Old family Photos

[SD Glenn]

Bill,  I was just admiring the photos (2 Feb post) (for the 50th time)  I was curious about the paint job on the Chrysler, the doors almost look like they were tri colored. Would like to see that combination (in color) (yeah, right, from a black and white) lol
Glenn

[SD Glenn]

These are some cameras my Mom had over the years, they all did a marvelous job on picture quality, I think the Box cameras used the 120 film, the bellows one, I have no idea of the size film. The Vivitar was the most "modern" camera she had. lol  These may be the same as the ones your folks had.
Glenn

[Wm Steed]

Chet, et all
You are right about the single wire antenna between two poles.. If you look in the back ground of the photo you can clearly see a single mast type of antenna.
The box camera that my mother had was probably much earlier than the one that Serbastiano posted a pix of. Mothers camera was a box covered with a black leatherette fabric, a small lever to control the shutter and a knob to wind the film with. I remember my Dad's camera had a door that flipped down and the lens extended out with a bellows attached.
Dad was really upset when a hitch hiker he picked up took the camera with him when he exited the vehicle.. Dad knew every well what it was like to hitch hike, he had done a lot of it when he was a teenager. My father would pick up hitch hikers, bring them home for dinner and offer them a place to stay the night. After the creep stole the camera Dad did not pickup hitch hikers again.
The pickup does appear to have a longer bed than the normal half ton. The wheels are also the heavy duty "artillery type" which were common on pickups in the late '30's, early '40's.
The attached photo is of my dads '40 Chevy pickup. The pix was taken at my uncles gold mine westerly of Lancaster, CA... The white bags in the bed of the truck are ore samples that are going to a refinery for processing.. Hmmm? could have been $$$$ just laying there in the bed of the truck.....Bill   

[Sebastiano]

Hi Bill !
Here is the camera Bowie Box (may be the same model) used from your parents,
regards
Sebastiano

[36 Ply]

Our (operator-assisted) phone number in Peru, IL in the '50s was 3497-W. After we received (rotary) dial service later in the '50s, it changed to 3497-WX.

Holy Moly, Glenn, your radio expertise goes WAY back. Until fairly recently, I would buy wooden cabinet console and table (tube type) radios and rotary phones at garage sales for a few bucks each. I had to sell some of the console radios when we moved into a smaller house. Love those tube radios. I have three rotary phones hooked up & working in the house and a rotary pay phone in the detached garage.

Pat O'Connor

[SD Glenn]

Chet, I had a radio simular to your diagram, only diference I see is "The coil" you show, or another one simular, had a rod in the center.. I would slide the rod in or out to get diferent stations. It was kind of neat. Old memories..... again.
Glenn

[chetbrz]

If you look closely at the photo you will be able to see the radio antenna on the roof of the house... The family would huddle around the radio in the living room listening to Fibber Magee & Molly, Jack Benny, Amos & Andy and of course in the afternoon the programs geared to kids... Have you drank your Ovaltine today? .....Bill

Bill,

Was it a wire antenna between the two poles on either side of the roof ?  Radio and vacuum tubes were a first love.  It all started with a simple crystal radio and the sound of stations from distant places coming across the wire like magic.  The wonder of it all, that voices could be gathered this way and decipher by the cat's whisker.  These experiences launched a 45 year career in electronics but with all the changes nothing can come close to the warm glow of the tubes and the sound of far off distant places.   Only a train whistle can come close to the experience.

Chet?

