What We Do When The Cable Goes Out
Category: 1900s
But That Train Keeps A-Rollin’
Well-dressed workers flank a locomotive in the Illinois Central Railyard of Paducah, Kentucky, during the flood of 1913. I imagine the water was a tad unclean.
The Labor Of Laying Each Brick By Hand
In this turn-of-the-century shot, these men were finishing paving Main Street in Watertown, Wisconsin. The pic was taken by Henry Bergman in 1900. A wider shot includes the foreman to the left. I think I’d prefer his job. Easier on the joints.
And these days? Well, they do it like this.
Sticky Summer Snack
When Pin Boy Was A Viable Career
Every Day I’m Hustlin’
Rally ‘Round The Piano For A Sing-Song
Don’t Walk In Through The Out Door, Out Door
I’m The Queen Of The World
Final Phase Of WWI: Germans Retreat
Thursday Trash Day: Level Epic
We reorganized our guest bedroom over the last few days, tweaking the western theme and moving furniture, painting touch-ups, and hanging frames. In the process, an old (read 1980s) dresser, about as tall as I am, was kicked to the curb for today’s trash men to carry away to a landfill far away from subdivisions, where people like me don’t have to give it another thought. Praise da Lort, as Madea would say.
Of course, we realized the dresser would be long gone by the time the trashmen made their mid-morning rounds; the scavengers come at sunrise to whisk away one man’s trash and make it their treasure. This is a given. Always has been, always will be. These are the same people who arrive for 10am garage sales at 7am, hepped up on Lort-knows-what and eager to haul off half your stash. Is it the same where you live?
Winter’s Over: No More Chopping Wood!
I Don't Get It 