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Three sisters listening to a radio with a horn speaker in the mid 1920s…

Notice the one sister seated on the right holding a teddy bear

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Three sisters listening to a radio with a horn speaker in the mid 1920s… Notice the one sister seated on the right holding a teddy bear Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
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My mother told me she would bicycle down to the blacksmith shop on Saturday morning with the radio battery in her bicycle basket. An apprentice would hook it up to a hand generator. She paid him ten cents. When done, she got the battery back and went home. Their radio had 3 phenolic plastic headphones. That is how they listened to music and the news. 1930s. A few years later their neighborhood got electricity. By then the battery charging was 25 cents. The newer radio had a speaker. They used kerosene glass lamps for light before they got electricity. When it clouded up in the 1950s, my grandmother and I got out those lanterns in case the power went out.

Radios hay day.

First commercial radio service began sometime around the 30s, so "mid 20s" sounds weird.

tune to that new rock station, 104.3!

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Policeman reviews newspaper headlines on a rack on a street in Albany, New York

c. 1900-1910

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Policeman reviews newspaper headlines on a rack on a street in Albany, New York c. 1900-1910 via The J. Paul Getty Museum, no known restrictions
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I like to think the police monitored the streets by walking them.

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American actress Maureen O'Sullivan with her husband John Farrow and their children

Maureen was born in Ireland on May 17th, 1911.
She became an American Citizen in 1947.

- 1950

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American actress Maureen OSullivan with her husband John Farrow and their children Maureen was born in Ireland on May 17th, 1911. She became an American Citizen in 1947. - 1950 Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
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Mia Farrow was born in 1945 so that may be she on the far left holding her mother’s hand.

Wow...so..many..kids! I wonder how she found time to be an actress. Must have been continuously pregnant for the last ten years or so!

Ronan looks like his grandfather

Memorializing the baby’s baptism.

“I Tarzan you Jane”, she beat the type casting but Tarzan never could, unfortunately Johnny W. was a one trick pony.

Something dysfunctional in this family.

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

- 1977

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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - 1977 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
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Petty's lead guitarist Mike Campbell is the real deal. Great musician !

His later work was much better

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Vintage trade card for Quaker Oats c. 1900

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Vintage trade card for Quaker Oats c. 1900 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
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🤔. Can anyone guess why he’s not been canceled?

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Domingo Ghirardelli in San Francisco, about 10 years after he established Ghirardelli Chocolate Company

c. 1862

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Domingo Ghirardelli in San Francisco, about 10 years after he established Ghirardelli Chocolate Company c. 1862 Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
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I would expect him to look like Gene Wilder. 😄

I keep Ghirardelli dark chocolate squares in our candy dish 24/7. My personal addiction 😁. We visited Ghirardelli Square several years ago in San Francisco.

Very important man to all chocolate lovers! 🙂

You earned a place in Heaven!

I’ve been to the store and factory in San Francisco. I love Ghirardelli chocolates

Worked for Ghirardelli main plant for 17 yrs… 🙂

Thank you for keeping palm oil out of your mixes.

Heavenly chocolate !!! Thank you sir ...

Virtually the only brand I buy.

He came to San Francisco from South America along with James Lick.

Best chocolate ever

Wonderful chocolate!! ❤️

Wonderful chocolate!!

Thank you sir!

Where do I find this great chocolate?

Ghirardelli chocolate is so delicious.

Awesome photo

The Best Chocolate Snack Candy I can buy

Yum..love your invention

Great photo

THANK YOU ,I LOVE CHOC !

Chocolate is good.

ThankYou RIP

Thank you for the chocolates

Love their chocolates.

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A photo of a Detroit family titled “Factory Hand at Ford” which was taken by a visitor from Japan.

- 1954

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A photo of a Detroit family titled “Factory Hand at Ford” which was taken by a visitor from Japan. - 1954 Image via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
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This was the American dream. A 'blue collar' worker could afford a nice house, car, and wonderful family life.

People were happy with fitting a family of 4 into “middle class” homes.. Now if people don’t have a house that is 2,500+ sf of living space, it’s not a house.

