Vintage shots from days gone by!

Truely awesome photos, great thread.

 

40s Ford Rouge Plant

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photos WayneStateUniv.​

 

Pic thanks to FlickR member MsBlueSky (Amara). My WAG is 1951. I can't imagine
the occasion. Ronnie was still acting and due, soon, to be pres of the Screen Actors
Guild, as I recall. MM, HELP my memory here!

 

Made up my own caption for this photo

 

SEPTA in Philadelphia still uses this type trolley to this day. They call it a PCC, and most date from the late '40s and the early '50s.

 

I know I have posted this on other threads, but I'm hoping someone will recognize this location in West Los Angeles..

The location is Sawtelle Blvd & La Grange, my friends grandfather owned the station with his father, that was the hang out till about the 1980's

I wish I had taken some photos, I found these on the web.

 

Don't forget Valentine's Day is coming Feb 14th.


Just a public service from me.................

 

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I think the guy on the right just flipped me off!

 

Re image 40180

Looking north on Chevrolet Ave. in Flint-1937. This was the scene of one of the "infamous" sitdown strikes. The building to the left was (at that tme) Fisher Body #2. Completed bodies came across the street via the bridge and were dropped onto the chassis in Chevrolet #2 on the right. After the war, Chevrolet built a new assy plant out in the country S.W. of the city proper. Fisher #2 became Chevrolet #2A and functioned as a stampling plant. It had a plater and produced all of the bright trim on the front of the car. The main floor of #2 became a die shop and a crankshaft mfg department for the 6 cylinder engine plant across the river to the south. None of it is standing today.

 

Re image 40186

Another scene from Chevroet Mfg in Flint. The is what we called "the Show Job". It was upstairs in Plant #35 (Which lay north of #2A and west of Chevrolet Ave. (Image 40180).
The folks up there made all the cutaway display units for Chevrolet's travelling road show. The building survives but has ben folded into the campus of Kettering University (the former General Motors Institute.) It's now classrooms and laboratories.Y
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Thanks for that great info, Dale. I've driven my '69 Buick to Flint twice in the last nine years for the BCA National meet held there. It seems that none of the old Buick and Chevy plant buildings exist anymore. And if any do exist, none seem to be functioning. That's just sad.

 

Ah, very cool! That's a neat picture, I figured it was the assembly of a cutaway '66 Caprice or Impala 4 door. Very interesting!

 

http://speedandkustom.com/forum/index.php/topic,157.0.html

 

WOW! I thought I recognized that station. A buddy of mine liked that building so much that he posed his 1947 Chrysler Town and Country convertible in front of that place in 1980 and took these shots.

 

Nah, he's eating a booger.

 

I see you are from Hawthorne---Here's an oldie on Imperial & Eucalyptus during WWII.

 

Crystals??

 

should be easier to look at now,, hope u dont mind,,,

 

I am thinking it is the Ronettes?