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" ... The River Maine originates from a spring rising in a conical, oval-shaped depression at Tobermaing in County Kerry, situated approximately a quarter mile east of Tobermaing House at an elevation of about 100 feet (30 m) above sea level.[7] This source lies in the southern slopes of the Stack's Mountains, where the upper reaches are also known as the Shanowen River, a primary headwater of the Maine system.[6] From Tobermaing, the river flows westward, passing near and through the town of Castleisland, where it is joined by the Little Maine tributary.[1][6] ... ... "

From - grokipedia.com/page/river_maine_county_kerry (heaps of interesting stuff)

From logainm, Tobermaing / Tobar Mainge is in the barony of Trughanacmy / Triúcha an Aicme. The civil parish is Castleisland / Oileán Ciarraí.

Loads of literary and historical references for the name Tobermaing, and its evolution. Gotta love logainm!

Castleisland
An old record states "Sometimes a stream will come up to the surface, and having flowed upon it for some time, will disappear again to some cavity and resume its subterranean progress". Of this there is an instance at the head of the River Maine which flows into Castlemaine Harbour. The stream rises at Tobermaing, which is situated in a hollow measuring 100 by 60 yards, and 40 to 50 feet deep. Having flowed on the surface of the ground for 35 yards, the stream sinks and rises again a quarter of a mile off, by the roadside on the south of Tobermaing House.
(Kerryman, 25 February 1950)

And a less salubrious Castleisland/Maine connection, again from the Kerryman...

POLLUTION
With a twice weeky refuse collection by the County Council, there is scarcely any necessity for the daily or perhaps nightly dumping of refuse into the River Maine as it flows through the southern suburbs of the town. This occurs principally at the three bridges spanning the river in the town. Let us hope this appeal will not fall on deaf ears.
(14 April 1973)

Carol Maddock Thank you, that explains it -- a subterranian stream. I spent a while trying to work out where the stream went via the satellite and the old 25" map. Then I 'flew' downstream to the sea, wiggle wiggle ... (there wasm't much on the telly at the time!).

Congrats on Explore! ⭐ June 3, 2026

Related: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/54957690634/]

It took a while to confirm this. Not many Flxettes have rear doors and the taillights vary a lot.

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/54957459336/]

The RTG Turboliner was photographed before they got numbered. I think the first unnumbered one was a demo and an additional three were purchased. They had 60s numbers on each side of the power cars when placed in service. They got a set of Nathan horns on the roof when placed in service. Your comments or corrections are welcomed.

Looks odd with all of the skirts and doors off.

Pardon the expression: this is referred to as stuffing the boards.

Uh. It's a case for something.

Board repair?

The photos in this series seem to show a telephone subscriber loop system that ran over a microwave radio link. This may be a production test tool for it or something else.

Labels say stuff including:
OFF T1 T2 DP

T1 and T2 could mean test 1 and test 2 or refer to carrier data rates.

The circular chart in the background looks like one used with an antenna positioner to measure antenna (directivity) patterns.

I was watching a "how to shoot good portraits for dummies," video recently. The photographer says to the model, "Now, when someone is comfortable, they shift their weight to one leg. That's it."

This vehicle was quite an accomplishment.

With this lighting, you can see how far the floor buffer would fit under the bus.

Streetview:

maps.app.goo.gl/4tP4DRDLm5WKgsvQ9

it still looks very much the same today

There have been a few advancements since then!

"GASKELL BEERSBRIDGE R"[oad] on the side of the cart ...
Flowerpots ? It's Bill and Ben the Flowerpot Men !

Something 1885 in the ironwork under the second lamp.
Earliest date?

beachcomber australia Widened.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Thank you and your pince-nez!

"...The bridge deck originally had a width of 30 feet (9.1 m). This was widened in 1885[6] to 62 feet (19 m) by the addition of cantilevered segments on either side. 16 ornate gas lamps (now electric) were also added. They carry their maker's name ("Gregg, Sons & Phenix/ Iron Founders/ Belfast") and Belfast Corporation's coat of arms on their pedestals. ..."
via - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen%27s_Bridge,_Belfast

Before the 1885 widening of the 1843 bridge - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000338166
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000344746 (at 12:30)
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000339025 (at 13:20)
catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000565301 (stereo pair at 13:55)

Today's photo is before electric trams (1906 in Belfast ??). A later photo shows heaps of poles and layabouts - catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000334794

Thank you David Valenzuela, we'll add this information to the catalog record.

David Valenzuela, thank you for identifying the house. It may be hard to pin down a date as this negative came to us without Harris & Ewing's number. If Wikipedia is to be believed, DC used this format of license plate between 1927 and 1934 (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_registration_plates_of_Wash....). That would cover the time when Taft died, but with out finding a similar photo I would be hesitant to add that to the catalog record, but we can add that it is his house.

