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Stubby little thing, but it kind of grows on you.

Replica or original plane?

30 April 1930 was a Wednesday ...

Hmm ... 42 College Road, Cork needs some TLC - maps.app.goo.gl/MheFwsWcaNbbCiE8A !

Mr. J. Murphy's former residence is certainly nothing like Mr. D. O'Connell's the other day.

www.myhome.ie/residential/brochure/42-college-road-cork-c...

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Your link opens to the same photo but the title states "Wedding, group of four :
commissioned by Mr. J. Cunningham, 42 College Road, Cork"
not Murphy.

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O Mac Thank you! Need to clean my pince-nez, or get my eyes tested. Maybe both...

John Cunningham 28years 10 months in April 1926. He worked for Messrs Dwyer's Washington St as a clerk (ledger) He'd two sisters, Frances (26) and Madge (22).

Mike Grimes "immense potential" in estateagentese.

Party 1 Name: Mary Ring
Party 2 Name: John Cunningham

Date of Event: 20/04/1930
District/Reg Area: Thomastown

Witnesses Noel Murphy and Katherine Kearns

I have met Jimmy Doolittle and have a First Printing of "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" autographed by him.

What if there were a Lexan window in the plywood so the forklift driver could see where they're going?

Comments welcomed. The white stuff looks like tacky mat used to pull all the dirt off your shoe soles in areas with contamination standards. But I think it's something to do with leveling the assembly fixtures. They're doing something to shim the floor out so the assembly fixtures are perfectly level.

Checking: I think this is on the Fremont line between Fremont and Union City.

Looks like a Western Union Telegram form at lower right. A binder at lower right says, "Chase Manhattan." It might be accounts payable or accounts receivable?

Thank you for enough pixels. I could read a few things and figure out what was going on in the photo.

Rohr won the, "Improved Large Industrial Award" for this building:

Fred Anderson is a common name. One of the employees with this name worked at Receiving Inspection in Riverside.

There is a moment in a parent's life where you are alarmed to discover your child has become a teen.

After 1913 ?

"Wakeman drew this monument in August 1880. It can be found in a recess in the north wall of the nave, just west of the rood-screen within Sligo's Dominican Friary. This is the O'Craian or Crean tomb of 1506 and is the earliest monument in the church.
What is immediately noticeable is that the lower part of the tomb was completely buried when Wakeman illustrated it. This is because the Board of Works reduced the ground level to the original level during the restoration of the friary in 1913 by Doctor Cochrane. ... ..."
From - www.askaboutireland.ie/reading-room/environment-geography...

MCCCCCCVI

In August 2007 via Val

Quite the dynasty...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crehan

TombView ! - maps.app.goo.gl/cog6gBF6yPfkdRmu7

Nice capture of the airborne horseshoe.

Anyone know what park this is? I can't find any information. Yet.

Hey, it's Secretary Hegseth! 😄 (Kidding.)

2024 Street View! Someone important must currently live in the dark canary yellow house third to the right as it is completely blurred out on every capture! The house is still standing as the spire can be seen behind the second house in the most recent street view capture.
maps.app.goo.gl/bJtpjiTGS2YSHFv28

Holy cow thats my family

Dude if I could comment a photo I would, this is the exact photo in my great great granny Esthers photo album

Briella Hoidhal wow!

Showing the importance of keeping aisles clear?

My mind has been blown by this photo. The photo appears to be in Chula Vista but it shows a WMATA car. I didn't know any WMATA cars visited Chula Vista. Comments welcomed. Here's a BART car being testing at the same location:

This appears to be BART Daly City. The houses on the right of the train seem to match. In 2011, it looked like this:

In the 1926 census, there are Stephen and Mary Healy of North Main St, Cork, but Stephen is a blacksmith, and this gent does not look like one to me...

How about John and Amy Healy, also of North Main Street, Cork? He's a confectioner.

Married 14th April 1923, not an anniversary pic...

Here they are in the 1926 census, with daughters Anastatia and Mary.

Here they are in the census of 1926.

I like the detail that Alice Grace, the live-in Draper's Assistant is subtitled (Hosiery). Old Mr. Brennan couldn't be dealing with that!

There appear to be two politicians with the name Frederick C. Stevens.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_C._Stevens_(New_York_politician)
"Frederick Charles Stevens (June 5, 1856 - March 14, 1916) was an American politician from New York who served in the state senate and state legislature as well as Superintendent of Public Works."

and
Frederick Clement Stevens
bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/S000878
"a Representative from Minnesota; born in Boston, Mass., January 1, 1861; moved with his parents to Searsport, Maine; attended the common schools of Rockland; was graduated from Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1881 and from the law department of the University of Iowa at Iowa City in 1884; was admitted to the bar in 1884 and commenced practice in St. Paul, Minn.; member of the State house of representatives 1888-1891; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-fifth and to the eight succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1897-March 3, 1915); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress."
This Bioguide entry shows a 1908 photo, with a hairline that is not a good match to this photo.

