notbob1959

notbob1959 t1_j54i4ms wrote

That style Maryland plate was issued from 1975 to 1980, if the serial is red, or 1980 to 1986, if the serial is black. The serial looks black to me.

There is a revalidation sticker on the plate so that cuts out the first year in each range and the space between the letters and numbers is not as wide as used for the 86 plate.

So my guess for the year of the photo is between 1981 and 1985 but it could be between 1976 and 1980.

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notbob1959 t1_j24i1fu wrote

And it was probably around from when the bikini first came out.

I can't link to it directly because the spam filter in this sub deletes comments with external links but the following incomplete link which can be copied and pasted to your browser and goes to a photo of a woman topless sunbathing on a Cannes, France beach in 1948 (two years after Louis Réard introduced the modern bikini):

gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/view-as-a-lady-sun-bathes-topless-on-the-beach-in-cannes-news-photo/451093785

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notbob1959 t1_iy5ydfo wrote

>This picture is different from the one I've always seen posted (different angle and Vivian is smoking here)

I thought this one had been posted before too but I just searched and if it has I couldn't find it. It has been uploaded to imgur but looks like you are correct and it hasn't been posted to reddit before. Probably because the cropping and her smoking make this one less visually appealing. Or it could be that the other version is just more widely spread around the internet since it was first posted to shorpy.com in 2007 (it along with the other 2 photos were available at the Library of Congress before that but their online photo archive is not that well known).

Sorry for accusing you of reposting a commonly reposted image.

Another bit of information related to Thomas (his full name was Tillman Thomas Ursel Cave) can be found in the comments at shorpy.com:

>Then, a tragic story from the May 4, 1952 issue: "Kelso Grid Star Dies in Collision". It reads:

>>KELSO, Wash. May 3 (AP) - Richard "Rip" Raappana, 24, well-known southwest Washington athlete, was killed early Saturday. His automobile swerved into a Consolidated Freightways truck and trailer a mile north of here on the Pacific Highway, the state patrol reported.

>>Louise N. Robinson, 21, Longview, a passenger in his car, was injured critically.

>>The state patrol said the truck driver was Thomas U. Cave, 39, of Portland.

>>Raappana was an all-round athlete at Kelso high. He played college football for Eastern Washington college at Cheney and last fall was with the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

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notbob1959 t1_iy555t5 wrote

You would think that the current owner of the bike (the Harley-Davidson Museum) would know the weight. However, I found an article at motorcycle.com about bikes at the museum that says this about the Magnum:

>the end result was a bike that weighed less than 320 lbs Harley says (Smith claimed 203 lbs) and hit 106 mph in a quarter-mile drag. I highly doubt the entire bike weighed 203 lbs, but I like Randy’s optimism and hey, 106 in the quarter-mile using a mish-mash of 1940s and ‘50s engine parts ain’t bad.

So it seems there is a wide range of claimed weights.

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notbob1959 t1_iy4xooe wrote

Found a photo of the bike posted to the Facebook account of the Harley-Davidson Museum with following description:

>1970 Magnum built by Randy Smith. A model name for this one? Hard to pin down... Smith relished making motorcycles that defied the laws of logic. He was the owner of Custom Cycle Engineering. To build this bike, he took a 1940s WR 45 ci Flathead bottom end and grafted it with a Sportster OHV top end. It has a Cerani front end but with a KR road racer front brake. It weights 250 pounds and went over 100 mph on the quarter mile.

>The bike came into the Archives collection in 2006, and is currently on display on the lower level of the museum in the Custom Culture gallery.

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notbob1959 t1_iy4wgja wrote

OP tried to but didn't know that the spam filter in this sub deletes comments when it sees the h t t p in a link.

You can find the comment on their profile.

Here is the text of the comment:

>Full caption from the source: "Because he can. And back then it might get ya’ a boob flash. In a Herculean effort to prove the 45 Magnum is a lightweight, Randy Smith hoists 203 pounds of machine off the ground, solo. The whole 45 magnum weighs only slightly more than a unit Sportster engine."

The source is an article at selvedgeyard.com.

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notbob1959 t1_iy4q1tq wrote

I don't understand your title OP. Where is Part One?

Anyway this photo has been posted a buttload of times along with this other photo taken at the same time and we know that the woman is indeed his wife. They were married in 1934 and the photo was taken by Dorothea Lange in 1939.

He was still married to Vivian and with her in the 1940 census.

He goes to prison between 1940 and 41. Vivian files for divorce. He comes to her house when he's out in 1942, according to a newspaper article he says to discuss domestic matters, and she ends up shooting him in the abdomen.

There is also another photo of him linked in this comment that has not been posted.

Edit: Found the Part One referenced in the title. A colorization of the other version of the photo was posted earlier today but subsequently deleted by the moderators. I am not sure of the reason it was deleted but I do know that the OP there is a repost bot that copies popular posts and old comments to appear human.

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notbob1959 t1_iujqvsy wrote

There was a 1931 movie titled Wild Women of Borneo. Here is the synopsis from tcm.com:

>This film depicts an expedition by three Americans into the interior of Borneo, where a tribe of savage female warriors is said to dwell. The explorers travel through Mexico and Singapore, where they witness the sacred "fire ordeal," in which Hindu zealots walk across hot coals. Eventually they reach Borneo, where they capture footage of rare breeds of animals, primitive native tribes and the warriors' burial grounds. The wild women are at last sited and photographed in Borneo's Forest of Souls, but they attack the explorers with poison darts and chase them away.

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