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[Mikel]

Port of Los Angeles, Dec. 1944

 

[gunracer1]

is there a track that the planes run on?
I am assuming this is based upon a traditional assembly line

planes slowly moved from south to north getting built the whole time. when i worked there big billet blocks went in one end and f16s out the other.

 

[Wingnutt]

Not much has changed at the Newport News Shipyard. They're still using that same building 100 years later! Too bad they won't add more parking, 8000 people arriving at the yard from 5:30 - 8:00 makes for a bit of a parking challenge.

 

[Gunhand1]

Riding the belts backwards into the mine back in probably the 80s (maybe even into the mid 90s). If you fell asleep you'd be in for a rude awakening when you got folded up in the rock box.

Its a little safer now days, but not a whole lot more comfortable.

 

[SomeGuyFromOlympia]

Riding the belts backwards into the mine back in probably the 80s (maybe even into the mid 90s). If you fell asleep you'd be in for a rude awakening when you got folded up in the rock box.

Its a little safer now days, but not a whole lot more comfortable.


When I worked at the mill

there was a old hand painted sign specifically addressing that picture
there is always that one guy that ruins it for everyone

 

[Sceep]

they're still using that same building 100 years later!

Drop a pinpoint? I'm not seeing it.

 

[Gunhand1]

there was a old hand painted sign specifically addressing that picture
there is always that one guy that ruins it for everyone

We had a safety talk one day about not taking a shit on the belts. It was dangerous, and it got shit all over the scrapers.

 

[MChat]

Drop a pinpoint? I'm not seeing it.

I think it might be the building at "4101 Washington Ave, Newport News, VA 23607". But I think it is the opposite side of Google's Street View. If it's the same building, there has been a significant add on to it that would also block the view of the building from the angle of the original photo.

Edit: Google Earth's view of the backside

Using that view, I am less confident that it might be the building in question.

 

[MChat]

Looking at it further, I think it is the same building. The "tower" part of the building in red matches up. It looks like the section in yellow was removed; in the Google Earth image, you can see where it looks like the building was (This would account for the missing "bell tower"). The roof would also need to have been redone, the dormers look a little different and the peak off of the "bell tower" was replaced with a flat roof/deck. But I think it may be a match after all.

Edit: and the train tracks also seem to match up as well.

Train Tracks:

 

[Sceep]

Yup, I think you nailed it. Thanks.

 

[SomeGuyFromOlympia]

neat to see the different way of life
they didn't even have the 'right side of the road' figured out yet

 

[Mikel]

 

[Mikel]

UK steel mill, 1940.

 

[Mikel]

 

[Wades_76_cj7]

I can't imagine how terrifying that was flying thru flack like that.

 

[Mikel]

I can't imagine how terrifying that was flying thru flack like that.

Quite the science in hitting something moving at 300MPH at 30,000 feet, that is likely doing evasive maneuvers.

 

[subybaja]

 

[billdacat]

I might have posted this awhile back.... Talking about when men were men!
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[Arps]

3rd from left on the bottom was my neighbor growing up. I spent a lot of time watching baseball at his place as well as just hanging out. He was a great guy and had some cool stories. He took a bullet from an enemy plane in the foot. He also survived a dead stick landing in a snow covered field.

 

[Sceep]

Some stuff off the twatter.

 

[SomeGuyFromOlympia]

Some stuff off the twatter.

how dangerous
not a pair of safety glasses to be seen

 

[Mikel]

 

[Wingnutt]

Looking at it further, I think it is the same building. The "tower" part of the building in red matches up. It looks like the section in yellow was removed; in the Google Earth image, you can see where it looks like the building was (This would account for the missing "bell tower"). The roof would also need to have been redone, the dormers look a little different and the peak off of the "bell tower" was replaced with a flat roof/deck. But I think it may be a match after all.

Edit: and the train tracks also seem to match up as well.

Train Tracks:

Been away for a few, but yea, that's the one I was referring to, lots of changes, but essentially it's still there. Nice work

 

[toyotajeep]

how dangerous
not a pair of safety glasses to be seen

The thing I think about the most when I see that is the hard leather soled shoes. That had to have been slippery.

 

[Mikel]

The thing I think about the most when I see that is the hard leather soled shoes. That had to have been slippery.

I bet that in most of those pictures, there is a surface a few feet out of frame.

 

[SomeGuyFromOlympia]

I bet that in most of those pictures, there is a surface a few feet out of frame.

I would hedge the other way

that generation got it done

 

[Mikel]

I would hedge the other way

that generation got it done

That generation didn't need stickers in lawnmowers saying not to stick head into moving blades.

 

[Mikel]

Female mason, Berlin circa 1910.

 

[rockmup]

That generation didn't need stickers in lawnmowers saying not to stick head into moving blades.

Except thats a movie set

 

[SomeGuyFromOlympia]

Except thats a movie set

you are telling me that changing time on a clock back them wasn't dangerous?
I thought everything was life and death