The portrait in the Bioguide entry is a clip from


Stevens is second from left.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Public...
indicates that Frederick Charles Stevens was New York State Superintendent of Public Works from January 14, 1907 - January 4, 1911.
His Find A Grave Memorial
- www.findagrave.com/memorial/68969637/frederick_charles-st...
shows a portrait clipped from a newspaper that is a good match to this Bain photo.

Thanks for looking into this swanq. I found a few other photos and I do believe this is Frederick Charles Stevens. We'll update the catalog record.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_I_of_Portugal
"Carlos I (Carlos Fernando Luís Maria Víctor Miguel Rafael Gabriel Gonzaga Xavier Francisco de Assis José Simão; 28 September 1863 – 1 February 1908), known as "the Diplomat" (o Diplomata), "the Oceanographer" (o Oceanógrafo) among many other names, was King of Portugal from 1889 until his assassination in 1908. He was the first Portuguese king to die a violent death since King Sebastian in 1578, the only one to be assassinated, and penultimate Portuguese head of state to die a violent death."

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_I_of_Portugal#/media/File:Du...
shows him at a similar age. So the date of this photo might be ~1888.

Thanks swanq, we'll add his name to the catalog record.

See her husband at

Thanks swanq, we'll add her name to the catalog record.

Phew! Still standing in 2011 via Tom Halpin

" ... While the O'Connell family had previous associations with the area, it was Daniel O'Connell's grandparents, Domhnall Mór Ó Conaill and Máire Ní Dhonnchadha Dhuibh, who built or extended the house in the 1700s.[3] The oldest part of the house, built in 1702, was demolished in 1967 for safety reasons during the restoration work. Daniel O'Connell built the two-storey south wing facing the sea and the library wing to the east in 1825, the oldest surviving part of the house. The chapel was added in 1844 and was modelled on the ruined monastery chapel of Derrynane (Ahamore) Abbey on nearby Abbey Island. Restoration work was completed in 1967, when the house was officially opened to the public as a museum by the then president Éamon de Valera. ..."

From - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derrynane_House

Here's his birthplace, in slightly worse condition, at the Eastern entrance to Cahirsiveen.

Via Trove, some good and bad news ...

1846 - Tenants in strife - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/226465215?searchTerm=%...
and trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/36244986?searchTerm=%2...

1892 - Hat brush ! - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/111319138?searchTerm=%...

1926 - File book found - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/291964969?searchTerm=%...

1929 - Colourful description of the house - trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/118065843?searchTerm=%...

Part of the 1929 glowing description linked above ...

" ... The Open Door
There is no formidable or ostentatious entrance: the drive might be part of the green lane leading to it, just as the grounds of the house mingle imperceptibly with the surrounding woods. There is no note of hostility or aggression to mar this soft approach, no injunctions sending tradesmen to the back door, or warning you to beware of the dog; no barbed wire, no locked doors marked 'Private,' no threats to trespassers. Derrynane has never condescended to such, things. Even the shrubs are left to your honor. The gate is open, the drive is free; even the hall-door stands wide and inviting. No echo of the civil war seems to have resounded here; not a faintest breath of the strife left its mark on it. How did it persist, so loved and imperturbable, when the best in our national life had turned sour and offensive? In searching for an answer, we were more attracted by the ordinary coats and hats hanging in the hall than by the crossed swords on the staircase. We were led into the dining-room, and the maid proceeded to show us the handsome pieces of silver presented to O'Connell by admirers, lifting some eggs out of a dish to enable us to examine it. But the eggs were more important than any inscription; and the remains of a recent meal on the table had more significance than Robert Emmet's heavy gun, or the pistol used in the duel with D'Esterre. Touches of Continuity. Similarly, a copy of yesterday's paper lying on a chair meant more than the signature of Louis XVII. on the wall under the date of 1790. Walking through the rooms, we noted avidly those evidences of present-day life: a basket of needlework on the drawingroom table; an open, book on the library shelf, near a chair with creased cushions; and we were more glad of the little recent shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes by the altar than even of the Papal rescript permitting the erection of the Chapel. For those touches of continuity are what give Derrynane its unique character. Here you do not come to a dryasdust museum; you' art not met at the door by a paid official, ready to overwhelm you with, the guide-book patter. You have come to the home of gentlefolk, in which life has flowed on continuously and tranquilly since the Liberator's day. The present occupants of the house are two ladies, the great-granddaughters of Daniel O'Connell. Therefore a partial explanation of its permanence is that Derrynane House has never passed into alien hands— its custodians have always been of the Liberator's flesh and blood, the surest interpreters and the most jealous guardians of its spirit. ... "

The street at the left edge of the track is San Leandro Street, Oakland. Businesses visible in this image:
Firestone truck tire center, 6601 San Leandro Street
Allstate Plywood, 6315 San Leansdro Street

This is the Fremont Line.

Please post a comment if you notice an error in tags or other identification.

A rare photo of the 1974 truck that BART used to collect money from ticket machines. They use a tractor trailer rig last time I saw this. More people use cards to pay so likely much less money inside.

