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Photography.30
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{Photography.30.1929}: annie {oceanannie} Sun, 30 Dec 2012 16:47:33 EST (3 lines)

and the rollers are still 'steam rollers' to me. I remember real steam
rollers putting down pavement on my street when I was younger than 10
years.

{Photography.30.1930}: TJ {tj2} Sun, 30 Dec 2012 19:40:12 EST (5 lines)

I still call those things "steam rollers" too. On another note, when
we moved here we were told that there had been a neighbor who
occasionally dressed up the dirt road in front of our house. "He had a
blade," the guy said. Turns out that in Arizona, a road grader is a
"blade," and grading a road is "blade work."

{Photography.30.1931}: Jil {rabbit} Mon, 31 Dec 2012 07:40:59 EST (2 lines)

Yes, I call them steam rollers. But I know blades as graders - I've
not heard "blade work."

{Photography.30.1932}: Donald Dozier {donaldpd} Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:10:24 EST (2 lines)

The announcer on the Denver/KC ballgame yesterday described a run by
one of Denver's backs as having steamrolled over the defense.

{Photography.30.1933}: annie {oceanannie} Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:24:40 EST (2 lines)

Yep, lots of descriptive words in our language that remind us of times
past.

{Photography.30.1934}: marlise {marlise} Mon, 31 Dec 2012 10:48:15 EST (HTML)

Up to now I believed steamrollers were small round plastic thingies which you put in hot water or some kind of eggboiler and then use to curl your hair.

{Photography.30.1935}: Jil {rabbit} Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:03:29 EST (3 lines)

I haven't seen those in many years - my friend used to use them -
but they were two words. Steam rollers were the ones for your hair,
steamrollers were machinery.

{Photography.30.1936}: marlise {marlise} Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:05:51 EST (HTML)

Ah! I never understand the principle of when something is spelled in one word or two... but then sometimes I don´t understand that in my own language, either :-)

{Photography.30.1937}: Jil {rabbit} Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:25:58 EST (6 lines)

It's random, and it doesn't always apply, of course ... and I'm sure
there are people who use steam roller for the machinery as well.


In German, you mash eight words together to make one. I swear, I've
never seen longer words, except perhaps in Gaelic!

{Photography.30.1938}: TJ {tj2} Mon, 31 Dec 2012 11:38:49 EST (2 lines)

When the county comes by to smooth the ruts and washboarding in our
road, they put out signs: "Blade Work Ahead."

{Photography.30.1939}: Donald Dozier {donaldpd} Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:57:47 EST (HTML)

{Photography.30.1940}: Donald Dozier {donaldpd} Sun, 06 Jan 2013 17:58:46 EST (HTML)

I thought about putting these in Wildlife.

{Photography.30.1941}: Jil {rabbit} Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:51:16 EST (1 line)

That's pretty cool.

{Photography.30.1942}: Coyote {coyote} Mon, 07 Jan 2013 02:50:22 EST (1 line)

Wonderful!

{Photography.30.1943}: Donald Dozier {donaldpd} Fri, 11 Jan 2013 11:40:15 EST (2 lines)

"http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2013/01/11/astronaut-tweets-
gorgeous-photos-from-space/#9297-1"

{Photography.30.1944}: Coyote {coyote} Wed, 16 Jan 2013 19:34:02 EST (1 line)

Wow, some of those are really spectacular!

{Photography.30.1945}: TJ {tj2} Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:39:09 EST (HTML)

Boot Hill graveyard, Tombstone, Arizona:

{Photography.30.1946}: TJ {tj2} Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:44:16 EST (HTML)

{Photography.30.1947}: TJ {tj2} Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:53:49 EST (HTML)

Stagecoach tour in old Tombstone:

{Photography.30.1948}: Jil {rabbit} Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:26:51 EST (1 line)

Is the graveyard real, or made for the tourist trade?

{Photography.30.1949}: Martin Booda {booda} Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:25:04 EST (3 lines)

Tombstone's Boot Hill is deathly real.  Amongst others, it contains
Billy Clanton, Frank McLaury and Tom McLaury, the three members of the
Clanton gang killed at the gunfight at the OK corral.

{Photography.30.1950}: Martin Booda {booda} Fri, 25 Jan 2013 13:32:10 EST (HTML)

Another famous "boot hill" grave, in a cemetery far away from Tombstone: Fort Sumner, NM.

{Photography.30.1951}: TJ {tj2} Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:57:02 EST (HTML)

Indeed Boothill is real. Here are the graves of the O.K. Corral gunfighters. Also buried at Boothill is Billy and Ike Clanton's father, usually just know as "Old Man Clanton." Clanton was ambushed and killed along with others in his gang of cattle rustlers as they slept with a herd in Guadalupe Canyon in Arizona. It is believed that the murders were in retaliation for an earlier massacre of Mexican Rurales by Clanton and his gang, which included his sons Ike and Billy, and Frank and Tom McLaury.

{Photography.30.1952}: Jil {rabbit} Sat, 26 Jan 2013 08:55:36 EST (2 lines)

Thanks for the clarification. In the first photo, the tombstones
looked a little too ... well, fake.

{Photography.30.1953}: TJ {tj2} Sat, 26 Jan 2013 10:01:53 EST (HTML)

I think a lot of them, probably most, maybe all, are reproductions. I read something about them studying old photos to determine who was where, etc. Most of them are made of wood, but there are some more modern markers in parts of the cemetery where the more recently deceased were laid to rest. In this picture you can see a headstone on the grave in the background.

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