Vintage shots from days gone by!

This one seems to come up every so often, but that's OK by me. Reminds me of home - I grew up about three miles east of where the photo was taken.

If I'm not mistaken, the guy on the left is George Bignotti who was the chief mechanic and the guy on the right is Frank Catania the refueler.

 

From my view it's a 368 Merc but of course it could be larger---much larger.

 

Automobile styles change throughout the years...but those ICE machines look exactly the same today as in this photo.

 

Love me some Sloppy Joes, brings back memories of my youth in the 60's.
Grew up in a small Willamette Valley town, had a small mom and pop burger and ice cream walk up, could get five small Sloppy Joes for a buck, them were the days, eh!

 

Glenwood, Oregon

 

Exciting night in Portland, OR 1935-ish.

 

Requisitioned US-cars in Wehrmacht service:
#2: Buick '37

 

i love this picture so much, it says sun, fun, beach, beauty and straight eight!

 

"Summertime and the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high
Your daddy's rich and your ma is good lookin'
So hush, little baby, baby, don't you cry"

1934 DuBose Heyward / music George Gershwin

 

Really good stuff!

 

Cali?

 

OCIR...

 

Man that's kind of spooky.

 

Rootie,
That is Harry Hespell's tandem midget trailer. He expanded to 4 cars and a four car trailer the next year.

 

Weld 94 by mactexas, on Flickr

 

OCIR!

 

It's amazing the amount of "progress" that has been made over the years. You could run a fuel car out of one of those trailers no problem and today it takes two semis to do the same thing.

 

Requisitioned US-cars in Wehrmacht service:

#3: Cadillac '35 at Luftwaffe 1941

 

More like at least 1939 or maybe a year or two later. The 38 Buick at right. Centre of the page, going away, a Cadillac Sixty Special(?) circa 1939(?). Next past the Buick maybe a 1939 Chrysler of some sort.

 

"More like at least 1939 or maybe a year or two later. The 38 Buick at right. Centre of the page, going away, a Cadillac Sixty Special(?) circa 1939(?). Next past the Buick maybe a 1939 Chrysler of some sort." The 38 & 39 model year cars are probably covered by the "ish", but we can't be sure.

 

more Danbury

 

Caraluzzi grocer......still in business.

 

Danbury also had "the great Danbury state fair" complete with a race track ........they bulldozed it and put up a mall.

 

for @Rootie Kazoootie :Thomson motor speedway