A girl cleans up after her family's meal in San Antonio, 1939. I am trying to verbalize what I see in her face. I think she looks determined. I hope her lot improved. Another impossibly great photo by Russell Lee. pic.twitter.com/1iL0G0vZCS
— Traces of Texas (@TracesofTexas) June 24, 2023
Top shelf. Looks like a bitters bottle. Second over from her head.$240 Worth of Pudding said:
On what bottle are you seeing it? I'm completely missing it….
CanyonAg77 said:
As above, it was a very common symbol worldwide, before Hitler ruined it. An American fighter squadron in WWI had a Swastika as their emblem. There's a 1920s hotel in Mountainaire, NM with Swastikas all over it.
Last time this came up, someone told of finding an underground valve at their refinery, with a Swastika casting mark. They were so offended, they had it ground off.
Think about that. A valve, that had to be close to 100 years old, at a refinery, and some doofus weakens it by grinding away, all because of a mark
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Lincoln (Lincoln Journal Star) It wasn't what a worker expected to encounter while unwrapping long-concealed pipes and valves in the basement on the Capitol's heating, ventilation and air conditioning project.
But on some of those pipes and valves that were either being replaced or cleaned out and reinstalled, workers found marks that looked like swastikas, like Nazi symbols. Many of them are hidden inside concrete, or hidden by insulation....
A communication spokeswoman on behalf of Crane Co. said that from approximately 1910 through 1936, the symbol appeared as a foundry mark on certain cast steel products from Crane Co.'s Chicago foundry.
"The symbol has a long history of benign use by many cultures over centuries," said Molly Morse of Kekst CNC. "Crane likely selected it because, at the time, it was understood to indicate good luck and good fortune. The symbol became associated with hatred during World War II, by which time Crane had stopped using it."....
The Capitol was completed and in use before the Nazis came to power and appropriated the symbol, Ripley said. He doesn't feel a need to go back and revise history by saying they must now be removed from those original pieces of equipment in the building.
If a valve with the symbol is cleaned out and rewrapped with insulation, it will be hidden away from view, he said. They would cost thousands of dollars each to replace, he said.
Still one worker, who wanted to remain anonymous, said it was somewhat shocking to come across the symbols, even if they predated Nazi motifs.
Ciboag96 said:
Crane valves manufactured in Germany. See many in old facilities around the world. Never seen anyone grind one off. Most people have a brain and leave it be.
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Back in the day while looking for a product leak on LCR refinery property in Houston, we dug up a Nordstrom valve that had a nazis swastika. I had the welder grind it off the valve.
