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Here's a story about a 71-year-old guy who's lived in an iron lung for almost his whole life. Every time I even remotely question whether or not I should vaccinate my children, I just think about the idea of them spending 65 years trapped in a metal box and it snaps be back into shape.
According to Ancestry.com, Audrey lived to be 81, Ellen lived to be 80, and Mildred lived to be 91, but Everett died at age 10 in 1907.
On the bright side, only 2 of their 13 children died young (the other being a girl named Blanche who died at 17 in 1919). One of their younger daughters even lived until 2008.
Actually, it was. Bars would make money off of the beer and food was cheap. So there'd be the fixin's to make your own sandwich or whatever as long as you were drinking beer.
Time And Again is a pretty interesting read. It's science fiction - barely - but he goes from modern times to 1882. This was one of the things he talks about in the book.
I just read "Small Steps: The Year I Got Polio" by Peg Kehret, which really puts it into perspective, and I highly recommend it.
TLDR: polio is really contagious (that's why this poor kid's mom couldn't get near him) and really, really destructive. There is still no cure.
Taken from this book, and the subsequent article about it in the NYT
https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-War-Was-Over-Amsterdam/dp/9053308571
https://www.amazon.com/Snifter-Decoratable-Decoration-Oberstdorfer-Glashuette/dp/B00ISWY3Q4
This one holds 11 to 12 liters (3 gallons) and is 37 cm (14.5 inches) high. I suck at visualizing things--does that sound close to the one in OP's picture?
Never enough. They appear to be working on a bridge cable?
The salary of a foreman in 1915 for the Brooklyn Bridge was $1800/year.
According to this, that would be $41,847.68/year in today's dollars.
The trends were extremely new, so all ages were wearing this. Back in my time, the average teenage girl's special occasion dress code was also receptionist wear.
There's a really cool book I was looking through in a hotel lobby in Boston. It shows all the old buildings before they were destroyed or remodeled. I can't remember the name specifically
I believe it was this book: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Boston-Anthony-Sammarco/dp/1909815047/ref=pd_aw_vtp_14_2/144-1991690-0572464?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=1909815047&pd_rd_r=975ee278-681b-4183-b49b-70bd4c054d14&pd_rd_w=BDZiO&pd_rd_wg=8oliw&pf_rd_p=508558...
That's enamel on steel. You still get those simple water buckets pretty much everywhere. https://www.amazon.com/Karl-Kruger-Water-Bucket-10/dp/B00008WVMW/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=enamel+water+bucket&qid=1569683186&sr=8-2
You wouldn't be able to lift a cast iron bucket full of water, let alone a petite woman like that.
I recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Heartland-Memoir-Working-Richest-Country-ebook/dp/B07CLFY5JH
It explains the issues facing the working poor all the way from the 20s and 30s till today in a very eloquent way.
It already is, a split between The Hi-Fives and The Smugglers from 1996.
My grandpa loved taking photos. He had them all deveoped into slides and my grandma found boxes of them in her attic. My mom bought her a digital slide scanner (a cheap one) and the pictures were barely coloerd. She then bought a more expensive one that works much better.
My mom grew up on the south suburb of Chicago, in Palos Heights, IL. Some of the pics in this set were taken in Galena. I have tons more that I can post and I will do my best to annotate them as I go. Glad everyone is enjoying them!
The photo could not have been taken earlier than 1967 because that is when the book in the bottom right corner, The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual, was first published.
Kid on the left is reading The Ghost Rider #3 Here's a link to read it online archive.org
Kid on the right is reading King of the Royal Mounted. Available here can't find the cover though so I don't know the issue he is reading.
It was one of those mini, fold-up games, there were a few different "travel" games like that back then. Amazon has similar sets now apparently!
The coffee is what got me. I've been ordering it consistently through Amazon and always have a can at work and at home.
For those not aware on the subject of Japanese Internment, both he, Dorthea Lang, and others had many of their photos censored by the government.
Added: Just found this worthy article... "Lange’s work was censored, not only through restricted access, but through the impoundment of over 800 photographs she took at 21 locations." ... http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/censored-photographs-of-a-wwii-japanese-internment-camp-by-ansel-adams-dorothea-lange-clem-albers-francis-stewart.html
searched for details and found it on Shutterstock (not sure about the legitimacy)
> Ice Cream Vendor in A London Street at the Time of the 1911 Coronation with Portraits of King George V and Queen Mary Painted On His Cart and Customers Gathered Round. . Unattributed Photograph
Normal pavilion-y things.
