A few CVRR pictures and some other related pictures....2

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Neat, and tidy, and snug.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Neat, and tidy, and snug.

'Tis a nice house; bet it was a bugger to heat and then not at all cool in Aug.

[rogruth]

The Sherman Hotel seems quite nice in the photo.
Near the left edge, is that a Texaco star?

[Rufus T. Firefly]

The Sherman Hotel seems quite nice in the photo.
Near the left edge, is that a Texaco star?

There's a star down the way from the Chronicle's office, but is it a Texaco star; I can't tell.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

[rogruth]

All dressed up waiting to be picked by some nice people.
Girls outnumbered about 6 to 1 by boys. Interesting.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I see expectation and hope in each of those faces.
There is an entire encyclopedia of life stories there. Wouldn't it be interesting to know how each of those stories turned out.

That's a lot of children minus their biological parents. And I am sure there were many, many more such houses in those days. I wonder who all the parents were who were creating such beautiful children and then giving them up.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I see expectation and hope in each of those faces.
There is an entire encyclopedia of life stories there. Wouldn't it be interesting to know how each of those stories turned out.

That's a lot of children minus their biological parents. And I am sure there were many, many more such houses in those days. I wonder who all the parents were who were creating such beautiful children and then giving them up.

Let's see..........we had flu epidemic and other illnesses rampant, and WW1 was either ongoing or recently over -- lots of hardship back then that made orphans due to all sorts of economic issues.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I'm not talking about the facts-of-life for orphans. I'm talking about the creation of them in the first place.
It just seems like there must have been a pretty casual attitude about creating new life, back in those days, just banging the kids out and then dropping them off somewhere for somebody else to nurture and help solve the problems of life for them . Just in that photo , alone, that is a whole lot of beautiful children having been handed-over to somebody else to raise.

[robert.]

Why so many orphans? Was it a sign of the times? People had kids and dropped them off.

[rogruth]

I don't think kids were dropped off at orphanages back then.
The orphanages always seemed to be be very sad subjects when discussed.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I'm not talking about the facts-of-life for orphans. I'm talking about the creation of them in the first place.
It just seems like there must have been a pretty casual attitude about creating new life, back in those days, just banging the kids out and then dropping them off somewhere for somebody else to nurture and help solve the problems of life for them .

I don't think it was like that in any way at all. Orphans were more of a consequence of 1 or both parents dying (people did not live well 100 years ago...), or simply losing the ability to support raising a child.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

In Sunbury..........

[rogruth]

Watching a flood in downtown Sunbury. Three well known 5 & 10 stores in row is interesting.
My hometown along the Ohio River floods but not in the downtown area.
Our house was not in a flood area but not far away houses did flood. Residents would move
to the second floor until it was over then move back.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Memorial Library, New Milford, Pa



High School, New Milford, Pa