This blog post is the fifth of a series showing photographs from the collection of Matt Irwin.
Recently, my wife and I sometimes find ourselves watching a certain one of the several home buying and remodeling shows that are currently popular. In this particular show a couple looks at three different homes for sale and by the end of the show chooses one that may or may not need substantial remodeling.
It is a good show mostly but has one very annoying feature. After each commercial break whoever produces the show feels the need to repeat details that the viewers were just given in the previous segment as if we might have forgotten them in the couple of minutes during the break. I know…it’s filler. Also some folks may have tuned in during the break. But to all of us who have been watching the entire show, it’s annoying.
In my blog I may annoy you in some ways but I won’t annoy you by needlessly repeating details from recent past blogs. If you are just tuning in and you don’t know who the three people in the title are, please take a look at the four blogs that immediately precede this one.
(Those blogs are: Maplewood History: The Matt Irwin Collection, Maplewood History: Talitha Wuellner, Maplewood History: More Images from the Album of Talitha Wuellner, Maplewood History: Still More Images from the Album of Talitha Wuellner)
I should mention Matt Irwin retains all rights to these images. I hope you enjoy these latest historic photos from Matt’s collection.
Perhaps the photo was taken of airships that were located at Scott Field in Belleville, IL which had an enormous hanger in the 1920’s for their airship fleet at Scott. From an excerpt on an article written about Scott Field- the base was turned into a lighter-than-air station with the arrival of the Army Balloon and Airship School from Brooks Field, Texas. Soon, pilots were up in the air over the chance to test and expand the capabilities of aerial photography, meteorology and other altitude experiments.
That is an interesting speculation, Pat. You may be correct. I’ll attach the information you provided to that photo. Who knows? It may help someone in the future.
Thanks Doug! I always enjoy seeing the photos of our local history–after all, we are in the “heart of the heart of the country”! And please do not worry about the “filler repetitions”–some of us need those to trigger our memories. As my jr hi speech teacher taught us: to get your message across, you need to “tell ’em what your’e gonna tell ’em; tell ’em; then tell ’em what you told ’em”!!!
I think that is good advice, Phyllis. Thanks for the feedback.
More great photos, Doug! Love the goofing around for the camera. Thanks!
You are welcome, Doug. They are great photos. It’s amazing the variety of activities they record.