These are not in chronological order.
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I'm guessing in Texas...what do you think?
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Close to where I now live in Black Moutain. The station is still here. Some of the buildings across the street are too. Sadly, no more trains on these tracks.
Not Black Mountain, and probably quite a few years later. I'm guessing Swannanoa, where none of this looks like this any more.
You know the wagon and horses are still running at least.
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I'm trying to limit my photos to 10 each posting, because I do tend to go on and on.
Cars through the 20th century are of high interest, as well as often being in sepia photos. So there are a lot more in my collection.
Sharing with Sepia Saturday.
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I have more old car photos, so will continue with posting some next week as well.
Goddess?
Nope, taking a break.
But Walking for Peace should get a shout out!
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From Open Culture - Paris from 300 BC to 2025
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Sorry to all who make comments. As of 8 am I cannot comment nor reply to your comments. Big brother is on blog, or perhaps just my choices are being monitored by some agency or another. Sorry. I will read what you say, definitely. And hope that I may be redeemed sometime soon!
I'm off for a CT scan of my lungs today. Wish me luck!
Barb
PS - That was easy peasy, and I'm now home listening to Buncombe County/Asheville preparedness information, but they are all taking off on the weekend, so only emergency.
Noon Friday:
UPDATE from Black Mountain, our ice storm is now expected around noon on Sat...so I've canceled my dentist appointment on Mon. If I lose power I'll go sit in my car as long as I can to keep warm there, but the nearest shelter may not be accessible due to ice, and I've heard it has only 50 beds available.
No trains here either, but we have a station. It has become a sort of seniors drop-in centre.
ReplyDeleteLove the photos. But it's strange to think that the cars of my youth are considered vintage. I think the Coke truck is the favorite. Living on the Boston to D.C> corridor we still have trains. The station in Westerly now b]is inhabited by an artists group.
ReplyDelete...Barbara, these are great and what snow!
ReplyDeleteAh, I am allowed to comment, just no reply to your comments so far today! Strange....I've already reloaded blogger. Who knows.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, AC - we'd love to have a senior drop-in center again in Black Mountain!
Suzi, I like that Coke truck too. Oh boy, you still have trains available to get places! Artists have taken over the Black Mountain train station too.
Tom - Hope we don't have another snow like that one...it seem that you get a lot more usually than we do here!
Great sepia photos! The snow images remind me of my trip to Switzerland with hubby back in 1992, we drove on a road with the snow piled that high. It was spooky. Take care, stay safe and warm. Have a great day and happy weekend.
ReplyDeleteI think Blogger is just having a comment reply problem generally right now.
ReplyDeleteWhere I live there is an old train station which is now the post office AND tracks upon which trains still run.
I like the Coca cola truck and the elaborately casual attitudes!
ReplyDeleteGreat collections of photos, I enjoyed seeing them.
ReplyDeleteEileen...can't imagine seeing that much snow, it must have been quite amazing!
ReplyDeleteMs. Moon: cool that the old train station is repurposed as a post office, and you still have trains that run there! Thanks for update about replies on blogger. It's definitely handicapping my usual conversations with folks!
Boud: Aren't those "delivery" guys enjoying themselves with the Coke truck!
Bill: It's just half of my collection of old vehicles, and I need to store them away after next week, so I don't bore folks looking at the same things!
Hope you don't lose power. We have the woodstove if we lose electricity. The stove is gas and I can light it if need be.
ReplyDeleteThat's great Marcia...and I know several other bloggers have woodstoves and gas cookstoves. I may go to a motel if the elec. goes off and it's cold inside the apartment. The storm's arrival keeps getting pushed back, so now there's almost all of Saturday with just frigid temperatures before it arrives. But having been given the double-whammy of Helene two Septembers back, everyone here is trying their best.
ReplyDeleteThis is a test. I deleted (on Chrome) a bunch of group histories which I never will go back and look at again. That did the trick. Blogger now will let me reply to you! Yay!
DeleteSepia photos are my favorite! Glad you had an easy time with the lung scan. Hoping for good results.
ReplyDeleteThanks Miss Merry! Me too, lung scan! It is likely to show what Bronchiectasis has done to my lungs, which is irreversible. That will determine lots of my decisions for the next years!
DeleteWe expect the ice tomorrow. Right now just gloomy. That would be some experience, riding in a car with a horse in the back seat. Glad your scan went okay.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how on earth they got that horse into the car in the first place!! Now to await results of the CT scan. Ice due here before Sat. nightfall as well.
DeleteThese are great pictures of old cars. That one photo looks more like cars in the 1940s? We have trains running right through the middle of our small town several times a day. I love the sound of the horns. I can almost tell exactly what intersection they're crossing by the sound. Brings back memories of years ago when I had an apt. one backyard away from the Southern Pacific railroad tracks & trains running this way & that every two hours..
ReplyDeleteI don't believe I'd ever heard of the Great Appalachian Storm of 1950. Seems that North Carolina caught just record low temperatures, 1 °F in Asheville but the big snow and winds hit states north of us. Today seems mild compared to what was predicted. I hope you don't need to sleep in your car with a horse :—)
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