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Wooden Toy Jeep Happy Land Brand **SOLD**

• CATEGORIES: Features, toys This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

UPDATE: **SOLD** Was on eBay.

Anyone seen one of these toys in person?

“This toy is in excellent condition. It comes with all parts for the Jeep as well as extra parts for all other builds available. All parts are in great condition including the wrench. Take it apart and build something else! Looks like a wooden erector set!

This item is only the wooden pieces. No box is included. No instructions are included. It will be shipped in the form of the Jeep pictured with the extra wooden pieces. If buyer wood like I can dismantle the toy and ship in pieces.”

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Jeep to Harney Peak in the Black Hills of South Dakota

• CATEGORIES: Advertising & Brochures, Features, Postcards • TAGS: , , This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

From the 1950s until 1968 visitors to the Black Hills of South Dakota could purchase tickets for a ride in a jeep to Harney Peak.  The ride would take visitors up to the CCC built lookout at the top of the peak, the tallest point in the United States east of the Rockies (visitors could also hike or ascend via horseback).  You can view various pictures of and from the lookout here. Erosion due to the jeep trail ended the trips by jeep.  The area around the peak was also turned into a wilderness area (and one could argue given the road how that might happen, but that’s another a debate for another time), so no vehicles are allowed anymore.

Black Hills National Forest: Harney Peak and the Historic Fire … – Page 51

This picture was taken at Sylvan Lake. They employed both flatties and CJ-5s. Custer State Park – Page 104

Gerald sent these digital versions of this postcard to me a couple years ago.  You can also buy it here.

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Line of Jeeps in WWII Photo on eBay

• CATEGORIES: Features, Old Images This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

This is part of a collection of photos, but none of the other photos have jeeps.

“HERE ARE 11 4″X6″ PHOTOS FROM WW2 SHOWING,’THE BRASS”, MACHINE GUNS, MORTAR CEWS, JEEPS,MESS HALL AND MORE. AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PHOTOS, SOME OF THE EDGES HAVE DETERIATED. THESE ARE NICE PHOTOS THOUGH.”

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Handmade Flatfender Tin Sign on eBay

• CATEGORIES: Artists/Drawings, Features This site contains affiliate links for which I may be compensated.

Anyone know anything about these?

“These signs are hand made. Each sign is made one at a time on recycled or scrap metal so that, no two signs are exactly the same.

The metal may be scratched, dented, bent or intentionally distressed to make the sign look old. They are made on 24 gauge steel and then the enamel paint is baked, and clear coated. 17 X10.”

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Mobile Arc Welding Unit from Welders Supply

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Welders Supply out of Cleveland Ohio purchased an ad for a mobile arc welding unit in the May,1950, issue of Popular Science. Anyone seen or have one of these? (This same ad appeared in Popular Mechanics — here is one example)

Popular Science – May 1950 – Page 270

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