>Originally owned by the Mormon Church, the original Saltair was intended to be a Utah version of Coney Island, out on a boardwalk into the Great Salt Lake. It was a nice escape for the people of Salt Lake City-- and a good way for younger Mormon couples to get out without being chaperoned by their parents. It was partially owned by groups associated with the Mormons, and they came under fire for selling coffee, tea and booze (prohibited in the Mormon faith) and for being open on Sundays (another no-no). The church sold the resort in 1906, and when it burned down in 1925, a new version was funded by new investors.
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. What I’d like to know, which isn’t said, is: did the murder-suicide I reference in the post’s title occur during the Holocaust or during normal times? I
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. Nothing further is said about these subjects, other than Dora Bartman’s maiden name was Winawer.
If you're interested in what life was like in the slums around 1900, I highly recommend The People of the Abyss by Jack London from 1903. Its available on Kindle too.
This one They tried another one but it did not get the colors very well.
I don't know about the others but #8 is 150 miles northwest at Edirne, Turkey.
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. From the left we have Julia Szlifersztein, her daughters Halinka and Zosia, Julia’s nephew Janek, her sister Apolonia Gurcman holding Marysia Szlifersztein, and Julia’s husband Jakub.
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. The book says “Ala completed fine art school. At the beginning of the War, she moved to Lvov in search of her husband, Doctor Libeskind. She perished in the Soviet Union in unknown circumstances.”
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. The book notes that in 1922, Oscar married and was granted a lot at 271 Piotrowska Street in Widzew, Poland as part of his wife’s dowry. He built a large textile factory there. In December 1939, Oscar left Poland, buying permission to emigrate by paying the Nazis with shares of his factory deposited in a Swiss bank. He moved to Latin America and later owned cotton plantations in Mexico and Argentina. Lewi Kon died at age 94, five years after this photo was taken. Nothing is said about the unnamed brother.
If you've never heard of A&P I highly recommend this book. It's a a really fascinating story into a company that was a precursor to the big box national chains we have today.
The Great A&P and the Struggle for Small Business in America https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B082VJ4JPD/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_Y6BG14WMB1ZV4Q1P0629
or you just pull all your hair through a doughnut shaped bun former
Source. Kitty and her parents were sent to Sobibor and gassed in 1942, when Kitty was twelve. Her father kept a diary of her life. It has been published.
The cruise album is available in either cd version https://www.amazon.com/Arkansas-1944-World-Cruise-Book/dp/B008KPDIFG or a printed version. https://www.navysite.de/cruisebooks/bb33-45/index.html I have the printed version but I suspect the cd would be the best way to go if you are interested in looking at the ships history.
This book is an amazing place to start https://www.amazon.com/Like-Family-Southern-Morrison-Studies/dp/0807848794
This book taught me much more than I'd ever known about the history of textiles in the south even though I grew up in an SC mill village in the 1970s/80s and worked in a textile mill in my teens.
I'm re-reading the 70's paperback "the Mad world of William M. gaines". Funnier than shit. How things worked back in those days...
...not cheap, actually. Worth it if you can find one cheap...
That's such a good documentary! I watched it with my mom!
I also recommend the book Another Darkness, Another Dawn by Becky Taylor. It really illuminated the extremely complicated history of Roma and Traveller peoples. They're super interesting (though integrally European) people!
There is an entire book on the subject: TV Snapshots: An Archive of Everyday Life. During a talk, the author, tv historian Lynn Spigel, mentioned that taking pictures in front of a TV was a status symbol and that, at times, people took photos with TVs that they didn’t owned. Lol
https://www.amazon.com/Catholics-Consequence-Transnational-Education-1850-1900/dp/0198783736
There’s been a Catholic elite for longer than I’d often thought. Goes against the common assumption. Also, many wealthy Protestants left during the Troubles of the 20s.
Marines generally got the Bird, Ball and Hook or the Devil Dog tattoo. Semper Fi
This photo was on the cover of a very good text book I bought for college. I still get into it for my own edification sometimes.
Here ya go - brand new and not really expensive:
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This will do for most TV antennas. They make bigger units for bigger antennas.
