Vintage shots from days gone by!

From Tulsa TV, the commercials for this tire shop were interesting. They always started out "You needum tires?"

 

The number one teenage DEATH SONG was Tell Laura I love her- Ray Peterson (June 1960)

 

Sorry about that Lee, I posted it blink from an image search, so I didn't realize the context of it, your site is great, I wish I could fit those cars still, they are all so cool! (For some reason that mini Divco is my fav)

That sort of thing is a lost art, most modern incarnations are poor at best compared to the well thought out and well designed Junior cars in the 50's!

 

Not a problem with the link just the image was so huge it did not even come close to fitting the screen.
Below is my latest purchase, just got it off the Greyhound bus yesterday!
The vintage factory photo.


As you can see they are highly detailed unlike most pedal cars. The body i found was never painted by the factory you could say it was NOS

PS my 6'4" nephew often drives my junior cars and fits fine but he is skinny. he won't fit the 60 Plymouth because it is 1/4 scale and more for little kids

 

Cool, I'm only 6'2", but I'm 250 pounds... can they handle the weight, and will I look silly driving it through town?

 

^they'll make your butt look big

 

J-A-HESUS!! That song is sick, SICK!! I wouldnt call it sad, just well......... SICK!!

Doc.

PS, Anyone wanna go for a walk??...........Oh that? its a walking stick...... honest!

 

Hmm, I am concerned about my girlish figure...

I met a little girl in Knoxville
A town we all know well
And every Sunday evening
Out in her home I'd dwell
We went to take an evening walk
About a mile from town
I picked a stick up off the ground
And knocked that fair girl down;

She fell down on her bended knees
For mercy she did cry
Oh, Willie dear, don't kill me here
I'm unprepared to die
She never spoke another word
I only beat her more
Until the ground around me
Within her blood did flow.

I took her by her golden curls
And I drug her 'round and 'round
Throwing her into the river
That flows through Knoxville town
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
With the dark and roving eyes
Go down, go down, you Knoxville girl
You can never be my bride.

I started back to Knoxville
Got there about midnight
My mother she was worried
And woke up in a fright
Saying, ""Dear son, what have you done
To bloody your clothes so?""
I told my anxious mother
I was bleeding at my nose.

I called for me a candle
To light myself to bed
I called for me a handkerchief
To bind my aching head
Rolled and tumbled the whole night through
As troubles was for me
Like flames of hell around my bed
And in my eyes could see.

They carried me down to Knoxville
And put me in a cell
My friends all tried to get me out
But none could go my bail
I'm here to waste my life away
Down in this dirty old jail
Because I murdered that Knoxville girl
The girl I loved so well.

 

Old, but still funny...

 

She fell down on her bended knees
For mercy she did cry
Oh, Willie dear, don't kill me here
I'm unprepared to die
She never spoke another word
I only beat her more
Until the ground around me
Within her blood did flow.

Hey, LN7 NUT, ya suppose he just got too much carbon monoxide? LOL

As for "Wake Up, Little Susie," I didn't say I bought Don and Phil's yarn. It may have been just an excuse, but tell it they did, as there was quite a flap about the song, and they had to do some kind of crawfishing.

But since we're on tear-jerkers, let me add Ricky Nelson's "Lonesome Town" and Roy Orbison's "Only the Lonely."

 

Yeah you might look a little silly. Just wear a fez and you will look just right?
I am 6'6" 350 so I can not fit any of them

 

"Twilight Zone" optical labyrinth THANKS to daftpunkettblogspot!


Submitted for your approval: A young woman, lost and
all alone on a deserted stretch of highway. Gas is only
28 cents a gallon, and she can't find her credit card or
any cash. Gasp! (Now THAT is scary! ) She has
just entered . . . "THE TWILIGHT ZONE."

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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>The very beautiful and talented -- and, sadly, late -- Inger Stevens
in 1959 for the first season of Serling's "The Twilight Zone." Epiode
16, "The Hitchhiker," was apparently aired July 23, '59, and the sur-
prise ending makes it one of the series' most memorables ones. This
production photo is part of the CBS Photo Archives, managed by Getty
Images, to both of whom I say THANKS! It is shown here for infor-
mation, discussion and reminiscing purposes only and is not for
commercial use. "TZ" really was one of the high points in TV history,
IMHO!



"TZ" title frame is THANKS to FanCast.com!

