It depends on how big it is. The only way I know how to do it is to do a screen capture: hit "ctrl" & "prtsc" (print screen), open paint and paste it into paint, crop your selection (optional) and then hit "save as" & select your file type. Or if you have Publisher, you can create a document with a text box, copy & paste your text in the text box and one of the save as options is jpeg. I've never tried it, I always convert my files to pdf if I'm sharing them.
This site does accept pdf format for uploads. As a matter of fact, I recently increased the size of the file that you can upload. Kilv, pdf is probably your best bet. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I have a Boston PD Special Order from 1966 signed by Commissioner DiGrazia that I found folded up in an old book I bought, and the current style BPD badge is on the letterhead, so at least since then.
If only Bernie Wermers hadn't passed away, he could tell us,hell, he could probably tell the exact day and date it changed and which shift first used it. Some of you might know who he was. Great guy, RIP, Bernie!
I remember those old BPD radio handsets. They looked like a regular telephone and it was strange seeing them driving down the street talking on the phone.
Yup....my beat is in the lower right-hand corner, about 5 O'Clock. I still have no clue who that is......he must have flamed-out or gotten the 72% parachute before I got on.
I also love the ashtray in the picture. The good old days... I have a picture of my father riding the desk back in the day, Feet up on the desk cirgarette in his hand, full ashtray next to the radio. My how things have changed. For the better in this case.
That guy would be in trouble at my PD, his sideburns are below the lowest point of his earlobe. I'm not shitting you either, it's in the rules and regulations three ring binder (or three ring circus). You cannot have any facial hair except a mustache and said 'stache cannot go lower than your lower lip. Know why I know such obscure shit? One year I grew sideburns and a mustache as well as let my hair grow out to fuck with the admin. when they forced us to all have "personnel photos" both in uniform and in plain clothes, I think for photo line ups if someone came to make a complaint and didn't know your name. I couldn't stand the look, I was going through withdrawals wanting to get my hair cut badly, but stuck it out. I'm sure that photo will turn up at some point as a joke.
We don't have such restrictions and not that long ago before I got 'real' and started keeping what little hair I have left pretty close cut, it would get quite long (ala J.Q. Adams) and look really stupid. I kept saying I was going to let it grow to the point where I could have a pony tail, just to get a reaction. I lacked the balls to follow through, though when I shaved off my 'stash back in the early 90s after 3 short years, I went half a shift with a Hitler mustache just to get a reaction. No one seemed to notice so the second half I went with nothing. I was SOOOOOOOOO dissapointed. I was hoping for at least ONE gasp. Non-observant fuckers.
There's an AWESOME picture in the book about the history of the QPD, where one of our detectives in 1964 is on the (rotary dial) phone, wearing a Joe Friday-like fedora, and has a cigarette in his non-phone hand, with the ashtray right nearby.
