Vintage shots from days gone by!

This is the best thread on the Hamb, it's what I drink coffee to in the AM. Thanks for all the effort it takes to keep it fresh, Ray

 

Dave Clark Five in Buffalo

 

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The Whale Car Wash

 

The S.S. Seeandbee docked in Buffalo, ca. 1930. Cleveland Press Collection, CSU Archives

The Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. (C&B), a popular steamship line and later a trucking firm, was established by Morris A. Bradley in 1885 and incorporated in 1892. Passenger and freight service was initiated between Cleveland and Buffalo on the “State of Ohio” and the “State of New York,” leaving Cleveland from the foot of St. Clair Ave, and in 1896, the “City of Buffalo” was added. The “City of Erie” replaced the “State of Ohio” in 1898, providing a night-time service from Cleveland to Toledo. In 1914, Cedar Point, Ohio and Put-in-Bay, Ohio were added to the C&B route. At the time the SS Seeandbee joined the fleet, C&B and the Detroit & Cleveland (D&C) Line obtained a 50-year lease from Cleveland for property at the foot of 9th Street for $55,000. There, the two companies built the E. 9th Street Pier and a new lake terminal dedicated in 1915. In exchange, the city built a bridge over the E. 9th Street railroad tracks, paved the E. 9th Street approach, and provided a street railway to the pier.


regards,Rod.

 

The Liquor smugling movie was cool.

 

Race teams grid-up for the start of a race at Baltimore-Washington Speedway in 1925.
I wonder how much lumber it took to build this board track.....

 

Studebakers setting speed and distance records on a board track....




Imagine driving these cars at well over 120 mph on a surface like this.....scary might describe it.

 

Or you could hit the boards on a motorcycle....

 

....or you could do it on a bicycle. Track bikes were then and still are single speed, fixed gear machines with no brakes.







These pictures show bicyclists competing in a 6-day race. Two man teams competed in the marathon trading off by the fresh man being helped up to speed by the man being relieved.

 

Or you could do both with the specialized motorcycle motorpacing the bicyclist. As you would guess a dangerous sport indeed; with the duo often traveling over 60 miles per hour.

 

Here's some vintage shots from the Vancouver area.

 

This happened 9/21/38 in Burbank, CA. An Army Air Corps A-17 single engine attack plane crashed at 1007 Scott Road, killing Major General Oscar Westover and his mechanic, and setting fire to two houses and a parked car (looks like a '28 Buick?):




Images courtesy SDASM Archives.

 

Northrop A-17, just for reference....

 

Major General Oscar "Tubby" Westover...


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Westover

 

If you are not already doing so, I would suggest you take advantage of one of the new features of the improved website, especially for this great thread: Click on the "E-mail notification" option under the "Watch" feature. It will take you directly to the place where you stopped viewing yesterday, or whenever; saving time and effort finding your place again to continue....
Thanks again, to those of you who contribute on a regular basis. Your efforts are certainly appreciated!

 

Another family photo... my Grandfather wrote on this pic that this was his first plumbing truck.... a model T , I believe ? back in Freeport Illinois, it also said this where I built my shop.

So by the address on this later Van truck I was able to google earth and find the shop he built to the rear of this later Stutebaker delivery truck. I've never been back there .... My Dad was a Marine stationed in San Diego and pretty much stayed out here after the war and didn't take over the business.... so it closed when grandad retired to Arizona looking for warm weather for his aches and pains from all the hard work.
Going from the model T to this Stutebaker Van was maybe where the "One Trip plumbers" was born vs the payload of a model T. I'm sure my Grandmother made the parade decorations...she was quite the seamstress.

 

I went from checking twice a day to once a week. I just don't like the changes.

 

Where is this "Watch feature"?

 

^^ Top of page on the right side

 

If you are talking about this page, there is no "watch" anywhere that I can see.

 

Scroll back to the top and look for:

VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY!
............................................................................................Watch Thread

See it?

"Watch Thread" is directly under the word "BY"

 

No ! On mine it says unwatch thread and it is way to the right and it is exactly what it says. It's like some kind of joke, totally redundant, in my opinion.

 

FYI: you have to register/sign in to have these features work.

 

I am operating under the understanding that if I wasn't signed in I wouldn't be able to participate as I am doing right now. Oh well. Let's discontinue this discussion.

 

Here's a few more vintage BC shots.