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- Rear View
- Way in the back --
- Button It Up
- And with an eye on the time ...
- Working in an enclosed ashtray
- Rear View Mirror?
- Tobacco cam
- Basic fact I learned only later in life
- Put a Lid on it!
- Pinstripes in the Tower
- Sound enhancement
- 3438 in '38
- Second Career
- Their days are numbered
- Only the Sensor
- Train control mechanism
- Rarest of the Rare?? & Classy 3400 Class
- Control Mechanism
- Those standpipes
- Wrenches
- International D-40 I believe
- Job prospects
- You had me at Train
- Land of the free
- Broad-Exchange Bldg
- Parking innovation
- The old block
- "Peck turned a sweet propeller"
- National Bank Building
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Bovey Blasters: 1941
August 1941. "Blasting crew in the Danube iron mine. Bovey, Minnesota." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Farm Security Administration. View full size.
Safety glasses
And I thought they were a gathering of the Robert Woolsey fan club!
Those aren't tobacco cans
They are the tins that held the blasting caps that fired the dynamite. I remember my dad had his shot papers to shoot underground dynamite.
Happy Bunch
A really happy bunch. They get to blow things up!
Safety Specs
I have a very similar pair that belonged to my grandfather. He was a machinist during the run-up to WW2. If memory serves me the lenses are ground from quartz. My grandfather's pair has a deep scratch that was caused by something in a metal lathe shattering and the pieces flying everywhere. Better a scratched lens than a missing eye.
Grouchos
These cowboys look like they know how to joke and take a joke. I wouldn't be surprised if they had all put Groucho mustaches under their safety glasses for this picture.
Or Tape
As a longtime snuff chewer, I would agree that those are most likely smokeless tobacco cans, but there's a good possibility that those are rolls of electrical or friction tape, used to splice wire.
Light 'em up if you got 'em
Oh wait -- maybe that's why they're all using chewing tobacco.
Snoose
Snus or snoose would be the local name for what's in those cans; a very common Scandanavian habit here back in the day.
Snuff cans
or hockey pucks in their shirts. I'm betting on "Red Man".
Requirement
Wanted: Blast crew members. Must wear glasses. All others need not apply.
[The identical safety specs they're wearing are indeed mandatory. - Dave]
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