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re: Pictures from days gone by....
Posted on 2/14/23 at 4:05 pm to MorbidTheClown
Posted on 2/14/23 at 4:05 pm to MorbidTheClown
A photo of an engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958. (Photo by Berenice Abbott).
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Posted on 2/14/23 at 5:18 pm to MorbidTheClown
Posted on 2/14/23 at 5:20 pm to Kafka
NFL exhibi-- er sorry, I mean "pre-season" game ticket, 1962
Posted on 2/14/23 at 6:07 pm to Kafka
We're moving my mother into my brother's home and packing the last of the boxes to be moved. Ran across some very interesting photos from way back when West Virginia's first oil wells were being drilled. Dad had collected some of these photos from people he met as a young, newly graduated petroleum engineer from LSU who was beginning his career with Columbia Gas in 1954. All of these wells predate his time in West Virginia (if not his birth as well).
This is one of the first oil wells drilled in Gilmer County, West Virginia.
Just thought I'd share some old photos (more coming in later posts) of a few oil and gas wells from the Appalachian oil and gas fields. I can imagine that seeing oil derricks on mountainsides is probably a bit strange for people who usually see them in swamps or off shore.
Right click and "open image in new tab" to see the full size photo.
This is one of the first oil wells drilled in Gilmer County, West Virginia.
Just thought I'd share some old photos (more coming in later posts) of a few oil and gas wells from the Appalachian oil and gas fields. I can imagine that seeing oil derricks on mountainsides is probably a bit strange for people who usually see them in swamps or off shore.
Right click and "open image in new tab" to see the full size photo.
This post was edited on 2/14/23 at 7:37 pm
Posted on 2/14/23 at 6:25 pm to Swamp Angel
Gas Well No. 4053 operated by Columbia Natural Resources (Formerly United Fuel). Surface property owner: J.M. Hinzman. Near Given, Jackson Co, WV. Last permit pulled May 26, 1932. Vertical natural gas well is plugged. Well API: 4708700019
This post was edited on 2/14/23 at 6:32 pm
Posted on 2/14/23 at 6:56 pm to Swamp Angel
This one is near the small town of War, WV. It's hard to determine the exact date this photo was made, but the automobiles in the photo give at least an inkling of an idea. The derrick for this well was being assembled at the time the photo was taken.
Posted on 2/14/23 at 7:11 pm to Swamp Angel
The hilly, and sometimes mountainous, terrain of West Virginia made it difficult and frequently impossible to carry equipment to the well locations with powered vehicles. Teams of oxen were used to deliver materials to wells even into the late 1930s and early 1940s in some regions.
This photo comes from near Griffithsville in Lincoln County, WV up Garrett's Bend Rd near the head of Turkey Creek. Pennzoil operated eight oil wells on the property of Kenneth Spurlock (later owned by Freeman E. Goode) from 1926 through the 1980s. Even today, in 2023, the wells are occasionally started up to pump residual oil that slowly refills the reservoir beneath them. Much of the equipment and machinery used in the wells is original to the day they first went into production.
This photo comes from near Griffithsville in Lincoln County, WV up Garrett's Bend Rd near the head of Turkey Creek. Pennzoil operated eight oil wells on the property of Kenneth Spurlock (later owned by Freeman E. Goode) from 1926 through the 1980s. Even today, in 2023, the wells are occasionally started up to pump residual oil that slowly refills the reservoir beneath them. Much of the equipment and machinery used in the wells is original to the day they first went into production.
This post was edited on 2/25/23 at 9:34 am
Posted on 2/14/23 at 7:19 pm to Swamp Angel
Sometimes it actually was possible to use tracked machinery to deliver equipment to the production wells. Of course, it doesn't look particularly safe or well balanced going up the hillside like this.
Posted on 2/14/23 at 7:34 pm to Swamp Angel
Last natural gas well photo for the day. Not sure where exactly this one was. Photo wasn't labeled. Could be Lincoln County, could be McDowell County. Pretty certain it's not Kanawha County due to the steepness of the hillside.
Posted on 2/15/23 at 4:59 am to Swamp Angel
Smoking etiquette for women, 1960
Posted on 2/15/23 at 5:00 am to mauser
Prohibition, hiding the liquor in a cane.
Posted on 2/15/23 at 5:03 am to mauser
Bonework with Betty Grable's leg.
Posted on 2/15/23 at 5:04 am to mauser
Posted on 2/15/23 at 9:32 am to Burger55
quote:
Isn't that the Empire State building behind him?
Yes, looks like it.
Posted on 2/15/23 at 9:34 am to kywildcatfanone
Stoney First Nation Member, Guide Samson Beaver With His Wife Leah And Their Daughter Frances Louise, 1907. Photo Taken By Mary Schäffer
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:08 am to mauser
Though the habit is much more rare than then, this etiquette should still hold true today.
Posted on 2/15/23 at 10:21 pm to BRich
Joe Louis and Byron Nelson
Posted on 2/16/23 at 6:20 am to BRich
1981, Clash of the Titans
Posted on 2/16/23 at 6:21 am to mauser
1955, The Lone Ranger at the grand opening of Disneyland
Posted on 2/16/23 at 6:23 am to mauser
Nena von Schlebrügge, Uma Thurman's mom
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