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Old 03-04-2016, 11:33 AM   #1
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I just got an email from my Wife's Aunt. This was one of the pics. Just thought I would pass it along. Smitty
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Old 03-04-2016, 11:40 AM   #2
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Very cool pic !
I think I hear Earl Scruggs in the background
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Thx, Always nice to see new pics!
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Thanks for sharing.
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I'm always amazed at how long the horse was used. It seems that they stuck on longer commercially than as transportation. Great photograph thanks for sharing. Here's one in the big city.
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I just got an email from my Wife's Aunt. This was one of the pics. Just thought I would pass it along. Smitty

Thanks for posting....my kind of photo to see.
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I'm always amazed at how long the horse was used. It seems that they stuck on longer commercially than as transportation. Great photograph thanks for sharing. Here's one in the big city.

It's these kind of memories I want to leave this world with, nothing today can take there place.....IMO.
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Old 03-04-2016, 01:23 PM   #8
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Quinn,Do you have any pictures of your grandfathers garage?Not sure if it is now a home,a business,or some kind of home business.It's still a neat looking little set of buildings.A picture of his International wrecker would be interesting too.
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I'm always amazed at how long the horse was used. It seems that they stuck on longer commercially than as transportation. Great photograph thanks for sharing. Here's one in the big city.
I remember horses being used in London up to the 60's.

I used to help out on a local milk delivery to make pocket money. We had an electric (battery) one ton truck. A competitor still used horse and wagon. When I asked him why he still used a horse, he whistled and the horse walked up the block to where he was standing.

"Never saw a truck do that" he said.
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I remember horses being used in London up to the 60's.

I used to help out on a local milk delivery to make pocket money. We had an electric (battery) one ton truck. A competitor still used horse and wagon. When I asked him why he still used a horse, he whistled and the horse walked up the block to where he was standing.

"Never saw a truck do that" he said.
Do you know a delivery panel wagon like that is good working order today could cost almost as a low end Model A? There is a milk can pick up wagon not too far from me and it's worth is about $5,000.
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I ran a custom thrasin (threshing) machine in the mid fifties and some the farms still used real horse power!

Sewall, who remembers the good ole days!
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Smitty,
I've had that pic for a long time. I remember old country stores, such as that. I could write a book about them. They were like the NEWS CENTER & the LOCAL GOSSIP CENTER & the LOCAL EMPLOYMENT CENTER, all in one. Their ICE HOUSE did a thriving business. Local, fresh, produce & LIVE Catfish, in a tank attracted a lot of business, also.
The CHICKENS got FAT, on stuff spilled from feed bags. At Shorty Roberts' Store, I remember a man cutting a hole in his just purchased Chicken Feed bag & throwing out some, for the store chickens! Once, a REALLY MEAN OLD ROOSTER appeared, Shorty thinks sumbody DUMPED him there, to git rid of him!
If you ever had a MEAN OLD ROOSTER, I'll bet you a QUARTER that you recomember his NAME--LOL
Whin our Model A got that crappy dirty, Chief drove it into the Clear Creek Ford & we had a washing party & beat on the Fenders & Hitch Hiking Boards, to get the MUD out! Momma would scrub the lower parts of the car with a RATTED OUT, OLD Straw broom. (Maybe thet's why the Fender Welt "went away") Friends would often say, "How do you keep yo' car lookin' SO GOOD"?
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My father told me about an old "ragpicker" who travelled the streets with a horse drawn wagon well in the 1940's. When asked why he didn't get a truck to replace the horse, he would answer, "Well, so who would I talk to all day?".
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My father told me about an old "ragpicker" who travelled the streets with a horse drawn wagon well in the 1940's. When asked why he didn't get a truck to replace the horse, he would answer, "Well, so who would I talk to all day?".
That's interesting -- when I was a young lad (maybe 5 or so) in Johnson City NY before we moved to the boondocks there was also a "rag man" in a horse drawn wagon shouting his needs thruout the streets which I had totally forgotten till I read this post .
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Neat photo thanks! Closest we had to this in town was the old DX station, OLD wooden building heated by a pot bellied coal stove, everything inside was antique still being used the old National Cash Register, Coke machine from the 30's,glass counter with candy bars pumps outside had been changed over to Tokheim Model 39's from 1939! Pumps were the most modern things at the station. Still had the globes on top.

Was bulldozed down in 1968 and a new station built. From what I heard most everything was scrapped nobody thought to save anything
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Old 03-04-2016, 03:47 PM   #16
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thanks for sharing a great photograph. Wayne
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In oakland California the Rag man had a horse and buggy into the early 50s

while i was in Philadelphia in the mid 60s i saw a black family with a farm wagon and horse going down broad street
right down town philadelphia
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I like it.
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