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View Image“…everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile.”

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    Huck | | #1

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    carpenter and his tools - circa 1900

    View Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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      Huck | | #2

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      depression era carpenters / construction workers applying for a jobView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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        Huck | | #3

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        1944 - building a steel mill in UtahView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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          Huck | | #5

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          1941 Finnish workers building housing for refugees from Russian attacks

          View Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #6

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            1936 ranger station, OregonView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #7

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            1940 second hand plumbing fixtures store, Boston Mass.View Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #8

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            1900 - felling a treeView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #9

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            loggers posing, 1900View Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #10

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            Chicago lumber company, 1914 (year the Great War began)View Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #11

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            1939, cutting lumber at forest service camp, Mass.View Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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          7. DavidxDoud | | #12

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            there's a series of photos from this project here

            tho they are titled '1915', further research revealed them to be from ~1895 "there's enough for everyone"

          8. jimblodgett | | #26

            Still love those, David. Thanks for posting that link.Do I remember you posting a photo of a low stone bridge? 

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            Huck | | #27

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            standing walls on a So. Carolina pre-fab house, 1941View Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #28

            1942 sparkies

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #29

            mixing cement, no. carolina, 1938

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #30

            Pouring a concrete street, 1958

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #31

            interior trim work, 1870

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            Huck | | #32

            exterior door trim, 1937 Manhatten

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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          15. CardiacPaul | | #39

            Great tread Huck, really enjoyed the pictures today No one should regard themselve as "God's gift to man." But rather a mere man whos gifts are from God.

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            Huck | | #40

            thanks.  1902 brick house

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #41

            St. Mary's Cathedral under construction, Sydney 1920's

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #42

            Rose Seidler House, Wahroonga, Sydney, 1951

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            Huck | | #43

            Moving the Wabash Railroad depot 1914

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            View Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Edited 6/19/2009 2:00 am by Huck

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            Huck | | #44

            manhatten hotel fire escape, 1935

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            Huck | | #45

            newly built house, federation style

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #46

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            1943 shingle style house, houston texasView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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          23. shakychisel | | #47

            What a great series of photos!

            Well done!

            Robin

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            Huck | | #48

            1933 OregonView ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #49

            heavy equipment, 1911 style (steam shovel, Panama Canal)

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            Huck | | #50

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            Douglas Dam, Tennessee, 1942, brace and bit

            View Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Edited 6/20/2009 1:34 pm by Huck

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            popawheelie | | #51

            That Texas shingle style house looks like a fire waiting to happen. It would go soooo fast.

             

             

            "There are three kinds of men: The one that learns by reading, the few who learn by observation and the rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."Will Rogers

            Edited 6/20/2009 1:55 pm by popawheelie

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            Huck | | #52

            and it needs a paint job!View Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #53

            1940's cotton field worker's dwelling

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #54

            and now for a peek at a commercial / retail building, Louisiana 1940

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #55

            roadside maintenance in the days before chainsaws - 1936

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #56

            doodabug's ancestors, 1900's

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #57

            installing telephone pole, Oregon 1933

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #58

            workbench, 1913

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            Huck | | #59

            1938 portable jobsite air compressor

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #60

            low bidder hacks throw some fru-fru trim up to make it look fancy, some things never change.  =)  Paris exposition, transportation building 1900

            View ImageView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            zachariah | | #62

            Fantastic thread Huck, Thanks!!!

          38. doodabug | | #61

            How did you get a hold of my family pictures?

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            McDesign | | #13

            You don't usually see Finnish carpenters doing framing.

             

            Forrest

          40. Recko | | #14

            groan................ 

            http://www.grosshillrentals.com

          41. seeyou | | #15

            Stop that. I've got to remember to not open your posts when I'm eating or drinking. Makes a mess.http://www.quittintime.com/      View Image        

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            FatRoman | | #16

            I was pretty sure I'd spot you in that photo.But all I saw were the trees.'Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt man doing it' ~ Chinese proverb

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          43. Hiker | | #24

            I am quite proud to say my grandfathers may have been one of those carpenters and the reason you don't see any Russians is that they got their budd kicked by those same Finnish carpenters.

            Too much sisu in my blood not to respond.

             

            Bruce

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            nater | | #17

            I only count 3, maybe 4. How do you get 1,941?

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            Huck | | #18

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            1883 photo, statue of liberty

             View Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #19

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            1934 jackhammerView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #20

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            1936, making camp seatsView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #22

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            1933, IdahoView Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            Huck | | #23

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            1875 Sydney, Australia (why we have building codes)View Image"...everyone needs to sit on a rock, listen to the surf, and feel the ocean breeze in their face once in awhile."

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            IMERC | | #21

            where's the attacking Russians??? 

            Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming<!----><!----><!---->

            WOW!!! What a Ride!

            Forget the primal scream, just ROAR!!!

             

            "Some days it's just not worth chewing through the restraints"

      2. jimblodgett | | #25

        That looks like it might have been one of the early Fests. You see Mike Smith coming out of the can anywhere in there? 

    2. Grier | | #4

      Nice idea for a thread.

      bump

      Also, nice pants you have on there. Any chance you could give me a link where I could find those pants online?

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    davidhawks | | #33

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    Piffin

    The best reward for a job well done is the opportunity to do another.

    1. PatchogPhil | | #34

      E-Piffin-y Moment????

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      Quantum materiae materietur marmota monax si marmota monax materiam possit materiari?

  3. draftingguy | | #35

    Logging railroad trestle under construction in California, circa 1910.

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  4. bobbys | | #36

    Best thread of the year so far for me Huck .

    You Rock!!!!

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      McDesign | | #37

      Are you Finnished now?

      1. bobbys | | #38

        Ok. Best pun of the year goes to McDesign!!!!!

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