Wolverine Titan 8-in-1 20MP High Resolution Film to Digital Converter with 4.3" Screen and HDMI Output, Worldwide Voltage 110V/240V AC Adapter, 32GB SD Card & 6ft HDMI Cable Bundle (Yellow)
He wasn't. You should read this book about his life
Full book if anyone is interested.
> Roger Mills and his new bride, Berta Linson:
Your link doesn't work for me but this image can be found as stock pic under those names so I guess you're right https://www.shutterstock.com/editorial/image-editorial/anti-miscegenation-laws-repealed-jackson-usa-6617965a
I found the yearbook picture for #15 (Marilyn Moran) on Ancestry's yearbook site.
(for the curious with an Ancestry account, https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1265/images/sid_8784_1968_0144?treeid=&personid=&rc=&usePUB=true&_phsrc=OQR1591&_phstart=successSource&pId=607367282 )
:) yep, My pap was John Stich, You would be under Charles Weakland and Juliana Byrne my side is Isabella Weakland and Francis Byrne. We are both under Byrne / Burgoon, and Weakland / Gardner. Which they have pretty rich history. I have a huge family tree listed on Ancestry.com it's public so you are more than welcome to look it up under https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/tree/46521638/
Lydia reminded me of one of my husband's ancestors, Sadie Ellen Puleston. https://www.familysearch.org/photos/artifacts/76293461?p=22054279&returnLabel=Sada%20Ellen%20Armstrong%20(KGC6-NXH)&returnUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.familysearch.org%2Ftree%2Fperson%2Fmemories%2FKGC6-NXH&tagId=45722197
Epson V600 Scanner.
It only scans 4 at a time but it has much better quality than the $70 one that I bought a few years ago.
Slide scanners aren't advancing that much these days. The highest demand was 10 years ago when pros wanted to scan their back-catalogs. A Nikon Slide scanner goes for about $2500 and is no longer being made.
Familysearch does have some parish records. Since these are not indexed, you would need to at least know the town where your ancestor was from & the general date. From there, you would have to manually flip through the images to find what you are looking for. It can be tedious but rewarding. Maybe pass this along to your Mom? Best of luck!
>television was a nice distraction but not as absorptive as it is today, entertaining technology was just getting its wings (pong, Atari and Intellivison), food tasted better, it was great. I feel sorry for those born after this era, it has really become a shit show.
I had the same shorts and sport socks pulled half way to my knees. The kids in the neighborhood played outside, to stay out of trouble. A hammer and a couple rolls of caps meant it ws going to be a good day.
Today, my grand kids spends all their time playing games on-line and hanging with other lost kids on Discourse. We once had a relationship, now all I do is ask questions when we talk. The answer most of the time is a grunt.
The parents are also lost to the internet and seem to have given up. The kids are now trusting that the answers they get from unidentified people (probably also lost) is the best way to handle issues. Really sad.
I have this one and it’s awesome. I bought one off mercari for like half the price though.
He looks like a pilot I would trust. What those bomber crews did over Europe is something that we really do not appreciate - not really. I highly recommend you give Masters of the Air a read. If you knew your grandad your respect for him will grow, because it was much harder, bloodier, and simply unbelievable than most people realize.
I was a MiniDisc person! God I loved them (until the discs started dying). I remember once I was on the bus listening to my Sharp MD-MT15S (had to look up the model, lol) and a guy sat next to me and asked me excitedly, "is that an mp3 player??" to which I replied proudly, "no it's a minidisc player!" and he just went "oh...". Like DUDE, mp3 were shit at that time, MD was far superior!! But whatever...
Also incidentally, I still have the very radio I heard the OJ verdict on!
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. From the far left are Szymon Andurski, young Rafał in the lap of his aunt Anna Tenenbaum, Rafał’s his father Daniel, his grandmother’s sister Tauba Andurska, his mother Liba, and his uncle Izaak Menes.
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. Julius’s mustache is pretty impressive. No further information about the subjects is noted.
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. No further information about the subjects is noted.
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. The couple, their daughter and Franka’s entire family died at Majdanek during the Holocaust. Only Franka’s sister Eugenia and their cousin, Karol, survived. Franka tried to save her four-year-old daughter by giving her a Polish couple, but she was returned after a few days because she cried constantly.
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. On the other side of the photo is the poem “The Voyage of the Joyful Pilgrim.”
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. Lea, on the right, is pregnant.
Złata moved with three of her children to Palestine before the war, but had to leave her oldest son as he was mentally ill and in a Warsaw hospital. She returned for him in 1939; bad timing. Both she and her son died at the beginning of the war. Lea’s fate is not noted in the book.
