The 'What I'm Seeing Today' thread. (Page 51/51)
maryjane MAR 11, 11:05 AM
I guess that would explain why I didn't see it. I have pretty good eyesight (glasses) but can't quite see all the way to Idaho.
maryjane APR 03, 10:10 PM
Diggin up bones...
I was 11 when this was taken (1961) The house I grew up in with my dad's auto shop in the back of it. The only vehicles that weren't customer's are on the far left. Taken with a Brownie camera. I'm sitting in the back of dad's f-100 with my cousins.
Other than the vehicles and the less than modern look of the place, what's unusual about it?
williegoat APR 03, 10:31 PM
The first thing that strikes me is that with the false front and hay loft, it doesn't look like a house, but that is probably not what you are looking for.

On a side note, my first pickup was a '57 Ford with a 272 Y-block. I drove it twice and someone offered me $250, which was more than I paid, so I sold it.
maryjane APR 03, 11:42 PM
Not a hay loft. Slatted ventilation opening. (I dunno what the shiny thing is up there...something on the camera lens maybe.)

The house/building was a fore runner of today's barndominiums. A long building (length 3x it's width) that was Built sometime in the late 30s/early 40s, front 1/2 of the building was completely finished out 3 bedroom 1 bath house by the time we moved there when I was around 7. The loft only extended into or above the living quarters, with the shop open to the roof.
The back part was the shop. Might not look like it, but you could fit 7 vehicles in there. It had lots of big (BIG) power tools in it before my dad bought it in 1957. There were short concrete pedestals in different areas of the floor along walls, with threaded rods coming out of them, and other places, square holes in the concrete floor about 14" X14" and I guess around 4" deep. Large diameter electric cables were sticking out those openings. Someone said the place was originally all shop and electric distribution panels were build there for the military, then hat guy died and someone else bought it, finished out the front and put in a big cabinet shop. He died not long afterwards and my dad bought it. The very front left of the house was a big kitchen and in the front left of that kitchen was where the fuse box/breaker box was for the whole building.
The unusual part I asked about is the lead in cables for the electricity. There are 4 of them 3 phase.

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Raydar APR 04, 08:58 AM

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The unusual part I asked about is the lead in cables for the electricity. There are 4 of them 3 phase.



I see that, now that you called them out. But I never would have guessed.
maryjane APR 04, 09:44 AM

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Originally posted by Raydar:


I see that, now that you called them out. But I never would have guessed.


Radar, you might understand this..
The building is long gone now, as my brother inherited the property in 2008, had the whole thing torn down, remains hauled away and sold the lot. At the time the picture was taken, almost right across the street was a brand new building that was The Phone Company. Southwestern Bell back then but it's something called Frontier Communications now. Not an office where ya paid your bill, but The Phone Company, where the mysterious workings that made your calls go thru was located. Just a big building, with a walk in front door and a few employees (2-3) and when there wasn't much traffic and especially if they had the door open, you could hear a constant 'clack-clack clack clack clack clack ' that never ended tho it did slow down late at night. I guess I was about 13 when I saw the door open and a couple of men standing around outside and I walked over and asked what they did and they said "we take care of the machines inside there" I asked if I could look inside. One of them said "Yeah, I guess but just for a minute , And DON'T TOUCH NOTHING!" I had never seen anything like it. It was just row after row after row of tall busy machines and you could see all the parts just moving back and forth and up and down. It was loud too, and I was amazed and my eyes probably got big as saucers. We quickly went back out, and I asked him what all that was and he explained it was where our calls went thru and got directed to whoever we called. I never looked at a telephone the same way again.

The empty lot and phone company building opposite.

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