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… great! Looks to be c.1958/9 …

I am petrified by rocks !

Could be a Donegal thing?

Rock Band!

I bet they have a singer, a bass player, a drummer, and the rest play guitar.

Suck Diesel Good one

Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego. This building is still here. Originally I believe it was The Broadway, now it's Macy's.

Fashion Valley Mall, San Diego. This building still stands today. I believe it was originally The Broadway, now it's Macy's.

Fashion Valley Mall in San Diego. This building is still here. Originally I believe it was The Broadway, now it's Macy's.

Toulouse Airport, France.

PSA MD-80 landing at San Diego.

Pan Am 727 landing at San Diego.

China Southwest Airlines, Boeing 757-200.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Lind
'Johanna Maria "Jenny" Lind (Madame Goldschmidt) (6 October 1820 – 2 November 1887), was a Swedish opera singer, often called the "Swedish Nightingale". One of the most highly regarded singers of the 19th century, she performed in soprano roles in opera in Sweden and across Europe, and undertook an extraordinarily popular concert tour of the United States beginning in 1850. She was a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Music from 1840.

Lind became famous after her performance as Agathe in Der Freischütz at the Royal Swedish Opera in 1838. Within a few years, she had suffered vocal damage, but the singing teacher Manuel García saved her voice. She was in great demand in opera roles throughout Sweden and northern Europe during the 1840s, and was closely associated with Felix Mendelssohn. After two acclaimed seasons in London, she announced her retirement from opera at the age of 29.

In 1850, Lind went to the United States at the invitation of the showman P. T. Barnum. She gave 93 large-scale concerts for him and then continued to tour under her own management. She earned more than $350,000 (equivalent to $13,545,000 in 2025) from these concerts, donating the proceeds to charities, principally the endowment of free schools in Sweden. With her new husband, Otto Goldschmidt, she returned to Europe in 1852, settling in England in 1855. She had three children and gave occasional concerts over the next three decades. From 1882, she was a professor of singing at the Royal College of Music in London for some years.'

A very similar image was on sheet music thought to be from the 1840s
www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw251159/Jenny...

And another similar pose on sheet music:
- levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu/collection/188/061

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_Fane,_Countess_of_Westmorland
"Sybil Mary Fane, Countess of Westmorland (20 August 1871 – 21 July 1910), born Lady Sybil Mary St Clair-Erskine, was a British aristocrat and socialite."

Her title after marriage was spelled Westmorland, without the "e."
See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westmorland and en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Fane,_13th_Earl_of_Westmorland

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gibbons
Notice -- "Gibbons" not "Giddons"

"James Gibbons (July 23, 1834 – March 24, 1921) was an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Baltimore for more than forty years, from 1877 until his death in 1921. Created a cardinal in 1886, he was the second American cardinal, after John McCloskey.

Ordained a bishop at age 34, Gibbons previously served as Apostolic Vicar of North Carolina (1868–1872) and Bishop of Richmond (1872–1877). In 1876, he published the apologetic book The Faith of Our Fathers, which became a best-selling work. During his time as Baltimore's archbishop, Gibbons became one of the most recognizable Catholic figures in the country. He defended the rights of organized labor and advocated for Americanism as a means of assimilation."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._Phillips_Oppenheim
"Edward Phillips Oppenheim (22 October 1866 – 3 February 1946) was an English novelist, a prolific writer of best-selling genre fiction, featuring glamorous characters, international intrigue and fast action. Notably easy to read, they were viewed as popular entertainments. He was featured on the cover of Time magazine in 1927."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_W._Folk
"Joseph "Holy Joe" Wingate Folk (October 28, 1869 – May 28, 1923) was an American lawyer, reformer, and politician from St. Louis, Missouri. He was Governor of Missouri from 1905 to 1909."

The Bemidji daily pioneer. (Bemidji, MN), Jun. 13 1904.
- www.loc.gov/resource/sn86063381/1904-06-13/ed-1/?sp=1&...
"REGRET IS EXPRESSED.
China Will Make Proper Amends for Killing of Correspondent.
Washington, June 13. - Secretary Hay has received a call from Mr. Chow Tzchi, the first secretary of the Chinese legation here, who expressed the deep regret of his government at the reported killing near Newchwang of the American newspaper correspondent, Etzel, by Chinese soldiers who suspected him of being a pirate.
The legation has received no details, but the secretary was able to assure Secretary Hay that his government would make all proper amends for the unfortunate affair if the reports were true."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L._M._Shaw
"Leslie Mortier Shaw (November 2, 1848 – March 28, 1932) was an American businessman, lawyer, and politician. He served as the 17th Governor of Iowa and was a Republican candidate in the 1908 United States presidential election. He was Secretary of the Treasury from 1902 to 1907."

