Are you looking for an idea to build something for your layout?
How about a stable?
This picture was posted on Shorpy this morning. It is a 1925 stable in Northern California.
That looks to me to maybe be a 25-28 Chevrolet out front, Minus the bumper.
FYI: Back in the teens and twenties, Most roads were dirt, And For the previously 50-100 years horses were the only means of getting around, Horses use metal shoes nailed on. Nails fell out on a regular basis, And the roads had a hundred years of collected nails embedded in the dirt. Flat tires from all the horse shoe nails were a very common event. Reports exist of some roads being plowed and dredged for nails.
Dave Taylor said:
That looks to me to maybe be a 25-28 Chevrolet out front, Minus the bumper.
FYI: Back in the teens and twenties, Most roads were dirt, And For the previously 50-100 years horses were the only means of getting around, Horses use metal shoes nailed on. Nails fell out on a regular basis, And the roads had a hundred years of collected nails embedded in the dirt. Flat tires from all the horse shoe nails were a very common event. Reports exist of some roads being plowed and dredged for nails.
That’s also why solid rubber tires remained popular in rural areas for farmers despite the lousy ride up into the '30’s.
to me it looks more like a pic from depression time.
see, all the horses replaced by human packies…
Here’s the information with the photo.
- “Indian guides and Nash auto at Covelo stables. Mendocino County, Calif.” Along with a tin-sign Who’s Who of the 1920s soft drink industry, starting with Shorpy’s favorite beverage, Whistle, and its slogan “WHIZ-WHIM-WHANG.” 6½ x 8½ glass negative from Wyland Stanley via Marilyn Blaisdell.
You might pay for that comment Boomer!
Ok, who remembers stomping the air hose at the gas station to ring the bell? Only way I could do it was to stand with my heels on the hose, jump up and just as I land, kick down on the hose.
Tom, yes. Just stepping on the hose didn’t ring the bell for me neither.
I plan on doing a sort of blacksmith/stable kinda thing someday. Not everyone had cars back in the teens and twentys.
This might do the trick.
That Bell, was the “GO” signal when I worked at my uncles Esso station in the 60’s. You learned to hate the kids that thought that it was fun to see who could make it ring the most times in a row. Little brats. But I had to smile, pump the gas, and wash the window, with paper towels and not that Squeezeie thing like todays. People would give you the evil eye if you got anything on the car. Oh ya, and Check the oil. I got an extra nickel for every quart of oil I sold. The Oil was in Glass jars with metal spouts on them, And you would re-fill them from the red oil tank dispenser.
Oh ya, you loved the summers in SoCal, you could look at the ladies in there sun dresses seting and waiting for you to hurry up. I also got to keep there “S&H Green Stamps” if they didn’t want them. I could collect about a book a week.
AH the green stamps. I remember there was an S&H store not for from here, where you could trade in the stamps for stuff.
Yeah, I remember the trading stamps too – either S&H or Blue Chip, or both, depending on where we lived and shopped at the time. Us kids always had the job of “licking and sticking” them into the books.
Yea, and after doing a page or two of them, you had this strange taste in your mouth from the glue.
I still have some in my writing desk! Maybe I’ll sell them on Ebay!
They might be worth more on Ebay, then they were worth, when they were worth something.
OK guys… Without looking it up… What did the “S&H” stand for?
Arghhhhh… I didn’t know there was going to be a test!
From Wikipedia;
S&H Green Stamps (also called Green Shield Stamps) were trading stamps popular in the United States from the 1930s until the late 1980s. They were distributed as part of a rewards program operated by the Sperry & Hutchinson company (S&H), founded in 1896 by Thomas Sperry and Shelly Byron Hutchinson.
Many stables were converted into garages as the automobile began replacing the horse and buggy. Here are a few photos of my model called Spataro’s Garage." I named it for Tony Spataro, a former co-worker who was also an avid model railroader. He also collected vintage autos so the theme was perfect.
