Conversations

Here are conversations that have happened in the last week on Flickr Commons:

57-34 3419 Ryan M-1 Whirlwind motor rt frt qtr photo by Erickson 5x7 b_w neg Ryan Negative

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  • Stig Jarlevik said:
    In spite of what it says on the photograph itself this is a M-2!
    You have previously published the same photo with the M-2 written on it. The fuselage stringers are a give away, which the M-1 lacked.
    No idea why Ryan put M-1 on this one. Neither have I any idea why the civil reg 3116 is false
    Stig

57-37 81370 Ryan S-T w-Claude Ryan lf frt qtr 6-15-1934 - 5x7 b_w print Ryan Negative

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  • Stig Jarlevik said:
    This is the prototype c/n 101 to be registered X1423
    Stig

73-0100-006 Ryan Negative

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  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    Yes, this is the Tonopah, Nevada
    Coordinates38°03′37″N 117°05′12″W

    The old hangar was still there, when I last flew there.

Ryan chart B2971 Learfan 2100 4x5 color neg Ryan Negative

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  • CASSIDY PHOTOGRAPHY said:
    My mother worked in Quality Assurance for Learfan at Reno-Stead.

57-46 Ryan nee North American Aviation Navion lf frt qtr 5x7 b_w print Ryan Negative

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  • Stig Jarlevik said:
    Reversed. If you have the neg try again
    Stig

Nollaig shona is faoi mhaise díobh go léir

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    25 December 1936 was a Friday ...

    🎄H🎄A🎄P🎄P🎄Y🎄
    🎄🎅🎄
    🎄C🎄H🎄R🎄I🎄S🎄T🎄M🎄A🎄S🎄
  • Swordscookie said:
    1936 with some interesting characters on display! A "Brownshirt" on the left? A Mr. Bean in clowns outfit and a PH Pearse imitator complete with wig and gown? Having a fancy dress party would have been great craic.
    Merry Christmas one and all!
  • Carol Maddock said:
    I love SAUCY BUT OK! That shall be my motto for 2026... 😀

    Happy Xmas all!
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Flickr amazes! Via Argy58
  • Carol Maddock said:
    beachcomber australia I've said it before, and I know I'll say it again but you're amazing! Love the saucy backstory!
  • Dima Muzhetsky said:
    And this weird language up in bold letters is what please?Some keltish or what?
  • Foxglove said:
    many thanks for all your work during the year...it's a cultural pit stop every day
  • National Library of Ireland on The Commons said:
    Dima Muzhetsky hi Dima, it is the Irish language (Gaeilge) and "sos beag" translates as "a little break". Mary / Máire
  • Ambiguous Nature said:
    "Mary" Christmas to the three Marys and their joly band of word thieves making morning coffee (sometimes lunch and dinner too) entertaining and educational jaunts. ⛄️🌲🎄!

Fort Macleod's Anonymous

from Galt Museum & Archives on The Commons

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  • Gennady Alexandrov said:
    !!!

Old Sydney Girls High School Castlereagh St, Sydney

from Museums of History NSW - State Archives Collection

26_0066804 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:

26_0066386 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Puka shell necklaces were popular at the time. I hope she was treated well.

26_0066339 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    The end of the name of the guy at right is "_____FFESBERG" and his badge says "____ PRESIDENT, ROHR." I can't find that partial name on the internet.

    During this era, a friend of mine called neckties, "work deflectors."

26_0066332 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    The broadcaster's jacket looks like it says, "30." There is an ABC 30 in Fresno market, so this event may have been in Fresno.

26_0066310 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    The guy at right of frame is probably a newspaper reporter.

26_0066422 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Person at left has a name tag that reads "Sue Kibb____" but is blocked by the trophy. Trophies say, "BART '73 EGG THROWING." Sue has an egg in her hand.

26_0066414 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Name tag is not readable but most only have first names. No need to upload anything.

26_0066438 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    The tag is in focus but covered by hair.

26_0019514 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    I was told, in certain circumstances, these aircraft sometimes shut down the two outboard engines to save fuel. They could also select this if something failed in the engine or prop.

Portrait: Whitty, May

from LSE Library

Wm. F. Poole

from Boston Public Library Digital

Furst Peter Wittgenstein

from Boston Public Library Digital

Phillip Brooks

from Boston Public Library Digital

  • jessamyn west said:
    First name has an S on the end "Phillips Brooks"

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phillips_Brooks
  • Boston Public Library Digital said:
    Thanks! The title is transcribed from the back of the item, which omits the "s." You can see the back in the Digital Commonwealth item.

