Interesting photo blog about life 100 years ago

[Ugg013]

Uh Oh, I Feel A Set Up Coming......

That's twice now that ya said I had something right. Are ya feelin okay Nammy? Have ya taken off that tu tu yet? I heard somethin when I was a mere pup (yesterday), "Your NOW living your good old days."

65 years ago, people were just as good or just as messed up as they are today, ya just didn't hear about it as much. I'm not talkin about current fads, as fads come and go. Personally, I wish I'd be around in another 50 years to see all these people with faded tat's draggin on the ground, or massive, floppy body parts from all their piercings. It should be a good laugh. Oh well, I gotta put some more foil on my hat.

Later
Ugg

[JimmieD]

"There were times in my past that were, well, not nice, but, there are also some good things that were intertwined. I tell the good parts to my kids, not the bad, and who knows, they may see it as a better time, or even a good time, when in fact, it was anything but good? Uh Oh, I'm getting to deep. Nammy, get me outa here! HA!"

Interesting! Photgraphs often tell more of the truth in their stark black and white tones than the stories we use to explain them. As we know they can speak volumes.

Children begin to tire of fairy tales at about 6 to 7 years old. Then we hear a common word, "Why?" They want the truth. A convenient untruth seems easier at times. That's never good. In many cases a child isn't mature enough to hear ALL of the truth, so we tell them in part, with the rest coming later. Overall it seems a child grows up more solid in their understandings and better prepared for their future by knowing the difference between truth and fiction.

Too often I see many people in their adult years still comforting themselves with fairy tales of their own invention. That didn't work in the real world of 100 years ago, when silliness or childish behavior could get you killed in a very quick hurry. The actual truth of solid values, honorable ethics and personal integrity were the foundation of a good life. These may also endure far beyond one's expectations, just like these great old trucks.

Nobody is going to start building these old Power Wagons again, but we can still build the men and women who built them and used them and leave a great legacy in that.

[MoparNorm]

I guess this means that I'm still living a fairey tale? ....= )

[Ugg013]

I guess this means that I'm still living a fairey tale? ....= )

Norm:

Ah, so that's why ya stay in LA? HA!

Jimmie:

Children begin to tire of fairy tales at about 6 to 7 years old. Then we hear a common word, "Why?"

Nuh Uh, that's like the 5th word them little buggers learn, right after NO! HA!

Later
Ugg

[MoparNorm]

Norm:

Ah, so that's why ya stay in LA? HA!
Later
Ugg

Ugg, THAT is "LA" dude! That's what it looked like here in the '50's, before you eastern guys started watching the Rose Parade on a freezing New Year's morning, and moved west.
You probably drank a glass of our orange juice back then!

[Ugg013]

Norm:

"LA", doesn't that stand for "Lower Alabama"? And here I thought ya was in Kaliforiay. Naw, they always pushed Florida OJ here in Chi Town. Ya know bro, I have yet to watch one of them there "Rose" parade things. ;>)

Later
Ugg

PS: Who's really in that picture?

[MoparNorm]

Florida juice was an afterthought, CA juice was better back then. But homes make more money than orchards, so thousands of acres were plowed under to make way for the millions that moved out here after the war.
That was me, 20 minutes ago.......

[JimmieD]

Yeah, Norm, it's all sort of mind boggling for those of us that remember why Orange County was called Orange County. Well I remember driving past miles of orchards and NOTHING ELSE for miles and miles, way down south 'near' LA ha haha!! Costa Mesa, La Habra, Riverside were actually different towns, imagine that!