Vintage shots from days gone by!

[Mazooma1]

Ebony magazine

[twin6]

New cars in transit - Soo Locks.

[jimi'shemi291]

Black Book. Mazooma, you kill me, man, as always. LOL!

And, also, I agree with the final paragraph of RandomRodder's Post #12,185.

[jimi'shemi291]

Frank "The Monsterman" Mundus, started shark
fishing in 1951 out of Montauk, NY. Unofficially, he
was the model for Robert's Shaw's "Quint" boat
captain character in the Peter Benchley novel, Jaws.
Mundus' own biggest shark as a 4,500-pounder in
1964 (the toothy fish above is a later, smaller
specimen). The colorful "Crickett II" skipper passed
on in 2008 at 82. This photo is THANKS to BoatTest.com!

[jimi'shemi291]

Hooked then harpooned by Cuban fishermen in 1945, this is thought
by many to be the biggest reliably measured Great White Shark taken
by man, at 21 feet and over 7,000 pounds. A vacationing French journ-
alist witnessed the weighing and measurement and took these photos.
The six poor fishermen lived in the shanty town of Cojimar, the setting
for Hemingway's "The Old man and the Sea." Once hooked, the Great
White was making a steady meal out of the 14-foot skiff's rudder and
stern, spurring the alarmed men to prep the harpoon as fast as possible.
The whole story is at www.jawshark.com/great_white.

[jimi'shemi291]

Two examples of fossil jaws of Carcharodon Megalodon, the largest
carnivorous shark ever to live in the oceans of planet Earth. If a large
Great White can bite off a 30-pond chunk of meat, HOW much could
this guy bite??? These sharks lived LONG after the dinosaurs died out,
and Megalodon itself only died out about 1.5 million years ago!
Pix are THANKS to fishinglures.com!

[56KUSTOM]

Originally Posted by Rootie Kazoootie

Stiges-Terramar Spain
http://users.telenet.be/les.consultants.bvba1/sitges/

How long is the track?

[plym_46]

I believe the photos of the well endowed young woman are of Norma Jeane, before the Hollywood image makers got a hold of her. She was apparently discovered while working in a defense factory.

"Norma Jeane took a job on the assembly line at the Radio Plane Munitions factory in Burbank, California. Several months later, photographer David Conover saw her while taking pictures of women contributing to the war effort for Yank magazine. He couldn't believe his luck. She was a "photographer's dream." Conover used her for the shoot and then began sending modeling jobs her way. The camera loved Norma Jeane, and within two years she was a reputable model with many popular magazine covers to her credit."

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[Rootie Kazoootie]

Originally Posted by 56KUSTOM

How long is the track?

Sez here 2km:

http://www.silhouet.com/motorsport/tracks/sitges.html

[Mazooma1]

[indybigjohn]

Re: Post12101 on Page 606. LowKat, it wasn't so much a good eye as it was a memory that came roaring back. Although the second photo (in the post referred to) is flopped, it confirms the year as 1961 because Jack Brabham in the Kimberly Cooper is in the background. Thanks for some good stuff.

[Y-Blockhead]

That's a good one; "Norma Jeane... first photographed... for Yank magazine" Yeah, Baby!!

[Mazooma1]

[jimi'shemi291]

Hard to believe that on this planet in 1898, we had automobiles coming
on, steam and electrical power already established -- YET, there were
places where animals rivaling the dinosaurs still lived. As Johnny
Carson used to joke: BELIEVE it, or STUFF it!



Pretty engaging photo, purporting to show a dead crocodile
up in the 25-30-foot range. Uncommon today when even salties
are said to top out around 16 feet, generally due to proximity
to human population and rifles. This pic is THANKS to a U.K.
site (below), but there was barely any information with it. One
has to wonder if this was, possibly, a real photo of the crocodile
which the Guinness Book of World Records said was 30 feet
and shot in the Bay of Bengal in the late 1890s. If ANYbody
out there has a definitive resource, it would be great to either
reinforce -- or debunk! -- this old pic, which I found at:
bluesplayer.co.uk/categories/Largest-Crocodile/93/page1.html

[Deuce Daddy Don]

Originally Posted by twin6

What became of the talented guys who painted planes with "nose art" like this? Some had to be into cars...

Guys that painted all the old "nose art" during WWII, are now just about extinct.

The pix you show is a Northrup P-61 "Black widow" an all weather fighter/bomber.

