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- 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
- Catenary Supports
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Sawdust Memories: 1939
October 1939. "One of 36 members of the Ola self-help sawmill cooperative. Sawmill started with an FSA loan. Gem County, Idaho." Photo by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Minutia
This site never ceases to amaze me with the amount of minutia about a subject that one can learn and the observation powers of the posters to enlighten us about them. Case in point, sky dog's "suspender button" comment below.
[The word is "minutiae." - Dave]
A sawmill saved the town of Ola
Background and many more pictures here.
Vintage Levis
Our subject appears to be wearing some pre-1937 Levis. There's a suspender button popping up from beneath his belt near where he has his hand on his hip. Levi Strauss & Co. phased out suspender buttons with their 1937 jeans as belts became the primary method of holding up one's pants.
These would also have a waist cinch in the back and exposed rivets on the back pockets. The back pocket rivets would also be altered in '37 as people often complained that they tended to scratch anything the wearer sat on or leaned against.
Board and batten
With a nail or hook to hang your jacket on. Plus sawdust on fedora and jeans.
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