“When I land without tearing the airplane up, I feel good.”
— Chuck Yeager

There were no laser printers or PCs in 1974. Microprocessors were not yet common. No bar codes were used in the mails. There was no internet. A Pitney Bowes postal meter machine printed postage and addresses either were on printed labels by data processig people or handwritten.

In fact, the U.S. Postal Service still used horse drawn wagons to move mail between towns. No, I'm kidding about the wagons.

That looks like a big-butt shaker table.

Tall guy in the back row is Larry something.

Beautiful.

Smashing portrait

Great action video!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Evidently originally called Exchequer Street ...

... In October 1837, property owners on the eastern end of Exchequer Street petitioned the Wide Streets Commission to rename their section of the street, aiming to shed the area's longstanding poor reputation that deterred high-quality tenants. The Commission granted the request, officially designating the eastern portion towards Grafton Street as Wicklow Street; the origin of the name "Wicklow" lacks clear documentation but may derive from the nearby County Wicklow ... "

And ...

"... At Nos. 6-8, the Wicklow Hotel—later known as Glendenning House—served as an early 20th-century hospitality venue, extensively remodelled circa 1907 by architect George O'Connor into a seven-bay four-storey structure with commercial elements.[21] Further alterations in the 1940s and 1950s, including a 1945 front wall rebuild by Thomas McNamara with concrete dressings and a circa 1950 partial reconstruction, adapted it for mixed retail and pub use while retaining its carriage archway. The site held cultural significance, hosting Dublin publisher Fergus O'Connor, who operated from there, producing nationalist postcards, early writings by Seán O'Casey, and related materials amid Ireland's independence struggles; O'Connor's imprisonment post-Easter Rising highlights its ties to nationalist circles. ...

More at - grokipedia.com/page/wicklow_street

Streetview.

maps.app.goo.gl/Vos2zNtgEciM9tEM7

Crikey! ...

"The Wicklow Hotel was a regular meeting point and place of leisure for Michael Collins and his associates who frequented the hotel for midday dinner or evening drinks, where all the staff knew them.
On the 28th of January 1921, the head porter of the Wicklow Hotel was shot dead in the hallway of the hotel. All eye witness statements led to Collins and his men being behind the execution.
But why would Collins be involved in the shooting of head porter Doran? Because Collins and his men had been informed that Doran was also working as a spy for the British, providing information to the Deputy Chief of British Intelligence in Ireland, Colonel Hill Dillon."

From - marysbar.ie/our-history/

Edit: Via Trove the porter was called William Doran - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23515885
Could he be the man in the doorway ?!

www.dia.ie/works/view/39202/building/CO.+DUBLIN%2C+DUBLIN...

The dia confirms 1907 remodelling, and this is the 7 bay result, so after 1907. Does not look new here, but the lady at left looks like prewar fashion...

beachcomber australia well done on finding links to both O'Connor and Collins!

Could this be an O'Connor selfie? Is that him in the doorway?

National Library of Ireland on The Commons maybe proudly showing his work off. He did many a building in Dublin, including that great watering hole, The International, also on Wicklow Street, in 1911..

www.archiseek.com/tag/george-l-oconnor/

“Shooting of Doran, Wicklow Hotel:
We used to go round to maids and boots in the different hotels and get information from them. Collins got information from Paddy O'Shea that Doran was giving information to the British. Collins used to dire in the Wicklow Hotel regularly and was satisfied that Doran was a British agent.
There was a delay in executing this spy, we had been trying to get him for a fortnight, and Tobin turned to me one day and asked me would I carry out the execution. I said I would if I got Dan MeDonnell to go along with me, so the two of us were detailed to carry out the job.
Dan MoDonnell already knew Doran, and the two of us walked to the door of the hotel and asked for Paddy O'Shea.
Just then Doran came out of one of the rooms, I think it was the dining-room, and Dan McDonnell said, "That's Doran". I produced my revolver and shot him through the head and the heart, and McDonnel1 shot him through the stomach. We had a covering party and we had no difficulty in getting away”

marysbar.ie/our-history/

Might be dry chemical?

You might call it the golden escalator. Or not.

Trichloroethane is misspelled above. Use only under adult supervision.

Looks like a headset jack under the console writing surface.

Color scheme looked like this:

In any center with a similar function, the persons whose desks are closest to the screens are responsible for a subset of the system, (on the display in front of them). The person in the back (right of frame) is the shift supervisor.

I am told the original 1970s BART communications backbone was a single-sideband, frequency-division multiplex analog coaxial cable system akin to Bell System L-Carrier. If true, the SCADA and block signals all ran over the coaxial cable.

These images are sub-snapshot level quality.