26_0066316 Rohr Collection Image Fred Garry Rohr President

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    I can't read the name tag on the guy identified as "Fred - President." It looks like "Fred Ganry" or something close. On the right, the guy's name tag appears to read, "Bob Wallesa, Vice President of Public Affairs." The guy at the table in the background appears to be an ABC News cameraman with a 16mm camera (how it was done in 1975) and a battery belt.
  • SDASM Archives said:
    Chuck Walla I switched this one and a few others to the highest resolution. Fred Garry President of Rohr

26_0015019 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    On my end, I do not show tags for this image. When the page draws, there is no place to enter tags.
  • SDASM Archives said:
    Chuck Walla Sorry the tags are so glitchy

26_0015057 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    If she were really "on the phone," one of the line buttons would be depressed and lit. Nice portrait anyhow.

26_0015014 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    The right edge of the frame seems to show the C-73 Furnace Test in Building 1 (Drop-Quench) that appears in 26_0015016 Rohr Collection Image also known as 89047304.

26_0015020 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    On my end, I do not show tags for this image. When the page draws, there is no place to enter tags.

    Are you familiar with the saying, "the aircraft doesn't take off before the weight of the paperwork exceeds the weight of the aircraft?" For BART cars or engine nacelles there would likely be binders of paper logs where employees verified that every bolt had been tightened and every connector had been fully mated. You can look up what company made bolts that hold a wing on an aircraft or who tightened them. Nowadays it's probably all in a database.

26_0015018 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    On my end, I do not show tags for this image. When the page draws, there is no place to enter tags.

26_0015017 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    On my end, I do not show tags for this image. When the page draws, there is no place to enter tags.

    This is a structural test for the item marked, "part being tested," in the photo. They're applying pressure and measuring how much it deforms. So far as I can tell, they adjust the hardware to apply a side load and measure movement. There are load cells to measure how much force is applied to each of the three connections. The gauges mark displacement. (See notes on image.)

    Guess: the axis suggest it could be a landing gear part or an engine pylon part?

26_0066407 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    I don't think this name tag is readable due to hair.

26_0066406 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    There's a name tag on the horseshoe thrower but it's unreadable at 1600 pixels. Feel free to post the name in tags. If you want me to post it, please provide a copy with more detail.

26_0066443 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    This appears to be the monorail track for the Pearlridge, Oahu, Hawaii system. I can't tell if they're assembling track for the permanent site or if they're assembling a test track for use at the Rohr factory.

    It looks like there's a jig for initial assembly if the monorail at left. Something happens to align all the parts and lock them in place. There's a bridge crane above the welder's head. I guess the track section gets moved moved to where you see it and the welding is completed.

    Other photos suggest the cars roll over the three horizontal surfaces on rubber-tired 'trucks.' Corrections welcomed.

26_0066755 Rohr Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Based on a conversation with a civilian airline engine technician, after an engine gets significant work, they put it in this stand and run it to make sure it's ok.

    Because engines are expensive and safety is important, all repair steps are controlled for quality. If completed correctly, the engine gets bolted to this stand. If the engine has a rated thrust of, say, 20,000 pounds, the test stand must be rigid with much more than 20,000 pounds pushing against it. Airlines may run an engine with a limit of 90% rated thrust. They may put the engine in the stand and run it at 90% of rated thrust for a specified time. If all is ok, it gets shut down and installed on the aircraft.

    Corrections welcomed.

    The tank might be jet fuel.

101602 sly 014 Curatorial Collection Image

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  • Chuck Walla said:
    Excellent caption.

Mde. Anna Hellstrom

from Boston Public Library Digital

Julia Marlowe

from Boston Public Library Digital

Jane Noria of the San Carlo Co.

from Boston Public Library Digital

Marie Rôze (1846-1926)

from Boston Public Library Digital

Lottie Gilson

from Boston Public Library Digital

Mme. Gadski in "Lohengrin"

from Boston Public Library Digital

Stuart Robson

from Boston Public Library Digital

Tho. K. Beecher

from Boston Public Library Digital

Denbigh Fair Beauty Contest - 1962

from Cloyne and District Historical Society

  • Cloyne and District Historical Society said:
    We have learned from the Anyone in Denbigh Facebook that man #2 is Ken Fritsch.

John B. Moran

from Boston Public Library Digital

Corinne

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William Ewart Gladstone

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S. F. Smith

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Adelaide Ristori

from Boston Public Library Digital

Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear?

