Ran across these recently. The first is my Grandfather, DW Hounshell, at the curing trough. Smoke house behind the farm house, SW Virginia. Taken right after WW II. We did all our own meat slaughter, curing and were pretty much self sufficient.
Second is the same gentleman, but much earlier, with his sons. More were born later, but this is Bill, Charles and Fred. Bill and Charles went on to serve in WW II. Bill with Patton in North Africa and Europe. Tank commander. A Sargent. Charles with the Navy. Gunnery officer on Destroyers. Had 4 ships sunk out from under him. Three by kamakazi.
Third picture is my Mom on the left, (now 98 years old), with Bill, Charles, Fred and my aunt Mable.

Neat old pictures Sam!

Thanks for sharing, Sam!

Nice indeed.

Cute pictures!

These old photos can be really interesting.

This is my father and his future FIL, my grandfather. They ran a portable grain grinder for a while at the end of the depression. Shortly after this, Dad joined the navy, 6 mo. before Pearl Harbor. He and Mom got married a few weeks after Pearl. They'd planned it for the following summer but with the war, many couples moved up their plans because of the uncertainty.

Here's my G,grandfather. Small grocer in Cleveland Tn (Bradley County)

small world. I have a number of close friends from Cleveland, including one old buddy from elementary school down in Kissimmee FL, that is a doctor there now.

I have a bunch, but currently the only ones I have posted on Photobucket are of my dad circa WW-2. A few.



Dad and his oldest sister



Coming home from Europe, Spring 1946. Dad spent almost a year in Europe after the war ended.



Feb. 1945. Dad was sent to Europe as a replacement at the height of the Battle of the Bulge. He was sent as a rifleman, but transferred to a medical unit after getting there.

Somewhere my wife has a pic of the inside of a restaurant in Chicago during the depression. It was owned & operated by some of her ancestors. It was a regular eating place of some notables like Al Capone.

There is something about looking at old family photos. Sharing the past, learning more about who we are.
Anyone else have old family photos? Back around WW II or earlier?

My brother and I driving my grandmom's brother's WWII Surplus 1940 Ford Jeep.

My prized BB gun and cowboy hat. My grandmother had that Oldsmobile long enough, I helped drive her back to Montana from California in 1970...

Daisy md. 25?

This was my dad's ride during the 2d half of the war. They used them to watch for U boats along both coasts. Dad was a radioman but he had a fine touch for machines and when landing in bad weather got dicey, his captain often put him in the seat to land it. They tried to get him into OCS so he could take flight training but the navy said he was too old, at 27.

I'm not sure if this pic was from his 1st duty in NJ or his last 2 years at Tillamook, OR. The 1 remaining hangar at Tillamook is now a WWII air museum.

My Grandmother on the left and great uncles and aunts



My Dad early in the Korean war.

A well scrubbed bunch, eh76.

That was 1911

My dad on the Rhine....

Thanks for these great old photos - love 'em. Will try to find and post something.

The family homestead near Denver. My grandpap holding the team.



great grandpa on moms side. the tall kid...


great grandpa on dads. in back and later in life






grandpap on the wagon and dads aunt having a beer on the sacks


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couple more of great grandpa
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My all time favorite of my dad in the Yellow Mules, near where Big Sky is now...

Those are all so cool! Some of 'em at or around WWII time frame gave me goosebumps just thinking what they went through!

My granddad (right) on wedding day with his cousin, who was his best man. 1913. Eastern Williamson co. Texas

My great grandparents at the turn of the century, prescott az













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My great-great grandmother somewhere around 1885.

The baby in her lap is my great Grandfather, Noah Bristoe.

Some more of my dad's WW-2 service.

After the war German civilians were forced to dig up mass graves and properly re-bury bodies around some concentration camps.






Czech civilians celebrating after the war




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My father (center) somewhere in Europe.


On his truck mounted crane. (Pants optional.)