The antenna on the cab roof is an Excalibur VHF antenna. Some of these were OEMed by Excalibur and branded Motorola. They often had a white radome over them but the radome could be destroyed without affecting the antenna's function.

These are apparently Rohr's effort to make horn antennas for the Bell System. These were an artifact of five nines reliability. Most of the 3500-4000 MHz links these carried have been transitioned to (reliable) fiber.

In a WalMart culture, where everyone is trying to get something for nothing, there's no room for five nines reliability.

Suggested reading: Sagan, Scott, The limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons

Installed horn antennas:

I'm not sure exactly what's going on here. They're measuring impacts. They're sending a mass down that PVC pipe and it's hammering the surface, then they're measuring the "dent." Adding tag impact test to these images. There's this set of color images and a series of black-and-white photos. The material they're impacting varies as does the impact surface. Guess: measuring how much vibration gets conducted when an explosive bolt goes off?

I use the tag Video tape recorder to identify the thing as a reel-to-reel, helical scan machine. Newer machines including uMatic and Beta would be tagged Video cassette recorder (or player) if you agree with my jargon.

Tape reel for half-inch video tape:

This appears to be a damaged copy of a NASA public domain image. Agree? Disagree? In those days, it was probably printed on a 35mm slide and used in sales presentations...

The statue looks like works identified as Mayan but I don't know Mayan art. Can anybody say more about the statue? Please comment below.

Chuck Walla I think it's one of these?

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalchiuhtlicue#/media/File:Teotihu...

From this article.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalchiuhtlicue

Looks like a match. Thank you jessamyn west! I've added a couple of tags to help Aztec culture seekers.

Contradicting/amplifying comments welcomed below.

No Garlands in the 1901 or 1911 census in Waterford.

I am liking James Garland in 1911.

Niall McAuley Shame we have no visible reg. no.

25 April 1912 is a Thursday ...

Mr Poole's sign is still on his old premises behind -
"Visitors are invited to inspect
Poole's Stores & Library 134 Quay
Tourist Depot Photographic Studio"

There are seven cars registered to a J Garland, Manager of Humber Ltd, on Abbey St in the 1912/13 Motor Directory.
There's also a James Garland 44 "Travelling Salesman Motor Cars and Cycles" in the 1911 census.
Maybe he was trying to flog a car to Poole?

Google Lens is nudging me towards a Humber -
www.justcars.com.au/cars-for-sale/1910-humber/JCMD3769793

I think James Garland, Commercial Traveller, lived to be 80.

www.facebook.com/groups/IAmWaterford/posts/1545797842596848/

In colour

I wonder if James Garland, car salesman, started his career as James Garland, bicycle salesman. On 6th November 1893 the Irish Independent reported on a case of bicycle fraud. James Garland, manager of the Seddon Company's Depot, Bachelor's walk, had taken a 10s deposit on a £10 bicycle, and neither the balance nor the bicycle was seen again until it turned up in a pawn shop. This MO was carried out at several other bike shops, The accused was remanded.

Hmm. Not sure. The paragraph noting his death in Ireland's Saturday Night on 15th March 1947 mentions motor-cycles and bicycles but not cars, and working for the Dunlop Company and Humber Ltd, as well as his work with the Motor and Cycle Traders' Benevolent Fund.

Edit: but the Irish Independent mentions his 60 years in the cycle and motor trade.

Humber, like Singer, Rover and many others, was a bicycle company which switched to cars.

James is a Commercial Traveller Cycles in 1901.

At the birth of daughter Madge in 1897, a Commercial Traveller.

At the birth of son Ernest in 1895, Manager of Pneumatic Tyre Company.

His marriage to Mary Keatinge in 1894, a Commercial Clerk. I think his father, also James, was a Library Porter in TCD.

I enjoy this image but... why does she have a rifle? Is this at a sports show?

jessamyn west No, it was a television commercial! Unfortunately the commercial is lost to time so we can only imagine how they worked a rifle into it.

Good work! Congrats on making it to explore!

Vice President of Rohr "Keith" in the background.

At left: a Hasselblad superwide w/motor winder?

Forty nine years after this photo:

Image should be viewed after being rotated 180 degrees. Coach is upside down in this photo.

Name tags are not readable.

Bravo pager detail:

This would be viewed after rotating it 90 degrees counter clockwise. U-tube manometers? (The original u-tube.)

boneshaker boneshaker

boneshaker My mother is a Wolford. This is my mother's uncle. Do you live in England?

He was knighted in 1954.

His daughter was the first beauty queen of Guyana. Her name is Phyliis Woolford

boneshaker do you have pictures with him and his brother? His brother died but we are not sure the age. We don't know anything much and would like see pictures. My mom would like to see pictures of her grandfather