Vintage shots from days gone by!

This is now a parking lot, but the cool thing is that the brick building behind it is still there. 18th & Oak, 1951

 

Saturday night fever was '77.

 

Hey, here's an abandoned '35 Cabrio at the corner of Southwest Trafficway and Roanoke Road!



Oh yeah, this photo's from 1951....

 

How cool is this. Photo is dated 1950

 

American Auto Parts. I'm guessing these series of photos (except for the bamblance!), all taken in 1951, were an effort to eradicate the scourge of "junk cars" from Kansas City. <grin>

 

Ever wonder where all the four-doors went?

 

'Nuther "project" near that Cabrio...



1951...Where's that Wayback Machine?

 

Sigh...all this stuff survived the WWII recycling efforts only to end up here in a few short years.

 

a few from around here: coca cola plant, this building is still here i drive by it a few times a week. i work about 4 blocks from here. there is a home decor business here now

 

alot of these building are still here. of course they dont look like this now

 

a couple of the same hotel, i believe from different eras. the hotel is still there, the dealership is long gone.

 

the old court house, sadly long gone.

 

This looks a lot like the area around I-70 and Manchester. If so, that yard is STILL there! Check out the cool '33-'34 Mopar coupe on the left.

 

And look what I found hiding in another yard...a pre-war Lincoln just a-waitin' for.....

 

Love to know the story behind this one!

I ran across a bunch of my dad's old "art studies"
slides, mainly topless women from the 50's.

Probably can't post them here though......

 

Insane, Sleeper is one of my favorite movies! Gary

 

I also zoomed in on this one...looks like a '40 Tudor driving past this yard; wide whites and skirts. A custom project?

 

A close-up of the Plymouth coupe from post 5123.

 

just curious... where are they posted?

 

1977.

The truck or the four wheeler had nothing to do with how I came up with this date.

"Got the wings of heaven on my shoes, I'm a dancin man and just can't lose."

 

I love old snapshots of people with their stock cars, the 'pride in ownership' shots. Nobody intentionally poses next to their modern cars like this (with good reason of course).