Vintage shots from days gone by!

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Anybody ever ride the Thunderbird ride at Rock Springs amusement park Chester WV? I own the factory mold that made these cars so it always makes me happy to find a vintage photo of them in use!

 

THat guy closest to the driver seat looks like Ron Howard!

 

O.K. How much for the 32 considering it has no radiator???????????

 

$200 and I'll throw in the screwdriver that starts it.

 

Great post! "No really. I can pack the car. Remember your hernia you told me about yesterday."

 

All these pictures are of early San Diego theaters, at San Diego History Center:
http://www.sandiegohistory.org/collections/theaters/theaters.htm

 

How about some Dixi Peach!

 

thats Eddie Rickenbacker between henry and edsel, he owned the speedway then. he was a ww1 flying ace as well of a great driver himself .

 

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Promotional photograph of the Knox-Martin 3-wheeled tractor with a piano or lumber trailer, by the Portland Company shown on the Eastern Promenade in Portland in 1914. The Portland Company was the local dealership for Knox automobiles that were manufactured by the Knox Automobile Co. in Springfield, Massachusetts. The Portland Co. owned and used this tractor

 

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"Brush and Cole automobiles are being unloaded from freight cars by the Portland Company's electrically operated track crane. In 1910, the Portland Company began selling these two makes of new automobiles as well as the Thomas. The Brush runabouts shown here were "the cars for the common man." They cost only $385 each and had wooden axles." --Fletcher, David H. 'The Portland Company 1846-1982.' Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., 2002. 84.

 

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The King and Queen of the Winter Carnival in Portland. The Queen, Winona Drew, sits in a sleigh resting on the snow while the King, Major Edward E. Philbrook, stands behind the sleigh holding a long whip. The automobile is a Rickenbacker, identified by the "hat-in-the-ring" symbol on the radiator.

 

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Fans in the grandstand and around the track inspect cars. View of boats off shore in background.

 

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The only bridge to Deer Isle was opened in 1939. Until then a ferry service, begun in 1792 by Nathaniel Scott and operated by his descendants for 150 years, transported people and goods. Paved roads and automobiles came late to the island because a busy network of steamboats connected with mainland locations. However, with steamer service declining and tourism increasing, by the 1930s the time had come to build a bridge. Holton D. Robinson and David B. Steinman, who had built the Waldo-Hancock Bridge over the Penobscot River in 1931, designed the 1,088-foot suspension bridge over the Eggemoggin Reach. Their challenges were numerous: wind and stability issues, substantial tides, a necessary minimum 85-foot underclearance midway across a 200-foot channel to accommodate tall masts, a required early summer completion date necessitating winter work, and a limited budget. The project used a number of problem-solving innovations, including off-site prefabrication of the forms for the tower pedestals and cofferdams, utilization of pre-stressed twisted strand cables and new connection methods, and construction of a steep approach and shorter-than-usual vertical curve at the center to provide clearance. The bridge, financed as a Depression-era public works project, was completed in March 1939. Vehicles paid a toll for many years.

 

then and now. things don't change much in Maine!

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1955 Plymouth aftermarket accessory portholes???