Air France flew this Boeing 707-328 Intercontinental, or one like it, from 1959 to 1979. Boeing made 174 of these.
on the back:
Boeing 707 Intercontinental
(description in French)
The giant 140-ton four-engined intercontinental jet airliner can carry 180 passengers. Flying at 600 m.p.h., this plane operates on all major transocean routes. (in English)
Réf. 21.455/P – 5-62 – Printed in France – I.V.O. Paris-Evian
What we have here, my friends, is a professional parachutist all decked out to leap from the nearest airplane or dirigible.
I hope he tightens all those straps up.
This is a DOPS real photo post card. I am given to believe that DOPS was a real photo postcard paper tradename used by the Ansco Company of Binghampton NY between 1925 and 1942. I’ve cropped the image. The full card is 3.5 x 5.5″ and this image is 3 x 4.5″.
I don’t know if these guys are mobsters. There is zero information on this card. It’s a real-photo, for sure, but not a Kodak one, so my dating information is useless.
The guy standing is well dressed. Suit with suspenders and one of those fashionable (then) shorty ties. But look how the cuffs are on the sitting guy’s pants. Maybe he wanted to show off his shoes.
The paper on the floor is pretty shabby. It looks like a corner chair that he’s sitting in, or maybe he’s just sitting sideways in a regular chair.
Grim looking guys, though.
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This is in an old, abandoned school in Glade Spring VA.
It must have been a pleasant room, before the ransackers came.
This a Grumman promotional card, not a postcard. It must have been printed in 1962 or later (before that date, this aircraft was just known as the F11F). The Blue Angels flew the F11F from 1957 to 1969. Grumman made 200 of these aircraft. The Wiki citation on the F11F is here.
Here’s what’s on the verso:
(Grumman logo)
BLUE ANGELS FLYING GRUMMAN’S F11 F-1 TIGER
The world’s first supersonic fighter-bomber to employ a “coke-bottle” shaped fuselage, Grumman’s F11F-1 Tiger carries the most modern armament and is currently in service with Navy fleet units all over the world. Powered by a J65 axial-flow turbo-jet with afterburner, the Tiger was designed to fill the Navy’s need for a fast, hard-hitting aircraft with had the ability to carry the fight to the enemy’s home ground. The “coke-bottle”, or indented fuselage (area rule), provides the optimum drag characteristics at sonic speeds. Like all Grumman planes, the Tiger is a reliable, easy to maintain aircraft – one of the major reasons the high flying “Blue Angels,” depicted in a back-to-back formation on this card, use the airplane. The Blue Angels are the Navy’s precision flight demonstration team. Since the team’s inception 13 years ago they have flown Grumman planes exclusively.
Note: the Blue Angels were formed in 1946. “…13 years ago” would put this card at 1959. Somebody lifted some boiler-plate without checking it…
Want to know what (area rule) means? Click here.
Roger. Over and out. “Roger! Roger! Darn, where is that cat?”
This is a borderless chrome postcard, postally unused.
On the back:
PRINCESS ERNESTINE
Princess Ernestine of Cherokee, North Carolina, poses in a modern adaptation of an ancient Cherokee Costume.
copyright date is 1969 Aerial Photography, Inc., Charlotte, N.C.
Pub. by Aerial Photography Services, Inc., P.O. Box 27112, Charlotte N.C. 28208
Printed by Dexter Press, Inc., West Nyack, New York
inventory number is 47031-C
This picture had to have been taken over 42 years ago. There’s a later card I’ve seen with this exact image, but it was dated to 1988.
I did a search on the web for Princess Ernestine and found that her last name is/was Grant. And that’s about all.
In a 1915 municipal report, Bristol included these two parks as being part of Bristol’s system.
This is an early undivided back (1901 – 1907) card. The postmark year is unreadable.
It was mailed to Mr. Jno D Cox, Jonesboro, Tenn. “E.L.C.” mailed it with “will write you right soon” on the front border (you couldn’t put a message on the back of the card in those years). It was published by Caldwell-Sites Co., Bristol, Roanoke and Staunton, Va.
I can’t find Big Creek Park on the map and references to it on the web are few.
This is “Island Park Boat House, Bluff City, Tenn.”
Six of the people in this picture are looking at the camera.
I can conclusively date this card to 1914 by the postmark. There’s no publisher shown, but, in the bottom right on the face there’s the number “65755”.
It was mailed to Mrs. W.H. Roberts Bristol Tenn R.F.D. 1
Her sister mailed it and there’s some writing on the back concerning an upcoming trip.
A Piedmont Airlines Boeing 737-200. It came rolling out in 1968. Read all about it!
And now you can go read about Piedmont Airlines!
I have heard that TRI was once considered for hub status, but, er, wiser heads prevailed. What? Wiser!?!
This is the Convair CV-240. You can read all about it here.
It was a workhorse for maybe seven years and then, ta da!
Along came the Convair 880.
“Delta’s modern jet fleet includes the Convair 880 Jetliner…cruises at 615 mph…provides both deluxe first class and jetourist accommodations for 96 passengers. Delta Jets serve the Caribbean and the U.S.A.”
As you can read here, it was a failure.
It’s kind of interesting that I found both these cards on the same day in the same antiques store in downtown Elizabethton TN. Will wonders never cease…
Yes, the little dog is posing as the cow. I’m smiling because here I am on a cold day standing beside a big replica of a cow in downtown Appalachia VA. There are worse places.
(photo by Lee Stone)
I couldn’t do too much with this old picture…it’s been roughly handled. But I did also want to preserve the stamp at the bottom “Williams Novelty Co., Dorchester VA.”.
Mr. Wide Sitter and his wife must have had a quite close marriage…five kids. The little girl next to her mother later moved on to destroy all the enemies of Democracy in one fell swoop.
The body of the oldest (probably) child in the back is unrecoverable…that area’s been abraded.
Great family picture, though. Dorchester was likely in its prime then…I’m guessing 1940s.
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I found these two photos at a flea market in Piney Flats TN. I was told they came from an estate sale in Knoxville. Both are of a man named Raymond S. Stripling. Here he is at age 2 (I believe he’s the one on the left):
The other, unnamed, kid seems to be commenting on something and Raymond appears to be gobsmacked by it. I cleaned this picture, a Real Photo card, a little bit in Photoshop…it’s not been treated well.
Now, here’s Raymond at 13 with Wag, his dog:
He’s a little stout and seems to have a lazy right eye. The photo was taken by McCoy Photo Studio, 313 South Gay Street, Knoxville.
In the 1940 census, he’s still in Knoxville working as an auditor for TVA. He’s married and his wife’s name is Alberta, also from Knoxville.
I don’t know who this is, but he looks distinguished and rather pleased with everything, it would seem.
The photo is glued to a heavy paper board. The board may have been, at one time, a rectangle to fit a standard frame, with the oval outlines you can see. Later in its life, it was cut down, apparently with scissors, to a smaller oval to fit in another frame. I had to trim it down again to get it to fit in my scanner. Even then, since it’s warped, it slid down in the scanner and I had to take the thing apart to retrieve it. It’s got what is either foxing or nicotine browning all over the photo. I removed some of it around the face area with a q-tip and a mild lens cleaning fluid. If this was my grandfather’s picture, I wouldn’t have done that. It’s also been cleaned up in Photoshop, big surprise.
Date? I would guess around the 1930s. Maybe earlier. It’s hard to date this style of clothing. Posh, and all that.
I was originally going to blow this one off with a cute caption like “this is my rock…”, but, then I got to really looking at it. I picked this up from a bunch of similar photos, one of which alluded to Texas.
Okay, look at the dude: he’s wearing glasses, he looks older than a recruit would be, there’s no insignia visible anywhere in the pictures…and his shoes just don’t look properly military (we used to have to shine the soles of our shoes for inspection in basic training).
The Smokey Bear hat, probably a Drill Sergeant’s Cover, is rather rakishly aslant.
The binoculars are a nice touch, but he’ll never get them up to eye level in that configuration. In truth, they’re worn that way to prevent them from banging around as you walk. I sometimes carry my camera like that, though not nestled up against my nipple.
According to the back of this old real photo postcard, this is Joyce Alma Carrier, aged 4 months. I’ve trimmed the picture, so you can’t see that she’s been plunked down in a chair covered with a blanket and forced to pose for a candid. This young lady is definitely, certainly, absolutely not happy.
I found this at a flea market. Got it for $1. Made me laugh.
The postcard is an AZO, with a square at each corner (this is on the back, the place you place the stamp), which puts it in use between 1926 and 1940.
It wasn’t snowing, but it had earlier that morning and as the air turned a little warmer, a fog formed. Hey, snow, barn, trees, fog. Cut! Print!
This is looking through what once was a theater in a company-build recreation center in Leatherwood KY. Here’s what it looked like when it was fairly new. (For the picture I shot, I was on the other side of the building) Note the cut stone that made up the exterior of this large building. The story is that the railroad welcomed Italian stonemasons to help build the many bridges and support structures as the lines extended. These masons were also responsible for many coal company buildings, notably in Lynch and Whitesburg KY.
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