Vintage shots from days gone by!

[moefuzz]

http://framework.latimes.com/2011/11/17/police-show-up/






May 9, 1936: Suspects line up during a Los Angeles Police Department “show-up,” now known as a lineup,

as victims or witnesses try to identify alleged crime perpetrators.
A typical police show-up is explained in this July 26, 1937, Los Angeles Times article:
A series of weekend purse snatchings in which some women victims were beaten and half a dozen
purses stolen resulted in police making a general round-up of suspicious characters in a raid on beer
parlors yesterday.

Sixteen men arrested in the round-up were charged with suspicion of burglary and held for a police
show-up tomorrow night at which time victims of the thefts will be asked to identify their assailants.

[moefuzz]

http://framework.latimes.com/2011/11...n-los-angeles/




Feb. 19, 1958: Flooding on Flower Street between 5th and 6th streets during a storm forces drivers to wade to the sidewalks.
This photo by former Los Angeles Times staff photographer Bill Knight was the Page One lead art the next

morning. The accompanying front page article reported:
A total 2.32 inches of rain poured onto the city before noon. Of that, 1.04 inches fell between 9 and 11 a.m.
Sam Miller, Weather Bureau statistician, called the storm “one of those intense ones.”
Heavy runoff flooded homes, streets, stores and factories…..
Offices were evacuated, cars and buildings flooded, a bus stranded and persons rescued in a two-block

area yesterday when a storm drain backed up at 6th St. and Alexandria Ave. Wilshire Blvd. became a

river four to six feet deep.
Eight feet of water filled the Richfield Oil Building basement at 645 S. Mariposa Ave. More than 100

employees were forced to leave through back windows.
Fifty cars on Mariposa Ave., from Wilshire to 6th St., were inundated. Some floated down the street.

[rubberrodder]

And the CT-33 Silver Star . I can still hear the sound of the Rolls-Royce engine.

[/QUOTE]My dad worked on the American version of these little birds at McChord afb{now called "Joint base Lewis/McChord} From the time they were new{1955-56?} till he retired at the same time they did. T-33 trainers were used for damn near any kind of non-combat mission you could think of. Pulling target drones,v.i.p. and inter-base shuttles,bringing Coors beer back from mountain home afb 'cause you couldnt get it here at the time...kind of an airborn version of a jeep.

[moefuzz]

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Found this pic somewhere on the net and noticed that it looks strangely familiar to the Ford Trimotor -without all the motors...

[327-365hp]

Looks like it says Fairchild on the cowl.



Found this on the UTA Facebook page

AR317-19-24

Love is in the Air

Credit: Basil Clemons Photograph Collection

In 1929, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Reeding celebrated their “60th honeymoon anniversary” with a flight from their hometown of Breckenridge to neighboring Abilene. The two stepped aboard the Braniff Fairchild aircraft wearing their Sunday best. The radiant couple belie their age – he in his 88th year, she a mere 80 years young. Pioneer commercial photographer, Basil Clemons (1887-1964), recorded the event with a warmth and naturalness that is typical of his work. The Basil Clemons Photograph Collection is comprised of some 18,000 images that document the oil boom town of Breckenridge from 1919 to 1948. Other subjects of his lens include the circus, fairs, Wild West shows, store interiors, street scenes, ranches, sporting events, fires, floods, and the oil field.

The University of Texas at Arlington Library offers a diverse collection of materials on the history of Texas and the Southwest. Each week, readers get a glimpse of the past with an image from Special Collections. 817-272-3393, www.uta.edu/library/spco

[empire]

Originally Posted by moefuzz

Yes, if you do a google "image search" for B49 this aircraft shows up...





The first time I saw the aircraft I think it was being referred to as the flying wing (Colliers encyclopedia circa 1960)



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As the story goes......in 1929, the Boeing Company was soo big the Gov. is forcing it to split up, much like it did with ATT 20 years ago.

Bill Boeing had surveyors in Los Angeles to pursue land to build an Airport.
The Lockheed brothers had just moved from Santa Monica to Hollywood and Bill was having lunch the the Lockheed Bros. foreman, a guy named John "Jack" Northrop.
Jack is telling Bill about his ideas of stretching aluminum skins on forms to fit on wings. Bill says....Wow.....I like that thought.......I'm building an Airport over the hill at Rancho Providencia Burbank and I will build you a foundry were you can test this idea.

