I may have posted this before, it's undated. A family camping.
A 1902 Sears Roebuck buggy, Kimbro, TX
I'm sharing these sepia photos with Sepia Saturday this week.
Today's quote:
There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.
—Douglas Adams
from a Speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, UK, (1998) aka author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallaxy"
—Douglas Adams
from a Speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge, UK, (1998) aka author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Gallaxy"
What a fun post. The lady's inline skates look close to the scooters that are sold now.
ReplyDeleteTake care, enjoy your day and weekend!
Those ladies sure couldn't cross their legs and remain upright!
Delete...what a fabulous collection. The camping scene is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI immediately compared it to my early tent camping experiences.
DeleteSo many ingenious devices. Whatever will come next?
ReplyDeleteAh humans are an inventive species, aren't we?
DeleteBarbara, Love these old time photos! I collect old postcards...ideally 1910 or earlier. Love old ship photos, automobile photos, trolley and train photos as well as downtown areas as they used to be. We have visited a lot of train, auto/truck and airplane museums over the past few years. Love them all... Take Care, Big Daddy Dave
ReplyDeleteMy Dad used to take us to a train museum somewhere near St. Louis, back in the 50s...it had lots of real engines and cabooses. I bet you've got a great collection of postcards!
DeleteSeeing those cars from the mid-sixties reminds me that we used to drive cars as big as small barges!
ReplyDeleteAnd somehow we parallel parked them too! I did an expert parking while being watched in front of our post office yesterday...the woman watching gave me a thumbs up when I finished, about 6 inches from the curb, and centered in the space front to back!
DeleteInline skating looks very challenging even without the sail. Love these photos, interesting subjects to show how it was back in the days.
ReplyDeleteYes indeed, there's no way you'd get me to wear skates that size.
DeleteSaw a guy on a unicycle just the other day.
ReplyDeleteI wonder when they were invented!
DeleteThese are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed saving them to share here!
DeleteThese are precious. Now that first bicycle - how did they get on there? never been able to figure that out.
ReplyDeleteNO wonder it was a club...they probably had a mounting block, and took turns using it!
DeleteGreat pictures--and I love the Douglas Adams quote!
ReplyDeleteMe too, glad to hear he gave talks, perhaps about his work.
DeleteWow. I had enough trouble in childhood learning to ride a "normal" bike :)
ReplyDeleteLove the library on wheels!!
The non-motorized vehicles look scary -- especially those odd bicycles. Love the Houston photo. Those were the days when one could easily identify a car by its distinctive look.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun post. I really can't say which might be a favorite - they're all great, but the last one with the ladies 'inline skating' with a sail might be it! :) Happy Holidaze!
ReplyDeleteThese images were a real hoot! The tricycle I would like to try. The skates? Never!
ReplyDeleteI wish you and your family much peace and love for the new year.