People are looking at newspapers instead of smart phones. There are no video surveillance cameras, or phony video cameras, in the cars back in 1974.

Civic Center sign is blurry but readable in this image.

The second daughter or Mr & Mrs Frank Power of "Suir View Ville", * Waterford, was Noreen. In 1943 she got engaged to Cyril Lewis, son of the late Wm Lewis of Fermoy and Mrs Lewis of Llandudno.
(Waterford Standard - Saturday 12 June 1943)

*The paper actually says "Suir Ville".

Was Frank Power the Waterford seed merchant who took over his father William's business at 25 King Street in 1895 ? (Waterford Star - Saturday 14 December 1895)

Something here about Suir View.

humphrysfamilytree.com/Flanagan/meagher.html

Mike Grimes I'm coming to the conclusion (tentative) that Suir View Waterford is the Krazy Kataloger at work, the Powers of Suir View, Clonmel are red herrings, and 'our' Powers lived at Suir Ville, as in Noreen's engagement announcement.

A few mentions of "Miss Power" of Suir Ville in Waterford papers in the 1920s.

The photograph was taken at the rear of Suir Ville on the Newtown Rd Waterford . Those two narrow windows can be seen on the porch in this NIAH photo.
www.buildingsofireland.ie/buildings-search/building/22830...

maps.app.goo.gl/FxEA1QV7U2D5H1Db8

Waterford Standard - Saturday 05 January 1929 reported the prizewinners of the Children's Fancy Dress Ball, but I'm a little confused by the 'Most original boy's and girl's costume' winners.


A boy named Dorothy? Who identifies as a pillar box?

A Katherine Power was bridesmaid at Noreen's wedding in 1943. Waterford Standard - Saturday 06 November 1943 printed a group photo taken at the wedding, but unfortunately in the BNA it is reproduced as a black splodge.

Dog News (sort of)

Waterford Standard - Saturday 06 November 1937:

There seems to be an exodus of most of our young ladies from Waterford, and the latest gleanings from those quarters elicit the fact that Dorothy Power, youngest daughter of Mr. F. Power, Newtown, has gone to Dun Laoghaire. where she will lake a six months’ training course in one of the biggest kennels in the East of Ireland.

Dorothy has shown a keen interest in dogs of every description, and I am sure that an extensive training in County Dublin will do much to extend her knowledge in that direction.

I'm not sure how this qualifies as news, but Waterford Standard thought it worth publishing on Saturday 6 May 1950:

Outbreak Of Fire
A small outbreak of fire occurred on Monday evening in a shed at Newtown, the property of Mr. Frank Power, seed merchant. The fire, which caused practically no damage, was almost under control when the fire brigade arrived, making ti unnecessary to operate the large hose.

Frank's brief obituary In the Irish Independent on 20 January 1955. It only mentions 2 sons and 2 daughters.

For some history and a generated image of what it might look like today if the dome still existed
- thegoodlifefrance.com/amazing-pier-crystal-casino-nice-fr...

And a photo of previous pier is in this post.
www.facebook.com/groups/OldPhotographsOfficial/posts/6288...

The red truck is a loaner?

Here they are in the 1926 census

1926 census news! Here is Mrs. Ethel Breen, 26. Her husband, Laurence, is a Hotel Proprietor and Merchant on Turkey Road, Tramore, still the location of the Hibernian Hotel today.

Per her marriage record of 1929, she was née Ethel Maud Boyce, father was John Boyce, Merchant, Waterford.

Here she is in 1911, her father is a pawnbroker.

I don't see a record of her death. Her daughter, also Ethel Breen, married in 1943.

Laurence died in 1930 after a car accident.

Niall McAuley Delighted with all this! We never even had Ethel, just "Mrs" Breen.

National Library of Ireland on The Commons we'll be finding Census26 info for the next ten years!

incredible aura

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mabel_Taliaferro
"Mabel Taliaferro (born Maybelle Evelyn Taliaferro; May 21, 1887 – January 24, 1979) was an American stage and silent-screen actress, known as "the Sweetheart of American Movies."

What a baddie

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm,_German_Crown_Prince
"Wilhelm, German Crown Prince, Crown Prince of Prussia (Friedrich Wilhelm Victor August Ernst; 6 May 1882 – 20 July 1951), was the eldest child of the last German emperor, Wilhelm II, and his consort Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein. As Emperor Wilhelm's heir, he was the last German Crown Prince and Crown Prince of Prussia, until the abolition of the monarchy."
He married Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in 1905.
See her at

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_George_of_Greece_and_Denmark
"Prince George of Greece and Denmark (Greek: Γεώργιος, romanized: Geórgios; 24 June 1869 – 25 November 1957) was the second son and child of George I of Greece and Olga Konstantinovna of Russia. He served as high commissioner of the Cretan State during its transition towards independence from Ottoman rule and union (Enosis) with Greece."

First visit to the 1926 census, I see it is still Coote St. and Queenstown, but the co. Council is Laoisor maybe Leix

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