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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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Washington Gas Light: 1937
Washington, D.C., 1937. "Washington Gas Light Co., 10th Street N.W." Current tenant: The FBI. 8x10 acetate negative by Theodor Horydczak. View full size.
Tradition
The Washington Gas Light Co. remains the utility's name today.
Main St USA
That's a great photo. Well exposed, wide tonal range and tons of detail. The clouds make it pop.
B&W is still hard to beat.
No Moving Parts Electrolux Gas Refrigerator
Gas-powered absorption refrigerators are still used in RVs and remote homes off the electrical grid.
Every spring I help open a friend's cabin the north woods, and "did you light the refrigerator?" always makes me laugh.
Back to the 50's
At the top of my first hot rod wish list was a 1937 Ford coupe. That was in '53 and I still haven't found one.
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