Here is a pix of my dad during a war bond drive at Northrop Aircraft in Hawthorne,Ca. during WWII, can't remember who the blonde is----From Hollywood I think.--------Don

[Deuce Daddy Don]

Originally Posted by studenut48

Well if you really want to get technically, no that is not Marilyn Monroe, but by birth that is Norma Jeane Mortenson or her baptised name, Norma Jeane Baker, which later she became Marilyn Monroe when she started getting famous. I am a Marilyn fan and have been most of my life. That picture she is Norma Jeane, that was taken before the Marilyn years. How I know this, is because I have a book of pictures of her and that picture is listed, very early 50's.

You win!!!------I concede!!!---------Good thread!!---Don

[willy3486]

Originally Posted by wingnutz

How many of you remember going to the local pharmacy and testing your vacuum tubes so that you could repair the TV set????

When the problem was bigger... this was the next place you'd have to go.

I always loved the smell of the TV repair shop... they'd be working on some old smoking set in the back room!

Back n the 80s I was going to school on electronics. I would go and hang out at the old TV shops when I was home and bored. Most of the old guys here where i lived had went to school on radios then TVs just after WW2 on the GI bill or what it was called then. One old guy had a huge building probably two stories and 100x300 feet. It looked like a time capsule. When you went in the back of the building it had stuff from the 20s then a little bit closer to the middle the 30s,then 40s stuff. All the way to the front was the 70s stuff. By then he started buying old houses and filling them up with junk no one wanted. He eventually owned a string of houses all on one street. He woulld strip parts off of them and sell parts. He would take two items and make one. All the stuff was given to him and any money he made was pure profit. I saw him one day fix a freezer with a compressor out of another one. He made 50 bucks and sold it at a price the person could pay. Bot got out good. I did get a couple of old jukeboxes from him, a 38 and a 47 seeburg. I still have both of them.

The old tube TVs and radios in the 80s were looked at as junk then so I got a lot of the old stuff from the tv guys then. I have a lot of old books,parts and repair manuals from them. Although I didn't get any signs and such I wish I had. I do have a lot of the sales catalogs they had. I have a lot of the sales catalogs/repair manuals. I have a set of manuals from the early 20s to the early 90s. Some of th manuals even have Thomas Edisons diagrams for radios. Even though its fairly new photos they look to be from the 60s or before. Here is some of my shop. It probably could be a museum, I have enough to be one. I would really like to have a couple of signs to put around the place. I have just about everything else you might see in a old shop at that time. I even have a couple of sets of the NRI study at home course,one from the 40s.

So here is a few shots, not old but could have looked like the old shops back rooms did 30-40 years ago or longer.


Down my hallway storage. I have hundreds of old radios.



This is about 1/3rd of my manuals and books. The rest are in cabinets or ol the other side of this bookshelf.

Here is my bench. At one time when I did a lot of repairs the bench was all around a couple of walls around my shop,probably about 36 feet long.I cut down a lot of that space due to getting into woodworking more.




If I get a chance I will dig up some of the old pictures from the NRI or sales flyers. I have some really nice shop pictures. One shop I really liked was a shop that was streamlined or art deco type. It looked like it was straight out of one big budget films of the 40s. I was going to set up a shop like that if I ever opened up one to work full time.

[Mazooma1]

[map]

Originally Posted by jimi'shemi291

StillOutThere, I'll stand by what I said. And, yes, I was making fun of the Jet, which was a $30-million dollar decision that made the company no money and robbed them of the capital to re-do their 1948 body, much less develop a V-8, which was rapidly becomeing the rage in ocnsumers' eyes. CHECK MY FACTS? Yeah, I already did. I happen to love the Hudsons, but the company made a terrible decision that left them deep in debt and with no recourse but to merge into Nash -- as the "Hash."

Benke motors 15 miles from me..

[wrench409]

Originally Posted by willy3486

If I get a chance I will dig up some of the old pictures from the NRI or sales flyers. I have some really nice shop pictures. One shop I really liked was a shop that was streamlined or art deco type. It looked like it was straight out of one big budget films of the 40s. I was going to set up a shop like that if I ever opened up one to work full time.

Those pictures remind me of the old Nortex Electronics place in Fort Worth - closed up now.......I bought my electronics projects parts there. Many an hour walking those aisles. Sad to see it gone.


http://www.montagar.com/~patj/nortex.htm