This picture is of the late Robert Zane Bevers and Alice Pauline Vallance with their son Albert Don Bevers of Memphis, Hall Co., Texas. Robert was on weekend pass prior to shipping out to the pacific during WWII. He was fortunate to survive the war and returned to Texas after VJ Day sometime in late 1945. He worked at the John Vallance Food Store as a meat cutting specialist before moving to Lubbock, Texas. He and Pauline were salespeople until retirement for two different cooking wear companies. They were very successful and were awarded salesman of the year many times. In addition to Albert they were the parents of another son and daughter. Robert is buried in Cisco, Eastland Co., Texas
Photos of the 1900's which brought us from the industrial age to the technological age.
From 1900 through 1999 we witnessed the beginning of flight to a man on the moon and a Mars Rover. We went from using phones tethered by cords and computers that filled rooms, to carrying the equivale...
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Old photos of workers and businesses from past decades
While we don't know what the first business transaction was, it is easy to imagine that thousands of years ago a good hunter bartered his excess meat for something more useful to him. In the history ...