Friday, December 17, 2021

Some early modes of transporting oneself with a machine!

 

Kendall Green Bicycle Club, 1884


A tricycle...1882


Lawson's Motor Wheel, 1902

Cowgirls advertising a wild west show in Wichita Falls in 1918

An early book mobile in Washington County MD, 1912

Houston TX 1965, which hasn't changed that much! I drove to visit relatives several times in the 70s and 80s.


I may have posted this before, it's undated. A family camping.


A 1902 Sears Roebuck buggy, Kimbro, TX

Two young ladies inline skating with a sail in Berlin, 1923.


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"




24 comments:

  1. What a fun post. The lady's inline skates look close to the scooters that are sold now.
    Take care, enjoy your day and weekend!

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    1. Those ladies sure couldn't cross their legs and remain upright!

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  2. ...what a fabulous collection. The camping scene is wonderful.

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    1. I immediately compared it to my early tent camping experiences.

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  3. So many ingenious devices. Whatever will come next?

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  4. Barbara, 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

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    1. My 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!

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  5. Seeing those cars from the mid-sixties reminds me that we used to drive cars as big as small barges!

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    1. And 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!

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  6. Inline skating looks very challenging even without the sail. Love these photos, interesting subjects to show how it was back in the days.

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    1. Yes indeed, there's no way you'd get me to wear skates that size.

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  7. Saw a guy on a unicycle just the other day.

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  8. These are precious. Now that first bicycle - how did they get on there? never been able to figure that out.

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    1. NO wonder it was a club...they probably had a mounting block, and took turns using it!

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  9. Great pictures--and I love the Douglas Adams quote!

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    1. Me too, glad to hear he gave talks, perhaps about his work.

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  10. Wow. I had enough trouble in childhood learning to ride a "normal" bike :)
    Love the library on wheels!!

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  11. 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.

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  12. What 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!

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  13. These images were a real hoot! The tricycle I would like to try. The skates? Never!
    I wish you and your family much peace and love for the new year.

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