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1874 Eads Bridge over the Mississippi River at St. Louis

That place is still in the family.

Thought you might know something of it.

Wuz you borned a poor black child?

Cool pictures!

Determined people!

I'm a bit of a history buff especially early image supported topics.

Really just posting to help archive some of these due to historical value.
Rick's made the site very searchable, it helps when folks are searching for particular historic data.

Most here would rather discuss pay toilets or bitch about Biden.
I just tire of reading the SOS, and burn a few minutes using up Rick's server space, to each his own.

I own the homestead of the family who had the first white male child born in the county.

History means a lot to us.

History and family.


Sorry Ed...I know I was supposed to say "money".

Richard Hornbuckle’s car rests where it skidded to a stop 14 inches from the edge of the Sunshine Skyway bridge, struck by the freighter Summit Venture in St. Petersburg on May 9, 1980. The freighter rammed the southbound span of the bridge, collapsing a 1,200-foot length of the bridge and sending several cars and a Greyhound bus into the water. Thirty-five people died.

History is very important, we keep repeating it, it helps tell the future in some cases.

They were hauling' water there in 1912 and still do.

A horse drawn water wagon in front of City Hall in Havre, Montana. Man sits on horse-drawn wagon in front of large brick building. 

Jim,

If I should ever venture to to your part of the world, I would really like to hear about and see some of the old places.

Really great for your family. Most of mine mostly managed to get swindled by bad choices with good old boy Bankers and such. I'm glad yours were smarter, stronger and/or luckier.

Great Grandad lost his place in a poker game.

He then borrowed the money from the banker and lawyer that cheated him and bought it back.


He didn't get to play for money after that!

I bet G Grandma didn't allow him to even see cleavage or even an ankle for 6 months after that stupidity. At least he got "back in the black" by all the work as a result of her putting that foot in his azz!

I wonder if he set the parking brake before he got out. 😳😁

I guess she was a neat old lady.

Saved his butt several times.

Like the time she got in a gunfight with the bootleggers Great Grandad ripped off.

When hunting in Colorado and I come upon one of those two or three room log cabins I think, “I wonder what its story is?” Those were some mighty tough and hardy folks.

Yep has to be worthy of my time to hear some of those stories should I make it that far north one of these days

My Grandfather, on the right, standing on a wooden bridge across the Ogeechee River in SE Georgia, around the early 1900's. He used to love to ride motorcycles. Wish he hadn't got rid of it.

There is A very small rise in the ground in eastern Montana where I shot for quite a few years. Near the ghost town of Ollie. Maybe sticks up 3 1/2 feet, maybe 20 feet long.
A couple made it that far one fall in 1897 with three children in tow.
Too late in the fall to build a cabin or structure so the guy scraped up ground to make that little bitty ridge and then he tipped their wagon over along one side of it and that family lasted out the Montana winter living under that wagon.
Very tough people indeed.
For the time I spent on and around dirt scrabble condition reservation life, I’ve stopped many times by what’s left of that little rise and thought in wonderment at that family’s sand.
I haven’t a picture, it wouldn’t show much.

Osky

That had to have a Pucker Factor of about 1000