Picture perfect

Sometimes I think it was the hardships of the Depression and WW II that made that generation "the greatest generation".
 
Great photo.

2 HP on the left and 40 HP on the right.

I cant imagine what it was like to be brought up using the horse and buggy and then to be catapulted into the mechanical world. It had to be frightening and exciting at the same time.


My mother, who was born on a plantation in Louisiana in 1898 and died in 1989 said to me the year she died, "I have lived an amazing life. Born when waking or a buggy were the means to get somewhere and now I have jumped on a plane to fly across country and men have walked on the moon."
 
My mother, who was born on a plantation in Louisiana in 1898 and died in 1989 said to me the year she died, "I have lived an amazing life. Born when waking or a buggy were the means to get somewhere and now I have jumped on a plane to fly across country and men have walked on the moon."

Obviously the old dear still had all her faculties.
 
My friend’s Mom grew up on a farm in western Wisconsin where their only contact with the outside world was when the postman showed up once a week. A little different now...
 
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