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- Treescaping
- +112
- 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"
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Jim & Joe & Flo: 1943
March 1943. "Jim Bishop and Joe Crow, drivers for the Associated Transport Company, eating dinner at a truckers' stop on U.S. Highway 29 near the Alabama-Georgia state line." Medium format acetate negative by John Vachon for the Office of War Information. View full size.
Mysterious finery
What are those things decorating their neckties?
[Tie chains. - Dave]
Hat and Tie?
Those were indeed different times; try to find a trucker today in anything
but a t-shirt and ballcap (which worked for me for 20 years over the road!)
Pre-Plastic Creamer
I am of a certain age as well as Notcom and remember that small glass of cream that came with your coffee or tea. I have a fancy one made by Syracuse China of Canada and it has the date '68 on it.
How'r grits? Kissable ... hon
For those of a certain age -- i.e. mine -- Dave's title evokes a Pavlovian response
A native of Jasper, Alabama ... somewhat more than spittin' distance from this scene (even for the well salivated).
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