Photo Number 3192

These are snapshots from the Flea Market near Grand Rapids Minnesota.


A man and his dog, he looks like he has lunch in his hand in the first photo and in the second photo it looks like some kind of varmit.
The license plate on the truck is Illinois.
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Photo Number 3122

This is a snapshot from the anatique shop in Pequot Lakes Minnesota.

  Dec 1948 Tokyo Japan

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Photo Number 3121

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Pequot Lakes Minnesota.

Taken in Dec 1948  Tokyo Japan

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Photo Number 2531

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

This is a Rexo Postcard. They were used from 1905 to 1920.  Ths one is probably from the 1920’s.

There is a name on the back  Hutch.

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Photo Number 2478

This is a  Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

I wonder if they all fit in this car?  More than likely someone got a new car and came visiting and everyone lined up for a photo with the car.

I was curious what the words were on that vehicle.  I believe it may say Battle Lake.

This is a 1926 or 1927 Model T.

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Photo Number 2441

These are snapshots from the antique shop in Fergus Falls Minnesota.

Here comes the snowplow!

There goes the snowplow!

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Photo Number 2413

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Verndale Minnesota.

A soldier in a Jeep someplace hilly…maybe Korea…maybe someplace in the United States on a training base.

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Photo Number 2071

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Moorhead Minnesota.

Looks like at least two of these hunters filled their deer tag.

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Photo Number 1777

This is a photo from a little shop in East Grand Forks Minnesota.

Best Wishes for a Merry Christmas

Jimmie, Mildred and Jamie

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Franklin Herefords  Slater MO

That must be little Jamie in the truck!  I bet his last name is Franklin. 

That looks to me like a 1947 Two Ton Truck…but I am no expert on vehicles.  It looks like a well used truck so this photo was most likely taken in the 1950’s sometime.  He has been hunting.

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Update from Iggy:

James L(eroy?) Franklin (February 23, 1920 - September 27, 2001) and Mildred A. Franklin (September 3, 1914 - June 26, 2008) owned the Franklin Polled Hereford Farm outside of Slater, Missourri.

Their son, also "Jim," apparently still lives there.

The truck is indeed a a 1947-1955 era Chevrolet "Grain Truck". The back actually hinged like a dump truck.

Photo Number 1674

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the flea market in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

When I saw this photo I immediately thought of my friend Alan.  So I mailed it to him.

Blackpool Manchester Square

Wouldn’t it be delightful to go for a ride on that streetcar?

The postcard was mailed from Blackpool Lancashire in 1924 to South Dakota.

 

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Photo Number 1624

This is a  snapshot from the antique shop in Duluth Minnesota.

My husband says that this is an old soap box car.  She must have went for a spin after hanging the wash on the line.

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Photo Number 1620

This is a photo from the antique shop in Duluth Minnesota.

There is lots going on in this photo; a campfire, getting your hair fixed and note the swim suits on the fender of the old car.  My guess is that they went to the lake for the day.

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Photo Number 1461

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

Looks like a photo taken in early spring or late winter.

Alta Blencoe   Feb 4, 1927

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Update from Iggy:

Alta Blencoe, born c. 1913, was the daughter of Henry Blencoe and Harriet May Simser of Fairmont, Martin, MN. 

She married Edward Carlson and they had two daughters, Blythe and Dawn. The 1940 US Census says she lived in Nevada, Story, Iowa - and she is listed in the 1940 Ames, Iowa city directory having moved there sometime after 1935.

Photo Number 1356

This is a photograph from a garage sale in Park Rapids Minnesota.  They didn’t know who was in the photo.

( I asked.)

An older sister holding her baby brother or sister.  I am not sure why the bassinet is in the photo, maybe the baby was in the bassinet.  It looks like there is a milk can in the background perhaps they lived on a farm.  I cannot tell what year the car was, but I think the photo may have been taken in the early 1940’s.

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Photo Number 1064

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Solway Minnesota.

A farmstead with a 1920 or 1921 Dodge. My Dad says that the radiator is the right shape to be a Dodge.  That is a pretty big step to get in the door of the house.

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Photo Number 1063

This is a snapshot from a antique shop in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada.