Definitely Sam...

thanks for posting...many of those look just like the same South Western VA and SE WVa family pics I have tons of... Mountain Folks...

They might not have had much in the way of possessions.. but they certainly were Rich in Family, and other values that our society is very poor in nowadays...

Great pics all, thanks for sharing.

Cool thread

My maternal grandmother on the right working at the Booth Cannery in Pittsburg California (where I was born and raised). Hard to imagine that the salmon population was basically decimated with commercial fishing closing in the mid-50's. Mt grandfather and uncles all fished. She cruised a skiff across the Sacramento river, a mile and a half or so, from my mother's home in Collinsville to work every day. The smile says it all to me as I find it hard to imagine many women doing this today. By the way, she was an inch shy of 5'. Tough and, at times, downright mean.

KRP

The gentleman on the left in the top photo shows good taste in firearms, looks like a Savage 1899. Not still in the family is it? Those are great pictures.

My Dad during WWII.

My GGfather is sitting and that's his hunting partner, both named Joe. They were quite famous in Arizona territory as lion hunters and were invited by President Roosevelt to hunt with him on Judge Wheeler's ranch in California.

He owned the Old Winsor Hotel on Gurley st. Helped pull the bar out of the Palace when it was burning down and help rebuild it along with other business owners, as it was a famous landmark frequented by the likes of the Earps and Doc Holiday. It was said the Holiday was on such a winning streak at the Palace, that after a couple of months, he went to Tombstone following Wyatt a rich man.

That is a 1899, that picture was taken between 1910 and 1915. Though that wasn't our family's gun, it's funny that my first rifle I bought with my summer ranching money was 99, it was a 60s model in 308. Killed a lot of deer with that gun.

My GGfather died in a horse wreck in rough Az country, hunting a lion for a local rancher solo with one dog. 1915.

Kent

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Joe Archambeau my GGfather and Joe Drew had many articles written about them. This one's funny because of the guy they took with them claimed to be treed by their dogs.

These aren't my family photos, but some museum photos of Joe Drew, just interesting the equipment and gun he has in the scabbard.

On the farm during the Oklahoma "Dust Bowl" - My mom (on left) with her uncle and older sister (Geri)


My mom (left), older sister Geri, and baby brother (Vince) and a younger sister (Helen.) Total of eight sisters and one brother.


My mom waiting for her fiance (my dad) to return from the war.


My mom and dad, right after the war


My mom on her honeymoon at an undisclosed hotel. (I got this photo from one of my aunts a few years after my dad passed away.)



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Another pic from the war...


My dad someplace in France or Germany with a pike he no doubt killed with a grenade...





Probably beat C-rats!

One of the greatest men I ever knew. My cousin Carlisle.

Here he is again.

My great grandpa in the middle around 1900 in Upper Micihigan or northern Wisconsin. Before he left in the fall he left a dollar for his wife in case she needed it for something. In the spring when he came back she still had the dollars. I don't know where I went wrong.

Hunters in 1944 check in a deer at a check station. Today, check stations are a thing of
the past, as all Oklahoma deer hunters must use the Internet to check in their harvested
game. Photo Provided by Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

A few from Gila River, AZ 'Internment camp' during WWII, and a couple others of my aunt's beau and friends before he headed off to war with the 442nd RCT. He was killed in action in Italy. A pic or two after the war too. Neat thread.













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Love these old pics. Thanks for sharing 'em!

Wisconsin family farm established in 1862. First house was made of logs and can be seen in rear of new two-story house.
My paternal ancestors. Left to right rear: Great grandmother, GG grandmother, Great grandfather. Front: Aunt, grandfather.

what a great thread!

My Great Grandfather, and his family. Mom's side of the family. Picture taken about 1908. SW Virginia, in the mountains.


My Dad's mother, top left, taken in 1914. The kids are my Dad on the left, his twin brother on the right. Middle Georgia.

Grandfather ...1940-ish when stationed in Panchevo.

My Great Grandfather getting lunch, Erie, Pa.