Vintage shots from days gone by!

Alpine Rodeo, early 1920's - circle the autos, instant rodeo arena.






And that is all I have to say about Alpine, Texas

 

1957 Vintage photo of an American JR Jaguar made by American JR Aircraft company of Portland Oregon. They came in electric powered and Gas powered versions with the motor in the trunk.

 

Jackson Family, 1912, Linn County, Oregon

 

Gee a kiddie Jag with kid brothers how touching . In 1957 all I had to play with was mud balls and popsicle sticks - That is if i could find any used old sticks off the ground, otherwise it was just the mud.

 

You had mud !! Wow, your family must have been pretty well-to-do. I had nothing but dry sand.

 

Grand Champion Steer, Ft. Worth, 1959

This is the tubbiest steer I've ever seen - good thing times have changed.

 

Ahhhhh, the perfect combo.
Guns, ladies and alcohol.
How could this possibly go wrong?

 

It's even got fat looking eyes.
It looks like it's swallowed a steer!!!!!!!

 

Sometimes the simplest games were the most fun.

 

''Snake Pit'' at the Indy 500 ?

 

Whew! I returned from a one month trip to Fla. a week ago, and just now caught up on this thread! Thanks everyone for posting!

 

1927

 

Elm Street in Dallas, circa 1925

 

El Paso, 1959.

 

Taylor, Texas in the 1950s. Most of the buildings are still there, but the businesses have changed many times over the last 60 or so years.

 

UT-Arlington library- caption, "Down in Breckenridge, Texas, where the horses ride in Fords."

 

Galvez Hotel in Galveston back in 1961

 

James Dean from the movie Giant.

 

Vargo Dragway

 

Yours truly and "Woofy," at home in New Jersey in the mid-fifties. My Brother-inlaw (RIP Tor) took this photo; that's his VW bug. My Pop's Nash wagon is behind me.

In just a few years, that little one-car garage would domain for me and hot-rod buddies. Lots of wrenching went on in the early sixties preparing for Sundays at Island Dragway. Great memories.

 

Rocky Butte Jail, Portland, OR

 

1930 Chicago Auto Show