Slayton Minnesota an airplane above Mainstreet_Photo

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Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Herb Iffrig on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 09:04 am:


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Tim Wrenn on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 09:06 am:

Cool pic, cool plane. Interesting how wide that street is, he coulda landed that plane on it. Maybe he did!


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Herb Iffrig on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 09:08 am:

It looks more like he is taking off?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Herb Iffrig on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 09:09 am:

I should have said that I think this photo was from 1912.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mark Strange on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 09:44 am:

Looks like an early Curtiss biplane, I wonder if it is Glenn Curtiss at the controls?


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Walker, NW AR on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 10:19 am:

It's odd that there are no people on the sidewalks witnessing the big event.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Henry Petrino in Modesto, CA on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 10:28 am:

Mike,
They're all inside hiding. The darn thing probably scared the heck out of them! :-)


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Darel J. Leipold on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 11:06 am:

It is a "Put Together" or a composite photo. These were common at that time.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By A. Gustaf Bryngelson on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 11:10 am:

Darel, I think you may be right as the contrast of the airplane and buildings is not the same, but it seems a bit more difficult to doctor a photo than to take a photo. I suspect that they wanted a photo that had not been taken.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Erik Johnson on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 01:01 pm:

To add to Darel's comment:

Another common picture postcard is superimposing a streetcar in the middle of the street in a small town where a streetcar system never actually existed.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By Mike Garrison_Rice Minnesota on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 02:25 pm:

Ha, I got married in that courthouse at the end of the street. If I'd known then what I learned 33 years later I would have been running away from that place as fast as my feet would carry me. Oh crap, now I know I'm going to be dealing with flashbacks and I nightmares for the next week.

That street is still that wide. They usually park along both curbs and will park a center row right down the middle of the street.


Top of pagePrevious messageNext messageBottom of page Link to this message  By mike bartlett Oviedo,Fl on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 - 02:52 pm:

no shadow on roadway from plane


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