Can you identify or date this backyard toy?

Childs' two-seater ride was found in South Carolina. An equivalent modern-day play apparatus would be a 2-seat Buck-A-Bout.

New Matamoras, Ohio Photo Inquiry

Can you identify the gentleman in this photo?

The woman in the photo is Wadena Cline-Fry b. 30 Jul 1902 Aitch, Perry T, Monroe Co., OH who is standing on a street corner with an elderly gentleman who is possibly a Cline. In the background is the New Matamoras, Ohio U.S. Post Office, (which is now The Matamoras Area Historical Society Museum built, circa 1895, as the home and business of a funeral director. The building has also been a bank, the US Post Office, a hardware store, a public library, and, since 1988, the museum.)

Probable significant dates: Wadena is holding a box camera, possibly an Agfa/Ansco, model abt. 1932; current Post Office was established in 1962; and in the photo, the clothes and the turban-type hat look like the early 1950's.

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“This ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.”

Western Union, internal memo, 1876

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

Ken Olson, President, Chairman and Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

“If I had thought about it, I wouldn’t have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can’t do this.”

Spencer Silver, on the work that led to the unique adhesives on 3–M Post–It notepads

“640k ought to be enough for anybody.”

Bill Gates, Co–Founder and CEO of Microsoft, 1981

“I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.”

Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."

Popular Mechanics, 1949

"Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep up with Apple."

Byte, December 1994

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."

The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957

"Everything that can be invented has been invented."

Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899