Hunting Horse Shoe Nails for a meal in 1894.

[jeff of pa]

The morning call. (San Francisco [Calif.]), 10 June 1894.







https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/...=&proxValue=&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=62

 

[relic nut]

Cool story.
People today won't even pick up change.

 

[dts52]

Now all I need to do is to find a blacksmith to buy my nails! I'm pretty sure the really old ones are iron, not steel.
HH
dts

 

[sawmill man]

Wow, just think where he got have been if he had one of today's magnets.

 

[against the wind]

Okay, so you're telling me that the blacksmith down by "Mickey D's" will buy you a Big Mac for a pound of nails??
Good post Jeff,,

 

[jeff of pa]

I wonder if the Cobble Stone Streets are still under there
Kearney & post Sts san francisco Ca

 

[searching 4]

I wonder if the Cobble Stone Streets are still under there
Kearney & post Sts san francisco Ca
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i would bet the cobblestones are still there ,,if that area is like my neck of the woods , the road crews just cover over everything and call it good

 

[against the wind]

I wonder if the Cobble Stone Streets are still under there
Kearney & post Sts san francisco Ca
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I know that the only part of the cobblestone street that is removed is when the subsurface structural / utilities are installed. Electrical, plumbing, communications, etc, and major transportation services like below surface train systems. (Subways).
Other than that, they are paved over with 3 inches of blacktop. Usually, the trolley / streetcar rails are left in place and paved over also.