TBT... Throwback Thursday!

DozerII · Oct 24, 2020

Yup Dozerland for sure. Picture number 2 to the left of the church there is a brick house that was the where all the Nuns for the Parrish lived, to the left of that across the street is where our house is, it was built in 1952. I'm thinking the time line on the 2nd and 3rd photos is off Doc I'm pretty sure they were much earlier Dollard was settled in 09-10.

Here's the homestead about 8 years ago

smallfoot · Oct 24, 2020

Nice spread there dozer!

DozerII · Oct 25, 2020

smallfoot said:
Nice spread there dozer!

Thank smallfoot, sure doesn't look like that right now, it's all white and really cold, brrrr

Dr Crankenstein · Oct 25, 2020

DozerII said:
Yup Dozerland for sure. Picture number 2 to the left of the church there is a brick house that was the where all the Nuns for the Parrish lived, to the left of that across the street is where our house is, it was built in 1952. I'm thinking the time line on the 2nd and 3rd photos is off Doc I'm pretty sure they were much earlier Dollard was settled in 09-10.

The two aerial shots are dated April 15 1952. If that's true, your house was built later that year.

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Dr Crankenstein · Oct 29, 2020

Just down the road from Dozerland, this bundle is from the town of Eastend. I spent some time there as a kid and I still have some family in the area.

Parked on the rail dock, due to spring flooding

Loading white clay

My favorite shot in the group, again collecting white clay

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Old Iron · Oct 29, 2020

Very cool pics Doc
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DozerII · Oct 29, 2020

The streets aren't much better nowadays, that white mud clay is much sought after in the pottery world, there is an active pit NW of East End.

bob w · Oct 29, 2020

All those people were cruising in classic cars and didn't know it.

Although the scenery is different the photos from that era are from the time I lived on my grandfather's turkey farm. The early years. Thank you for posting this material.

BillM · Oct 29, 2020

Thanks Doc - those are great shots.

bob w · Oct 29, 2020

Looks like livestock and church draws a crowd.

Dr Crankenstein · Oct 30, 2020

DozerII said:
The streets aren't much better nowadays, that white mud clay is much sought after in the pottery world, there is an active pit NW of East End.

How about Scotty? The largest T-Rex discovered thus far...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sask... the biggest,were out prospecting for fossils.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yezOFl9cH8s

bob w said:
Looks like livestock and church draws a crowd.

Unlike the turkey farm, where you'll find one guy in suit! Is this a strange photo, or what? [S

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bob w · Oct 30, 2020

Dr Crankenstein said:
How about Scotty? The largest T-Rex discovered thus far...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sask... the biggest,were out prospecting for fossils.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yezOFl9cH8s

Unlike the turkey farm, where you'll find one guy in suit! Is this a strange photo, or what? [S

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Being a summer turkey farmer kid I find it normal. Man and turkeys dressed in formal black.

Probably checking the flock for overnight mortality before going to church.

BTW, that's the way we raised them. Out in the field. Moved them to a new field every Monday. Put up fencing, tear down fencing. We raised traditional black turkeys like those shown because white turkeys had not been invented yet.[S