dilemma - reins or handlebars?

[Kali]

[Suich]

1. What is that, Kali? A deer?

Why in the world would he put a saddle on it? Oh, I know, because he could!

[Kali]

2. I think it is an elk

I saw it on a friend's facebook page a while back and stole it. I think it was taken in Montana or Wyoming or one of those northern states (heh) - looks pretty old. Thought the lounge would get a kick and especially thought of Ptah and his cool old family photos.

[csziggy]

3. Here is some background info on the picture!

Winter in Wyoming
Riding for the elite in downtown Cheyenne (early 1900s)
Jethro’s trip came with elk cookies for the journey

Correction: this is more likely Old Colorado City (Colorado Springs at the turn of the century) or Cripple Creek. There was an eccentric goldminer in Cripple Creek who had two elk named “Thunder” & “Buttons”. Prairie Dog O’Byrne would ride to town on Sundays in a carriage pulled by the two elk, accompanied by Laura Belle, his friend from the red light district in Cripple Creek. All of the “gentile” ladies in town would turn their heads when the carriage drove by.
http://www.joe-ks.com/archives_dec2010/WinterInWyoming.htm

There is a picture of two elk pulling a carriage!

[Kali]

5. the one under saddle looks to be older or in a lot better shape

of course no idea of timelines or if they are even the same guy??? what is that website?

I found this - http://www.ifish.net/board/showthread.php?t=345561

post 47 about 4 or 5 up from the bottom

[csziggy]

6. Interesting - here's an auction for a postcard with the picture on it

That claims it's from Sheridan, WY!
http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/2255003

No telling - a lot of those old photos got used for gag postcards in more than one town. I've seen I don't know how many gator picture postcards attributed to just about any town in Florida.

[Kali]

8. oh yeah and the drunk sleeping on his horse

or the famous jackalope...

giant cat fish, etc etc

[Ptah]

13. WooHoo!!!

I have a cousin that probably did that Elk riding thing..
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She a tough one!

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. When I first moved to Pennsylvania in 1981(?), I got a job in a small machine-spring...

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... manufacturing plant making tools so that the spring-makers could bend wire hundreds or thousands
of times to the exact same angle/curve. The place USED to make Slinkies until they went plastic and was
owned by Mennonites (pretty nice owners -- and I'm not sure if they owned it during the Slinky-era).
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One year, one of the owners went on a hunting trip to Wyoming (I think) and bagged hisself an elk. The
company always threw the workers a pretty nice annual Christmas Eve luncheon cooked by members of
management. When we got to the plant that morning, the menu was printed out and posted on the
bulletin board near the time clock.
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Entrée? Spaghetti and elkballs.
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Lots of muffled laughter. Lots of offers of "You can have mine, man!!!"
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To our disappointment, it was NOT on purpose -- someone in the office must've noticed and changed the
menu to "Spaghetti and meatballs (made with elk meat)" by mid-morning.
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If ever a free lunch was looked "askance at" when served... it was that one.
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Fortunately, dessert wasn't "Hot Fudge Sundaes with Crushed Nuts".
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[Kali]

7. mmmm elk balls

as you know (because that is why you told me this story when I saw you at the rehab place) I had some elk in a cooler in the car - it was teh yum.

[Ptah]

15. Being a lifelong metal worker, farm raised-machine head,

I envy your time at the Slinky factory.

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I imagine it might have been renamed after your tenure - - > Stinky, Inc.

[MiddleFingerMom]

17. Kinky, Inc.

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All pics were sealed by court order.
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We made a LOT of woodstove doorhandles... which are, after all, just big coiled springs because
that design dissipates heat quickly.
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[Ptah]

21. I've done similar handles

[Agschmid]

9. I was not aware you could ride an elk! n/t

[krispos42]

10. Looks like a painful way to loose an eye! n/t

[Orrex]

11. I thought you were asking about moustaches

[bluesbassman]

12. Handlebars...

This is actually my great uncle. West Texas, cir. 1935. Love the "Rein"deer BTW!

[lunatica]

14. Just watch out for the elk head toss!

It won't be a pretty sight.

[kurtzapril4]

16. Looks like he has a tie down on it

so he should be okay, unless one of a hundred other things go wrong.

[BarbaRosa]

18. Does anyone else think that looks like Lou Costello?

[Ptah]

19. Who's on first?

[Brother Buzz]

20. Steering wheel

[Kali]

22. oh isn't that another wonderful old shot?

[lovemydog]

23. I love all these cool old photos

Eccentrics & novelty type shots especially