A photo of a flood in 1950?
@PatZAnthony (14752)
Charlotte, North Carolina
July 8, 2017 8:35pm CST
After reading a post by @rebelann the photo shared here by me came to mind.
We have so many items that belonged to great grandparents and uncles, aunts, etc. including photos no one can identify. We keep these because we knew the people.
Does anyone recognize the cars in the picture? We are guessing a 1940ish something! Sad that most photos we have don't have details on the back!
Someone said it does not seem like much of a flood, then we remembered that someone might actually have lived in the basements of these buildings. They would surely call this a flood!
Do you keep old unidentified photos?
This link is to the post by @rebelann
Have you ever found a really old picture you'd taken and wished you had written down when you took it? This is a shot of the area that is now populated by...
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
9 Jul 17
Many photos we have were taken before we were born @Hatley with some from 1898. We don't want to part with these but would love to know more.
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@marlina (154166)
• Canada
9 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony You are lucky to have such old photos.
The cars look to me like late 40's but I am not a car expert
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
10 Jul 17
@marlina Yes, from the 40s from what we see.
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
9 Jul 17
That's what Florida streets look like just about every afternoon in the summer due to our daily thunderstorms! lol
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
9 Jul 17
Some of the Florida homes we have visited have basements, but we realize most don't @moffittjc
We were in one that was so creepy and must have been flooded more than once!
This could be Texas, Tennessee or Canada for all we know!
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@moffittjc (118365)
• Gainesville, Florida
9 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony Yeah, it's rare to find houses or buildings in Florida with basements, but they do exist here. Mostly in the central and north Florida areas. Most of our state was settled by northerners who retired or relocated here, and when they arrived they built their houses just like they built them up north. It took them a while to realize that they had to do things a little differently in this state! haha
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
9 Jul 17
As you said, if the street is flooded like that, we can only imagine the basements and the destruction and ruination that this flood caused! I wish I had some old photos but in the village where I was born, my family didn't have any photos.
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@1hopefulman (45123)
• Canada
10 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony I guess you are flooded with pictures? 
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
15 Jul 17
@1hopefulman Yes! Maybe we should snap some photos of the flood of pictures!
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
10 Jul 17
We can mail you some of ours @1hopefulman
Hoping someone in the family will take at least half of what we have now.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
9 Jul 17
Yes I also would guess 40s Pat.
That sure is a flood alright as you say many in basements.
I have no old photos but I should have..another story for another time.
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
15 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony Yes you are fortunate to have them Pat for sure.
I am sickened that I don't have mine..but thanks for sharing some..I love to see them
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
15 Jul 17
Many people don't have such things @TiarasOceanView
So, guess we won't complain about the bins filled to the top here!
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
10 Jul 17
Some have names but we still don't know who the people are @jaboUK
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
9 Jul 17
Water can do so much damage @Lucky15
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@rebelann (111073)
• El Paso, Texas
9 Jul 17
Kool picture and thank you for the shout out.
I remember seeing those old cars when dad was stationed in Germany back in 1956 through 1959, back then people didn't trade in their cars as often as people do today. I think those cars in your photo were from the 1940s.
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@rebelann (111073)
• El Paso, Texas
10 Jul 17
They claim they've improved on all those products when all they've done is make everything so fragile that they need to be replaced far too often @PatZAnthony
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
11 Jul 17
@rebelann Planned obsolescence shouts loud and clear, doesn't it?
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
10 Jul 17
We remember as children everything seemed to be built to last forever. One car, one refrigerator-now everything is designed to be replaced!
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
15 Jul 17
I have a few from my mother but I got after her while she still could to identify all her old photos.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
15 Jul 17
It seems many here have no idea who is who @BelleStarr or why some photos were taken!
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
15 Jul 17
Many we never met or the photos are from their youth, not from their 70s or 80s when we think about knowing them @LadyDuck
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@LadyDuck (457295)
• Switzerland
16 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony I remember all from the early 60's, the problem are older photos.
@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
15 Jul 17
Some are fun to view, while others just don't make sense to us @simone10
We are happy we have photos of great grandparents and their siblings.
@MarshaMusselman (38616)
• Midland, Michigan
13 Jul 17
I mostly have my own photos, but I've not put much of them online until the past few years and need to go through them all when I retire and figure out whether to put them into albums, online or what exactly.
I usually remember what the picture is about, but not always the people's names in them or the event when they were taken.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
15 Jul 17
Someone we know created a data base with his photos so he will always have them to share. Maybe (or maybe not) we could do that @MarshaMusselman
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@MarshaMusselman (38616)
• Midland, Michigan
15 Jul 17
@PatZAnthony Did he use a known site like flicker, or pixabay or even one of the cloud servers for images like dropbox, or did he set up something he alone was responsible for?
I doubt I'd ever want or have the extra time to mess with all my images. I'd like to catalog the ones I already have on my computer and probably won't ever do that either.
@Courtlynn (66921)
• United States
9 Jul 17
Not that big of a flood is right but also right is to a basement it would be. We have photos from when i was a kid 20 years ago without labels. It annoys me. Aha.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
9 Jul 17
@Courtlynn To some that would be! We remember some older relatives (in their 90s) who may have taken the photos we have today.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
9 Jul 17
We have some photos from the 1800s @Courtlynn
@Jeanniemaries (8237)
• United States
11 Jul 17
Yes, I have some. Some have gotten identified so it was good I kept them. I recognize that car, I think it's earlier than 1950 but they were around in my earliest memories.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
15 Jul 17
We have so many of these photos @Jeanniemaries
Think we might ask local library if they have use for these. Must be good for something!
@BettyB (4117)
• Summerville, South Carolina
14 Jul 17
The cleanup had to have been hard. I have two huge boxes of photos that I need to go through. I recognize some of the people in them, but not all. I'm not sure what to do with them. That's one of the reasons they're still in the box.
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
15 Jul 17
We decided to let go of some that just make no sense @BettyB
What will the next generation do with all of these? Put them in a dumpster we guess, so we may as well just move along now!
@GardenGerty (157481)
• United States
16 Jul 17
I have boxes and drawers full of things that I do not have an inkling about. People give them to me. One of these days when I decide to be leisurely, I will do some detective work. September 1951 was the big flood around here. I have heard some first hand stories.
@JudyEv (325321)
• Rockingham, Australia
21 Jul 17
I do have some very old photos and some even have names on the back but usually there is no-one living who remembers any of these people. It's very sad really.
@andriaperry (116860)
• Anniston, Alabama
9 Jul 17
Ye I do, I have a lot of photos of people I do not even know if they were kin. I also used to buy old photos at the antique flea market. I love them.
That car is awesome!
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@PatZAnthony (14752)
• Charlotte, North Carolina
10 Jul 17
We spotted some in the Hospice store and it was tempting to buy them, but really, do we need photos of strangers @andriaperry We already have a pile of photos we can't identify. Want some?
@YrNemo (20261)
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23 Jul 17
I do have some unidentified photos, but I am keeping them for my younger charges. They will decide what to do with those one day I guess.
