Vintage shots from days gone by!

TYhanks to Royalton Historical Society on Facebook

 

More from Middleport, Gasport, Royalton etc

 

More Gasport, Royalton etc

 

Actor Warren Hull who was in Mandrake was a local guy.

 

Translation:
"The driver, in bad visibility overtaking is forbidden!"

 

Denise was in a movie?

 

Bogie & Bacall with Hoagy Carmichael. Must have been a "Have and Have Not" tour.

 

That was happening in a few southern states. Though some would like you to believe it <S>was</S> is. It wasn't representative of our entire country...

 

Um not really. I'm from Oregon, the KKK was very strong there in the 30's, Japanese were prohibited from owning property ( before WW2), I remember a coffee shop in Portland, the "Jolly Joan" had a sign up "No Coloreds". It was more outfront and institutionalized in the South, but pretty damn common everywhere! There is still a great amount of prejuduce.

 

Here's some of my Grandma and Gramps back in the day. My grandma's picture was taken in 1947 in front of a 41 Mercury and The shot of my grampa was in a 1937 Ford with his buddy Frank and Berry De Witte. He was 16-17 in that photo and went to war a couple years later. The gas station was my grampa in Detroit before he moved to MN. And the snomobile shot is of my gramps on his 67' Ski-Doo snowmobile (I have the same one now!). This is a fun thread....Thanks and enjoy!

 

Here's another of my Grampa in front of his Austin two seater....it got over 50 MPG!

 

For all you early swappers!!!

 

2nd from right, upper - isn't that Walter Brennan? If not, it sure looks like him.

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Denver

 

...and just to the left of him, Ronald Reagan ?
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Durant OK

Eagle Nest NM



Evart MI

 

Kingsville TX



Fort Lauderdale

 

autopeds, early mopeds, from the Hemmings blog,,
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If you were the sort of person who did your gift shopping in the 1916 equivalent of the Neiman Marcus Christmas catalog (Hammacher Schlemmer, maybe), an autoped was on your list. Transit and taxi strikes in recent years had caused commuters in New York and elsewhere to investigate alternate means of transportation, and a car wasn’t always an option.

I haven’t been able to dig up much about inventor Hugo C. Gibson, but he was a London-area engineer who specialized in gas engine design and aeronautical development, and came to New York around 1906, where he was associated with the British Ministry of War. By 1910, he was a big name, thanks to working on analyses of Selden patent issues for ALAM, and he and became associated with the Requa-Coles Company, which was an aviation concern. He received a number of patents during this era, ranging from a manograph for investigating combustion within cylinders, to automobile gauges, to propeller designs, and he developed a 200-pound, 50hp V-twin aviation engine for Requa-Coles (later Requa-Gibson).

In late 1913, he started showing off something a little smaller in the hills around his New Jersey home, a self-propelled scooter. The innovative two-wheeler had an air-cooled 2-1/4 hp engine over the front wheel, and featured a tilting steering column, a la the Segway: Pushing forward engaged the clutch, the left grip controlled speed, right had compression release, while pulling the whole column back engaged the brake. The hollow column was also the gas tank (!), and it folded flat and locked in place, sealing the tank and making a convenient carrying handle for the 90-pound (Gibson had originally aimed for 40 pounds, a very different proposition) machine – perfect for riding to the subway station, and tucking next to your desk at the office. It was capable of a maximum 25 MPH speed; Gibson’s Autoped Company of America built it in Long Island City, claimed 100 MPG at 20 MPH, and sold it for $100. Starting was via the simple expedient of scooting yourself up to speed and popping the clutch. A Breeze carburetor was claimed leakproof at any angle. Later versions appear to have had a small conventional gas tank above the engine, a battery box for lighting, and pull start operation.
As this was the first motorscooter developed in the United States, few knew what to make of it, and it was popularly described as a “cross between a motorcycle and a roller skate.” While “The Wonder of the Motor Vehicle World” did capture the popular imagination, it was never a big seller as personal transportation. Rather, it seems to have become a sort of novelty among a certain flapper set – just the thing for terrorizing and scandalizing out-of-towners. Captain Sir George Mansfield Smith-Cumming, better known as MI6&#8242;s founding father, “C,” also bought one and brought it back to England to help get about – he’d amputated his left leg with a pen knife after a Rolls-Royce accident.
It did find favor in commercial applications – like around big factories – and in light urban delivery service, where it proved highly economical to run. It was in Europe, however, that the Autoped really caught on. Licensed and unlicensed versions were built in England (U.K. Imperial), Czechoslovakia (CAS) and Germany (Krupp). These were followed by several new versions in both Europe and America, and ultimately, Vespa and a hundred others
Autopeds continued to be made through about 1918, but by 1916, Gibson was seemingly done with the Autoped. He was abandoning that design to concentrate on something really practical: The Gibson Mon-Auto.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n77NxU0CHPw&feature=related

 

I was born in Long Beach in 54,, too cool, thanks

 

Yep, that's him. All four stared in that 1944 flick.

 

McQueen was arrested for drunk driving in 1972 in Anchorage, Alaska.

 

In the late 60's early 70's I belonged to the orange county north enders model T club. Had a great time in parade's driving on the side walks and just having fun. get put in jail today for what we did.

 

1962 Chevys in showroom

 

Bob Knowles Ford