My car expert( My Dad) thought that this looked like a 1929 Buick.  The photo is marked on the back “Uncle Tom.”

I think that it says Armstrong's Hotel..

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Photo Number 1062

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Brainerd Minnesota.

1912 Buick  R.P. Bissell Dubuque Iowa

The fenders have been rounded off at the running boards and running boards removed.  Like the sport cars of the 20s.  That spoiled it.
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Update from Iggy:
Richard P. Bissell is a rather well-know author. Son of Fred and Edith Bissell.

"Richard P. Bissell (28 Jun 1913 - 1977) learned about the pleasures and dangers of towboating on the Mississippi during eight years as deckhand, mate, and pilot. A Harvard graduate, he left the river in 1945 to manage his family's business in Dubuque, Iowa, and to become an author of national acclaim."

Update fro Sam Bissell : 

Actually his birthday is June 27, 1913.
Today is his 100th birthday....and I'm glad I found this so I can share it with my family!

He was an was an author of short stories and novels. His early writings were stories and books based on his life working on the Mississippi, Monongahela, and Ohio Rivers, as a deckhand, mate, and Captain. His book, "7½ Cents", was based on his time spent working in the family business, H.B. Glover Co., in Dubuque, IA, which was turned into the Broadway musical "The Pajama Game", which won the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical. He wrote a book about the experience called "Say, Darling", which chronicled a broadway musical production and featured characters based on those he worked with; this book was also turned into a musical with the same name, in 1958. 
In the 1960s, after other fictional books, he was hired by Holiday Magazine as a featured writer, which lead him to contributing to other travel magazines, as well. He wrote monthly columns for Venture Magazine as well as Travel and Leisure, which were based on his travels and were always humorous in nature.
He passed away well before his time at the young age of 63. He was survived by his wife, 3 sons, and a daughter. 

Thanks for sharing this photo of one of my Dad's old automobiles!
All my best-
Sam Bissell
This photo went Full Circle 76 on November 12, 2013.

Photo Number 1061

Okay..I am out of train photos.  In that spirit of travel we will look at some cars.

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Detroit Lakes Minnesota.

The car is a Model T Ford or a  Tin Lizzie.   Model T’s were made from 1908 to 1927.  Mr. Ford wanted the normal working man to be able to afford a car.

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Photo Number 1057

This is a Real Photo Postcard from the antique shop in Erhard Minnesota.  The postcard dates from 1904 to 1918.

A group.  The travelers in the car must be on the right. City cousins come to see the relatives in the country!

at Mrs. Ellen Ankers/Anhers

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Update from The Norwegian Guy: Anonymous Hero
It is stated this item was purchased in Erhard, which is a small town in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Also in Otter Tail County there is Clitherall Township, wherein there is a cemetery known as Leaf Mountain Cemetery. In that cemetery is buried Mrs. Ellen [nee Thompson] Anker. Ellen Anker [3/15/1851 - 3/1/1940] was the second wife of Iver Anker [1831 - 1907] who is also buried in Leaf Mountain Cemetery. The photo appears to have been taken in the early or middle part of the second decade of the twentieth-century. Since that was after Mr. Anker's death in 1907, it makes sense that the item was labeled as being taken at Mrs. Ellen Anker's place.

From Iggy:
Ellen was born in March, 1851 in Norway and immigrated in 1893. She died on 01 March 1940 in Nidaros, Otter Tail, MN. By 1895, she was the second wife of husband Iver Olson/Oleson (ugh!) (b. March, 1831 d. Nov. 5, 1907) and with son Thomas Marinus Anker (b. Jan. 11, 1895 d. Feb. 19, 1976). By 1930, she left widowed and is living as a boarder with another immigrant from Norway named Gina Hatleskog, who was born in 1857 and immigrated in 1892.

If this photo was taken at Ellen Ankers place, it was likely taken between 1907 and 1918. I suspect the other ladies are likely fellow immigrants, church ladies, and/or family (but it is unlikely to be Ellen's)

Photo Number 980

This is a snapshot from the antique shop in Perham Minnesota.

Summertime tenting long ago.  I am not sure if these cars are Model T’s or Model A’s.  One has one of those lean- to tents that is somehow attached to the vehicle.

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