Anyone know what these are?

[painter777]

Amazing what a 2 horse team can pull.
But before they pull you have to build the sled rails.


Once the sled is built the horses were used to 'Winch' the load on.
1892 Nestoria MI, After binding the white pine down it was off to the Worlds Fair in Chicago. A load of 50 logs 144 tons ~700,000 feet-log scale.



I forgot about Skidding the logs out of the cut, Checkout this rig:



BTW..... In the picture above and below, the horses on the right.. have some style of a HAME FASTENER attached on the left side of the padded collars.

[painter777]

Climax furniture

Jim,
See the sales add by The Climax Furniture Co. near the middle of page 4 in the Carmel Pine Cone, July 24 1919.
Your Great Aunt would have been about 9.... So maybe close to her adventure sneaking away with the team........

http://www.pineconearchive.com/19190724PC.pdf

[painter777]

The adobe wall my daughter and I are standing next to was put up in 1906 and is still standing today.

Your cousin mentioned Frank Hellam SR while searching information about him I happened across his son Lee Hellam's Obit.
It mentions the building of that wall by Frank's Father / Lee's Grandfather named John Hellam.... yes in 1906. Mentions its a famous wall to visitors etc.
Also see that Lee served towards the end of WWII with Patton's 3rd Army.

Interesting read, here's a link:

Lee Hellam Obituary - Monterey, CA | Monterey Herald


Just part of what I do when the Meds don't work and can't sleep.

Gotta ask You say your "Great Aunt Anstice" Correct to say she was a Hellam ??

Below from the Obit:

Lee is survived by a brother, William Hellam, Sr. (Doris). He was predeceased by brothers, Monty, Sr., Frank, Jr., and John, and by his devoted sisters, Frances Harter and Anstice Hellam. ...... etc

Lastly want to Thank You for sharing some family photos.
God Bless the little one.

VR,
Charlie

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

My family, on my Mom's side, owned a lot of businesses in Monterey. But lost all but one during the depression. Still going and the longest continuous running business in Monterey 125 years "Hellam's Tobacco Store".

Hellam's Tobacco and Wine Shop | Old Monterey

[USGI]

Up late tonight, kind of like Charlie. Thought maybe I could find that wall on "street view." I believe this is it. My brother lives over in Marina, and I've been down to the Aquarium and Fisherman's Wharf a couple times. - Bob

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

That is it Bob.
I was just there two weeks ago. Those metal doors will open, but they are a bit** to do so. When I was a kid my cousin and I would climb on top of the wall. It seemed high then, and we got yelled at. The bathroom was added to the outside deck, kind of an indoor outhouse. My grandmother cooked on a wood burning stove. The GE ammonia refrigerator was bought in the 1930 and is still in the same place it was delivered, and working great.
The property runs the whole city block from Van Buren to Larkin. In the garden some of the fruit trees and bushes were planted by Luther Burbank in the 1910-1918 time frame. He was a friend of my Great Grandfather. An almost pitless avacado, and a pitless prune. He was looking to see how they would thrive in different climates. And Monterey is surely different than Santa Rosa.
Lots of memories. My cousin Dick and I on the inside of the wall in the garden area.

[painter777]

Nice picture, but gotta ask- yall chilly ?

Reading about Lee and his sense of humor..... Enjoyed selling gag gifts.
Kids going for the candy counter.
A different time with life being (seemingly) less stressful.

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

I'm in shorts. But it does get a bit chilly there at times. It was also windy that day, off the bay.

[USGI]

It's on the coast Charlie, it could have been in the 50's a short time earlier that day! - Bob

"I hadn't seen Jim's post when I wrote this - but I was pretty close."

[Paul S.]

Yes, indeed. Monterey has, shall we say, unique atmospherics thanks to the bay.