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re: Pictures from days gone by....
Posted on 7/29/23 at 7:41 am to TexasTiger33
Posted on 7/29/23 at 7:41 am to TexasTiger33
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New Orleans, 1910
Kolb's German Restaurant on the right side of the street.
Opened in 1899 and closed in 1995.
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Posted on 7/29/23 at 7:46 am to burgeman
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my great uncle
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E Dennis "Pete" Burge.
Later became the Principal at Baton Rouge High School and a very good Administrator.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 9:35 am to TideCPA
WW2 pen pal letters
Here is a bunch of letters between a few soldiers and a lady back home. Her daughter found them and uploaded them to ancestry. My uncle is one of the soldiers. Some pictures from the guys too.
Here is a bunch of letters between a few soldiers and a lady back home. Her daughter found them and uploaded them to ancestry. My uncle is one of the soldiers. Some pictures from the guys too.
This post was edited on 7/29/23 at 1:04 pm
Posted on 7/29/23 at 9:40 am to Traveler
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Later became the Principal at Baton Rouge High School and a very good Administrator.
He sure was.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 11:18 am to burgeman
My father flew the B26's among others. He loved the plane, but he started flying and crop dusting when he was 14. New pilots had a hard time with it. His skill at landing his B26 got him sent to Tampa Bay as a flight instructor a couple of days before transfer to fly The Hump.
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Posted on 7/29/23 at 11:35 am to gumbo2176
This post was edited on 7/29/23 at 11:40 am
Posted on 7/29/23 at 12:49 pm to Auburn1968
The B-26, aka the Widowmaker, aka the Baltimore Whore
Posted on 7/29/23 at 1:05 pm to Traveler
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Later became the Principal at Baton Rouge High School and a very good Administrator.
While I was working in Baton Rouge I would occasionally find someone who recognized my last name and the comments were always very nice. Never knew him tho, he was also dead before I was born.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 3:30 pm to FightinTigersDammit
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The B-26, aka the Widowmaker, aka the Baltimore Whore
"One a day in Tampa Bay" was a phrase I heard often when the old flight instructors had a reunion.
My father loved that aircraft because it was high performance. It was just hard for new pilots to land.
Posted on 7/29/23 at 5:09 pm to Auburn1968
Love these photos, Auburn. I thought I'd flip them horizontally to get the correct perspective though. At first I thought the fellow holding the sidearm in the second was left handed until I noticed the uniforms (in both photos) were buttoned on the wrong side.
Hope this doesn't come off as "holier than thou" with the photo correction. These were great finds!
Hope this doesn't come off as "holier than thou" with the photo correction. These were great finds!
This post was edited on 7/29/23 at 6:37 pm
Posted on 7/30/23 at 8:30 am to Swamp Angel
The dog pound on board the Normandie (1935).
Posted on 7/30/23 at 8:31 am to mauser
Babe Ruth and Yogi Berra
Posted on 7/30/23 at 8:32 am to mauser
1950s, Monte Carlo
Posted on 7/30/23 at 8:33 am to mauser
Posted on 7/30/23 at 8:34 am to mauser
Going on vacation
Posted on 7/30/23 at 8:34 am to mauser
Posted on 7/30/23 at 8:36 am to mauser
1900, Prepping the hot air balloon.
Posted on 7/30/23 at 2:38 pm to Shoeshine
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Fold3 web site
Fold3 is a legit site. As mentioned by someone else, it is part of the Ancestry.com family along with Newspapers.com.
My Ancestry membership gets me access.
I've never tried researching WW2 soldiers on there, because my family tree skips from WW1 to Korean era, so can't tell you how much help it will be to you.
I was able to get a digital version of my grandfather's Canadian Forces record from there (already had a hard copy from the archives in Ottawa), and it has been a great help in researching Civil War soldiers in both blue and gray.
My dad's info (Germany in the early 50s) is scant to non-existant there because of the fire that destroyed so many records.
All this to say, your mileage may vary, but it is a legit site and worth signing up to take a look, or get your friend who signed up to look for you and see what info is there before spending your $.
Posted on 7/31/23 at 6:23 am to PJinAtl
Spindletop 1903, The oil strike at the Spindletop salt dome in Beaumont in 1901 marked the beginning of the oil industry on the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. I had a distant relative that owned some land very near Spindletop in the 1880s. He sold it a decade before the oil strike.
Posted on 7/31/23 at 6:25 am to mauser
The Little Rascals provide the teacher with a Doctor's note excusing them from school.
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