Transportation of the past.
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Jan 13, 2019 14:03:57 #
Almostageezer
Loc: USA
The 2 seater would be fine, but for the top one I might just rather ride the horse. :-)
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Jan 13, 2019 14:15:25 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
That 2 seater was considered a Deluxe Travel Machine back in the days. Not one owned by the poor. Farmers had a wooden one seater, such as the ones you saw on TV and Movie Westerns. The old style pick up truck.
Jan 13, 2019 14:26:07 #
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Jan 14, 2019 10:23:39 #
mas24 wrote:
That 2 seater was considered a Deluxe Travel Machine back in the days. Not one owned by the poor. Farmers had a wooden one seater, such as the ones you saw on TV and Movie Westerns. The old style pick up truck.
Are you talking about a buckboard? That is what we called them when I was growing up in Western NYS. Many people were still using horses and wagons, of some type, back in the late 40's in that area. I was born in 1946 and still remember two uncles who were selling things from a horse drawn cart.
Dennis
Jan 14, 2019 11:33:04 #
Jan 14, 2019 12:32:41 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
dennis2146 wrote:
Are you talking about a buckboard? That is what we called them when I was growing up in Western NYS. Many people were still using horses and wagons, of some type, back in the late 40's in that area. I was born in 1946 and still remember two uncles who were selling things from a horse drawn cart.
Dennis
Dennis
Yes, that's it. The Buckboard. Originated in the mountainous East. And later made it west with new residents from the East. And, of course you had the famous Covered Wagons. Old version RV's. My grandmother was raised on a farm. She told me the biggest thrill, was to ride with her father into town, to buy supplies at the Town Store. Getting married got her off the farm.
Jan 14, 2019 12:39:30 #
Jan 14, 2019 15:32:09 #
mas24 wrote:
Yes, that's it. The Buckboard. Originated in the mountainous East. And later made it west with new residents from the East. And, of course you had the famous Covered Wagons. Old version RV's. My grandmother was raised on a farm. She told me the biggest thrill, was to ride with her father into town, to buy supplies at the Town Store. Getting married got her off the farm.
A woman who taught a business class in my, I think, fourth grade told us she had crossed the United States in a covered wagon. She was very old and looking back I believe she was telling the truth.
The actor, Gabby Hayes, was a cousin of mine. I have always had an interest in the early cowboy actors, William S. hart, Tom Mix, and the like. Looking them up online reveals Tom Mix was born in 1880, William S. Hart in 1864 and died a few months after I was born. To me and others my age means people like my parents, aunts, uncles and grandparents knew well people who were alive and fought during the Civil War, knew people who may have been in Tombstone in 1881 when the fight at OK corral took place. Just interesting I think.
Dennis
Jan 14, 2019 16:27:48 #
mas24
Loc: Southern CA
dennis2146 wrote:
A woman who taught a business class in my, I think... (show quote)
I met a guy some 20+ years ago, he was very old then. Who said he met Wyatt Earp. This was at the Orange County Fair in California. He said Wyatt Earp owned a Saloon in San Diego. But. It failed. because Wyatt didn't pay his bills. Wyatt died in the Los Angeles vicinity. Around 1929, I think. Of all the shootouts he was involved in, it is said he never so much as received a scrape, from an opponent's bullet.
Jan 14, 2019 21:14:42 #
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