Vintage shots from days gone by!

[swi66]

[swi66]

[starwalker]

A drive-in library in Oklahoma City.

[starwalker]

Easter Parade, Oklahoma City, 1906?

[roadkillontheweb]

Originally Posted by starwalker

Easter Parade, Oklahoma City, 1906?

The car is an 06 but the shot is not. look at the road/curb and the clothing

[roadkillontheweb]

And here are a few more

[roadkillontheweb]

Now these Kemp engines would look great in an open hood rod!

[starwalker]

1941 Oklahoma City Avery Chapel AME Church.

[starwalker]

Originally Posted by roadkillontheweb

The car is an 06 but the shot is not. look at the road/curb and the clothing

Interesting...It was from a blog about OKC and although it didn't have a date, was with other pictures from just before statehood.

[rainhater1]

Originally Posted by starwalker

Interesting...It was from a blog about OKC and although it didn't have a date, was with other pictures from just before statehood.

I agree look at the house's and the big bow on one lady's hat

[jimi'shemi291]

Don't know what the fuss is about. Raquel was just like any other actress, and hair color could change for the role at hand. Here she is, blonde, for one of her most famous roles.



The shot of Raquel, above, that was turned into posters
for many a young guy's room. Below, French version
of the '66 movie poster.

[rainhater1]

Originally Posted by swi66

Pedal car heaven, national library of New Zealand

When clicking on the picture it said that the kid had his hand up for stop? on this side of the pond the stop is the arm down?????????????/

[automaticslim]

Looks like a '57 210 hardtop in the parking lot pic in post 31594. If it is, that's a rare one.

[automaticslim]

Originally Posted by leon renaud

I wonder if the Gentleman in the pick up bed are part of Wendell Scotts racing crew?

They could very well be part of Wendell Scott's crew. The cars on the track date the race to be at least 1958, and Scott started racing nascar in the '53 or '54 season.

[Craigo]

Just discovered this thread. Think I'll take a while to get through it all. It's great!!!!

[John Brown]

Originally Posted by automaticslim

Looks like a '57 210 hardtop in the parking lot pic in post 31594. If it is, that's a rare one.

Yep, it's a 210 alright. It has no aluminum insert and the shorty chrome on top of the rear tail fins. Sharp eye there.

[roadkillontheweb]

Years ago I made an effort to find every Desoto Dealership in the state of Iowa and try to locate the owners, employees of those dealerships. One of the ex owners I had the enjoyment of finding was MR Freswick of The Freswick motor company in Iowa City Iowa. Whenever I was in town I would stop in and we would talk about old Desoto's and he would enjoy sharing his stories about the dealership and the cars. One time I went to contact him and I was told he had passed away. I contacted his sister in Minnesota and asked her what had become of his Desoto Memorabilia that he had through the house? She told me she didn't think anyone would want the stuff so they threw it away. One of the things that he had was pictures of the fleets of Ambulances he would sell to the University of Iowa hospitals. She told me the photos were all discarded! Luckily I found some of them still exist through the University library and I will share them here.

It was because of that incident that I decided to share my extensive database of know Desoto dealers so that others might find stuff in their area before it was too late and more stuff was thrown away. Since then the National Desoto club has taken it over and continue to update it with new information.
Here is my directory. http://www.roadkillontheweb.com/dedealer.html
and here is the Desoto club list http://www.desoto.org/Desoto%20Dealer%20List.pdf
The last column on the right is an internal source code for where the information came from.
Below are some of the Desoto Ambulance images of the cars he sold.

[roadkillontheweb]

And here are some more images to share.

[leon renaud]

Originally Posted by rainhater1

When clicking on the picture it said that the kid had his hand up for stop? on this side of the pond the stop is the arm down?????????????/

In a car and on a motorbike here Arm down and palm facing the rear of the vehicle is "Stop"or atleast on my part of the East Coast. Remembering we sit on the other side to drive all signals are given with the left arm even on motor bike. Arm up palm forward would indicate a "Right turn"Arm extended straight out palm down or forward a "left turn " and arm straight palm to the rear "slow down" I doubt many drivers today even get taught those today.in 69 I had to use both hand signal and indicators to pass my drivers test.I hate to even think how a new driver would deal with semaphores today here !Damn completely The KID is in NZ 1957 was before they started the international traffic signals .

[leon renaud]

Originally Posted by roadkillontheweb

The car is an 06 but the shot is not. look at the road/curb and the clothing

I can't make out the clothing but what is difference about the road and curbing ?We had paved roads and granite curbing here in New England back then what is it I'm missing?