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I know how we like old photos. This link to Shorpy.com was posted on the Colt forum. Thought you might like to have a look see. There are some guns in there, other interesting things, too!
This is Amarillo in 1943...
Click on the pic to see a bigger version at the website.
Very good site ,great photos some really make you think about today and what is ahead for this country!
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I lived in Amarillo for 3 winters, when I blew up the pictures, I noticed the houses had chimineys.
You have to go a far distance from Amarillo to find wood worth burning, so I wonder, any old people from the high plains remember how this was done.
The inhabitents would have had to go to Bates Canyon or the Canadian River for any source of wood, and that would not have yielded " good " wood, just " burnable " wood.
Hobie,
No I did not, Pie Town is historiclly significent.
Once driving along 60 in N.M., no traffic, 4 lane divided highway, I was in my Mustang, glanced down at the speedometer, I was dayreaming, doing 93 miles per hour! I felt like I was in my living room, in my easy chair!
Pulled her down to 75, set the cruise control, I love New Mexico!
Hobie wrote:I know how we like old photos. This link to Shorpy.com was posted on the Colt forum. Thought you might like to have a look see. There are some guns in there, other interesting things, too!
This is Amarillo in 1943...
Click on the pic to see a bigger version at the website.
Judging from all the cars parked around and near the church in the near lower right hand corner of the picture of Amarillo and no cars parked around the school in the background, I'd bet that the Amarillo picture was taken on a Sunday.
Great link Hobie. Thanks for posting it.
EDIT: It's a cool picture for me as I was born in 1943.
I love old photos. I used to think that perhaps I was an old fellow but that was about 40 years ago. I'd sit and chat with the "old" folks (60+) in preference to "playing" with some of my own generation. More interesting, usually. Now I know why, they were sleepy, especially in the afternoon!
Sincerely,
Hobie
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend." Robert Louis Stevenson
I agree on thinking that they were coal burning fireplaces. My Grandmother had a coal burning stove to heat her house in the Oklahoma Panhandle up until about 1978 or '79. She converted to a Natural Gas heater back around that time. Funny, but I sort of miss the smell of that old Coal Burner.
D. Brian Casady
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