That was a time when the USA had a plan to move everyone into the middle class. Factory jobs came with decent salaries, safeguards and benefits.

American dream then

Those were the good old days. Edie &Jimmy

They look so proud of what they have. If a family lives in a house like that now people would look down on them and wonder why they were not out there working their a-- off to afford more. We have become so materialistic!😯

“The American Dream” at the time.

I remember post war houses like that one, when I was about that girls age. And the driveway like that one, was common.

The good old days when manufacturing was done here in our country and there were a lot of good paying jobs for American people.

Looks like my Uncle's home in Detriot and he did work at the Ford plant near 8 Mile then. Wonder what it looks like now, almost 70 yrs later.

And this was considered middle class

Life in the small bungalow! All was good and safe! Memories!

It was the best time, it was safer for kids to enjoy life! Kids will never know what fun we had!!!

Wasn't it wonderful . A family able to afford a house, a car, and 2 kids. Now, just trying to put food on the table is hard

The perfect American family!

Wonder what that house looks like now when you drive by ? 

Thanks to the UAW, a nice house, yard, well dressed family, and new car.

In a time when working class people in manufacturing jobs could afford a nice home and car. Nice pic.

Nice 1953 ford sitting there.

My grandfather was a "factory hand" at Ford

June and ward cleavers house where’s Wally and the Beaver .

Absolutely awesome picture of History!

The good old days folks right there would you look at adorable little girl life was simpler back then very nice picture that says it all.👍

Our home in Dundalk, Md. in Baltimore, at 2418 Meadow Road was made just like that. My dad Robert W. Bruck was working as an Inspector for Glenn L. Martin Plane Corporation. That was in 1952 to 1957,

Love the history in the picture.

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Headland, Colorado Basin
near Paria north of Colorado River, Chocolate Butte

- 1872

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Headland, Colorado Basin near Paria north of Colorado River, Chocolate Butte - 1872 via Wikimedia Commons, public domain
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Absolutely awesome

I love old pictures of history it's very beautiful

Good historical picture of times past.

Awesome photo

Great picture

Awesome pictures

Looks like a fun place … I’ll pass on that one.

Beautiful picture

Wow

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James Garfield
Considered to be the first U.S. President to be left-handed or ambidextrous

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Two policemen in a parade in New York City: one riding a motorcycle and the second riding in a side car with mounted machine gun

- May 1918

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Two policemen in a parade in New York City: one riding a motorcycle and the second riding in a side car with mounted machine gun - May 1918 via Library of Congress, no known restrictions
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Looks as if that department needs to be resurrected.

I wish that all police departments could have and use machine guns.

And those are only the traffic cops.

This was still during WWI and there was fear of German terrorists in NYC.

And some complain about people carrying pistols.

Love our history. Good or Bad. It is all very interesting.. We should learn few lessons from the past

I can’t think of a single good reason for this.

Probably needed again at this time!!😳😢🤬

We need those machine guns again in New York

We need this at the border!!

They were to early for Antifa!

Might be able to use a modern version now. Might have a traffic enforcement application.

Fully surprised this isn't happening today?😡 Or maybe it is, in some type of immorality.😥

Well this was when anyone could go into a hardware store and buy a tommy gun. I think they were trying to send a message

that what the cops need now days

It's interesting that at the time this photo was taken, it was completely legal for John Q. Citizen to own fully automatic weapons...

Don’t care about the machine gun, I’d love to have that Indian!

Maybe they need to go back to that!!!

Must be a tough Hood.

Gives traffic enforcement a whole new meaning 😏

Do any of you that have wrote on this topic understand that just having a gun like this will stop a lot of fun what's going on now, just out in the open will make any stupid people change their minds about what they want to do,,,period. And dollars to doughnuts it will help stop mass shootings.. our police don't want to use such a deadly weapon on any one but for damn sure it would stop this nonsense that's going on today.

Police with machine guns! Today police can get in trouble for using hand guns.

Looks like a configuration of a Thompson machine gun

A belt-fed machinegun could probably cure most traffic offences.

Colt Browning 1895 machine gun. The potato digger.

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