United airport opened May 1st 1930, Boeing had split into 3 companies, Boeing, United and Hamilton.
Jack opened his first company Avion Corp. and below is a photo of Jack flying the plane he built in his foundry, his first Wing, flying over Hanger 1 at United (Burbank) Airport, the small building to the top is Al Menasco's engine shop and the long corrugated steel shed is the foundry that Bill built for Jack.

[raceron1120]

Originally Posted by moefuzz

.Found this pic somewhere on the net and noticed that it looks strangely familiar to the Ford Trimotor -without all the motors...

Hard to read the lettering, as is with many older pictures.
Maybe it's one of these? Photo is undated but my guess in late 20s/early 30s? Anybody else that might know? I think that circle/star insignia was used thru much of the 30s by the U.S. Army Air Forces

[327-365hp]

Fairchild 71C from Wiki. This one is fitted with pontoons.

[mart3406]

Originally Posted by moefuzz

"The caption on this Times photo published Feb. 21, 1947, the day after the explosion at O'Connor Electro-Plating Corp...."
"more at this link - http://framework.latimes.com/2012/02...-plating-corp/"

ALTERNATE CAPTION - "While
experimenting with new and
exotic fuel mixes for his brand
new AA/Fuel dragster, Bert suddenly
- and tragically, one second too
late (!) - discovered *precisely*
why the NHRA had banned
Hydrazine!!!"

[empire]

Originally Posted by raceron1120

Hard to read the lettering, as is with many older pictures.
Maybe it's one of these? Photo is undated but my guess in late 20s/early 30s? Anybody else that might know? I think that circle/star insignia was used thru much of the 30s by the U.S. Army Air Forces

This one is a Fokker Tri-motor, built in the USA, not sure what the first one is..

[raceron1120]

1943. Caption says "Gandy-dancer crew working in Bensenville yard of the Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad"

[raceron1120]

Photos from Oct '42 "Jacksonville, Florida. Fighting French with a PYB-5a patrol-bombing plane at the United States Naval air station"

[Curly Hand]

These combat photographers are made out of solid iron! Can you imagine being dropped into a war zone and the only thing you have to shoot is a camera? That takes some stones brother...

[leon renaud]

Originally Posted by rainhater1

No one else attacked the main land of the USA

Japanese Americans born here didn't either! And Neither did Japan! Hawaii was a U.S. territory it did not become a state until 1959 and has never been a part of the U.S. "Mainland" When asked why they did not take advantage of their attack and follow up with direct assault of the Mainland U.S. the head of the Imperial Army replied"Because we know every other house in the U.S. has privately owned guns readily accessible to any citizen we knew we could not win a war fought on U.S. soil "

[raceron1120]

1940 - "Malt Shop Memories"

photo: LIFE online archives

[empire]

Originally Posted by leon renaud

Japanese Americans born here didn't either! And Neither did Japan! Hawaii was a U.S. territory it did not become a state until 1959 and has never been a part of the U.S. "Mainland" When asked why they did not take advantage of their attack and follow up with direct assault of the Mainland U.S. the head of the Imperial Army replied"Because we know every other house in the U.S. has privately owned guns readily accessible to any citizen we knew we could not win a war fought on U.S. soil "

Hi leon, Thanks for answering, when I came to the US I had never heard of the interment camps and was really surprised at what the Gov. forced them to do.
I have since met a few people who were in the camps, who lost businesses, homes and all their money in the bank.
What I do know is that the German Nazi (National Socialist ) Party was very strong in the US with some big time supporters here.

So, why were German-Americans not interned......

[Novadude55]

Originally Posted by empire

Manufactured by Northrup Aircraft, El Segundo,
my father was part of the QA on that bird.
He retired in 86 after 35 yrs at Northrup

[rainhater1]

Originally Posted by empire

Hi leon, Thanks for answering, when I came to the US I had never heard of the interment camps and was really surprised at what the Gov. forced them to do.
I have since met a few people who were in the camps, who lost businesses, homes and all their money in the bank.
What I do know is that the German Nazi (National Socialist ) Party was very strong in the US with some big time supporters here.

So, why were German-Americans not interned......

I am not saying that it was right, but I lived in El Segundo during the war and dad worked in the air ind. He told me that they had a Japanese couple next door tha was caught using a short wave radio and were picked up and never seen again. yes it was not a state but it was owned by the usa

[TiredIronGRB]

Originally Posted by empire

So, why were German-Americans not interned......

They didn't attack Pearl Harbor...


On another note my father joined the Navy on Dec 8, 1941.

[Jess87]

Originally Posted by empire

Service.........another thing from the past !

Say, why don't you give credit to the original poster i.e creator ??


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