Back In The Good Old Days <Thread #2>

This is a photo of the Sphinx in the late 1800s. It was taken from a hot air balloon and it was still covered by sand

The 500-year-old village of Haid Al-Jazil is perched on a giant rock above the Dawan valley in Hadhramaut. Once home to hundreds of people, it is now deserted as many villagers have emigrated to Saudi Arabia over the past 30 years. A 2004 census found that 17 people were left in the mud-brick village

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/gallery/2022/may/09/yemen-rich-history-endures-far-from-war-in-pictures

Manhattan 1931

In 1939, 20,000 Americans rallied in New York's Madison Square Garden to celebrate the rise of Nazism -- an event largely forgotten from U.S. history. A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN, made entirely from archival footage filmed that night, transports audiences to this chilling gathering and shines a light on the power of demagoguery and anti-Semitism in the United States.

In the late 1800s, a baboon was officially employed as a railroad signalman. He was paid in money and beer and never made a mistake.

Jack was the pet and assistant of paraplegic signalman James Wide, who worked for the Cape Town-Port Elizabeth Railway service.

James "Jumper" Wide had been known for jumping between railcars prior to an accident where he fell and lost both of his legs. To assist in performing his duties, Wide purchased the baboon named "Jack" and trained him to push his wheelchair and to operate the railways signals under supervision.

An official investigation was initiated after a concerned member of the public reported that a baboon was observed changing railway signals at Uitenhage near Port Elizabeth.

After initial skepticism, the railway decided to officially employ Jack once his job competency was verified. The baboon was paid twenty cents a day, and a half-bottle of beer each week. It is widely reported that in his nine years of employment with the railroad, Jack never made a mistake. After nine years of duty, Jack died of tuberculosis in 1890.

His skull is in the collection of the Albany Museum in Grahamstown.

1922 Gold Medal Glenwood Stove, which takes coal, wood or gas

Interesting Story ...

locomotive with a blown up boiler photographed in Canisy Normandy - August 1944.