Saturday, June 29, 2024

Some old cars


For Sepia Saturday this week,  I remember going to races...mainly cars, and even a few horses. But never got to sit in a car to observe a horse race, as the photo depicted shows.



So I'll share a few car photos from my "Sepia album" but none racing!

1909 22-year-old Alice Ramsey was the first woman to drive across the USA.

A car that didn't stop at the edge of the Galveston Seawall around 1920s.


 Car and homemade trailer on U.S. 101 near King City, California. By Dorothea Lange after 1936.  Middle aged man and wife, from Wisconsin said: 'You don't know how many people are in trailers until you get to Florida'



Today's quote:
 

To know someone’s pain is to share in it. And to share in it is to relieve some of it.

NNEDI OKORAFOR

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13 comments:

  1. TomJune 29, 2024 at 5:40 AM

    ...I just bought a new truck, it's smarter than I am.

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    1. Barbara RogersJune 29, 2024 at 8:11 AM

      Oh what fun, learning all the new bells and whistles!

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  2. Granny SueJune 29, 2024 at 7:59 AM

    Oops, brakes must have failed! Love these.

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    1. Barbara RogersJune 29, 2024 at 8:14 AM

      And it looks pretty undamaged! Just need that tractor with a winch (did they have tractors yet?)

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  3. Vicki LaneJune 29, 2024 at 3:20 PM

    Driving across the country back then would have been quite a challenge.

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    1. Barbara RogersJune 30, 2024 at 10:56 AM

      Yes indeed...since roads were still dirt (mud) or gravel meant for horse and wagons. A great accomplishment!

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  4. La NightingailJune 29, 2024 at 8:41 PM

    Great pictures and congrats on figuring out what all those people were there for. I should have figured that out because I knew the Coronado Golf Club's new 18-hole golf course crossed the racetrack four times & now that you've mentioned a horse race & I looked good & hard at the prompt picture with a horse race in mind, I can see you're right. I was too focused on the golf course & airplanes!

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    1. Barbara RogersJune 30, 2024 at 10:57 AM

      That's ok, since Sepia Saturday often takes us off on tangents. It's all interesting with lovely photos and comments!

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  5. CloudiaJune 30, 2024 at 12:44 AM

    I enjoy this look back. Thank you so much!

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    1. Barbara RogersJune 30, 2024 at 10:57 AM

      Glad you enjoyed it. Your most welcome Cloudia and Pixie!

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  6. Mike BrubakerJune 30, 2024 at 10:25 AM

    This was a fun selection for our theme. Alice Ramsey's car is a Maxwell, the same brand of automobile that is in two photos on my blog post this weekend. According to Wikipedia she apparently liked driving cross-country so much that she did so over 30 times in her lifetime! The interesting thing in the Galveston accident photo is the huge painted notice about rat poison. And the last photo of the 1930s home-made trailer home demonstrates how determined people once were to escape the snow country for the sunshine state. Little did they know how it would transform Florida.

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    1. Barbara RogersJune 30, 2024 at 11:00 AM

      Great to have more historic info on these cars/drivers. Here in Buncombe County NC we've just found out that trailer parks (ahem, Mobile Home Parks) have toxic chemicals in their waters, PFAFs for one. Trailers are good on the road and for short term life, but I won't live in one again (twice did so in FL!)

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  7. AnonymousJuly 2, 2024 at 3:34 AM

    From Scotsue - a great set of vintage images. My Favourite had to be the first early one - loved that long coat! I do like your banner lake photograph too - beautiful and calming.

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