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Brick Work: 1916
Submitted by Dave on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 10:33am.
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1916. "Brick yard below Mount Vernon." Harris & Ewing. View full size.
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Best of Both Worlds
Submitted by Cornell Boy on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 10:52pm.
"Beats working in an office all day".
Brickyards of N. Virginia
Submitted by Mark on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 10:22pm.
If there is one thing there is lots of in Northern Virginia, it is clay...and bureaucrats.
Little did they know
Submitted by Maharg on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 5:31pm.
Our newspaper print shop still ran a Merganthaler Linotype machine in the early 1970s. It had plenty of open gears and chains on it. A newly-minted OSHA inspector came around one day and ordered us to paint a thick yellow line around the the clanking beast. Said he, "The women may get caught in it." Little did he know that when the Linotype revolutionized printing in the 1880s, the first operators were women.
Watch the fingers please
Submitted by Zoreo on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 5:09pm.
It never ceases to amaze me how unnecessarily dangerous life use to be.
I wonder how many fingers and worse were lost to unguarded chains and gears.
Speakin' of purty assistants...
Submitted by T.U.M. on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 2:20pm.
"Heck, Clem, your assistant's built like a brick outhouse."
"Shoot, Ezra, my assistant IS a brick outhouse!"
Kiln Time
Submitted by Anonymous Brickster on Wed, 11/19/2008 - 12:43pm.
"If ah had me summa them purty girl lab assistants, mebbe I'd git me a comment or two!"
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