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(@dickjwa)
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PIC: A trip back in the time machine, enjoy,

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1923 opening of the second oldest burger franchise in the USA Kewpee Burger started in Flint, Michigan

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1885 aerial tram for transporting miners at the Kimberly Diamond Mine in South Africa.

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Army engineers doing a great job

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1875 a street urinal in Paris

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Nebraska 19th century school houses were made of sod

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Depression era mother wearing a flour sack dress and a mother of nine living in a field on US Route 70 in Tennessee 1936

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A rock house

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110 feet from the driver to the leaders. One line (rein) to control 20 head of Mules ( sometimes 18 mules with 2 horses as Wheelers), 2 wagons, and a water tank. Loads grossed around 72,000lbs all taken care of by just 2 men. "while on the trail".

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1940 General store in Vermont, the cage in the left is the post office

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1960 grocery shopping

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1943 Brigham City Utah Parley Rasmussen and his 1935 Ford used to deliver mail.

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1897 stagecoach heading to Silverton, Colorado on what would become the Million Dollar Highway.

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July 1936 drought area of North Dakota

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Clarkston, Washington harvest crews and horse teams.

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old car race

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a mother doing the family wash in a tenement apartment Manhattan lower east side 1895

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1918 June 24 Red Cross distributing cigarettes in a hospital in France

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Potato harvest



   
(@sizedoesmatter)
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Thanks Dick. I always enjoy your vintage pictures.


John Bono
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(@John Munro)
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+1



   
(@David Holcombe)
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+1 more.



   
(@David Larsen)
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I love the Time Machine! Any info on that tiny car and trailer?



   
(@jack-dodds)
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Reminds me of the TV show "brought to you by 20 Mule Team Borax."



   
(@randtheman)
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Photo Comments..and yours ??

Photo # 4..the bridge hasn't changed since I was in the Corps of Engineers, except they use pontoon and not wooden boats. Photo #5..Looks like KUVAKAS throne. Photo #12..Sean Penn ( Madonna's ex ). Photo # 16..Kuvakas wins the Wooden Derby Race....LOL



   
(@duncan)
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Death Vslley Dayd, hosted by Ronald Reagan



   
(@Ron Dietrich)
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Me 3!



   
(@Ron Dietrich)
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and I thought that was just a TV ad BORAX...household soap detergent?



   
(@jack-dodds)
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This aerial tram was the source of the term "scared stiff".



   
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