Got this courtesy of Baseline Equipment. This is Springfield, Oregon....late 1800s??
Anyhow, just wanted to share it with you guys. I know you all appreciate photos like this. Enjoy! :-$
Thank you, that was nice of you!
Have a great weekend! B-)
How's come, neither surveyor looks to be tall enough to see through the scope?
Hilarious!
Those two guys to the left are definitely going "Gangnam Style."
Don
That's a great photo and there must be many more waiting to be found. I Have collected a few oldtimers, some have been around, but others maybe new to viewer, Old Surveyors Public Files. There is a couple of other albums on the page too.
Great pictures. Thanks for sharing your link
Love the old pics of anything. Keepp'em coming!
Wow, Bridger, who are these guys?
The 21st Virginia Heavy Combat Engineers from the War of the Rebellion?
That guy on the right bears a strong resemblence to Tommy Young.
Don
2 cool things in the pic...
A real "steam-roller" in the background AND it looks like the gun is set up over a monument of some sort on the centerline of the RR.
Also, I can read the word "TEXAS" on the emblem on the roller. Some clue to it's manufacture, no doubt.
> Wow, Bridger, who are these guys?
> The 21st Virginia Heavy Combat Engineers from the War of the Rebellion?
> That guy on the right bears a strong resemblence to Tommy Young.
>
> Don
They're cute!!! :-$
But then again, I have always thought Surveyors were "cute". Especially mine!! :love: B-)
Here's another
This is one I posted on the "other" board a few years ago.
The fellow I got it from said his uncle was on the front seat of the wagon. Railroad survey crew from the early 1900's.
Andy
Here's another
Thanks Andy, Don, & Angel, I added these to my collection for my screen saver.
By the way, (thread hijack), I wonder if anyone here knows from whom it is that I have 'borrowed' my avatar? I can't remember if I used it on the former site either?
I think that the sassy guy with the cocked hat and Pipe near the instrument looks like Ron Howard..
Here's another
I don't know the source of your picture, but a similar, if not that exact image hung on the wall at the Paul Smiths College library in 1970 with these words:
A Surveyor Is
A Surveyor is something that grubs around in the woods looking for little sticks and stones. When he finds them, he does some kind of weird dance around them with a funny looking 3-leg crutch which he leans on and looks at.
When he doesn't find them he walks around all day like he's lost.
Sometimes you see them squashed by cars along roads, especially in the summer when all the other bugs are out.
A surveyor has one big eye and one little eye like Popeye.
He usually walks bent over all the time which is why he always looks so stooped.
His face looks like old leather.
He cusses terribly.
He can't read because he measures between things and then puts down a number in a little book which is different from what his little map says.
He always measures to a stick or stone, stops near it, and puts in another stick or stone.
He is not too bright because he is always making marks on side-walks and roads to find his way home.
His pants are always torn from rock salt and his shoes look like they were made of mud.
People stare at him, dogs chase him and he always looks worn out.
I don't know why anyone wants to be a surveyor.
Good times at Camp!
Here's another
Thanks Ken.
maybe the world was a better place when everyone wore hats.
ahh maybe not, who knows?
Well I'll be darned.
There's women on that crew, along with a doe.
> maybe the world was a better place when everyone wore hats.
And smoked a pipe. Smoking a pipe is a time consuming practice and forces one to take time for reflection.
“I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.”
-Albert Einstein
We are actioning the picture with the Pit and one similiar to the camp this year at the Idaho Conference. Cool pics.
