Garbage collection in Paris - The history in pictures

these are just some of the photos from https://www.facebook.com/johndorbigny/posts/799288426824302

The Russian ambulance given to France by the Czarina

Wow, this makes a clear indication of just how a car at this point was still built by horse carriage designers.

Found on https://www.facebook.com/isabelle.bracquemond.7?fref=nf

this wasn't the only car that looked like it had a stage coach body on a car cab, there was also the Hispano Suiza "Peter's Folly" http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2008/04/very-odd-way-to-treat-hispano-suiza.html

and the Thrupp and Maberly 1913 electric for the queen http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2011/02/bridging-eras-of-horse-drawn-carriages.html

The Villeneuve Private Collection, 100 years of Parisian public transportation

100 years of transportation in Paris in a single hangar, this private collection of the RATP is not opened to public

from https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.773855496030440.1073741860.682602418489082&type=1

Starting at age 8, Michel Migeot began a collection of oil cans and petroliana, now he's made his collection a small museum

He's now about 70, and has around 3000 items.

There seems to be only 2 mentions of his collection on the internet: http://luniversdugarageetdelastationservice.blogspot.com/2013/09/le-musee-des-compagnies-petrolieres.html
and http://www.sortir-en-lorraine.info/fiche/996/serocourt_88_musees_locaux_galeries_musee_des_compagnies_petrolieres_de_serocourt.html

These images are from both

I found a blog of service garage and gas stations about 90 years ago in France, and calendar girls (remember wayyy back when service bays had Snap On or Playboy calendars?)

A long time ago, gas was delivered in tin cans, and it looks like the delivery boy lost his cart load just as the camera clicked, judging by the guys running towards it

very unusual to see the photos of the inside of service stations

same place above and below... the old man in the center doesn't move

For many more http://luniversdugarageetdelastationservice.blogspot.com/

Jules Védrines, 1st pilot to fly at more than 100mph, winner of the 1912 Gordon Bennett race, once landed a plane on a dept store roof on a dare... and though the people loved it, the city was PISSED!

found in http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1919/1919%20-%200141.html

Jules Védrines managed to land his Caudron G3 on a roof the size of a swimming pool ( 28 x 12 metres ).

The Galeries Lafayette put up a 25 000 francs / 1000 pounds challenge in 1912 when they opened for business to dare anyone who would land an airplane on the roof and bring on incredible publicity, as the aircraft would then be unable to take off, it would be a long term landmark and famous site to draw tourists.

Jules Védrines, experienced pilot hero of WW1, accomplished in quickly dropping off and picking up spies, heard of it and decided he could pull it off, on Jan 19th, 1919

The roof was just thirty yards long and bounded by a three-foot-high balustrade, which added several perilous degrees of steepness to any landing on it. Védrines placed men on the roof to grab the wings of his plane as it came in. The men succeeded in keeping the plane from tumbling off the roof and onto the festive throngs in the Place de l’Opéra below, but only at the cost of directing it into a brick shed housing the store’s elevator mechanisms. The plane was smashed to splinters, but Védrine stepped from the wreckage unscathed, like a magician from an amazing trick.
http://parade.com/168457/parade/excerpt-one-summer-by-bill-bryson/

 Indeed, Védrines was fined 6 francs by the police for having flown over Paris, and for landing only thirty meters above the busy streets of Paris, the potentially disastrous challenge was quickly condemned by authorities, forbidding anyone to attempt the feat.

From http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/07/22/the-1930s-rooftop-aviation-school-of-galeries-lafayette-paris/

A monument was placed on the roof on June 30, 1921 by Laurent Eynac, Undersecretary of State for aeronautics, to memorialize the event. It was destroyed in WW2, but  re-inaugurated on 8 June 1959.

https://viviennemackie.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/p3230010.jpg  http://histaero.blogspot.com/2013/04/atterrissage-aux-galeries-lafayette.html

Anne Savelli lecture L'aviateur by Mediapart

on the 20th anniversary of the opening of the dept store, they installed a tourist ride to memorialize the fantastic event:

Bottom 4 images were found in the French National library, dated to 1932 and labelled, “École d’aviation sur le toit des Galeries Lafayette"  The Rooftop Aviation School of Galeries Lafayette

http://www.messynessychic.com/2013/07/22/the-1930s-rooftop-aviation-school-of-galeries-lafayette-paris/

a very good bio of Jules is at http://atelier23-imer.overblog.com/bussiere-dunoise-jules-vedrines

image from https://www.facebook.com/isabelle.bracquemond.7  Isabelle inspired this post and the hours of looking around the internet to find more about Jules and the landing on the roof