Archives for Neat Photos
Grimm’s Landing, Pittsburgh
When I was born in 1964, my parents, Charles and Lois Thornton, were living on a 1-room houseboat docked just above "Grimm's Landing" (previously "Zubik's Landing") on the Allegheny River on the North Side of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Back then the river was lined with "squatters". The land that ran along…
[neat photo] Biplane over Canton
I posted this a couple years ago. Then I found a second photo Biplane that stopped in Canton, Missouri from time to time to offer rides. From my grandfather Homer H. Wagner's collection. Taken ca. 1924. Kind of looks like it's hung up on a barbed wire fence. Then I…
[neat photo] Art Hirschhausen and his huntin’ buddies
I came across this photo on Ancestry attached to Arthur Hirschhausen 1893-1984. He was the son of Frederick Vesper's second wife's daughter by her first marriage, so Arthur is only a step cousin, but I just loved this photo of them proudly holding up their turkeys and rabbits from their…
Christmas Past
PLEASE EMAIL ME YOUR MEMORIES AND PHOTOS OF CHRISTMAS WHEN YOU WERE A KID OR OLD PICS FROM YOUR PARENTS/GRANDPARENTS FOR THE ONLINE COLLECTION. My Wagner family sure knew how to do Christmas. There was always a tree, lots of presents, and usually a model train set at my grandparents…
Capitol paddle wheeler
Capitol paddle wheeler steamer boat on the Mississippi River. Early 1900s. The roof on the top center was bright red.