Light Industrial Plant
These photos are from about 1960s. The originals are large format 35mm Ektachromes. It looks like an incinerator burning the refuse from another plant. We also have a vintage dump truck dumping stuff into a hopper, possibly coal?
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Light Industrial Plant
Light Industrial Plant
These photos are from about 1960s. The originals are large format 35mm Ektachromes. It looks like an incinerator burning the refuse from another plant. We also have a vintage dump truck dumping stuff into a hopper, possibly coal?
Everything Mickey Guest Post
Hello all!
I made a guest post over the at the Everything Mickey blog. The focus was a families 1959 trip to Disneyland. Even I was surprised at some of the gems in that collection.
As I researched further I realized that the pictures were taken within weeks of the opening of Tomorrowland in 1959. Four rides has just opened, Autopia, Submari [...]
Union Pacific 4012
Union Pacific 4012: Big Boy
The “Big Boy” is an articulated 4-8-8-4 Steam Engine. 4-8-8-4 denotes that it is a locomotive with a four-wheel leading truck, two sets of eight driving wheels, and a four-wheel trailing truck, in other words, it’s HUGE. Only 25 total were built, including the one shown in this pictures, 4012.
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Alaska 1971
Alaska 1971
These pictures are from a collection of slides that date to 1971. We have pictures of a glacier falling into the sea, and a ruined building with a totem pole next to it. I have no idea where exactly these pictures were taken.
***Update*** –
I believe these pictures are of the Columbia Glacier.
“The Columbia Glaci [...]
Bloomington Petroglyph Park
Bloomington Petroglyph Park
These pictures are a collection of 35mm slides take at Bloomington Petroglyph Park in Utah. The petroglyphs were created by the Ancient Anasazi Indians who lived in the area.
What makes this park more interesting then many, is that it’s in the St. George Suburbs of Bloomington Utah and seems to have been foun [...]
35mm Slide – Couple on Beach
Taken in July 1968. Not sure of the location, although it was in with a collection of slides from British Columbia.
35MM Slide – Vintage Cars
35MM Slide – Vintage Cars
Taken outside of San Francisco in July 1959 on the way to Muir Woods National Monument.
Please comment below if you know what make model these vehicles are.
*update* – the car in front is a French made Simca Aronde. It was not sold in the US, so it was shipped over. The car in the back is a 1955 Plymou [...]
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