Books!

[Private Lugnutz]

How did I do?

Pretty dang good! I'm impressed. You've earned a commendation medal.

Results marked up below...

8-A-8
13-A-18
14-SBC
16-DC-5?
5-FM-1
18-V-12? or TBD
19-B-18
31-B-19
29-F-3F
28-B-10
24-O-47
34-P-35
32-F5F (< F4F, but I'm giving you this one)
27-P-36
30-J2F
9-P-26
3-Boeing 247

 

[DAustin]

Pretty dang good! I'm impressed. You've earned a commendation medal.

Results marked up below...

Grumman XF5F Skyrocket - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The key is wrong on that one!

 

[DAustin]

The key is wrong on that one!

I didn't see any F4F Wildcats. And it would be the main Navy fighter in 1942.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

I'll let it ride in case somebody else wants to take a crack at the others, and post the whole key in a couple days. Ping me if I forget.

 

[DAustin]

Pretty dang good! I'm impressed. You've earned a commendation medal.

Results marked up below...

27 may be a F2A?, if it is it's a really bad drawing
20- B-23
21-Model 14/A-28/29

 

[Private Lugnutz]

No
Yes
No (EDIT: I just looked up #21 by its designator and the tail in the photo is not the same as the tail in the drawing. Either the key is wrong again, or it had an earlier variant.)

 

[DAustin]

No
Yes
No (EDIT: I just looked up #21 by its designator and the tail in the photo is not the same as the tail in the drawing. Either the key is wrong again, or it had an earlier variant.)

27- P-43? but the landing gear doesn't look right. I'm trying to do this without looking them up. I'm an old aircraft nut, this is fun.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

27- P-43? but the landing gear doesn't look right.

Key says North American P-64.

I'm an old aircraft nut, this is fun.

I figured, and yes, I thought it would be, for someone just such as yourself.

 

[DAustin]

Key says North American P-64.

I figured, and yes, I thought it would be, for someone just such as yourself.

I forgot all about the P-64 there were so few made. But the landing gear is still wrong.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Saving the best for last, this was the coolest find at the flea of the day, the month, and maybe the whole year. The pouch (x-over with your other thread @bmwrd0!) is in tatters, obviously, and I don't like the moldy staining, but I am loathe to try to remove it. Found in the bottom of a tetanus toolbox. Pocket guide published in 1903. With the key still inside!

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Here are some closer views...

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The entire enterprise, the key itself, the booklet, and the marketing of it, is a marvel. The story is amazing.

The first "Key" Woods was marketing, in 1899, was a bit bigger! (18 x 28 inches)



Here's a later ad for the one I found.



Note the description: "The Key and Book of Instruction in Neat Morocco Pocket Case. Full size 4 x 5 inches."

Here's an illustration...

 

[WisJim]

This weekend was the annual fall book sale put on by the Friends of the Library, at our local public library. I bought two large bags of books at $1 per book, some fiction, some cookbooks for the wife, and some civil war and local history and railroad related for myself.

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

Saving the best for last, this was the coolest find at the flea of the day, the month, and maybe the whole year. The pouch (x-over with your other thread @bmwrd0!) is in tatters, obviously, and I don't like the moldy staining, but I am loathe to try to remove it. Found in the bottom of a tetanus toolbox. Pocket guide published in 1903. With the key still inside!

No fear. You are caught up on all your shots?

 

[Private Lugnutz]

You are caught up on all your shots?

Snerk. All joking aside, I know some pickers who wear latex gloves, and I have seen photos from GJers showing latex or other, tight-fitting work gloves, but I can't do it. I am strictly ********. Lol. Seriously. I need that tactile interface with the tool.

