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- This is the Smithsonian's second flying bird cage
- Flying Bird Cage
- Crowded?
- Holy blimp!
- Aloft
- Like a hangar
- Flying Bird cage!
- Zepplin!
- Still a place of commerce
- She's bleeding pretty bad, Cappy.
- Busy shoreline
- Ailanthus?
- Spray paint hadn't been invented
- Hey!
- A very orderly town.
- Plus 121 Years
- Fine detail
- En garde
- Just had to
- Hamilton's Novelty Works
- Come to me, my plump beauty
- Owego, Oswego, Otsego
- You want it, you got it
- Mom still lives here
- Thank goodness!
- Ticket to ride?
- Right down the road!
- I love me some turkey, too
- Owego forward
- Where's the People?
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Warren Peace: 1921
During the week of July 21-27, 1921, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone camped at a site about six miles east of Hancock in Washington County, Maryland. During the weekend, President Warren G. Harding joined the “vagabonds” — the name the wealthy industrialists gave themselves when they camped together. The 200-acre farm where they made camp was located about one mile north of the National Turnpike along Licking Creek. Today, the campsite lies inside Camp Harding County Park. A plaque memorializes the gathering of these famous campers.
July 1921. "Warren Harding at Firestone camp." The president with industrialist Harvey Firestone and the inventor Thomas Edison (napping). Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative. View full size.
Camping in style
When the "vagabonds" went camping, they didn't rough it. This is a little description of their trips taken from The Henry Ford Museum:
The 1919 trip involved fifty vehicles, including two designed by Ford: a kitchen camping car with a gasoline stove and built-in icebox presided over by a cook and a heavy touring car mounted on a truck chassis with compartments for tents, cots, chairs, electric lights, etc. On later trips, there was a huge, folding round table equipped with a lazy susan that seated twenty.
Camping attire
Gotta love the bow-tie Henry's sporting. If this is roughing it, I can only imagine how he dressed on a normal day!
Harvey's thinking, "The things I do to sell a million tires!"
Camping Humor
This snippet is remembered from some book or article on these camping expeditions, actual citation long forgotten:
Henry Ford's favorite practical joke was hand-carving wooden "croutons" and putting them into Harvey Firestone's soup.
There it is. His reputation will be forever enhanced.
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