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    7 March 1968 was a Thursday ...
  • beachcomber australia said:
    Easiest to see and follow the line of the disused railway using Google Satellite 3D - maps.app.goo.gl/JghBqiu9ZiX1iLGM9
  • Suck Diesel said:
    The Silvermines line was a short branch of 1¼ miles, off the Ballybrophy – Killonan line, at Silvermines Jct, between Nenagh and Birdhill. It opened in 1966 to serve a barytes mine. The mine and branch closed in 1993.

    thewandererphotos.smugmug.com/ForgottenRailways/Silvermin...
  • Suck Diesel said:
    youtu.be/L63o4poXAWQ?si=st_ed-tsPK0Kg4rm
  • Suck Diesel said:

    via Fred Dean

    Silvermines Junction (MP 35-1/4), the start of the short spur to the mines
  • Suck Diesel said:
    Approx location of photo

    maps.app.goo.gl/FkSpuNfJrGniiUUs6?g_st=ipc

    Rail spur stars at Rossminane
  • Suck Diesel said:
    “Were you ever out in the Great Alone, when the moon was awful clear,
    And the icy mountains hemmed you in with a silence you most could hear;
    With only the howl of a timber wolf, and you camped there in the cold,
    A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;
    While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars? —
    Then you've a hunch what the music meant. . . hunger and night and the stars”

    youtu.be/iOGymv6yiw4?si=nFadOAEbPXrzXeGq
  • O Mac said:
    There's another O Dea Silvermines photo that wasn't taken at Silvermines..Any ideas as to where it is?

    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000306822

    Note odd looking fella wearing a dunces hat at the wall with his bicycle.
  • Suck Diesel said:
    O Mac Here’s one taken same day

    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000578005

    Fenit branch

Garden party on Governor's Island, Mrs. F.D. Grant, Mrs. Elihu Root Jr. , Gen. Grant, Mrs. F.M. Gibson, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Phil Osborne said:
    May 27, 1908A garden party for the benefit of the New York Branch of the Army Relief Society will be held this afternoon on Governors Island. Gen. and Mrs. Frederick D. Grant will hold a reception

Garden party, Governor's Island, New York (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Phil Osborne said:
    May 27, 1908 A garden party for the benefit of the New York Branch of the Army Relief Society will be held this afternoon on Governors Island. Gen. and Mrs. Frederick D. Grant will hold a reception

Sinclair Gas, American Falls, Idaho (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

Sinclair Gas, American Falls, Idaho (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Sinclair gas station neon, American Falls, Idaho (LOC)
    Sinclair Gas, American Falls, Idaho (LOC)

Barnsdahl-Rio Gas, Goleta, California (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Span Colon Gas, Goleta, California (LOC)

Gas station-John's Truck Rental, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Gas station-John's Truck Rental, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (LOC)

Gas station-John's Truck Rental, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    see
    Gas station-John's Truck Rental, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (LOC)

Beeline Service Station, Fairview, Utah (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Beeline Service Station, Fairview, Utah (LOC)

Beeline Service Station, Fairview, Utah (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Beeline Service Station, Fairview, Utah (LOC)

Barnsdahl-Rio Gas, Goleta, California (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Span Colon Gas, Goleta, California (LOC)

Gas station Richfield, Goleta, California (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Span Colon Gas, Goleta, California (LOC)

Barnsdahl-Rio Gas, Goleta, California (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Span Colon Gas, Goleta, California (LOC)

Barnsdahl-Rio Gas, Goleta, California (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • swanq said:
    See
    Span Colon Gas, Goleta, California (LOC)

Prior to the RDS the Garrison was the place to be!

from National Library of Ireland on The Commons

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  • beachcomber australia said:
    A strong possibility - unfortunately not visible on streetview, but on satellite-view it has two chimneys, a pointy roof behind, and a terrace on the left. Only reservation is that it faces west, so this photo would have to have been on a summer afternoon in c.1943 - not impossible.
    On the 25" map it shows as a longer "T" on its side, and the house next door due south (2 storey) is not there, probably built since 1943. Between ".403" and "P". The pointy roof and spire are in the right place.
    maps.app.goo.gl/Bkp6MSz3BokEUfei9

    52.854987, -7.583099

    btw quick links to the TWO ITA photos at the NLI -
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000577093
    catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000577094

    Someone who lives nearby please go and have a sticky-beak !
  • O Mac said:
    ɹǝqɯoɔɥɔɐǝq I agree with you re. location. The chimney detail on the terrace house on the left match those still evident today. The unusual chimney cap edge detail is clearly the same. Also, the eight chimney pots are still there. Santa's nightmare.
    maps.app.goo.gl/DX8BPRnFsgGXZxJm7?g_st=ac