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We don't think about livery stables much anymore, but in 1951 we find the Plaza Livery Stable alive and well across from San Juan Bautista Mission in California.
Photo: Don Hall, Sr.
Don Hall
Yreka, CA
Pittsburgh in 1961 from the bluffs on the west bank of the Ohio. Certainly didn't look like this at the turn of the last century or this.
Photo: Don Hall, Sr.
Don Hall
Yreka CA
Three young boys show off their big catch. The boy on the far right could be Earnest (or Ernest) Johnston. Otherwise the place, location, and photographer are unknown (likely taken in central Nebraska).
On a side note, notice the dark faces and pale legs. These boys clearly worked outside wearing overalls and jeans. And the pale band on their forehead shows they wore hats.
My Dad wasn't really a train fan, so to speak, but we're genetically disposed to appreciate transport in its many guises.
He roamed western Pennsylvania as a field director for the Presbyterian Church and on one of his trips in February 1960, he made a stop at the Horseshoe Curve and recorded this express train headed to points east.
Photographer Don Hall, Sr.
Don Hall
Yreka, CA
Roland Chagnon and Rose Boneville Chagnon leaving for their honeymoon in 1930 from the train station in New London, CT
Mullen High School, in Mullen, Nebraska. Class of 1930.
My grandmother, Bertha (Phillips) Richard, is the 5th from the left in the first row.
Getting a ticket from an SFPD Motorcycle officer on the corner of Fulton and Laguna Streets, San Fran, CA.
This image was scanned from an original slide made in June 1942 in Woodville, Alabama. The photographer's name is Wendell Page. The photo is believed to have been made with the Argus Model "A" color film camera which belonged to Mr. Page's college professor. View full size.