Historical industry photo porn open thread
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These are some photos my sister had of where my grandparents lived - not sure where she got them
Ogema, Wisconsin Pinewood one room schoolhouse taken 1908 - bunch of dumb swedes
This is the house my ma was born in - this might be my grandpa Ashland, Wisconsin
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Back when White Wakanda had the busiest Pine sawmills in the entire world...
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WoodYellowSnow said:Back when White Wakanda had the busiest Pine sawmills in the entire world...
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We used to have an in exhaustible supply of Ponderosa, until we didn't.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
WoodYellowSnow said:Back when White Wakanda had the busiest Pine sawmills in the entire world...
Most of it has grown back though and they are starting to log again in spots. -
So it was later in life you discovered the exploit-trauma-for-a-BJ connection.PurpleThrobber said:
The TUFF loggers lived in N. Idaho (still do).
As a wee lad can remember dodging the tug boats pulling log booms down from the St. Joe River, across Lake CDA and down the Spokane River for milling. Water skiing was for the brave as stray logs broken away from the boom was common place. Hitting one of those put a damper on a good slalom run.
Mid-80s, took a gal from Hayden to a movie and driving thru CDA, the sawmill was ablaze. Pretty spectacular fire. Sadly, no handy at the movie that night. CSB
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Coked-Up Pam is Sexy AF. Wood.YellowSnow said: -
The Battle of Hermiston must've been Epic.YellowSnow said: -
Ponderosa Pines are beautiful, love the bark. Great for itching a rashy nutsack too.YellowSnow said:
We used to have an in exhaustible supply of Ponderosa, until we didn't.CFetters_Nacho_Lover said:
WoodYellowSnow said:Back when White Wakanda had the busiest Pine sawmills in the entire world...
Most of it has grown back though and they are starting to log again in spots. -
It was ELITETurdBomber said:
The Battle of Hermiston must've been Epic.YellowSnow said: -
When I was a kid, my friend and I would take his dad's boat out to the log booms in Oakland bay, and get out and walk around on them. Bait fish and the cutthroat that ate them seemed to like to hang around under the booms, so we'd go out there with our rods and spend the day fishing. Back then, there were always tons of log booms in the bay waiting to get processed into lumber at the Simpson mill. There were also train loads of logs arriving at Simpson daily that you'd have to wait for when you were driving to the other side of town. Back then, there were big logs rolling into town, too - not the little pecker poles you see on log trucks now.
I don't know what the hell people in Shelton do for employment now - but there aren't any log booms in the bay because there's no mill downtown any more. Every time I'm in town, I see new apartments and houses going up, so apparently something's going on over there.
