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This was from the old Peerless Hatchery on Grand Ave. In Spencer Iowa. I grew up there and remember buying chicks there as a kid. My dad also had a business in Spencer for years.I remember those old phone numbers and the operators that used to be downtown in the phone company building on the second floor. My girlfriend used to work there. We graduated from old Spencer High...... Go Tigers!!!
1959 Peerless GT driven by Mark Rosenberg during Sprint Race #1 for Group 5 on Saturday at the 2015 Jefferson 500.
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Gone but not forgotten.
It was ten years ago this year that Peerless Confection closed its doors. It hung on stubbornly as the last rail served customer on the former Milwaukee Road Chicago & Evanston (C&E) Line north of Clybourn decades after Reed Candy and Continental Baking closed up by 1984 on the C&E North Line.
Served by three railroads-the Milwaukee Road, Soo/CP, and for just a few months-Chicago Terminal.
Glad I got this picture as a mouse later found it in my home office and enjoyed the candy. I had to throw out what was left.
A repainted ghost sign for the Peerless Candy Company, 324 Salem Avenue, Roanoke, Virginia. The company is no longer in business and their former building has been converted into lofts. The Peerless Candy Company was established in 1916, and served as a wholesale candy factory and distributor through the early 1950s.
A woolen mill in Georgia. It ain't natural I tell ya. Well, if it is any consolation, although I couldn't throw a baseball into Chattanooga Tennessee from here, it would roll the couple extra feet it would take to make the border (being more a reflection on my throwing ability than the couple hundred foot distance.)
1959 Peerless GT driven by Paul Cressey in Group 1B at the 2017 Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion.
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Clearly, Peerless was once a thriving town. It has several grain elevators. A big restaurant. Churches. A good size school. The problem is that when I was there most of those things seemed empty--abandoned, even. The church was overgrown. The school was clearly empty at a time when school should still have been in session. One of the elevators is falling down (though the others seem used). The big restaurant was listed for sale and seemed totally devoid of life. And there were far more abandoned homes than ones that are lived in. Peerless was very very quiet. I had to wonder what happened here, that so many people left? This place used to have plenty of amenities. But when I was there the only activity I saw was a tumbleweed blowing across main street.
"Peerless was originally a development of the Great Northern Railroad. It appears that Peerless once went by the name of Tande or Battleson, but because of the popularity of a local beer the name was changed to Peerless...Dutch Henry's Bar...is a namesake of an outlaw who roamed these parts in the late 1800s. A display of photos on the walls tells quite a bit about the history of the surrounding area. The original town, settled in 1914, was a few miles away. Like many other places in northeast Montana, the laying of the railroad bed required the town to be moved to the railroad." -travelmt.com
Grindlay Peerless Model ST1 - 1000cc V Twin Barr & Stroud Sleeve Valve engine; Sturmey Archer gearbox, hand change
Peerless GT (1958) Engine 1991cc S4 OHV Production 325
Registration Number 701 EBH
Designed by company co-founder Bernie Rodgers, with Triumph TR" engine, gearbox and front disc brakes, to a Peerless designed tubular frame with De Dion rear end and a glass fibre body. A Phase II model ironed out the original fit problems with a new body mould.
In 1958 a works run GT finished 16th overall in the Le Mans 24hour race
Shot at the Classic and MPH Show, NEC, Birmingham 13.11.2010. Ref 66-238
The Peerless Steam Engine by Geiser Manufacturing Company was founded in 1855 by Peter Geiser at Smithburg, Maryland, to manufacture threshing machines. In 1860, the company moved to Waynesboro, Pennsylvania
‘Peerless’ Jim Driscoll. Driscoll was a renowned boxer and is regarded by many as the finest exponent of scientific boxing the world has ever seen. Driscoll was well respected not only as a boxer but also as a man of great generosity who brought much credit to his native city (Cardiff, Wales). Although Driscoll’s memorial states that he was ‘retired featherweight champion of the world’, he never in fact achieved that title (despite beating the World Champion at that time (Abe Attell) in the US). The nuns of Nazareth House in Cardiff crowned him world champion after Driscoll turned down the chance of a title fight to keep a charity date in aid of the convent. Such was Driscoll’s popularity that 100,000 people lined the streets to watch his funeral cortege pass by. This statue was relocated in 2009 (due to works) but still remains in Cardiff City Centre and was unveiled in his new spot by Light-Welterweight Champion Ricky Hatton.
Clearly, Peerless was once a thriving town. It has several grain elevators. A big restaurant. Churches. A good size school. The problem is that when I was there most of those things seemed empty--abandoned, even. The church was overgrown. The school was clearly empty at a time when school should still have been in session. One of the elevators is falling down (though the others seem used). The big restaurant was listed for sale and seemed totally devoid of life. And there were far more abandoned homes than ones that are lived in. Peerless was very very quiet. I had to wonder what happened here, that so many people left? This place used to have plenty of amenities. But when I was there the only activity I saw was a tumbleweed blowing across main street.
