Maggie’s Motivational Pic Thread v2.0 - - New Rules - See Post #1
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Klimsenkapelle. Just off of the cableway, down the backside of Mt. Pilatus, Luzerne, Switzerland.
This video needs to be narrated by David Attenborough.
If they would have pushed it out of the back of a pickup on a blacktop road outside of Houston in the late 60's it would be called "the Master of Sparks".
Deployed there from Okinawa in 83 or 84. Ninety days later, we packed up to leave, but one particular ladies man had to stay until he was cured.
These people and the others of the “depression “ era, lived like this BEFORE the depression. They fit the image so that’s what is shown all the time, but frankly, nothing really changed for them before or after the era. My father in law was a small kid during the depression. They had a farm in Oklahoma during that era. Their fields didn’t blow away, they raised their own chickens hogs and beef cattle and milk cows and goats. As he said several times “I had no idea we were poor”.
They didn’t lose their farm, they sold it. At a profit.
The plains of SE Colorado are dotted with homesteads abandon in 1930s. Most people who managed to sell their farms sold them at a "profit"
because most of these farms were claimed in the homestead act. Most of them did not sell, just packed up and headed west. I will grant you my grandma's homestead looked about like that before and after 1930, but the dirty 1930s are certainly remembered by her as time of strife and having very little. She was born in 1921, so she remembered it well. Their fields did blow away and their animals did starve. They did not loose it all because they had some irrigated land.
Looks like the Rhone River Valley, possibly near Sion. The Swiss used to run these kind of drills frequently on their highways, not so much anymore.
It also could have been next to the Meiringen AFB (boards spanning the fence and airmen coming from the right).
Guy I know who’s family went west and finally homestead in Kansas pre 1900
Said nails and blacksmiths were so limited that people would burn their house down and collect the nails and move on
I thought the Swiss built all the roads to be used as emergency airstrips…….maybe it was a law …….
So it is the U.S. interstate system, copied from the Nazi's. Every so many miles of interstate have to be straight in order to land aircraft. Eisenhower was impressed with the German autobahn system.
Looks like she's packing........ok, it's packing.............
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Have you ever noticed how many sections of our interstates are straight as an arrow and clear of trees or other obstructions for a 3 mile distance?
There's a reason for it.
I like how you have the cement protected from overspray! Genius! Eventually you will be able to go prone out there in your multicam nearly invisible to the neighbors.
Not much stuff built out of wood in SE Colorado because there are not many trees. Most homesteads around here were rock, sod, or Adobe. Grandapa used to out us to work pulling nails, straightening them, and filling coffee cans.
Grandma was part of a group known as the Christy Bastards because there was no preacher in the area to marry her parents before they started having kids. It's funny going to historic places around here like Boggsville and knowing she played in that house with those kids.
