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[Mizmo]

 

[Pink Biz]

Hardware Store, 316-318 Bowery, Manhattan NYC - 1938

 

[Mizmo]

Can you imagine this today!!!

 

[Pink Biz]

Charles Tripp - "The Man with No Arms", and Eli Bowen - "The Man without Legs", riding in tandem. (1890)

 

[hollydolly]

Charles Tripp - "The Man with No Arms", and Eli Bowen - "The Man without Legs", riding in tandem. (1890)

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How is the man with no arms smoking that cigarette ?

 

[hollydolly]

Hardware Store, 316-318 Bowery, Manhattan NYC - 1938

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we still have independent hardware store like that.. here

 

[hollydolly]

From behind this “lumber” truck, it appears that it’s hauling a number of 2x4s around the city. But as these inspectors have demonstrated, the truck is a fake — the back and sides are made to LOOK like it’s hauling lumber, when in reality the inside is hollow, allowing space to transport booze to and from wherever it needs to go

 

[Pink Biz]

How is the man with no arms smoking that cigarette ?

With Eli's help?

 

[Gary O']

My great uncle Cal

 

[hollydolly]

1961 Prefabs built in the 40's and 50's as temporary housing after 1/2 the country's homes were demolished during the war... we'd just moved into one in '61... and moved out again , a few years later when they were being demolished..

 

[hollydolly]

The Henry Ford Museum in Detroit is also home to the actual bus that Rosa Parks protested on. Incredible Museum Exhibits, the actual bus that Rosa Parks protested on

 

[MrPants]

My Motorcycle; late 60's. Wish I still had it

(Triumph Daytona 500; twin cylinder & twin carbs)

 

[hollydolly]

Home Relocation San Francisco 1919

 

[hollydolly]

Brooklyn NY 1948

 

[hollydolly]

A mother and her three children in their kitchen, Lower East Side NYC, 1915.
Amazing that London , Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester, had the same slums during the early 20th century

 

[hollydolly]

Boston, Massachusetts, circa 1906.

 

[hollydolly]

Teenagers listening to records in a record store, 1944.


this could be my father if it had been taken elsewhere... he was 18 in '44... my mother wasn't a teen yet...

 

[Paco Dennis]

The old camping trailer. We had one very similar to this one.

 

[hollydolly]

Pneumatic tubes connecting 23 US Post Offices in New York across 27 miles. Each canister could hold 600 letters and they were used until 1957.
It's incredible when you look at these pictures just how far we've come in such a short time

 

[hollydolly]

Geologist Thomas Griffith Taylor and Meteorologist Charles Wright in the entrance of an ice grotto during the Terra Nova Expedition, Ross Island – 1911

 

[hollydolly]

The beautiful Pamir, the world’s last commercial sailing ship, rounding Cape Horn - 1949

 

[SmoothSeas]

oh, but the stories that she could surely share...

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[Tommy]

My Motorcycle; late 60's. Wish I still had it

(Triumph Daytona 500; twin cylinder & twin carbs)
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We had that same bike! It was a wonderful machine.

 

[hollydolly]

So we think street drug addiction is a fairly new phenomena?

Opium dens began to proliferate in North America following the arrival of Chinese immigrants during the California Gold Rush. Opium sparked a massive drug epidemic during the late 1800s and early 1900s, with scenes as shown above being far from uncommon in big cities. Den operators used to give women inferior pipes, because they believed that women would spoil the opium when using a good-quality pipe, making it worthless. This gave rise to various health issues, because their intake was often out of balance.

 

[Mizmo]