Vintage Photo Of The Day

[Papaw]

The first motorcycle . It also earned its inventor's bragging rights for making the first motorcycle when the pair put a single-cylinder version on a wooden frame. Daimler's son Paul rode this first bone-crusher for six miles, at a startling clip of 7 mph.

[goodfellow]

Long before I was born we got our electricity from this power plant in Alvin, Texas.
Alvin Electric Generator. This was located where the old Ice House was later. It is now a parking lot for Stantons next to where they have their natural gas sales..
The generator only ran a few hours in the evening after it got dark.

Pretty cool!  -- we forget how quickly electricity put the industrial revolution into high gear. Steam and water were adequate, but old Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse put relatively cheap AC power into the American industrial base.

[stokester]

Long before I was born we got our electricity from this power plant in Alvin, Texas.
Alvin Electric Generator. This was located where the old Ice House was later. It is now a parking lot for Stantons next to where they have their natural gas sales..
The generator only ran a few hours in the evening after it got dark.

Pretty cool!  -- we forget how quickly electricity put the industrial revolution into high gear. Steam and water were adequate, but old Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse put relatively cheap AC power into the American industrial base.

and they were pilloried for it...

by Edison who wanted DC power to all homes

[Rural53]

The title states "Shipyard in Penobscot, Maine", with no date attached

[muddy]

Sent from the twisted mind of the Mudman

[muddy]

Sent from the twisted mind of the Mudman

[Rural53]

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[Rural53]

From the Albertland Heritage Centre Facebook page. Harold Marsh's farm in 1920. Cows were calving, children sorting out their pet calves.

[Rural53]

1951

[pep]

Smoked them and Lucky Strikes, that was some name Lucky Strikes, lighting strikes would have a more fitting name..
Pep

[goodfellow]

A lot of men came home from WWII addicted to cigarettes. It helped ease the pain, tension, cold/heat, hunger, boredom, and a slew of other issues. Once back home, the Cigarette companies made more profit than ever before.

In my family -- in the 1950s everyone smoked, and so did most of their friends and neighbors.

[john k]

And thru the 60s into the 70s, remember stuck on a long drive with 4 smokers, my eyes were swollen shut.

[Papaw]

I smoked for a lot of years, but quit when they went to 50 cents a pack !

[coolmercury]

Back in the late 50's all the Air Force flight lunches/dinners had cigarettes in them.  Hard to use when you are on 100% oxygen most of the time.

[pep]

 Here is one I bet will surprise a few, my 1999 1/2 ton has a cigarette lighter in it.

cigarette $0.25, what are they now5 bucks ?

Ok, to smoke bellow 10,000 ft

Pep