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Throw back Thursday? I know some of you have been around Lake Cumberland for a loooong time and some of you maybe not so long but your family has a history there. I would love for throw back Thursdays if some of you would start sharing some of your photos. Videos are great to, we can embed youtube vids OR you can actually upload up to a certain size wmv, mp3, etc. type vids directly to the forum.

Here to start are some old photos I got from someone a few years ago...
From Conley Bottoms facebook page They don't necessarily have to be ancient like that but the older the better especially if it is with some old boats. Here is a pic from Summer 2005 which for ME was the "old days" on the lake since I didn't really show up till around 2004.

Wow! Thanks again JWilson! Those old boat pics are especially cool! Where is the Tombstone building at?



Here are some pics from Forum Member 9/11

From http://www.lrn.usace.army.mil/Locations ... story.aspx

Tombstone Junction was on the way to Cumberland Falls coming from Somerset. I can't remember if its on hwy 1045 or KY-90. Part of the old sign is still there.

Great pics, THANKS for posting! LOVED Tombstone JCT. There is a YouTube vid of the old train.

Its not Thursday yet but look at these!
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set ... 104&type=3

These are awesome! Thanks for sharing.

Thursday is here, lets see what you guys have today!

wow jwilson came through again!

great pics J Wilson

Pretty wild the lack of safety rails around the falls back then.

Well, I am a newbie to the Lake compared to most of ya and don't have a respository of old pics but here is a pic of the 1965 Mark Twain (my first boat) which came from a property just above Conley where it had been used on the lake for years. So here it he old before and the after shot after I had it buffed up and a new convertible top made for it.

wow, you came through again!

TBT not too far back but some good times for sure!

Dang boy resize those pics. PS I only meant to clip out the ones with "others" in the pic with me you can put the other one back no matter how much I hate it. Lol
Resized for ya

Wheres those pics????

From Yesterday on FB Page
JHaverland 76 Falls pic from weekend after Labor Day Weekend 1997

Heres some from FB, I am just doing screenshots as the actual pics where the same size as in the post when I clicked on them...

Love these. Please keep them coming!

Posted on the Facebook page by M Sumner. Grider Hill early 70s

Any new old pics to share?

Any pics of the cave at Omega Park? I saw it referenced on the other forum but I could not see any pictures.

Is this it?http://www.kyphotoarchive.com/2014/09/0 ... cave-1950/

A group from Transylvania College, including Dr. Willard Rouse Jillson, Bob Jones and Oscar Hinton, explored Crystal Cave in Pulaski County, Ky., in October 1950. The cave would soon be under water as Lake Cumberland was created by impounding the Cumberland River with the Wolf Creek Dam. This photo ran with a story story about the creation of Lake Cumberland and the flooding of Cumberland River valley, published in the Lexington Leader October 31, 1950. A group from Transylvania College, now Transylvania University, including Dr. Willard Rouse Jillson, head of the college’s Geology Department, Bob Jones and Oscar Hinton, explored Crystal Cave in Pulaski County in October 1950. The cave would soon be under water as Lake Cumberland was created by impounding the Cumberland River with the Wolf Creek Dam. This photo ran with a story about the creation of Lake Cumberland and the flooding of the Cumberland River valley. The story and photo were published in the Lexington Leader on Oct. 31, 1950.

From the Corp FB page

More shared from Facebook

This is not from Lake Cumberland, but on Fish trap Lake in Eastern KY
I think the photo was taken in the 60's

LFM

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beaver-Lodge-Mo ... 2edc093306

photo of speed boat races on the Cumberland River in 1938. Right about where Burnside Marina is...

http://fergusonschool.com/Community.html

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http://fergusonschool.com/Community.html

http://www.vintagehydroplanes.com/boats ... acuda.html

Barracuda
http://www.vintagehydroplanes.com-480 × 451-Search by image
My dad, Glenn Settle bought the boat in the early 1960s. This picture was taken at Lake Cumberland after dad repainted it and used it as a toy.

TBT Glenn Settles brother at Lake Cumberland in 1960s.jpg (37.76 KiB) Viewed 292019 times

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-n ... 01/?no-ist

“Mr. and Mrs. Berry Howard of Cumberland, Kentucky, and the new truck he just bought with some of his black lung payments. He retired from the mines several years ago. The disease results from coal dust particles filling air sacs in the lungs and causes a progressive shortness of breath.”
Jack Corn, Cumberland, Kentucky, October 1974
(National Archives, Records of the Environmental Protection Agency)

Those are some of the coolest pictures I've seen. Boy, the poverty was palpable, huh? I still think it is a wondrous feat they pulled off back in those days.

Come on, lets see them.

This was back in the mid 80's, taken coming out of Governor's Cove.

Just look at that wake! lol

E_ wrote:Just look at that wake! lol

I KNEW that was coming LOL

That boat, the first two years we owned it, would plane out @ WOT. Coming from the KY. River it was pulled every winter so there was no algae on it. Once it had set in LC for a fews years and all the things we threw in it, it slowed down a mile an hour or two.

I actually knee boarded from the little island to Gator 2 "ONCE" behind it, I would give anything now to have a picture of that.

Those are all great, historical photos and articles. Thanks to all who have posted.

TTT

I don't see how that could possibly be a photo of a greyhound bus in 1923. Maybe late 1930s or 40s. According to wackypedia, greyhound adopted its name in 1929

Here's a throw back, the official opening day of www.lakecumberlandboaters.com/forum

10 Year Anniversary!

Before the impoundment

Pics Posted by Tony Wright today
https://www.facebook.com/groups/LakeCum ... 450670801/
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