It's Saturday, so time to look for old photos for Sepia Saturday....
And people staring at the photographer!
In 1927 the great Model T Ford needed new inner tubes (or patched old ones), when you had a flat tire, and you could actually pump it back up yourself.
Robert Hall. I saw this on FaceBook in Traces of Texas...a wonderful source of historic information.
"One of the all-time great Texas characters, Robert Hall. Robert, who was an early Texas settler, soldier, and Texas Ranger, was born in South Carolina in 1814 and was taken as a child to Tennessee, where his family built the first house in Memphis. He moved to Texas, probably as a member of the crew of the side-wheeler George Washington, in 1835 and apparently served on the Yellow Stone during the Texas Revolution. He enlisted in the Texas army on June 1, 1836, and remained with the forces until November 7. Later he joined the Texas Rangers under Benjamin McCulloch.
In 1838 Robert and three other rangers secured land and laid out the town of Seguin. Hall married Polly King, one of the daughters of a Colonel King of Gonzales, and in 1841 was issued a second-class certificate for a league and a labor of land for having arrived in Gonzales County after the Texas Declaration of Independence and before August 1836. Hall served for three years with the Confederacy. After that he was among other things, a hunting guide. I've got another phenomenal photo of him as a hunting guide that I'll post later. As an old man, Robert lived with one of his thirteen children at Cotulla, where he died in 1899 and was buried."
Austin McLain in front of his home at Chico Rancheria in Butte County, California - Mechoopda - circa 1895 (From Native North American Indian - Old Photos)
Three men enjoying a tall wet one in 1895 in Fredericksburg, Texas (Not sure if it had any chill to it)
Leyat Helica, French automobile manufactured between 1919-1925. I'm guessing steering was from those back wheels. Just think of how the world looked through that huge propeller!
Today's quote:
Few delights can equal the mere presence of one whom we trust utterly. |
GEORGE MACDONALD |
...that car is a show stopper.
ReplyDeleteA rather unique idea. I wonder if to go in reverse they had to turn the propeller a different direction.
DeleteGreat series of photos. I like the old Florida school house. Have a happy weekend!
ReplyDeleteI think the palmetto school house would be protection from the rain, but rather hot to sit inside.
DeleteI actually remember the Dalai Lama trek to India from watching the news.
ReplyDeleteSomehow I didn't hear about it until much later when stories about the exit from Tibet were part of movies and documentaries.
DeleteSo many fascinating glimpses of the past. I love the odd car! And the palmetto thatched schoolhouse.
ReplyDeleteYou can sit in a palmetto school house, I think it would be very hot! No thanks! I'd like to go back in time to see how the Dalai Lama was able to get a new community started in India.
DeleteMaybe the thatched school had spaces for a breeze between the fonds. Might have been cooler than a tight wooden house. Maybe. That car! Wonder how many were on the road.
ReplyDeleteGood observations...It would have been awful if that car met another one and they bumped into each other...propellers flying everywhere!
DeleteGreat photos! I love that car. What an odd thing.
ReplyDeleteIt sure is an odd thing!
DeleteThe ONE room school house! What a sweet gathering of children! We have many patches of palmettos. Hardy. The roots are like mountains.
ReplyDeleteThat's definitely true. I always had immense respect for the early settlers. Imagine Spaniards marching through palmettos in full armor! Of course animals and Native Americans had plenty of paths wherever they wanted to go.
DeleteAs always, a neat collection of photos on various subjects. And yes, that car was quite something. I'm a little puzzled at how that huge propeller actually worked, however, without blowing the heads off the passengers?
ReplyDeleteI hope there was a windshield...a very apt name in this case!
DeleteRobert Hall appears to have been quite a character.
ReplyDeleteI am waiting to hear more about him on the Texas site on FB.
DeleteI always enjoy your buffet of quirky photos, but oddly the one I like best is of the woman in the First Class Sleeping Car. That's what long distance travel should be like! At least in my dreams.
ReplyDeleteNever seen a car like that! :o
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