"Peerless was originally a development of the Great Northern Railroad. It appears that Peerless once went by the name of Tande or Battleson, but because of the popularity of a local beer the name was changed to Peerless...Dutch Henry's Bar...is a namesake of an outlaw who roamed these parts in the late 1800s. A display of photos on the walls tells quite a bit about the history of the surrounding area. The original town, settled in 1914, was a few miles away. Like many other places in northeast Montana, the laying of the railroad bed required the town to be moved to the railroad." -travelmt.com
25th june, peerless avenue
pretty much all of this has been seen before but jack stayed in the photo because he was getting pats and i've layered this dress up because it's winter now & it was raining today so my hair is all curly. stressful week - don't think i'm making much sense!
dress: ebay
cardigan: supre
tights: american apparel
white belt: on loan from my sister
denim canvas flats: topshop
brooch: karen walker (close up in comments)
owl bag: target (close up in comments)
jack: my sister's dog. i look after him at work during the day!
In 1905, when Rossville, Georgia was incorporated, John L. Hutcherson Sr. established Peerless Woolen Mills. Peerless claimed to be the largest single-unit mill in the world by the 1950s. Also known as the Richmond Hosiery Mill, it was one of the oldest and largest textile mills in Northwest Georgia. The mill employed as many as 700 men, women, and children by 1922. It was also the site of the iconic Lewis Wick Hines’ historic pictorial survey of child labor in American industry.
By 1952, the Hutcherson family sold Peerless Woolen Mills to Burlington Industries. Textile workers in Rossville began to feel the strain from competition in overseas markets and voted to unionize in August 1961. Burlington industries, however, was against organized labor and made plans to close in response to the organizing efforts. This resulted in a devastating closure of the factory, which broke up into smaller textile manufacturers who leased the space from Burlington. The property was purchased back by the Hutcherson family in 2012. In 2017, it was sold to Steven Henry at auction for $125,000. Though partly abandoned, the site is gradually being repurposed. We photographed this site in 2021, and it was in various states of both reuse and decay.
Peerless GT (1957-60) 1991cc S4 OHV Production 325
Designed by Bernie Rodger.with a Triumph TR2 engine, gearbox and front disc brakes, mounted on a tubular frame with de Dion rear end. Glass fibre bodywork with optional overdrive. Following the failure of the Peerless company Bernie Rodger produced the slightly modified Warwick (1960-62)
Shot at The National Motor Museum, Beaulieu 15.05.2010.
Ref 58-562
This is the single-pedestal Tanker desk I got for my music computer and work projects. This was also from the 50s and is in almost new condition, manufactured by Peerless Industries. Very cool. As with the wood desk and credenza, someday I hope to refinish this desk, although it doesn't really need it.
Great Unconformity in Colorado, USA
Light-colored rocks at top = Manitou Limestone
Dark-colored sandstone = Peerless Formation
Light-colored sandstone = Sawatch Sandstone
Pinkish rocks just above road level = Pikes Peak Granite
The rock record does not completely document Earth's history. In stratigraphic sections, missing time is represented by unconformities - surfaces of erosion and/or non-deposition of sediments. There are four types of unconformities: paraconformities, disconformities, nonconformities, and angular unconformities.
Seen here is the Precambrian-Cambrian unconformity at Manitou Springs, Colorado. The slightly tilted layers in the upper part of the photo are Ordovician and Cambrian sedimentary rocks. The underlying, non-layered, pinkish-colored rocks just above road level are part of the Pikes Peak Granite. About one-half a billion years is missing at the contact. Erosion surfaces such as this that have sedimentary rocks over igneous rocks are called nonconformities.
This contact is a megasequence boundary - the base of the Sauk Megasequence. Regionally recognizable packages of sedimentary rocks bounded by major unconformities are known as megasquences, or Sloss sequences (named after geologist L.L. Sloss, 1913-1996). The bounding unconformities were caused by erosion during regressions. Continental margins have more complete sedimentary successions, whereas craton interiors have more incomplete successions. The names for North America's megasequences are (from oldest to youngest): Sauk, Tippecanoe, Kaskaskia, Absaroka, Zuni, and Tejas.
Stratigraphy: Manitou Limestone (Lower Ordovician) over Peerless Formation (Upper Cambrian) over Sawatch Sandstone (Upper Cambrian) over Pikes Peak Batholith (late Mesoproterozoic, 1.08 Ga)
Locality: roadcut along the western side of Manitou Avenue (= Business Route 24), northwestern side of the town of Manitou Springs, west of Colorado Springs, western El Paso County, central Colorado, USA (38° 52’ 08.02” North latitude, 104° 55’ 31.83” West longitude)
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21st August, Peerless Avenue.
It's been raining since Saturday night and today is the first day i've bothered to wear something other than jeans.
Dress(it has shoulder pads but i don't really mind): gift from rachel. she found it in an op shop and said it reminded her of me. !
Tights: kmart
Shoes: my only purchase in Taiwan. From the Tainan Night Markets.
Taupe Rain Jacket: found
Navy Coat: Ebay.
Karen Walker Horse Necklace...