A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....

[Rufus T. Firefly]

At the Creek Side Inn, Orvis Pa in 1908

[rogruth]

Rufus,
Is it Creek Side ???? OH?
The ladies sit separate from the men it seems.
Interesting building with balconies overlooking the creek behind it.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Rufus,
Is it Creek Side ???? OH?

I was told Orvis Pa.......

The ladies sit separate from the men it seems.

Polite society demanded it then and that seems unchanged - when there is a family gathering here, all the ladies retire to a different room to gab while the menfolk gather in a different room.........I retire to my office and stay away from all of them hoping for all to go away to their homes as soon as possible.

Interesting building with balconies overlooking the creek behind it.

Yes. Not a clapboard building either.

[healey36]

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I wonder how many of them had their skills utilized by WWII and made it out of or past it in one piece. They all appear to be healthy, strong, and clean-cut, upstanding young dudes.

[rogruth]

My guess is that a lot of them would have been used as teachers. My guess is that most of them would have been in their mid 30s at the start of the war.
Of course that was not too old to go to war then but some were utilized in fields where they could do the most good, To have that many available at one place should have been an advantage. An uncle was drafted when he was 35 but because of being able to speak fluent German became the commandant of a German POW camp.

[rogruth]

One other thought about the above photo.
I'm glad knickers never made a big comeback except for golfers.

[Roy]

An uncle was drafted when he was 35 but because of being able to speak fluent German became the commandant of a German POW camp.

Was this camp located here, in the U.S.?

[Tom Dempsey]

One other thought about the above photo.
I'm glad knickers never made a big comeback except for golfers.

I'm still waitin' and hopin', Roger

[rogruth]

An uncle was drafted when he was 35 but because of being able to speak fluent German became the commandant of a German POW camp.

Was this camp located here, in the U.S.?

There were several. He was stationed mostly in Illinois.
There was also a rather well known German POW camp in Mississippi.
There were also Japanese POW camps for captured soldiers besides
the internment camps for Japanese-Americans.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Club House at Losh's Run, Pa

[rogruth]

It looks as though Losh's Run would flood now and then.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It looks as though Losh's Run would flood now and then.

Possibly so depending on where this is located - not from Losh's Run itself which is a small creek that then feeds into the Juniata River about 2-3 miles above from where the Juniata feeds into the Susq; if this clubhouse was located between the RR tracks and the river, I'd bet on flooding now and again...

[MurphOnMillerAve]

[Rufus T. Firefly]

It looks as though Losh's Run would flood now and then.

Possibly so depending on where this is located - not from Losh's Run itself which is a small creek that then feeds into the Juniata River about 2-3 miles above from where the Juniata feeds into the Susq; if this clubhouse was located between the RR tracks and the river, I'd bet on flooding now and again...

...and I believe such houses used that under-space to store cords of cut firewood for the winter months, right?

Well, yes & no. Yes for dry storage, but no since a wood pile makes a great home for bees, snakes and other varmints. The bees and snakes are not that much of a problem in the winter, but I'm not a fan of them the rest of the year. Furry varmints are a problem year round.