Vintage shots from days gone by!

[Novadude55]

Originally Posted by Y-Blockhead

That's funny. I, too, didn't get very far in 60 years, From Hermosa Beach all the way to Redondo Beach, CA. Maybe 2-3 miles...

I was born in Long Beach, 1954,
lived there for 8 years, on Tevis Ave,
down by Los Coyotes and Wardlow I think,
Moved to Santa Ana in 62, lived there till I joined the Navy,,
lived all over OC after that, Garden Grove, Huntington Bch, Fullerton,
then moved to Riverside, Sunnymead, Now called Moreno Valley, Perris,
before moving to the central valley in 1990.

[thecarfarmer]

Originally Posted by Mazooma1

(snip)

dad took this photo in the late 1930's...a plane was having mechanical problems, so the guy landed on Baldwin Ave. He fixed whatever the problem was and then the cops blocked off the street so the guy could take off again. Here some of the locals were guiding the plane around a corner to get it to face the right way....

Back then, people would just help a guy out when something like this happened.

Nowadays, the plane would be impounded, the pilot would get a ticket, the mechanic would be sued, the neighbors would be complaining about having to detour a couple blocks, and the city council would use it as an excuse to annex the nearest small airfield.

I think maybe this is why I like old stuff; it's a connection to a time - and a mindset - that's long gone.

-Bill

[wrench409]

Originally Posted by LowKat

mmmmmmmmm...........cheerleaders!

[model.A.keith]

Group of employees and several small boys in the littered alley entrance to a Baltimore garment factory, 1921






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[model.A.keith]

Pickwick stages, counterparts of modern day buses, outside Union Station, Los Angeles, awaiting passengers bound for southern California, 1920.

[model.A.keith]

The burned-out Monticello Hotel, Norfolk, Va., and fire apparatus frosted with icicles. The New Year's Day 1918 fire was thought to be the work of enemy agents.

[model.A.keith]

Policeman directing downtown Chicago traffic, circa. 1917.

[model.A.keith]

Young boy tending freshly stocked fruit and vegetable stand at Center Market. Washington, D.C., Feb. 18,1915.

[G V Gordon]

From the family archives.

[Abomination]

I have one I think about selling sometimes.

Originally Posted by wvenfield

I'd love to have a nice Honda Dream.

[Abomination]

That's the same Funk Aircraft sompany that made the adapters to put a flathead V8 into a Ford 8n or 9n tractor!



~Jason

Originally Posted by mctim64

[jimi'shemi291]

QUOTE WIKIPEDIA: "Bandmate Waylon Jennings gave up his seat on the plane, causing Holly to jokingly tell Jennings, "I hope your ol' bus freezes up!" Jennings shot back facetiously, "Well, I hope your ol' plane crashes!" It was a statement that would haunt Jennings for decades."

Jimi: HELL, some ballsy guys were just jokin' around during a bad period of weather, folks. Let's just leave it lie at that. Sad day.






Thanks, nevertheless, go to the Holley (correct spelling)
commemorative site:
www.morethings.com/music/buddy_holly/charles_hardin_h...

THANK YOU. Buddy will never, ever be forgotten.

THAT'll be the day!

[Mazooma1]

photo by Ozzie Lyons

[fbi9c1]

[QUOTE=Deuce Daddy Don;5895330]

Originally Posted by Kool66

Nice Chopped 35/36 Ford Phaeton




Hey!---How many of you remember those old traffic signals that the arms came out & said either RED "STOP or GREEN GO"??---And when the arm was up, a bell went "DING".

Yes and there was no yellow light either. They took them out when I was in around 2nd grade in the early 50's. We left L.A. for 2 years and lived in Cincinnati when I was 4-5 years old and came back in 1950. I remember wondering why they didn't have 3 phase lights here like they did in Cincy and also why they didn't have the extensive trolley bus system they had there.

[raceron1120]

Originally Posted by G V Gordon

From the family archives.

Isn't that Yancy Tucker from Walton's Mountain?! Sure looks a lot like him

[rbradber]

It didn't phase me but then mine is still brand new in the metal box.

[twin6]

Miss Central Kansas...

[twin6]

A couple shots from San Francisco in the 1950's.

[Mazooma1]

Originally Posted by rbradber

It didn't phase me but then mine is still brand new in the metal box.

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[aceuh]

You'll shoot your eye out!!!

Originally Posted by Kool66