Showing posts with label horse carriage. Show all posts
Showing posts with label horse carriage. Show all posts

Friday, August 26, 2011

Amish buggys from Amish Stories1.Blogspot





Amish Stories blogspot has recipes, food stands, handcrafted art like painted horseshoes, and other Amish cultural stuff. It's posted by a non Amish guy (if you've no idea what Amish are, they are anti technology descedants of the Swiss and German immigrants of the 1690's to the Pennsylvania and Ohio area, they have a German accent, build everything by hand using no electrical tools, and they also won't join the military)

But the horse carriages and buggies are unique in America for all I know, as the Amish won't own, drive, or ride in cars. Maybe they have a historic date that they aren't allowed to pass in material technology, because they are very aware of the rest of the worlds technology, but they religiously adhere to the farming culture of their ancestors. Their carpentry is said to be superb.

Saturday, August 6, 2011

another wild variety of photos from Formicarius.tumblr.com, from Queens and Kaisers to carnival coaster cars and pirate women in Ostrich carts




1890's quadricycle with a Maxim machine gun mounted and beign tested for army contract consideration
Total car kid awesomeness! Want!

Proabably for a private little rail backyard fun... but the cutest damn thing I think I've seen all day
Pirate women ostrich racing... most bizarre thing we'll see all week?
Kaiser Wilhelm and blimps! Steampunk delux


incredible yes? http://formicarius.tumblr.com for hours of distraction from the mundane

Thursday, August 4, 2011

the last photo of Pres McKinley, in a beaut of a carriage

The last photo ever taken of President McKinley on his way to the Temple of Music where he was fatally wounded on Sept. 6, 1901 from Histroical Indulgences http://tuesday-johnson.tumblr.com/ 

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

A variety of photos from a blog about Hollywood celebs of 1920-1960 and their mansions and homes

The movie set for the Hunchback of Notre Dame 1924

President Taft, 1909 tour of Los Angeles and Hollywood
 it's a two door... not very commonly seen, and looks small

This horse and buggy were abandoned when the horse died. No one ever came back for the buggy, or to dispose of the horse carcass.... that is mighty strange