Lidge Hunt
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Lidge Hunt
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James Newsome
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08/13/2013
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AncientFaces
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10/10/2019
His name was "Lidge" He was born in 1901. It's a great photo - the character in his face!
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Old enough to be a Great War Vet or a World War II Vet. Lived thru the Roaring Twenties AND the Crash AND the deprivations of the Great Depression. He saw some high times and some hard times.
James Dignan
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10/11/2019
judging by the clothing, possibly the Dustbowl, too
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Or a refugee from the Dust Bowl? No information on where he was born . . . but he did end up in Sacramento CA.
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AncientFaces. He's defiantly a cow hand/boy.
Raw hide....
Raw hide....
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AncientFaces yes you got it. John Wane love the cowboy days.
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Claudia Bellemare Actually, it was the theme song to "Rawhide" that I loved - plus that young Clint was SO cute! :)
Heather Edseth
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Oh, I don't know - 2 big wars in less than 25 years, the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, often losing a child or two, many children losing a parent - or both - in childhood (happened to both my parents). Sounds stressful to me! (And don't forget, it was much, much worse for minorities!)
Ree Young
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10/10/2019
He might have missed both wars, actually. Born in 1901, he would have been 17 at the end of WWI, possibly too young to join up...though he might have lied about his age.
America's entry into WWII was 1941, and he would have been 40 already.
My dad was born in 1902, and he missed both wars. He tried to in WWII, but they told him he was too old even though the draft required men as old as 45 to register. But my dad was also working as a senior machinist in a plant that was making tanks for the Army, so with the age and the war work, none of the services would let him join, and his number for the draft never came up.
Nowadays, the services maximum age limit is between 28 and 39, depending on which branch.
This guy looks like he's spent a lot of years out in the sun...cowboy, rancher, farmer, farmhand...
If this was taken in the 1930s, it was the middle of the Great Depression. My folks lived through that.
America's entry into WWII was 1941, and he would have been 40 already.
My dad was born in 1902, and he missed both wars. He tried to in WWII, but they told him he was too old even though the draft required men as old as 45 to register. But my dad was also working as a senior machinist in a plant that was making tanks for the Army, so with the age and the war work, none of the services would let him join, and his number for the draft never came up.
Nowadays, the services maximum age limit is between 28 and 39, depending on which branch.
This guy looks like he's spent a lot of years out in the sun...cowboy, rancher, farmer, farmhand...
If this was taken in the 1930s, it was the middle of the Great Depression. My folks lived through that.
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It reminds me that we spend a lot of time as children, then we finally reach adulthood and we're young for the blink of a second and then before we know what's happened our faces fall and wrinkle. 7 or 8 years before this picture was taken he was probably a young heartthrob. Anyone who has kids can tell you how short a time 8 years is.
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Joy Midkiff Alba my 1st baby is almost 48....seems like I just brought her home from the hospital.
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Lora Gillman Boston 2 minutes ago my eldest was nursing. Now she's 19 years old and my 5th is 19 months old. I'm scared to blink again. Lol
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Joy Midkiff Alba hoe very astute. Nice job , and you are so spot on , said this man in his 70th year. In the twinkling of an eye. “Too long small, too quick old”
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Byron Harrison I tell ya, yesterday I was 7, with a mom and dad, 3 sets of grandparents, and 3 sets of greataunts/uncles. Now I HAVE a 7yo, and my mother is the only elder left. Never. Blinking. Again.
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I remember His well we rode together on the Bar X ranch for a while.. Good man.. Had some troubles In forgetting the war and the things he had seen.. A man of his word. Lost touch with him About 1933..
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Joyce Dalley-Walkey Not much more to tell. In the Grate War he was tough .Keep me going till the End.. He was a Hard worker Lola friend.. Thats about all I know about him.. No Family he ever spoke of.
Douglas Sharpe
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10/11/2019
Take cover Dorothy a twister!!!!
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