The Sunday Picture Show (November 23, 2025)

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Hello and welcome to the Sunday Picture Show. Share your Buck knives with others by posting pictures of them here. New or old, plain or custom, user or safe queen, one or a collection, we love to see them all. This weekly tradition was started in 2010 by ItsTooEarly (Armand Hernandez) and Oregon (Steve Dunn). Help keep the tradition alive. Feel free to click that 'LIKE' but lets not let it replace discussing and complimenting each others knives. DeSotoSky (Roger Yost)

1925 - 100 Years Ago
**Calvin Coolidge was the president in 1925. He had become president in August 1923 following the death of Warren G. Harding, and was inaugurated for his own elected term in March 1925.
**The population of the US was 115,829,000
**Average life expectancy men 57.6 years, women 60.6 years
**There were 48 States, Alaska and Hawaii were not admitted until 1959
**Iditarod. Responding to a January 1925 outbreak of diphtheria in Nome Alaska 18 teams of dog sledders organized to transport the life saving serum from Anchorage. The modern 1,000 mile annual race started in 1973 intends primarily preserve the Alaskan dog sled history & culture but does incorporate part of the original 1925 trail.
**World Series Pittsburg Pirates, Stanley Cup Victoria Cougars
**The Most Famous Person in America was probably Charlie Chaplin
**The top song in 1925 was "The Prisoner's Song" by Vernon Dalhart. "Yes Sir, That's My Baby" was #2
** #1 movie was "The Big Parade" grossing $11 million
**The cheapest car was the Ford model T for $260. A version with a pickup bed was introduced.
**milk 0.35/gal, eggs 0.27/dz, bacon 0.47/lb, bread 0.10/loaf
**Sears was a catalog retailer from 1906 until it opened its first store in 1925.
**The first motel, The Milestone, in San Luis Obispo, California, halfway between LA and San Francisco, a two-day trip.
**Scopes Monkey Trial. John Scopes, a Tennessee school teacher convicted of teaching evolution and fined $100. Overturned by the Tennessee Supreme Court 2 years later the fine was never paid.
**Tri-State Tornado was deadliest in US history crossing Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana. 695 deaths over 2,000 injuries. 220 mile path F5.

Contemporary Leroy Remer Custom. 212 Fixed Ranger with Elk Horn Handle and Bloody Jasper Trim.
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C Chilebrown The handles of your 110 are Buffalo horn and the bolster is color case hardened by Doug Turnbull Restorations in upstate New York. I'm going to get into a side story here. In 1957 Doug Turnbull's father Terry Turnbull and his wife Joan opened a gun shop in upstate New York, Bloomfield I believe, called Creekside Gun Shop. It must have been one of the largest gun shops in the state... a real destination gunshop. I remember my older brother dragging me along on his many trips there in the 1960's. I'll have to ask my brother but I think he said it was eventually done in by somewhat unfair targeted enforcement actions because of their size. A divorce may have been thrown in the mix also. OK, I digress, Terry Turnbull, the father, spent a lifetime studying the chemistry of and learning to recreate all of the historical coler case hardening and bluing techniques. I bet his sons firearms restoration skills were passed down from his father. On a personal note, we have a custom Winchester family heirloom that was restored by the father and is currently on loan to and displayed in the NRA museum.
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Good morning. Thanks again for hosting, Roger! I wrote a paper about the Scopes Monkey Trial in 9th grade. Many of the issues debated in that trial are still front and center in our country to this day. On another note, thanks for sharing the story of the Creekside Gun Shop. I wish I could time travel back to see the inventory they had in their gun and knife displays in the 1960s. And what the prices were…IMG_3165.jpegIMG_3171.jpeg
 
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