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“Hot” Work for Toys at Hanford – The Life Article
Instead of pulling from the Hanford Declassified Project stockpile of images that continues to build on my computer, today’s posting is an article that appeared in “Life” magazine’s March 28, 1955 issue. The subject, the use of toys at Hanford for porting radioactive materials, including a photo of a man in a shielded area looking…
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Peachtree Street and Ellis Street, Atlanta
Peachtree Street and Ellis Street, Atlanta, 2007 Enlargement The Coastal States Insurance building, 27 stories can be seen in the background. The Americasmart Atlanta building is before it, connected to the North Peachtree Center Tower. 180 Peachtree is now 200 Peachtree.
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In the Name of Research I Visit the International UFO Museum, Part 2
[highlight highlight_type=”italic” color=”yellow”]Part two in a series of posts on subjects found in the book Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine. For part one click here. We are back in Roswell, New Mexico, at the International UFO Museum and Research Center, at 114 Main Street, which used to look like this in 1988. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lastpictureshow/2455953743/ The…
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Peachtree Street View from Andrew Young International, Atlanta
Peachtree Street View from Andrew Young International, Atlanta Enlargement In the distance can be seen One Atlantic Center in Midtown.
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The Wheel of Death – 1950’s Richland, Home of the Atomic Frontier
Historic Photo of the Wheel of Death from the Hanford Declassified Document Retrieval System DDRS Record Details for Record Accession Number “N1D0035545” Accession Number N1D0035545 Document Number 2111-1-NEG-R Alternate Document Number 2111-1-NEG Title Description RIVERSIDE PARK ACTIVITIES AND FACILITIES Number of Pages 1 Key Word(s) Author(s) Company(s) Document Date 04-Dec-2001 Public Availability Date 14-Feb-2002 Yeah,…
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Tourists at the Painted Desert
Tourists at the Painted Desert View On White
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Road through Petrified Forest, Arizona
Road through Petrified Forest, Arizona Enlargement
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In the Name of Research I Visit the International UFO Museum, Part 1
[highlight highlight_type=”italic” color=”yellow”]Part One in a series of posts on subjects found in the book Thunderbird and the Ball of Twine. In Which I Explore the International UFO Museum and Research Center at Roswell, New Mexico To where would Odile McDonald have made a point of making a pilgrimage after having seen a UFO? Okay,…
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Rocky Southwest Mountains at Frontage Rd.
Rocky Southwest Mountains and Frontage Road Enlargement Not part of the Rocky Mountains, yet so rocky! Near Sierra Blanca, Texas. Alive and ever on the move, if slowly–one gets a sense of it here.
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The Silence of Cassandra
Silence of Cassandra, 2012 Enlargement
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One Curious and One Uncomfortable Photo Concerning the Old Hanford Townsite
This is one of those images like in the Highlights children’s magazine where something isn’t quite right I culled these a long while ago from the Hanford Document Retrieval System:
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The Atomic Frontier Children’s Reading Hour
The new Atomic Frontier was in Richland, but the next frontier was obviously space