Rather late hunting report...

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I found this in a box of old family photos. It was sent by my great uncle Harold Rambo to my grandfather. The hand writing on the back is hard to read but the pic was taken in Pendleton, OR but unfortunately there is no date on the back and I can't make out the date on the license plate on the car....

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That's an awesome picture!

It's interesting to see how much is different as well as how much has stayed the same. I'd pay a pretty penny to step into that scene for a few minutes!
 
Ahhhh, I remember those days. deer tied to fenders and roofs of cars. Those were the days when the only folks with a pick-up truck lived on a farm. Small trailers were unheard of and besides, folks just loved to show off their deer.....any deer. Back of the truck or in a trailer, no one woulda saw it. I member as a kid, when my dad and other grown-ups would go out west to hunt. Everything they shot and brought home was tied outside the vehicle and rode the 2000 miles back in the rain/snow/heat. It's no surprise that "western deer" tasted so strong...........:o.

I remember my folks getting a new Turquoise, 1957 Plymouth Belvedere. My dad thought the big rear fins would be a great place to carry deer, and they were. Only problem was, the blood permanently stained that pretty Turquoise paint my mother loved so much.
 
Ahhhh, I remember those days. deer tied to fenders and roofs of cars.
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It's not that hard to remember "those days" for me .....Not fenders, but I have strapped carcasses to the roof of a Chevy Venture as recently as November 2012 .... it was an interesting year .....
 
FITASC said:
lower right corner of the plate looks like it might say 26
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It could be. I've looked over the original pic and it's not that big and it could be 1926 or 27 or 27 for that mater. It does say ORE above the date.

I've been trying to figure out the make of the car and the only thing I can say for sure is it's not a Ford...

Tony
 
I remember my Father doing the same with his 31 Model A back in the early 50s. Big Marquette Michigan buck driven to Chicago tied to the passenger side front fender. Engine hoods being louvered back then I can imagine many a deer transported in such way with their hide left intact ended up a little more than just game'ee tasting.
 
I’ll bet every dog and cat in the neighborhood met the vehicle as the “hunters” returned home. No wonder moms hated venison claming the strong taste was unpleasant,,,,.a ride in the sun next to a gasoline engine would make anything gamey.
 
That radiator emblem looks like a Whippet. I have one stashed away for a future hotrod. I can't make it out very well from the picture, sure looks like it to me.
 
The front fenders on the car are rather unique. The thing on top of the radiator is a temp gauge. It was a common accessory since cars didn't have coolant gauges on the dash back then... The badge on the top of the raditor is to washed out for me to get anything from it. It's too bad my great-uncle didn't date the photo...

I did some searching last night trying to find out when Pendleton got paved streets but no luck. It's a bit of a back water town here in Oregon and there's not a lot of history about it on line.

I didn't think about engine heat effecting the game before it was mentioned here. I think it would have make a bit more sense to tie the deer up to the trunk platform at the rear.

Tony
 
With the possible ID as a Whippet, I did some more informed googling, at it seems the 1928 Whippet is a match for the car in the pic. So it's likely the pic was taken maybe as late as the mid 1930s.

I'd still like to find out when the streets were paved in Pendleton....

Tony
 
My guess was pre-1935, allowing for those '20s body styles to still be common enough.
But, I see that you've nailed it down a bit better.

A little exercising of the Google-Fu shows that that style of license plate was only issued from 1921 to 1926, and the number layout and sequence favors 1926.

Some photo comparison shows that it could possibly be a '26 Whippet. Several grille, radiator, shroud, and headlight styles are seen on pretty much all years, including '26. And '26 was the year that the Overland was phased out (along with its different fenders), with the Whippet taking its place (and also using left over parts, most likely).

And, hey, you could buy the 1926 Coach model for only $535!
 
Nice bucks taken with iron sight rifle(s). No one hunted with scopes back in those days.

My Dad (1922-2004) hunted with iron sights until about age 50 and was very successful.

Jack
 
FrankenMauser said:
My guess was pre-1935, allowing for those '20s body styles to still be common enough.
But, I see that you've nailed it down a bit better.

A little exercising of the Google-Fu shows that that style of license plate was only issued from 1921 to 1926, and the number layout and sequence favors 1926.

Some photo comparison shows that it could possibly be a '26 Whippet. Several grille, radiator, shroud, and headlight styles are seen on pretty much all years, including '26. And '26 was the year that the Overland was phased out (along with its different fenders), with the Whippet taking its place (and also using left over parts, most likely).

And, hey, you could buy the 1926 Coach model for only $535!
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Thanks for the link. From the looks of it, it could also be a 1927 plate. Either way, they took what was a late model car out hunting.

I'm not sure if it's right but US inflation calculator shows $535 in 1926 dollars translates to about $7500 in today's money. My father used to say that in the 1920s a skilled laborer would only make a dollar a day. Considering the cost of silver now, that's still not very much....

Thanks for all the help figuring out the details of this pic. It's something that I've been wondering about for a long time...

Tony
 
When production got underway on Model Ts, Henry Ford raised worker pay from $5 per day to $10 per day. Needless to say, his workforce bought Fords. :)

In 1942 my grandfather paid $1.25 per day for grunt labor farm work.
 
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