[RC Drown]

Glenn,

Repost them, I must of not seen them

[SD Glenn]

LOL, I think you doubled up on the photo.... I like the phone number, I remember one of my first (HI)ckory 8-5558) I kind of like the rhyme of those phone numbers.  Is that considered a 3/4 ton pickup, it seems large in comparison to some I've seen. Thanks for the memories. A few months ago I submitted a couple pictures of old cars, with some of my family members in them. I never saw any response to them so I thought maybe that was not the kind of things to be on this site so I dropped it at time. I must have been wrong. lol   also "THE SHADOW KNOWS"
Glenn

[Wm Steed]

The attached photo was taken in 1939 in front of our home in Inglewood, CA... The pickup truck is a '39 Chevy that belonged to my fathers business. My little brother standing in the bed, me and my sister are standing on the curb, my mother ducked, @arrow. The notation at the bottom "over" is a notation my mother wrote prior to sending the photo to her mother in SLC. On the back of the photo mother described the event and date.
If you look closely you can see a crack in the right rear fender, center over the wheel opening. The crack in the fender is the result of a broken fender brace.
I was with my father in early 1940 when he stopped at a Chevy dealership to purchase a new fender brace. He got the brace from the parts department, paying $7.00 for it. Leaving the parts department we walked through the sales showroom. A salesman approached my father asking if he would be interested in a new truck. After a brief conversation dad made a deal to purchase a new '40 Chevy 1/2 ton for $25.00 and his '39 Chevy. We walked back to the parts department, dad returned the fender brace for a full return of the $7.00
A pretty good deal, a new truck for $18.00.
If you look closely at the photo you will be able to see the radio antenna on the roof of the house... The family would huddle around the radio in the living room listening to Fibber Magee & Molly, Jack Benny, Amos & Andy and of course in the afternoon the programs geared to kids... Have you drank your Ovaltine today? .....Bill

[Jim Benjaminson]

Great stories - great photos!  Thanks for sharing. 

[RC Drown]

Bill, Chet and Seb.

Thanks so much for posting your old photos there are greatly appreciated. 

Hopefully more members will post their old photos, sure would be nice

Thanks again,
Bob

[Wm Steed]

Now that I have shown the world my mother in some very unflattering apparel, standing near interesting old cars I will share with you a classy lady standing in front of a '28-29 Chevy in 1931.. Fortunately when the pix is enlarged the 1931 Utah license plate and Chevy Bowtie are clearly visible.
I have also attached a pix of me "guarding" my uncles gold mine in 1940.. The mine was located in the hills to the west of Lancaster, CA. above a small community called Nenach.
Fortunately for me and my family, both of my parents were very fond of camera's... The pictures of her taken in the mid 1920's and later were mostly taken with the Brownie Box camera she got for her 16th birthday... Amazing devises, no batteries, flashing lights, etc., required... The original point and shoot camera that any fool could operate....Bill 

[Sebastiano]

I like a lot all this old photos, here I'm posting a photo of the race in 1923 the 7th of July,
The driver is the father of one friend of mine.
Thanks to share all this documents of life....
Sebastiano

[chetbrz]

Bill,

Great stories and great pictures.  Every generation has it trials and tribulations.  I wonder what stories they will tell about ours, a hundred years from now.   Your dad sounds like a man after my own heart.   Imagine crossing the Nevada desert in a Modal T with thermal-siphon cooling and doing a quick fix on an engine bearing using bacon rind.  What an adventure that is and taking his young bride along for a camping honeymoon.  My son-in-law won?t even get in a car unless it has fuel injection.   I hate to use this expression but ?Kids today? feel the world owes them an entitlement.   Well I am not going down that rant.   Well anyway great stories and pictures.

Thanks,  Chet?

Here is a picture of my Mom at some point in the late 1920?s or early 1930?s, Don?t know what type of car she is standing next to?