 

Starwalker-Here's a Detroit area chart from the same week from Keener13.Interesting how different markets charted songs.The songs on the Tulsa chart mostly played in the Detroit market but here were exceptions,such as the Allan Sherman "Crazy Downtown and Del Ashley's "Little Miss Stuckup" i donot recall on Detroit radio.The Detroit area was one of the leading markets for "Breaking songs",first time radio debuts,Sherry by the Four Seasons and Tie a Yellow Ribbon by Tony Orlando and Dawn are just a couple of the many songs and artists who give credit to Detroit radio for helping them get a break out record.

 

An awful lot of repeats in the last few days. I guess I'm not the only one who can "hide his own Easter eggs" as they say

 

November 3, 1900 - Automobile Club of America organized first U.S. "Horseless Carriage Show" (automobile) at Madison Square Garden; fifty-one exhibitors displayed 31 automobiles and various accessories.

 

Hey we should start a vintage photo thread!

Hey we should start a vintage photo thread!

 

I took this off a "cars in movies" website...I love those woodie wagons...

note: the black walls

 

Back in the late '50s and early '60s when morals and mores were
up-tight, so-called "party records" generally flew under the radar
of polite society. Arguably the king of "adult humor" was St. Paul
native Woody Woodbury, though many others plied the trade be-
fore the genre faded in the war-jaded late '60s. Among others were
Redd Foxx, Billy Carty, Nino Nanni and Billy Barner. Woody's brand
of entertainment -- let's call it somewhat cerebral but with an edge
-- was sometimes risque, yes, but not explicitly blue like that of
Foxx. Woody depended more on innuendo, less on gutter humor,
than many others. Timing, mugging talent and clever irony were
in his arsenal. His nightclub act wouldn't get him busted the way
Lenny Bruce's did him. (Someone recently cracked that Woody's
lines could be mouthed today by Elmo on "Sesame Street," times
having changed so much! LOL)

Still, adult humor had to succeed without mainstream advertising,
depending mainly on word of mouth for local or regional fame. For
a DJ to dare playing cuts from such "banned" albums on radio was
an invitation to a pink slip. Thus, Woody Woodbury was a well-kept
secret from society at large. A former marine corps airman in
Korea, Woody worked up a stand-up act in which he also played
piano and interacted with his audience. He gained something of
a reputation and, many times, flew on a moment's notice from
Fort Lauderdale to L.A. to fill in for Steve Allen on "The Tonight
Show." He made such a good impression that when Jack Parr finally
abandoned "The Tonight Show" in 1962, Woody almost landed the
desk that would have taken his career to the plane of national TV
star.

In his favor, his style was probably closer to Parr's than was
Carson's, though Woody leaned more toward societal and cultur-
al scenarios for material, whereas Parr often commented on
politics. Naturally outgoing and comfortable with a live audience,
Woody was quick-witted, reacting to situations and comic open-
ings with good-humored energy that audiences loved. But after
waffling a while, Carson finally left his hosting slot on ABC's "Who
Do You Trust" to headline the NBC comedy powerhouse. Wood-
bury had finished a close second in the two-horse race. And as
they say, CLOSE only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades!

Today Woody is in his early eighties, lives in Beverly Hills and is
still making people laugh. His recordings are widely available,
and plenty of bio info is on the net. As I understand, he has a
web site, too.



Wood Woodbury (right) with Paul Lynde in 1964's teen flick,
"For Those Who Think Young."

 

"the tall guy" isn't a guy...look closely at the flap on the front of "her" swimsuit.."ya think"...

 

What "tall guy" are you referring to ?

 

Huh? What tall guy?

 

Here's a lady who knows how to hide and find her own Easter
eggs, too. BUT, she said finding dupes on this thread is a real
pain in the butt, since for the most part, photos are not labeled,
just posted as-is. Nothing's perfect, eh?




1945 promotional fundraiser to send relief to war-torn Europe.
(Photo is for sale on eBay, folks!)

 

Sweet, quaint 1924 shot of family doing their Easter egg roll. (Pic for sale on eBay)

 

I was cleaning house once (once a year whether it needs it or not, just like baths) and I found some easter eggs...but there had not been any hidden since the 80's...

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who is lost on that one...

 

If you want to hear a good death song, check out "Jimmy Love" by Cathy Carroll on You Tube.

 

Even "The Guess Who" covered that song, on their "Rockin" album,
but did do a few changes of the lyrics.

 

Hey, one thing for sure: If you hit #1 JUST ONCE, you gain immortality, right? Your name will never be forgotten (just like those "lost" Easter eggs from before 1980! Yike!). LOL

 

Holy cow! Wasn't there a '50s or '60s board
game or something called "Dream Date"???
Jee-whiz, looks like MINE! A Dodge with a
trunk roomy enough to sneak my friends into
the show, eh? There is a guy's dream date!

 

I always said Dodge had some really cool options!