Old Pictures

[railfancwb]

Wall Street mascot. Wonder if there is a bear lurking just out of the picture. Don’t know the age of the picture or statue.


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[pipedreams]

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Burrowed in a shallow foxhole at the edge of Motoyama airstrip on Iwo Jima, a US Marine calls for artillery support. February 1945.

 

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1962

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[Steelharp]

1 hour ago, pipedreams said:

1962

Trivia. Ken Curtis replaced Frank Sinatra as the singer with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra when Frank became a solo star.

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Dionne Quintuplets calendar.  This was the fifth best-selling calendar for 1945.  The quints were 10 years old and this was the tenth time they had appeared on a calendar.

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Washington DC 1923

 

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1895

 

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Boston 1915

 

[railfancwb]

Modern made picture. The restored vehicle is the only known survivor from the Marathon plant behind it.




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[gwalchmai]

12 hours ago, pipedreams said:

1962

Dash Riprock.

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He's Joe Peterburs.  In Nov., 1944, age 19, he arrived in England where he flew 49 combat missions in the P-51.  On April 10, 1945, he got into a dog fight with Walter Schuck, German ace with 206 credited aerial victories. Schuck was flying an Me-262 jet.  Petersburs shot him down.

He retired after 36 years of service as a Colonel, command pilot and inductee into the USAF Air Weapons Controller Hall of Fame. 

[railfancwb]

He's Joe Peterburs.  In Nov., 1944, age 19, he arrived in England where he flew 49 combat missions in the P-51.  On April 10, 1945, he got into a dog fight with Walter Schuck, German ace with 206 credited aerial victories. Schuck was flying an Me-262 jet.  Petersburs shot him down.
He retired after 36 years of service as a Colonel, command pilot and inductee into the USAF Air Weapons Controller Hall of Fame. 

Worth more than a simple “Like” for someone who ****** in the German Jet stew


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4 minutes ago, railfancwb said:

 

Worth more than a simple “Like” for someone who ****** in the German Jet stew


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Do a search on his name, that was just the beginning of fabulous lifetime service to his country.

[janice6]

On ‎2‎/‎25‎/‎2019 at 10:31 AM, pipedreams said:

When American troops liberated prisoners in the Dachau concentration camp, Germany, in 1945, many German SS guards were killed by the prisoners who then threw their bodies into the moat surrounding the camp.

 

We moved into our 2nd house when I was seven years old.  The house was complete with all the furnishings from the original owner.  Among the stuff was a couple of very large photo albums. One of the books in the series was labeled, "Collier's Photographic Encyclopedia of World War II".  Another was the same title for World War I, and another for the civil war.

I read them all from cover to cover, more than once.  In it were reprinted photographs taken all during the war.  I was around seven or eight, when I saw The WWII photographs of the first allied soldiers entering a couple of the death camps.  I saw naked emaciated bodies thrown into large piles and stacked like cordwood.  Many pictures of the camps and the opening of the ovens with remains of human bodies and bones still in them. Even pictures of the people loaded on trains heading into this monstrous hell unknowingly.

I will never believe anyone that disputes the conditions those poor people were subjected to. Or the inhumanity and total disregard for human beings by the German military and many of the German people.  I saw pictures of piles of teeth, taken for the Gold fillings, even the facilities used to make soap from the prisoners bodies.  I saw pictures of the gas chambers and how they were constructed.  Some pictures showed their liberators crying.

It didn't "scar" me, but it did show me just how empty of empathy a whole regime can be and how politics is used to set one group of people against the other.  I formed many of my life long opinions based on those picture books.  I also learned what can happen when a peoples are not allowed to defend themselves. 

I have very strong feelings from this past experience that make me adamant about keeping and bearing arms.  I learned that for the most part, this world is a worse place for the existence of politicians.  Politics is doing anything under the Sun to other people, and causing   immeasurable harm, simply to enhance your feeling of control, power, and greed.  Politics got the world into war and will again if we don't control the fools that run things. 

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Stevie Nicks, 1976

 

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The entrance to Steeplechase Park, Coney Island, 1919 (colorized)

 

[C_Hallbert]

When I was young, trust and respect meant something. Today, no one trusts anyone, no one respects anyone. Children are treated like valuable pets and not given enough freedom to learn how to handle themselves.


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[C_Hallbert]

Stevie Nicks, 1976
 

You look at Chicks like this and might think, “She looks real nice.”But the reality is that they are Poster Children for ‘Drugs an Bad Behavior’. I say, ‘Nasty is as Nasty Does.’ No thanks.....


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[railfancwb]

You look at Chicks like this and might think, “She looks real nice.”But the reality is that they are Poster Children for ‘Drugs an Bad Behavior’. I say, ‘Nasty is as Nasty Does.’ No thanks.....


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From pictures I’ve seen, Hillary also looked really nice at that age.


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[pipedreams]

Halifax crew amidst the damage caused when it was hit by a falling bomb from another aircraft while raiding Cologne on the night of June 28-29, 1943.