Vintage shots from days gone by!

A car in the Ocean to Ocean Race, Hays, KS.

 

File0225 by mactexas, on Flickr

 

Gateway! Went there many times when I lived in Puddletown.
As a kid I thought it was pretty exotic, it was way on the far side of town and had a cool hobby shop! Is it still there?
By the way, the old FRED MEYER stores were the greatest ever. They had everything you can imagine in one store! Not like today! Day's LONG gone by.......

 

Oregon City/West Linn


20 years later


2012

 

Freddies ain't the same at all. The other day my wife and I had to go to 197 different stores to get a belt for a vacuum cleaner. (Why didn't we call? Because employees usually just tell you what they think you want to hear). We BOTH thought "Jeez, ages ago, whatever you needed you could get at Freds!".

 

Armistice Day Parade, 1936, Hays, KS.

 

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http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/...nee-the-five-mile-dream-1958/?refer=hccweekly

 

Holy Crap!! This is not going to end well!-MIKE

 

Woohoo, I can fly!!!........Oh SHIT!

 

^^^^What they BOTH said!!
Oh, sugar!

 

The crossing looks a little dicey to get your toes in the sand.

 

Hang glides.

 

Kinda looks like someone bought beachfront property sight unseen off Craigslist without a photo.

 

Where was this picture from, somewhere on SoCal coast?

 

"Pacific Palisades" in the late 1940's

 

Looking at the historical marker just east of Garden City, KS.

 

holy crap what …. now on the endangered species list ?

 

This is why Bend Pak went into the business, - holy mosses

 

Here is a piece of history that should bring back lots of memories? Our reel mower did not have a motor on it.

 

Look at all those gorgeous Pontiac engines! Some have 3x2's, some 4brls, I bet there's some with 2-4's in that mix, as well.

 

Whats the second engine on the left with the not so Pontiac exhaust manifold.. SD?