History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

What a great sign......most people do not even use cash anymore. Notice what looks like an early street light hanging just below the sign.....

 

I think this maybe a very early Chevrolet Royal Mail roadster. Check out the punk hair do on the poodle.....

 

Early Locomobile??

 

I’ve actually noticed a resurgence of cash-only businesses, lately; or places offering discounts for using cash (a few gas stations in the area - though they seem to have stopped). Antique stores have offered a cash-or-check discount for a long time now.

The odds are good that if the building that housed the little grocery there still exists, it’s got some kind of urban coffee shop that operates on a cash-only basis. Things come a full circle, eh?

-Dave

 

A new Shorpy photo showing the Oldsmobile factory in 1908......

 

Lansing sure looked different back then.

Any chance you could re-post these over in the "Rustbelt Historians" Social Group?

-Dave

 

Go to www.shorpy.com and they should be the first listing under automobiles.

 

The results of an earthquake in Santa Anna Calif. 1933. This Essex made out a little better than whatever is behind it.

 

Must be the same quake that shook the Packard dealership in Long Beach.

 

Probably predates income taxes too (1913?). I've got some berries to deliver to all the cash stores...

 

Bread to deliver. I'll tell you - the Packard gals love this stuff.

 

Wow, I go away for two weeks' vacation, and you all add 25 pages of photos! It'll take me a week to catch up! Fascinating stuff, gang!!!

 

Jimi, your absence duly noted. The instructor has assigned you some homework. You are to find out what make of car this is, and give the class a report on the special features such as that aerodynamic windshield and those wild headlamps.

 

Well appointed coppers and their Harleys, in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY.

 

Check out the rear tires on the car in jimi's assignment,,,,,super balloon's ?

 

Since it is only half the size shouldn't my fine be half as much Officer??

 

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Cawston Ostrich Farm Automobile Float in a parade at Pasedena, CA.

 

An interesting FWD car made partially out of Buick parts.

 

Homemade cars? On the HAMB? Let's see, here's one EG sent me ages ago. I think this might be a one-off...

 

Maybe EG disappeared because Twin6 and T-head wouldn't let him drive.

 

I think this one had to be homemade. The seat and axles all look like buggy parts. And I don't think they had Ackerman steering design in mind when they dreamed this up. Maybe the original fat man wheel, though.

 

Or EG is out delivering Drugs.

 

A couple family cars:



1914 Stanley



1915 Studebaker purchased from Bundy Co. of Santa Monica September 1915
Photo taken at the backlot of Universal Studios in 1916

 

I think these are some of T6's weird friends with their reverse osmosis automobile....

 

These little Bantams are perfect for that!

 

Here's another from EG, which I'll post for him while he tours in Ohio. There's just something about babies and chain drive cars, like they were meant to be together I guess.

 

T for sale. One owner car, low miles.

 

There's just something about babies and chain drive cars, like they were meant to be together I guess.

I like chain drive cars does that make me a baby??

 

First auto and its crew to go from Dawson to Whitehorse Alaska and return . They picked a Chain drive Locomobile (bunch of babys) not a Packaderm. There take that T6.....