History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

Austral Cafe, Murwillumbah - 1920:

 

California Milk Bar, Murwillumbah - 1938:

 

The Austral Cafe, Murwillumbah - 1940:





It still looked like this 10 years ago.

PS Photo is 1940, technically into WW2 for Australia, but pre WW2 for the US. So ....... it's borderline.

 

Cafe Bell Vue, Murwillumbah, in 1930:

 

By 1938 it had become Bell Vue Cafe:

 

SS Australia (cadet training ship) passes under the new Sydney Harbour Bridge:

 

Renault limo and some very serious faces. LOC photo. If this was RHD, the image got flipped by LOC, not me (this time). The side lights sure look a lot like E&J's.

 

Yes, those are E&J sidelights. On the top of the photo is the date-backwards. Looks like 10/14/13-plenty of time to change the lights.

 

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Well that explains it. The Booby Prize was a largest obtainable pumpkin.

I'm yet to find such a trophy in the record's and result's book i have.

Try this link if you're hunting any article's. It's the July-Dec, 1912. Eureka Reporter Newspaper.
www.scribd.com/doc/4158005/Eureka-Utah-Reporter-July-Dec-1912

 

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This 1917 Garford Pumper is Old Town Fire Department's first motorized fire engine. It is also one of only two other Garford Fire Engines still in existence today (one is in Australia). The $3,310 Garford was used until it was sold in 1959. In the early 1990s Old Town Firefighter Bruce Johnson (now a Bangor Firefighter) led a team in the restoration of the venerable engine. Items of interest on the Garford include wooden spoked wheels, wooden sterring wheel, and brass oil lanterns along with the electric headlights.

 

Hollywood Graham on the Lincoln Highway

 

Henry Joy, 1st President of the Lincoln Highway Association in the snow.

 

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This is the old 1883 Talbot & Moulton ladder carriage, formerly assigned to Ladder 3, and in 1919 to Ladder 1, and then refurbushed and assigned with Engine 6 and Hose 6, as "Ladder 6" at the Park Avenue firehouse in 1924.

This fire company was created in 1924.

The horses are "Fred" and "Joe," who were retired in 1929, replaced by a new Seagrave 75-foot wooden aerial ladder motor truck.

 

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"The town of Millinocket, Maine, purchased this early-1908 solid-rubber-tired Knox chemical and hose fire truck through the Portland Company. Knox was a leading name in motorized fire apparatus during the early years of the 20th century."--Fletcher, David H. 'The Portland Company 1846-1982.' Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., 2002. 96.

 

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"The Cumberland Fire Department sent is Ford "AA" fire truck to the Portland Company in 1929 for work to be done on it. It was equipped with a Macan fire truck body there."--

 

Ascot Taxi Headquarters in Brisbane in 1937:

 

Brisbane ambulance bearers with their mobile litter in 1901:

 

Opening of new Ambulance Station at Wynnum, Brisbane Bayside, in 1927:

 

Barnes Auto Garage, Brisbane in 1935:

 

In #2634, anybody know if those are Hupmobiles?

 

Barnes Auto Dodge tow truck in 1938:

 

Cycling velodrome at Toowong, Brisbane - 1885: