Author Topic: I like old photos NGC (Read 1954 times)

Joe A. · « **on:** July 07, 2020, 05:51:07 PM »

There is a Facebook page, History Daily, that shares great old photos, Here is a sample:

Daniel Kalal · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2020, 06:20:42 PM »

I'll add one. This is a photograph that I just scanned five minute ago.
It's 1926, and the that marine is my grandfather at Ash Fork, Arizona. It seems that the Santa Fe Railroad was having trouble with train robberies, so the USMC was assigned to protect the train. My grandfather would sit in the mail car with this weapon (which, I think, hardly needs to be aimed to be effective) riding between Los Angeles and Ash Fork. I don't believe he ever had any trouble, but then, any robber would be pretty stupid to try to rob a train being protected by the United States Marines (even if there was only one on board).

My grandfather's notes:

Several train robberies had been reported and the Marines were being assigned to mail-guard duty all over the country.

I was assigned a run to Ashfork, Arizona aboard The Chief on the Santa Fe Railroad.

Between October and December, 1926 I made thirteen trips in the mail car.

I was equipped with a sawed-off shotgun with twenty rounds of ammunition of buckshot, and I also carried a Colt 45 with twenty-one rounds.

Ncdan · « **Reply #2 on:** July 07, 2020, 06:30:59 PM »

I’d bet that a model 97 Winchester and I’ll offer this old picture a 30’s something WSPD Motor Officer.

Joe A. · « **Reply #3 on:** July 07, 2020, 06:31:41 PM »

Great photo. the back story makes it that much more interesting / effective. Thanks for sharing!

Daniel Kalal · « **Reply #4 on:** July 07, 2020, 06:37:48 PM »

Here's another (few years later) shot of my grandfather. That's a '46 Harley-Davidson UL and the dog's name is Skippy (my mother's dog). It's winter, so the cold-weather equipment is in place.

RinkRat II · « **Reply #5 on:** July 07, 2020, 06:45:17 PM »

A site I came across several years ago............ 50's cars,stars and rock and roll. A few bikes too
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blast_of_the_past/

Paul B

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #6 on:** July 07, 2020, 07:13:24 PM »

Here's Dad in N Africa before going to Anzio beach. He got a ride home on the Queen Mary (too bad he was in a body cast)

I LOVE old photos. I go to FSSF Brats FB page for pics of Dad's Army history and Missouri History for the local stuff

tazio · « **Reply #7 on:** July 07, 2020, 07:48:17 PM »

Me, almost 40 yrs ago...
I was on a trip with my '66 Bonneville and saw my favorite motorcycle in the back of a pickup truck. Probably wasn't worth an arm and a leg like they are now!

Gliderjohn · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2020, 07:48:30 PM »

My adoptive father was 50 when I was born. The photo is my father and his younger brother. My father would have been going on seven years of age. This was also a postcard photo, notice the date.
GliderJohn

fotoguzzi · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07, 2020, 07:49:31 PM »

Gliderjohn · « **Reply #10 on:** July 07, 2020, 07:51:23 PM »

One more because it so depicts the fun in the simple things in life such as swimming in the stock tank with the cousins. The young folk in the picture would have been the generation before me.
GliderJohn

fotoguzzi · « **Reply #11 on:** July 07, 2020, 07:52:21 PM »

My buddy Dan and our twin 850t's

ozarquebus · « **Reply #12 on:** July 07, 2020, 08:37:21 PM »

Fotoguzzi posted a picture of Bob Dylan, that kid from Hibbing.

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #13 on:** July 07, 2020, 08:40:13 PM »

Quote from: tazio on July 07, 2020, 07:48:17 PM

Me, almost 40 yrs ago...
I was on a trip with my '66 Bonneville and saw my favorite motorcycle in the back of a pickup truck. Probably wasn't worth an arm and a leg like they are now!

Wow bet you wish............... ........

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #14 on:** July 07, 2020, 08:56:05 PM »

Quote from: Gliderjohn on July 07, 2020, 07:51:23 PM

One more because it so depicts the fun in the simple things in life such as swimming in the stock tank with the cousins. The young folk in the picture would have been the generation before me.
GliderJohn

:thumb:cool!

LowRyter · « **Reply #15 on:** July 07, 2020, 10:14:55 PM »

Bob Dylan?

tazio · « **Reply #16 on:** July 08, 2020, 07:08:25 AM »

Quote from: tazio on July 07, 2020, 07:48:17 PM

Me, almost 40 yrs ago...
I was on a trip with my '66 Bonneville and saw my favorite motorcycle in the back of a pickup truck. Probably wasn't worth an arm and a leg like they are now!

Quote from: Guzzistajohn on July 07, 2020, 08:40:13 PM

Wow bet you wish............... ........

Yep. Have thought about it often. ...It was a thrill though, to see one up close!
Still have that leather jacket I was wearing (along with the Bonneville I was riding..) and I'm married to the gal that was with me on the trip!

Guzzistajohn · « **Reply #17 on:** July 08, 2020, 07:16:37 AM »

Quote from: fotoguzzi on July 07, 2020, 07:49:31 PM

That's Robert Zimmerman

john fish · « **Reply #18 on:** July 08, 2020, 08:05:53 AM »

No bikes here but I ran across this photo from 1940 and thought; well, if this doesn't typify the Brit's Keep Calm and Carry On attitude I don't know what does.

davevv · « **Reply #19 on:** July 08, 2020, 09:01:02 AM »

This is the staff of the army's motorcycle school at Ft. Knox, Kentucky on June 23, 1943. My Dad is the tenth man from the left on the back row. The bike on the right is a Harley XA.

Another of my Dad from sometime in the thirties.

Dharma Bum · « **Reply #20 on:** July 08, 2020, 09:29:37 AM »

I've still got a pair of those old cold weather mittens in my stash of riding gear! Not much feel for the controls, but made riding on the frozen rivers back in Iowa tolerable back in the day.

LowRyter · « **Reply #21 on:** July 08, 2020, 09:52:06 AM »

Quote from: Guzzistajohn on July 08, 2020, 07:16:37 AM

That's Robert Zimmerman

the guy looks just like Bob Dylan.

T4halo · « **Reply #22 on:** July 08, 2020, 10:27:07 AM »

My Grandpa’s company prior to Omaha Beach. I found the picture in the barn. I spent over 23 years in the Army. He never spoke of the time he served.

T4

JJ · « **Reply #23 on:** July 08, 2020, 11:05:18 AM »

I LOVE old motorcycle photos!!

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Author Topic: I like old photos NGC (Read 1954 times)

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