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Saturday, April 4, 2020
plenty of time on my hands...
Checking the serial number in the Elgin database, this movement I just got working again was manufactured in 1917 - one year before the great influenza pandemic of 1918. 60,69,53,0,B
Happy Birthday John. Did you manage to get all the necessary groceries the other day in Alpine? Have a friend who lives in Sanderson who drove to Ft. Stockton and was very disappointed in what was available.
…just before the Spanish flu showed up 102 years ago - tick, tock
ReplyDeleteBrevig Mission, Alaska
ReplyDeleteOne has to wonder...did the original owner survive the Spanish Flu?
ReplyDeletethe tales can be stem winders…
ReplyDeletea different Elgin
fairly interesting backside… & face… & social distancing compliant…10518654
1899
Happy Birthday John. Did you manage to get all the necessary groceries the other day in Alpine? Have a friend who lives in Sanderson who drove to Ft. Stockton and was very disappointed in what was available.
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historical marker
wondered about the face & hands
In 1936, a commemorative silver half dollar, 30 years later, tower demo - times flies & crumbles
Ozymandias
the C-Trib