Period images to relieve some of the stress

[LCK81403]

The dog's name is "Peetie".

 

[nzcarnerd]

The dog looks to be wearing a very modern style lead set up - what ever the correct term is for it. A body strap rather than a neck collar.

[Dave Mellor NJ]

The dog was Spot,I think

[ALF1920]

Petey was the dog's name, sometimes Pete.

[nzcarnerd]

8 hours ago, Dave Mellor NJ said:

The dog was Spot,I think

That was Cal Worthington's 'dog'.  Something I remember from my 1978 trip to the US - 😁

[dibarlaw]

The Our Gang group had evolved from the "Silent" pictures of the early 1920s with many of the "Gang" aging out for other actors to maintain the same age grouping. By 1929 when this photo was taken, they were making "Talkies". Joe Cobb, (Tubbie) Farina, Mikey Daniels (I believe). The black-haired girl's name escapes me. But is not the later 1930s Darla. The small boy next to Peety the dog, his name in the movies was Weezer.

 Note the signage on the White Bus. Hal Roach Studios. Above the windshield and on the passenger door.

[twin6]

Apologies for the poor quality image.  Am curious about this make, and if those front fenders are unique enough to help identify the car in the Deckers, CO photo posted a while ago that had similar fenders (I don't think anyone ID'ed it yet).

[twin6]

Brain fade, I went back to the Deckers car, it's completely different, apologies again.  Looking forward to any clues on the make of either car.

[edinmass]

Those splash apron doors are unique, so ID of the car and coach builder should be easy..........on paper.

 

[keiser31]

33 minutes ago, twin6 said:

Apologies for the poor quality image.  Am curious about this make, and if those front fenders are unique enough to help identify the car in the Deckers, CO photo posted a while ago that had similar fenders (I don't think anyone ID'ed it yet).

1924 Paige/Detroit.

Edited May 18, 2022 by keiser31 (see edit history)

[Grimy]

29 minutes ago, twin6 said:

Apologies for the poor quality image.  Am curious about this make, and if those front fenders are unique enough to help identify the car in the Deckers, CO photo posted a while ago that had similar fenders (I don't think anyone ID'ed it yet).

Paige 6-70, 1923 or 1924.  We can barely see the vee-ed radiator but it's there.  Side-mounted spares first appeared for the 1923 model.  And those are primarily kick plates, but the rear one has a fastener to permit opening for lubing the front shackle of the rear spring.

[LCK81403]

The distraction of the child actors, child actress, and Petey has been interesting.  But the make of the car, license tag 3V-9366 has escaped identification.  Is it a Hupmobile?

 

Oddly enough, the man looking out of the motor bus, plate # 1V-4800, reminds me of my grandfather looking out from his Minneapolis gas tractor.

[LCK81403]

There are several other interesting things about this Hal Roach photo. The actor playing the policeman is wearing a very excellent full flap holster in a possible basket weave design.  That is highly unusual for a policeman.  The length of it indicates a revolver having a barrel length of at least six inches.  However, police in those days normally had revolvers with a 4-inch and/or 5-inch barrel length (Colt or Smith & Wesson), hence the holster he is wearing appears to be out of place.  For police issue an expensive basket weave design holster would be extravagant.  Also he is supposedly wearing a police hat, but it looks like a modified civilian "dockworker" cap.  The metal button on top of the cap is a rivet that joins the material together, but that metal button ca be a danger to the person wearing it.  A strike on top of the head that hits that metal button can cause serious damage to the skull.  One of my brother's was hit on the "bonker button" and he never again wore a cap with such a metal device.

[keiser31]

46 minutes ago, LCK81403 said:

The distraction of the child actors, child actress, and Petey has been interesting.  But the make of the car, license tag 3V-9366 has escaped identification.  Is it a Hupmobile?

 

Oddly enough, the man looking out of the motor bus, plate # 1V-4800, reminds me of my grandfather looking out from his Minneapolis gas tractor.

1929 DeSoto.

[Peter R.]

On 2/1/2021 at 11:39 PM, nzcarnerd said:

A Saurer bus, presumably in Switzerland. Date - ??

 

 

The picture was definitely taken in Switzerland, probably in the early 1950's. The bus appears to be a Saurer L4C Alpenwagen. The Federal Mail Service operated those buses to transport people and mail in alpine regions where localities are inaccessible by railways.

[Peter R.]

A Saurer bus repair shop during WWII….

 

 

[Peter R.]

…..and a shop in the mid 20‘s.

 

[Peter R.]

Some alpine buses on tour….

[Peter R.]

[Peter R.]

….some earlier open Saurer tour buses.

 

 

[Peter R.]

[Peter R.]

[Walt G]

Note on the tour bus photos the men with very few exceptions all are wearing ties, and caps or hats. Says a lot about the era - today if a cap is worn it is usually on backwards  so you can show everyone 'you are from da hood'  and your favorite expression is "we bad". 

Third photo down - LOVE that stone building! wow.

[58L-Y8]

Here a couple cleaned up the best I can get them with my software;

[8E45E]

2 hours ago, Peter R. said:

….some earlier open Saurer tour buses.

 

 

Interesting the rear tires are solid rubber, while the front is pneumatic.

 

Craig

[Gary_Ash]

The Saurer vehicles were interesting.  One truck made the first transcontinental U.S. trip.  A nephew, Curt Saurer, came to the U.S. from Switzerland, worked for Saurer/Mack trucks in the U.S. in early 1900s, eventually worked for Firestone many years and invented vibration-isolating rubber and steel engine mounts, had about 50 U.S. patents.

 

The cover of the book about the early Saurer truck that drove across the U.S.

(photo colorized)

 

Curt Saurer's patent for a rubber engine mount, 1931.

 

Curt Saurer and his wife Vera.  Photo courtesy of his grandson.

 

 

Edited May 19, 2022 by Gary_Ash (see edit history)

[Peter R.]

12 hours ago, Walt G said:

LOVE that stone building! wow.

It‘s actually not a building, it‘s a road driven through the rocks - the Axen Road along the shore of Lake Lucerne. Photographer Michael Aschwanden made photographs of people passing by; pedestrians, riders, horse drawn carriages, cyclists, motorists, single people, groups, workers, tourists, army, young, old, rich, poor….of just everyone that came by. Between 1911 and 1933 he took more than 7000 pictures.

 

 

Edited May 20, 2022 by Peter R. (see edit history)

[Peter R.]

[Peter R.]

 

 

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[Peter R.]

[nzcarnerd]

5 hours ago, Peter R. said:

The picture was definitely taken in Switzerland, probably in the early 1950's. The bus appears to be a Saurer L4C Alpenwagen. The Federal Mail Service operated those buses to transport people and mail in alpine regions where localities are inaccessible by railways.

I imagine any journey in that area, especially in a closed-body bus, would be slow, with lots of engine and transmission noise, any vibration being transmitted back through the body structure,  and the driver having to make frequent gear changes.

 

Driving one of those big charas with no front brakes must have required a lot of skill - even at 20 kph.

[Peter R.]

[nzcarnerd]

I guess he will grow into those pants...

 

 

 

[Peter R.]

[Peter R.]

[Peter R.]

[nzcarnerd]

1 minute ago, Peter R. said:

Relatively rare Harley Sport Twin in the lower photo.

 

Interesting that throughout history have always been people on the move. In the current 'global warming' political climate there are those activists who would rather people stayed where they were.

[Porsche 68]

Wow love the wooden bodied Mercedes!

[nzcarnerd]

Beautiful smile - 

 

[nzcarnerd]

American cars always sold well in Europe. I think this is a circa 1926 four cylinder Chrysler 50.