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- Zeff for Chills: 1901 January 11, 2025Washington, D.C., circa 1901. "View of E Street N.W., north side, looking west from 12th Street." 5x7 inch glass negative, D.C. Street Survey Collection. View full size.Dave
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- Mrs. Claus: 1949 December 27, 2024Christmas 1949 in Valparaiso, Indiana. That's Grandma in a Kodachrome slide. View full size. Our Christmas coda is this cocktail-hour Kodachrome submitted by Shorpy charter member Delworthio 16 years ago, in 2008. Cheers!delworthio
- The Third Man: 1951 December 19, 2024Occupied Germany at the U.S.-Soviet sector The East/West German border circa 1951, ten years before the Berlin Wall was built. U.S. Army soldiers Harry Manville, Dave Crosson, and Ray Kwapil (my dad). I have the Agfa Karat 35mm and Rolleicord 6x6cm Dad is dangling. Nice cameras, they are still working. Location: "Untersuhl by Eisenach, Germany, […]JeffK
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- The Pedant In Me January 11, 2025In reply to Capital Transit: 1937: Wonders why they needed to specifically sign the "Front Entrance" at the FRONT of the Bus, was there a "Rear Entrance" on the Back? ... Seeing myself out, thanks [Maybe it's for folks who can't tell the difference between a bus and a streetcar? - Dave] Bus, Streetcar, Locomotive […]HenryPorter
- Front Entrance January 11, 2025In reply to Capital Transit: 1937: In the horsecar era, the front platform was the exclusive domain of the "mule skinner", and passengers boarded, paid their fares to the conductor, and disembarked at the rear platform. This practice carried over into the electric streetcar era. As public transit ridership declined, conductors were eliminated and the […]LarryDoyle