 

[WisJim]

As I mentioned in the garage sale thread a couple of days ago, I got quite a stack of back issues and bound volumes and reprints volumes of the British "Model Engineer" magazine, including some reprints of the earliest years (1898!!) and some all the way into the 1970s. The earliest years were titled "The Model Engineer and Amateur Electrician" and covered a very wide range of home built technology, including things like building your own voltmeter or ammeter, along with regular projects like small steam engines, locomotives, gasoline engines, scale model boats using your shop built engine, lathe and other tool modifications and improvements, etc. Later years concentrated more on machine shop type of projects, but it's all interesting.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Bill Mauldin, who wrote and illustrated "Up Front",

Just picked up this clean example at the flea this morning.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Plucked this 1940 dated manual out of a pile of junk on a table at the flea this morning. Unfortunately, it curses up quite a blue streak.

 

[Beerhippie]

Plucked this 1940 dated manual out of a pile of junk on a table at the flea this morning. Unfortunately, it curses up quite a blue streak.

I TOLD YOU TO SCREW THE TOP BACK ON THE DYKEM!

 

[RalphInCA]

Very interesting stuff.

If I was just a year or so out of college, SpaceX would be an awesome company for me to work in.

Now I just don’t have the energy. (Plus they wouldn’t want me now.)

SpaceX is a hard place to work, but they give people tremendous responsibility very early.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

A some of you may know and remember, my dad was in the Merchant Marines in the late 30's, the Navy during WWII, then back to Merchant Marines after the war. I was elated to find the 1937 edition of this book this morning at the flea.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The fold-out map in the back is still there and intact.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

And the book is filled with essential information. Especially the addresses and schedules of "Venereal Disease Clinics" at the ports of call where the "Laundries" were "Women who board ships."

 

[Beerhippie]

And the book is filled with essential information. Especially the addresses and schedules of "Venereal Disease Clinics" at the ports of call where the "Laundries" were "Women who board ships."

Do they have recommendations for good brothels in port?

 

[Outlawmws]

Do they have recommendations for good brothels in port?

Apparently an early ****** service:

"Laundries" were "Women who board ships."

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Do they have recommendations for good brothels in port?

Not unless they're listed surreptitiously under "Amusements."

Seriously, those sections typically include theaters, cinemas, concert halls, or public concert venues and schedules, public swimming and bathhouses, sports stadiums, and "Golf and tennis clubs for officers." Including the VD clinics was probably forward thinking enough of the author, "Mrs. George Howard" (president of the Merchant Marine Library), actually leading men to the source of the disease, probably a little too much. Besides, she probably knew they didn't need any help finding taverns, bars, and brothels.

 

[Beerhippie]

Not unless they're listed surreptitiously under "Amusements."

Seriously, those sections typically include theaters, cinemas, concert halls, or public concert venues and schedules, public swimming and bathhouses, sports stadiums, and "Golf and tennis clubs for officers." Including the VD clinics was probably forward thinking enough of the author, "Mrs. George Howard" (president of the Merchant Marine Library), actually leading men to the source of the disease, probably a little too much. Besides, she probably knew they didn't need any help finding taverns, bars, and brothels.

Just figgurin', it might be safer to know where the "clean" houses are.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

Just figgurin', it might be safer to know where the "clean" houses are.

I was going to say that's not a bad idea, if a little too progressive for 1937. It is replete with the opposite, for the same purpose.

Both direct...

Capetown, South Africa
"Caution. Avoid "District Six," especially REDACTED prostitutes, who are nearly all diseased.

And subtle...

Barcelona, Spain...
"Caution. Regulation for prostitutes are not strict."

It would actually be fun to use this as a travel guide just to see if some of the "Amusements" and "Points of Interest" (e.g., "Petrified icthyosaurus at Herradura," in Coquimbo, Chile) are still there! On the other hand, in terms of "Cautions", I can already attest that some things never change (e.g., "Bad place to be stranded," Amapala, Honduras).

There are some very interesting statements in here in many parts of the world that would be extremely bad form to post outside of the context of an academic, historical exercise, and these days, even that context can get one in trouble.

Others are just humorous and written in a style that has probably grown more entertaining with age.

Here is one example under the Funchal, Madeira section (yes, this still politically autonomous region of Portugal wasn't even listed under Portugal)...

