re: Pictures from days gone by....

C.1900 Cowboys at Pot Hole City Texas Photograph

Cowboys and horses at Pot Hole City Texas Store Photograph c. 1900 showing off their ropes/lariats. Note on back says Ed Mayfield Pot Hole City Store. Pot Hole City Canyon, Sutton County Texas near Sonora. Ed Mayfield was an early rancher raising sheep, cattle, and horses, the Caves of Sonora were discovered on his property in the early 1900s.

US Navy Zeppelin Air Ship USS Los Angeles & Shenandoah

1925 Rell Clements photograph of the USS Los Angeles and Shenandoah at the Lakehurst hanger in New Jersey. Signed lower left. US Navy rigid airship Los Angeles built in 1924, decommissioned in 1932. The Shenandoah built in 1923 making the first crossing of North America by an airship, crashed in 1925 during a storm.

Sleep Shop, Baton Rouge. Think this located on Jefferson.

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Slightly deceptive given his height and very low weight. he was over 6ft and maybe 140lbs.

But she was not a woman to be trifled with.

When her husband was dying, a man came to her front yard peddling something. He was rebuffed, and an argument ensued about him leaving. Learning her husband was incapacitated, he made a pass at her. She shoved him down the steps. He made a comment about it being good her husband was dying somehow.

She walked down the steps with a pecan filet pestle. And in front of her kids, the kids she was baby sitting, and a few other women without their husbands/older sons due to the war.... Beat him to death.

She did not frick around

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Sounds like she was cut from the same cloth as my grandmother. They don’t make ‘em like that any more.

Who are they in the Mirror?

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Who are they in the Mirror?

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I'm 99% sure that is Mr. Roomer, namesake of Toomer's Drugstore in Auburn.

The NeHi bottle was a local Auburn area landmark, and the intersection is still known as "The bottle".

The jeep in the military photo has War Eagle stenciled on it, so it is an Auburn ROTC/WW2 training photo.

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I'm 99% sure that is Mr. Roomer, namesake of Toomer's Drugstore in Auburn.

The NeHi bottle was a local Auburn area landmark, and the intersection is still known as "The bottle".

The jeep in the military photo has War Eagle stenciled on it, so it is an Auburn ROTC/WW2 training photo.

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That is Toomer's Drugs. I have no idea if that is Shell Toomer. In the jeep is George S. Patton. He was the CO at Fort Benning before WWII. I'm not sure if he was reviewing ROTC guys at Auburn or if he just had that stenciled on his jeep.