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. The other side of the photo has written: “Dear Cousin Lonia, before our departure to America — Bronia, Karol and Moniuś. Plock, July 27, 1921.”
I’m not sure what happened with America but if they went they didn’t stay; Bronka and her brothers all died in the Holocaust.
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. The other side of the photo has written: “Dear Cousin Lonia, before our departure to America — Bronia, Karol and Moniuś. Plock, July 27, 1921.”
I’m not sure what happened with America but if they went they didn’t stay; Bronka and her brothers all died in the Holocaust.
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. The other side of the photo has written: “Dear Cousin Lonia, before our departure to America — Bronia, Karol and Moniuś. Plock, July 27, 1921.” I’m not sure what happened with America but B
Photo is from the book And Still I See Their Faces: Images of Polish Jews by Golda Tencer. Per the book, Fritz was seriously injured in World War II, losing one of his limbs, and then “vanished from the family’s sight somewhere in East Germany.” Josie emigrated to New York after Hitler’s rise to power but died of cancer shortly thereafter.
Back when Mom's knew "The Kids will be kids". Bactine (Ouch) for scrapes meant you rarely did more than wash it off with the hose and kept on playing. End of the day you got scrubbed down and ready to do it again. Would not have traded it for any version offered today.
Can still get these at hobby stores or on Amazon for around ten bucks
There's a pretty good historical fiction book called Counting on Grace by Elizabeth Winthrop which was written about Lewis Hine and this Vermont textile mill in Pownal.
https://www.amazon.com/Counting-Grace-Elizabeth-Winthrop/dp/0553487833
When I was a kid in the 60s, I checked out a book from the school library called "A Rocket in My Pocket," a collection of old funny kid's rhymes, poems, jump rope chants etc. The book was really old back then, and the rhymes it featured were even older (late 19th/ early 20th C). I loved that book and checked it out often.
When I grew up I was crushed to fund that it had gone out of print, but I would look for it now and then, and it came back! I bought my copy, which I cherish. Reading this thread, I went to Amazon to grab the link, only to find it out of print again. For now, here's the link for used copies:
A Rocket in My Pocket https://www.amazon.com/dp/0590431579/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_DzBxCbV782D99
I also saw that there is an out of print version of "Favorite Rhymes from A Rocket in my Pocket." I presume that that one omits a few rhymes that would not be considered racially politically correct today. I'd get the original version.
One recollection from that book was that a B-17 from the 100th squadron was shot to hell with dead engines and put it's landing gear down, a recognized sign to "Please let us parachute out, we give up." The Luftwaffe honored this more often than not. But then, that B-17s engines came back to life and that B-17 then shot a trailing escorting ME-109 out of the sky and then roared home. This was considered very poor "sportsmanship" by both sides. This also enraged the attacking ME-109 fighters to the point where they aggressively went after B-17s with the 100th tail sign and the 100th squadron started suffering a much harsher than normal rate of shoot downs and earning it's nickname "The Bloody 100th" and a reputation for being cursed from that point on.
A week afterward, an airman from the 100th was dancing with a pretty British girl , she asked which squadron he flew with. "The Bloody 100th" he replied. She angrily pushed him away and walked off. The 100th was considered a pariah squadron for a while, because they cheated chivalry protocol and put every B-17 in even more danger.
Anyway, when I saw this, I thought about that exchange in that book.
Here is a low grade studio quality headset with mic for under $200. They don't creak, and have decent audio quality.
It works on so many levels. "Toad Suck One Stop". "Toad Suck Damsite". "Toad Suck Barge Dock" sounds like something Jack Prelutsky would write.
Yeah I found that out last night. Some of them are thousands! This one on Amazon is the most affordable I could find though I'm sure not nearly the quality of the others.
They still make them. I used one this morning. Helps my cold.
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Edit: Note that Benzedrine and Benzedrex are two different things.
The person who wrote that article wrote a 244 page book about the posted photo! Here is a magazine article that has a little more information than the article you linked.
I use Google Voice with an OBI 100 VOIP interface for all my home phones now. This lets me use my antique rotary phones to make and receive phone calls over the internet. I also need a Pulse to DTMF converter on each rotary phone to allow me to "dial" out.
You can also set up the OBI 100 to work with other VIOP services like Skype.
Here's a link from somebody that may have figured out how to do the hard part: