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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.

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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.

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:

Beautiful. The CP-140 Aurora, P-3, and Electra L-188 all used a nacelle that looks similar to this. These were installed on Allison turboprops. There appeared to be at least three different propellers used with these engines. The props could be feathered. If this is incorrect, please post a comment below to correct me.

I'm searching for the nomenclature of this Western Electric PBX attendant console. If you know it, kindly add a source in comments below or tags.

The PBX behind this looks like a Western Electric 702 (step-by-step, electromechanical) which were very popular in Pacific Telephone territory at the time. I have a tough time telling 701, 702, and 740s apart. Note that all 1970s-era Rohr Chula Vista images show rotary dials, suggesting step-by-step.

The plugs and jacks look like bantams rather than quarter-inch phone plugs. Do you agree?

In some installations, long distance calls tripped a mechanical counter. There would be a backboard with a bunch of mechanical counters. Each counter registered ZUM Units or something billable. Somebody from Pacific Telephone would come in with a Polaroid once a month and take photos. The photos would be how the user was billed.

You can almost hear that 600 Hz + 120 Hz dialtone...

A glimpse into the early 1900s—when cities were transforming with the rise of automobiles and modern life.
Echoes of an era when empires stood, and modern cities were just beginning to take form.

Parochialstraße
commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-P...
oldthing.at/AK-Berlin-Haeuserreihe-in-der-Parochialstrass...

Humber 11 hp Tourer, 1912

Do Amazon and WalMart recognize good truck drivers?

How much can these be adjusted by an amateur? Input was a noisy JPeG. By horsing with the exposure, the texture of the wood paneling and the purse came out a little. With a slight rotation, lighting flattened, and some dirt cleaned off, this is what I think it should look like: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/195176867@N05/55152152776/]

This appears to have been shot during the Prince of Wales visit.

At center: Keith ___rtlinger, Vice President, New Product Development. Tag on guy at right says "rain lobby 16."

Remember shorthand? I can't see if these two are taking shorthand...

According to Wikipedia, the Prince may have been serving aboard HMS Jupiter (F60) at the time this visit occurred.

Guess: they're troubleshooting a noise or coupling problem between the braided wiring when the product is vibrating?

Making DynaRohr titanium material?

Trust reverser scale model mockup?

Thanks for this image, I've added it to his Wikipedia page

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_MacGill#Bibliography

jessamyn west That's excellent. And you're very welcome.

According to arnow.org/bathgatebronx/
The Cross Bronx Expressway gutted the neighborhood in the 1950s.

Lots of folks commented on another of Rothstein's photos of this street when Shorpy featured it [www.shorpy.com/node/2786]

This might be the view, not sure.
2023 Streetview

This image should be flipped horizontally.

Three tanks at left are probably fuel for the San Diego Gas and Electric, South Bay Power Plant. Some coastal thermal power plants may have been burning bunker oil in 1974. Air quallity rules were getting tighter in the 1970s.

At upper left is the South Bay Power Plant:

This seems to be the Flxible/Rohr Transbus entry. Note the U.S. Department of Transportation logo behind the front wheels.

"On May 13, 1975, one of the Flxible prototypes caught fire during testing in Arizona and was destroyed, but no one was injured; at the time, it was carrying two technicians, instruments, and sandbags to simulate a full passenger load."

This series may have been shot at the Chula Vista factory because of the unique power transmission towers in the background of some photos.

The old joke, which is not funny, was, "We'll find this part if it costs every dollar the company has."

lafopearl

Likely not a ship as Remington also wrote Tampa on the sketch. I'm thinking it was a hotel porch in Tampa

Possibly related to this storefront:

This is probably at Chula Vista because of the power transmission towers at right.

This is probably in Winder, Georgia.

This may be Transysco de Mexico S.A. in Mexcali, Baja California State.

Good catch on this identification, Abbie Hudson! Weve updated the description in our database to say 915 Tower Road.

Irish251 An excellent find - "I'm looking for me mate". 😀 Plus bonus appearance by moral crusader, and hatorrific, Alice Glenn.

A lovely old shot.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Some great old content on that YouTube channel.

Classic wide streets commissioners shopfront, a beautiful example. I never knew that it was essentially taken out and then reinstated as shown here in 1972 although I did know the building had essentially been rebuilt in facsimile style in the early 20th century with a lot of the materials retained.

This "doodlebug" self-propelled car was built in 1925.