like my wife did back in the day. tom. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmidt Meister Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 Frank-N-Stein Restaurant - Gary, IN - 1973 - Revamped Muffler Man Sign 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HardlyAble2 Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 My dad and grandfather..North Dakota 1928.... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Schmidt Meister Posted August 13, 2022 Share Posted August 13, 2022 I would imagine that neither the MC driver or the driver in the car came out of that very good ... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janice6 Posted August 14, 2022 Share Posted August 14, 2022 8 hours ago, Schmidt Meister said: Frank-N-Stein Restaurant - Gary, IN - 1973 - Revamped Muffler Man Sign Re: Muffler Man. I had an exhaust problem with a GM product. The dealer quoted me $600 in repair costs. Claimed an exhaust manifold problem. I refused the diagnosis since common sense related the amount of noise change to road impact and the manifold was not loose! The GM dealer insisted, and I went elsewhere. I didn't have the time nor inclination to work on it myself, although I had the ability and judgment capability to do it. I talked to a friend that races stock cars and he referred me to the exhaust repair place in common use by racers. He assured me the place was honest and GOOD! I went there and they said the Asbestos seal in the exhaust pipe to tail pipe was leaking. It made sense and agreed with the symptoms. I asked how much to repair since the car was already on the hoist. I was quoted $20 parts and labor............ I commented that it was less than his hourly rate and he laughed and said that it only took a minute to fix. My long explanation precludes my claim that this was the most honest commercial enterprise I had ever seen or dealt with. I have since proclaimed his virtue. The reason I place this post here was because the name of the place was: "The Wonderful Muffler Man!". He was. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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