David Valenzuela, I'm doubtful Harris & Ewing would have sent a photographer to Canada and they didn't do much copy work. I looked at some photos of the Windsor Hotel and didn't see this room, but I'm sure I didn't see photos of every room.

i couldn't find any other pictures either but i figured it wouldn't hurt to mention it. Sometimes unreliable sources are right but the key word is sometimes.

This could be flipped horizontally.

The track resembles The Larson Transportation Institute's Bus Research and Testing Center federal DOT test track.

The "Transbus" tag could be removed from this image.

The "Transbus" tag could be removed from this image.

The "Transbus" tag could be removed from this image.

The "Transbus" tag could be removed from this image.

The fluid leak location suggests automatic transmission fluid maybe?

Thanks Paul Jackson, that looks to be it. We'll update the description in the catalog record.

Jon (LOC P&P) always fun..thanks

Is this Parfabco in Tijuana?

I wonder how many pounds of stomach enzymes, food scraps, spilled coffee, chewing gum, baby formula, and other goop was ground into that flooring.

I think the coach is on E Street and the intersection is Landis Avenue in Chula Vista. Agree? Disagree? The sign to the right of the bus is not readable.

Possibly participants in the Conference on Far Eastern Questions which occurred in November and December of 1921. One document said the conference took place at "2315 Massachusetts Avenue." I expect a direction after a D.C address but none was offered. That address does not look like the photo above. One newspaper article claims the "seven technical experts" left washington to sail for China on December 12, 1921.

If the location is correct maybe the original building was demolished.

Did this natural gas engine have spark plugs? These were the days before a third brake light and antilock brakes were required on buses. Modern buses don't usually have a rear window.

Deluxe room? Amtrak employee sleep quarters?

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Flickr user Brian Laurance writes:

Pan American World Airways launched a business jets division during the mid-1960's, distributing the French-built Dassault-Breguet Mystère 20 as the Falcon 20 in the United States. By early 1967, Pan Am had sold or leased 160 of the Falcon 20's.

The photos below are not part of SDASM archive. Another photo over Morro Rock in Morro Bay, California. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/65005481@N06/33653033052/][https://www.flickr.com/photos/92585522@N05/47762918971/]

The card in the foreground is not readable. Alternate image: [https://www.flickr.com/photos/sdasmarchives/55053643291/]

I think this could be rotated 90 degrees counter-clockwise.

An even earlier photo, possibly 1878, Valentine

www.historicalpicturearchive.com/shop/pictures/mh-00090/

Some Dillon history

meathhistoryhub.ie/kilbride-moymet/

Careful now!
“Locals believe that if you stroke a wart with a pin or needle and leave it in the tomb the wart will disappear as the pin rusts. Be warned though, if you take somebody else`s pin off the tomb for your own use you`ll not only keep your warts but you`ll inherit the warts of the pin`s rightful owner”

www.discoverboynevalley.ie/boyne-valley-drive/heritage-si...

It must be true, it was on RTE

www.rte.ie/archives/2025/0702/1521452-cure-for-warts/

Suck Diesel :D

Several times a year my whole family, grandparents and all, climbed into two cars and made the drive up Route 1 to the Hilltop Steakhouse. The world whizzed by us from the back seat of my grandfather’s big, black Chrysler Imperial. Large garish road signs of all colors and shapes sprung up from the ground reaching toward the sky. Someday, anthropologists will have a field day discussing this terrain, but for a 12-year-old in the late '60s, it all blended into one colorful mosaic of place. I don’t remember my family eating anyplace else but Hilltop, except perhaps Valle’s Steak House if Hilltop looked too crowded.

Hilltop was famous for what was planted on its lengthy strip of green grass; dozens of life-sized plastic cows and a 68-foot neon cactus sign that must have been uprooted straight out of Las Vegas. No matter how fast one’s car barreled down the highway, you couldn’t miss that sign, and I bet that many a child had pet names for the plastic cows.

Arriving at the event called Hilltop, we all piled out of our cars, received our handwritten number from the hostess, and waited with hundreds of other suburbanite families in a long-covered porch a stone’s throw from the highway. To relieve our boredom, my brother and I chased each other amongst the crowd and the adults talked adult stuff. The wait seemed like forever before our number came up, but it eventually did.

We then were escorted to and seated in a cavernous western-motif-of-a-room named “Kansas City.” As we settled into our high back, vinyl-upholstered booth, a spunky middle-aged waitress would quickly approach our table to take our orders. Dad, the alpha-male, always made small-talk with the waitress-of-the-day. I felt so proud that he (and vicariously, we) made that connection, however momentary it was. All around us, loud chatter echoed through the vast wood-paneled room. We witnessed dozens of waitresses scurrying about, gracefully balancing large silver trays covered with up to a dozen steak-plated meals.

Could this be S.S. City of Melbourne which arrived in New York July 13, 1919? This showed the vessel visited the U.S. east coast.

The sun (New York [N.Y.]), July 13, 1919
See Page 9, column 5., above the ad. for Stern Brothers
www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030431/1919-07-13/ed-1/?sp=9&...

They're standing in front of a grave that may say, "William Emme Hall." That's about all I can read.