[Wm Steed]

The Good Ole Days....
Like so many other kids of the early 1900's my father had a pretty hard childhood. From the time he was about 14 he was on his own.. Dad joined the Navy before he was 18 because he could not find work. He was mainly stationed in San Diego so he had time to travel between So Cal and Salt Lake City. These trips were usually made in a Model T Ford, one trip was made on an Indian Motor Cycle which blew a tire on a gravel section of the road... Dad never rode a motor cycle again, he would not allow me to have one following WWII when everyone was getting some kind of a MC or motor bike, Whizzers, etc..
My fathers basic travel supplies always included spare water, gasoline, oil, basic tools, food and the most important part.... A slab of bacon.. The slab of bacon had two uses, naturally the first being food, the bacon did not need refrigeration with ice, etc.. The second use for the bacon was to use the bacon rhined as a quick liner for a babbited rod bearing that had gone bad. Most people would use the leather from their belt or the tongue of their shoes to repair a rod bearing so they could limp into the next town and get repairs done.
On one occasion in 1930 Dad was heading into SLC and the rear end went out in the Model T he was driving.. He was able to coast into a used car lot, he left the car running so the salesman could hear how good it ran. Dad made a deal to trade the car for a newer '26 T, his car and $20.00 in gold, four $5.00 gold coins.. Dad told his brother who was traveling with him to get their stuff out of the car and into the "new car" because they had to get moving. Dad had not told his brother the rear axle had gone out of the car until they left the used car lot.
My father always said he never wanted to see the good ole days return.... Bill

[Wm Steed]

I gave up on Idaho over 55 years ago, opting for warm sunny So Cal. I own a small ranch up there that I am trying to cover with old cars I gather up... I also have a brother and several other relatives living in Idaho. When my computer wakes up it gives me the local weather in Eastern Idaho, currently it is -18 f , with a predicted high of 9 f.
The attached pix was taken in Idaho in 1927, the girl holding the 410 shot gun, which I still own,  is my mother, she was 16, my grandfather is standing next to her... The car reputedly is a Chrysler.
The second pix was taken in 1931 in the Nevada desert.. My mother/father were on their honeymoon, camping their way to Los Angeles where they would live for eleven years.
Note the wash basin on the rear fender, also note the rope securing the front fenders/hood on the Model T Ford. You should also note the custom sun visor over the wind shield and the spare gas tank on the fender. My mother had sent this pix to her mother with a note written on the back about how considerate my father was, (referring to him as "Mr. Steed") in providing her with a wash basin on the rear fender. and a canvas tarp over their bed.
Did someone lament about the "Good Ole Days".. I guess if you were there, they might not have been so good....Bill

[RC Drown]

Chet,

We have more than our share of snow this winter, right now we are getting freezing rain, the one nice thing is that we have been either too far north or west of the recent snow storms. There is a good foot and a half of snow on the ground here right now.

Hopefully by the time you make the trip to NYC to get your bumper, the snow down there will be gone and here also for that matter.

[chetbrz]

The attached picture was taken in 1940 at a family fishing trip to Idaho. The '40 Chevy, with the Tear Drop trailer was my fathers, the '38 Dodge, rear view only, was my uncles from Salt Lake City, the '39 Plym 2dr was my uncles from Elko, NV.

Hay Bill,

Great picture.

Bob,

Are you getting a lot of snow up there these days ?  At some point I will be driving up to NYC to pick up a front bumper for my 48P15 at my brother-in-law's house.  An eBay drop off.

Chet...

[RC Drown]

Great photo, thanks for sharing

[Wm Steed]

The attached picture was taken in 1940 at a family fishing trip to Idaho. The '40 Chevy, with the Tear Drop trailer was my fathers, the '38 Dodge, rear view only, was my uncles from Salt Lake City, the '39 Plym 2dr was my uncles from Elko, NV.

[Sebastiano]

Hi Bob Nice photo !
The car is it the same?
bye

[RC Drown]

Yes, that is me on the left, Annie in the middle and my younger brother on the right.  The Plymouth was my Uncle Don's and the Ford was my Father's.  That photo was taken at my Grandparent Drown's farm about three miles as the crow flies from the NY-Quebec border in the northeast corner of NY

The other photo was a relative on my Mother's side of the family that owned a feed store.  The photo was taken in 1939

[36 Ply]

Bob-

In the top photo, is that you & your brother?

And in the lower photo, are they all relatives?

Pat O'Connor

[RC Drown]

A couple old family photos