Portuguese currency "Escudo", pre-Euro:
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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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Well, it is quaint, but when I think of all the flies landing on that venison baking in the sun on the hot sidewalk, I get a little queasy.
The photo was taken before the passage of the federal law banning market hunting. Market hunting very nearly caused the extinction of the white-tailed deer in Michigan and many other states. I mention this as a way of dating the photo. I can’t remember the name or date of the act.
Thanks, I did not about that law!
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“Often, these types of charges become a federal matter, due to [Invalid or Expired Link Removed]. Signed in 1900 by President William McKinley, the Lacey Act protects plants, fish, and animals by civilly and criminally penalizing those who violate its provisions. It also prohibits the importation of invasive or harmful species, or their introduction to the environment (for example, zebra mussels into lakes and rivers).‘
This local native of Saginaw, Michigan, 1808-1911, Shoppengaon, moved from Saginaw to Grayling around 1870 because the wildlife was getting scarce in the Saginaw area.
Dick Cavett with Janis Joplin and Gloria Swanson
Way too funny…it’s going in my Shoppenagon collection! What can you do to this one?
David Shoppenagon, his son and father in law.
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Times change.
Significant advancements in firearms development (notably John Browning’s A-5 first patented autoloading semi-automatic shotgun in 1900) and then modern manufacturing processes made market hunting accessible to many in America. Turn of the century menus from famous restaurants like Delmonico’s in NYC serve as a list of soon-to-be endangered furred and feathered game and waterfowl species harvested from Maine to Chesapeake Bay.
Subsequent conservation and hunting laws like the Lacey Act mentioned above eventually prohibited market hunting and public sale of harvested game, birds and waterfowl. Many species were saved from extinction and others thrived past historical numbers. Whitetail deer and Eastern Turkeys among a few others have reached nuisance populations in many areas of the country.
The Browning A-5 shotgun and inexpensive bolt action rifles from Winchester and Remington helped in a few short decades what had taken Europe centuries to achieve, the near total extinction of many game species.
Today, the European Union has successfully implemented game management and harvesting programs that should be, and needs to be, adapted in the US. Much shot game in the UK, Ireland and the European bloc is processed in EU-inspected facilities and sold to the public. For instance, the same pigeons, grouse and hares shot by tourist sport hunters are sold in butcher shops like in Harrod’s Food Hall in London. It is even possible to buy the same shot UK game here in season through import companies like D’Artagnan. The USDA specifically allows its importation because the UK is an island group.
The same can be done here and extended to public food programs, but amendments to existing law and new legislation needs to be enacted for it to occur. Once historical food staples, then endangered, venison and turkey are now more in abundance than ever before.
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I loved cap guns as a kid. We used to do a lot of car trips in the mid 70s and 80s. Any time we stopped at a Stuckey’s I always looked at the cap guns. Many a paper route and grass cutting shekel were spent there.
Ah, Stuckey's...a mandatory family road trip stop in the '70s!
I loved this post, and the earlier post with old bills. I collect paper money and especially love the colorful banknotes. U.S. money is quite boring in comparison (but I collect it too!).
Shoppenagon was a well known hunting guide and personality in the Grayling area. He was the mascot for the Salling Hansen Lumber Co. and appeared in their catalogs and attended trade shows.
