Vintage shots from days gone by!

I don't see any cars either. Shame on you.

 

Doh!
Apparently not.

 

Happy Birthday, Mrs. Cline! (yesterday). She would have been 86.

 

K R A Z Y !!!! doesn't seem possible.....

 

1947Knuck what's the story behind those two pictures?

Pat

 

the 2nd picture COULD HAVE been taken last week....

The couple matured would be MY GUESS...
Judging from the car and the Pontiac, AND the '55 Olds hubcaps, I would say they "hang onto things, and each other"

 

But the picture does not seem to be 30 yrs older especially being B&W and that 50 something Pontiac in the back ground. I thought that was the case but something seems wrong.

Pat

 

I am not wanting to think of snow right now but I know its coming,from what I have been seeing it could be early this year.

 

Seems more likely that the older couple are his parents...if that's even the same car?

 

That is EXACTLY the same home made roasdster !!!!

same door handles, antennae, same altered tops of doors. etc,etc.

 

Thanks to YELLERSPIRIT for the Canadian content on pg. 5494!!

 

Love it! I had a bike like that one in the foreground.......silver, but with a cheater slick on the back and a "sissy bar". Whatever that meant....cards in the spokes......we were out playing from sun up to sun down in the summers, small town life was great as a kid back then.
Thanks for the pic and the memories!

 

Great picture, Thanks for posting

 

It was probably rare when parents supported their son's passion for hot rods. Dewey and Iva Greiner of Salem,Or , pose with with their son Jack's 32, that he stripped for some oval track racing in 1947.

 

Never seen any like this on my ship!!!!!!!!

 

SW Park & Yamhill, Portland, OR

 

Rockaway Beach, OR

 

Oh my god ! No shoes and no helmets ! Those poor chidren are in danger. Ha Ha. Back then kids werent over protected sissys like they are now. Those kidswalked or rode their bikes to skool, didnt have mommy drive them to skool in a car either like the spoiled sissys now days

 

Those kids we see there are the ones who made their kids into sissies.

Ben

 

Gee I bet most of them are gone now in terrible auto accidents. Their parents forced them to ride in cars with a single master cylinder, drum brakes, no seat belts, etc. Oh the horror!

 

Remember the ancient custom of riding in the back of a pickup.
How did we ever survive?

 

Don, I guess U were on the wrong ship

 

30 Pier Ave, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254
Hello,

This was one of a few So Cal’s most famous jazz clubs from the time it opened in 1949 to the time it changed to almost any music styles. (It is still around today just steps away from the Hermosa Beach Pier. But there is no driving zone in front of the whole block to the pier.) The array of cars was very eclectic from sports cars to hot rods. Including a black 58 Impala and later on, a 1965 red El Camino. From 1966 onward, the El Camino was there almost weekly or when the big name groups came to play.

Howard Rumsey had his All Star Band there weekly, but on Friday or Saturday, the booking was for a big names in jazz. Ramsey Lewis, Three Sounds, Jazz Crusaders, Mose Allison, Eddie Harris, Dizzy Gillespie, Cal Tjader, etc. were all headliners that we saw during our early 60s to early 1970.

From 1965-69, we were almost regulars there and were able to get into some of those big name events on a complimentary invite by the floor manager. We knew him from our days in Long Beach.

Jnaki
Two of the reasons we were interested in the Lighthouse were a couple of musicians in the All Star Band: Bud Shank and Bob Cooper

They played the soundtracks to two of our favorite surf movies in the 50S-60s.
1959 Slippery When Wet by Bruce Brown Bud Shank Soundtrack
1960 Barefoot Adventure by Bruce Brown Bud Shank and Bob Cooper

P.S. Recently, the Lighthouse had some notoriety in the film, La La Land.

 

Swi66 - Thanks for this one. Like like like

 

Oh no,, the 4 kids on the sting ray bikes pic got deleted.

.