Vintage shots from days gone by!

they were "doomed" before they started.

 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1162956050387454

 

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=1338399979509726

 

my first tractor...I think it was a GARTON.......

 

can't see much of the car...just big head!!! but it was my first ,said champion on the side (we were a Studebaker household then) and even drove indoors in my aunt's living room!!! sure wish I had a better pic of that ride!!!!

 

1963 - 1965 Murray pedal car. Got mine when I was three (1965). I still have it and it is in un-restored working condition.

 

^ thats one heck of a diorama there olio

 

Fricken timbers! Imagine getting away with driving something like that down the highway today!

 

Portland, OR

 

AHHH, San Francisco. Those damn streets where something else. Walking them was just as bad as driving them. I always had a stick shift, every time you stopped on one of those hills, someone would pull up right behind you. Had to pull the "E" brake then released it as you take off.

 

A few new-to-the-H.A.M.B. high school yearbook images:




^^^ All from Monticello, Indiana. The root beer stand is still in business.
Next two are from Scottsbluff, Nebraska; 1954 and 1955:


More as I find 'em...

 

LIGHTNING MC QUEEN'S MOM!!!!! ...AND STERLING HOLLOWAY'S VOICE ALWAYS A STAND OUT!!!!

 

always a wacky inventor/scientist type........lost him in 92...r.i.p.

 

I remember that red-headed actor. He was in a few Gene Autry movies and he was the voice of Winnie the Pooh.