"Caution. Avoid bad liquors. Madeira wine, young or old, is extremely heady, and should be drunk, if at all, in moderation. Beware of touts who offer to show you the sights."

 

[Beerhippie]

I was going to say that's not a bad idea, if a little too progressive for 1937. It is replete with the opposite, for the same purpose.

Both direct...

Capetown, South Africa
"Caution. Avoid "District Six," especially REDACTED prostitutes, who are nearly all diseased.

And subtle...

Barcelona, Spain...
"Caution. Regulation for prostitutes are not strict."

It would actually be fun to use this as a travel guide just to see if some of the "Amusements" and "Points of Interest" (e.g., "Petrified icthyosaurus at Herradura," in Coquimbo, Chile) are still there! On the other hand, in terms of "Cautions", I can already attest that some things never change (e.g., "Bad place to be stranded," Amapala, Honduras).

There are some very interesting statements in here in many parts of the world that would be extremely bad form to post outside of the context of an academic, historical exercise, and these days, even that context can get one in trouble.

Others are just humorous and written in a style that has probably grown more entertaining with age.

Here is one example under the Funchal, Madeira section (yes, this still politically autonomous region of Portugal wasn't even listed under Portugal)...

"Caution. Avoid bad liquors. Madeira wine, young or old, is extremely heady, and should be drunk, if at all, in moderation. Beware of touts who offer to show you the sights."

That would be an excellent read and you have a great idea! See ya' in five years....

 

[Mike'smeatshop]

I found a few magazines the other day.

 

[MShaw]

Found this yesterday

 

[MShaw]

oops, more to come

 

[Outlawmws]

Local racing programs I found last August:

 

[AreBeeBee]

Just a short observation based on the evidence in this thread and elsewhere —

The internet has done absolutely terrible things to magazines by killing or at least severely reducing the advertising that's essential for their survival. Case in point: Family Handyman. Yes, I subscribe and, yes, I will continue so long as it survives in printed form. But oh man, what a fragile husk it is compared to former years. And the trend is clear. I also get Fine Woodworking (not that I'm any kind of woodworker, fine or otherwise) and I keep getting e-mails to buy their electronic version too. Nope. Nope. Nopity nope.

Rant over.

 

[Private Lugnutz]

The spine, binding, and boards are shot on this book I snagged at the flea this morning...



...but I love the illustration on the cover, which accompanied every installment of the series (published 1911-1914), with only the subtitle (this one is "Swift Road Chase") changing. Project Gutenburg has On the Battle Line to see what I mean.

 

[Nobody-named-Olli]

Poorman, Alfred P. (Alfred Peter)

Strength of Materials (Source: Family owned, Grandfather was the original purchaser)







Kind regards,
Olli

 

[bugzilla46310]

Been a reliability engineer my whole career. Before all the mergers began 30 years ago, the product / technical books from various companies were an educational in them self. You don’t see these anymore as the company want you to have a rep come in and most web sites are useless for technical information. As I am semiretired and doing some consulting, I am beginning hand these out. My last gig had a very bright young RE. I gave him one of my Gould pump manuals (300+pages), a Durametallic manual and one of the bearing manuals I had before I left. He seemed most greatful.

 

[WisJim]

Wife and I stopped at a couple of local thrift stores while out and about today, and I spent about $3--most of the books were 25cents each, the Lumberjack one was $1.98. I discovered that the Texas history books are the first 2 volumes of a series of 6 books, but I probably won't find the rest of them for a quarter each.

 

[rkenney]

Here's a little book that navigated the last century in my families hands. The most interesting aspect (to me) is the various dates and notes from family members in the front pages. I'll get it out and add those pages after I take more picyures. The book was published in 1891 and the cover page indicates it was purchased (obtained) by my Great Uncle Armin Kahler in 1898. The fly leak page shows my grandfather, Robert Kroeger, was given the book in 1904 (he was 14). 1904 was the same year that my Great Grandfather's business in Baltimore burned to the ground in the Great Baltimore Fire (it reopened the following year uptown aways). The rather long note is from my mother who gave me the book in 1985.