Vintage shots from days gone by!

[Brimen]

Sweden 1973



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[4tl8ford]

I had a pair of those snap top shoes in "Tan Bucks" along with pegged pants and a DA hairdo I was too coll to hurt.

[GrizzGang]

Originally Posted by swi66

That right there is a twat . I don't care what you say I know a twat when I see one and that right there is a twat

[jimi'shemi291]

Originally Posted by [B

indybigjohn[/B];7604822]The winner of the first Friday night Figure 8 feature at the old Fairgrounds Motor
Speedway in Louisville, in April of 1961, was Bobby Watson, driving a 1949 Cosmopolitan.

Given the era of the Cosmo there, can anybody guess the approx. YEAR of this junkyard pic? And from that billboard
back there, the city???


JIMI: Hey there, Indy. Good history, man. Those facts don't relate to the Cosmo in the pic, though, do they? Just wonderin', as that would be super history right there.

Fer shur, the '61 date would match my WAG on when these cars were getting crushed or burned.

[jimi'shemi291]

Originally Posted by [B

4tl8ford[/B];7605032]I had a pair of those snap top shoes in "Tan Bucks" along with pegged pants and a DA hairdo I was too coll to hurt.

Hear ya, Dick! Let's face it: When the damned shoes (as uncomfortable as they were) popped the latch and FLEW off your feet when racing around the grounds at recess, they friggin' SUCKED. Dads & Moms didn't buy any more of those trendy early-'60s shoes, right? That used to be market research back then.

[raceron1120]

Originally Posted by 4tl8ford

I had a pair of those snap top shoes in "Tan Bucks" along with pegged pants and a DA hairdo I was too cool to hurt.

Originally Posted by jimi'shemi291

Hear ya, Dick! Let's face it: When the damned shoes (as uncomfortable as they were) popped the latch and FLEW off your feet when racing around the grounds at recess, they friggin' SUCKED. Dads & Moms didn't buy any more of those trendy early-'60s shoes, right? That used to be market research back then.

Yeah, market research and those marvelous atomic fluoroscopes! I sure do remember those wood boxed contraptions at the shoe stores; the crabby old shoe guy would tell us to stick our feet in 'em and wiggle our toes while he looked thru a scope thingy on top to see how the shoes fit our feet.

According to Wikipedia:
"... Exposure from typical machines ranged from 12 to 107 roentgens per minute..." and "...At the peak of the device's popularity in the early 1950s, about 10,000 machines were in use...In 1949, the danger of the fluoroscope was revealed and the machines in the United States were quietly phased out during the 1950s..."

I remember 'em well. And now that I think about, I don't really have arthritis in my feet, they're just nuclear!

Damn Commies!

[11E]

Originally Posted by indybigjohn

One year they had a goshawful purple and gold Corvette pace car. We lived on Michigan St. about 2 miles from the speedway. Apparently they were all delivered at the same time from downtown. I got home from work at IRP, and my wife said, "You're too late. You missed the parade of ugly pace cars."

When the 1978 silver/black Corvette pace car came out, a certain well-known (and not very well liked) NASCAR driver bought one for ~double the sticker price from City Chevrolet in Charlotte, NC. As the model was one of the most over-decorated and under-powered of the "Corvette boulevard cruiser" years, he was an instant laughing stock.

I'm guessing those Indy Camaros are all getting a "lap of Indy" as a selling feature. No doubt twice the car at half the price of the above mentioned Corvette.

[11E]

Originally Posted by GrizzGang

That right there is a twat . I don't care what you say I know a twat when I see one and that right there is a twat

Are we certain that it's not Juliet Prouse?

[Deuce Daddy Don]

I don't know anything about ballet, but looking at that arched foot has got to be a trained event----Even while on "break" having a smoke!!

[Barz51]

Google Images says it is Bridget Bardot.

[nitrobrother]

Originally Posted by raceron1120

I wonder if those shoes were approved by Denise Diplock...

HA!!! Now that's funny.

You know, it's been a while since we've had any Diplock sightings...

[Mike Britton]

Originally Posted by 11E

Are we certain that it's not Juliet Prouse?

Prouse, Bardot, makes no difference, she is breathtaking!!

[tin_indians]

I am in LOVE with those shorts!!!!!

Originally Posted by 63 Safari

[sylvian]

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Maker: Unidentified

Title: Family group outdoors

Date: ca. 1915

Medium: color plate, screen (Autochrome) process

George Eastman House Collection

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Maker: Charles C. Zoller (American 1854-1934)

Title: School children with teachers under Magnolia trees on Oxford Street

Date: ca. 1910

Medium: color plate, screen (Autochrome) process

George Eastman House Collection

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Maker: Mrs. Benjamin F. Russell

Title: Couple

Date: ca. 1910

Medium: color plate, screen (Autochrome) process

George Eastman House Collection

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Maker: Unidentified

Title: Palace of Horticulture, Pan American Exposition

Date: 1915

Medium: color screen plate (Autochrome)

George Eastman House Collection

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Maker: Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940)

Title: Woman with Machine (tinsel)

Date: 1920

Medium: negative, gelatin on nitrocellulose sheet film

George Eastman House Collection

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Maker: Unidentified

Title: Outdoor urban market scene

Date: ca. 1910

Medium: color plate, screen (Autochrome) process

George Eastman House Collection

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Maker: George P. Hall & Son (American, active 1875–1914)

Title: Union Square

Date: ca. 1905

Medium: gelatin silver print printed 1977, from original negative

George Eastman House Collection