Job Opportunity 1956

 Missiles are the future!

Honor guard, May 1887

 

Sailors man the yards of the USS Atlanta in honor of the visit to New York by Queen Kapiolani of the Hawaiian Islands who walks down the gangplank towards a Marine honor guard.

 The Atlanta was a 283 foot Protected Cruiser built in 1884 by the John Roach & Sons shipyard in Chester Pa. and was one of the first steel ships in the US Navy. The ship was in service till 1905 when she was reduced to a barracks ship at first Norfolk, Virginia and later Charleston, South Carolina. It was scrapped in 1912. 

A protected Cruiser was a late 19th century form of warship with an armoured deck at the waterline protecting the boilers and engines designed to cope with the rifled guns that were being developed. Even at that point in history, sails were still considered to be essential. 

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Freight car wheels, Canadian Pacific Railway

Iron wheels being cast at the CPR Weston shops in Winnipeg in the late thirties. After the war the material was changed to cast steel, but they were no longer made in-house.

Nicholas Morant's Canadian Pacific, Footprint Pub. 1992

 

Never Miss Spark Plugs

 This company (sometimes with a dash, sometimes not) was in business at the beginning of the gas engine era, but seems to have disappeared without an online trace. 

Grumman 1957

 This two page ad comes from the June 1957 National Geographic magazine, Not sure why they'd be spending the advertising money here, Grumman was almost entirely a supplier to the US Navy and Air Force, and the supersonic F-11 Tiger had been adopted as a front line carrier aircraft the year before.

East River, 1893

 This photo was taken from approximately the Pier 16 Seaport area of Manhattan facing east, today the home of a museum and a few sailing ships, a far cry from the busy harbour it was back then. Through the tangle of rigging is the Brooklyn Bridge.

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Triumph Speed Twin sectioned

Sammy Miller Museum. Amazing place, go visit.

 

First Apple logo

 The creation of the Apple Computer company fell to  the 10% founder Ronald Wayne. His design centered around Issac Newton about to discover the theory of gravity. It's a nice rustic-looking idea but not what Steve Jobs wanted for a forward-looking computer company. It lasted less than a year, Ronald Wayne didn't stay with the company and neither did his logo.

 Rob Janoff, a graphic designer, was hired to design something more modern and the Apple with a bite out of it was created. The initial rainbow pattern was to celebrate the new colour monitor.

Logo history here.

Grinningbirds

 Pacific Southwest Airlines billed themselves as the friendliest airline around and painted smiles on their fleet in the early 1970s. They were also known for the uniforms of their flight attendants which included hot pants. Here a bevy of smiling flight attendants pose with a new Lockheed L1011. Friendly or not, the L1011s were never profitable and were soon grounded . The airline saw a lot of changes as they diversified into unrelated businesses in an attempt to become profitable. By August of 1976, the hot pants were gone too. The airline struggled along and deregulation did them no favors. The airline was sold in 1988 to American Airlines.

Ford Edsel wagon

We can't describe this one as understated.

  Crazy colours, heavy-handed grille and taillights, and woody panels besides.