Vintage shots from days gone by!

Spent a large part of my youth at Gene's Muffler. Keith was the coolest guy around and put up with my (and lots of other kids) constant hanging around lusting after the chrome reverse wheels stacked up in the front building and waiting for the day when I could buy a set and also get a set of glass packs installed. I'd ride my stingray home and count the days.

 

Nice! Would go there with my Dad and drool. Always cool stuff there.. I can remember many a wing window with there decal.

 

I still have one water decal left and a set of stickers that go in the center of the caps on slot aluminum wheels.
Is that cracker box a Glen L kit?

 

Not sure. It was my Moms brothers. I just remember it being direct drive and the story's about how interesting things got if it needed a jump start.

 

These have to be Navy aviators on liberty in Hawaii at the Pali Lookout (old road) on Oahu. Naturally, only one had a decent shirt and civilian shoes. Or was the driver part of the tour / rental car package? LOL. Gary

 

Before PC was invented:

 

And people say that there were no FAT people in the past

 

I like the banjo's and bullets in the store windows. Don't see that anymore either

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@40.730...sGzoV_fvtIX2WT9aTw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

 

Not sure they'd be laughing if they knew how much it's worth now.

 

This is so great, what an honest image.

 

This one is haunting .... beautiful.

 

I was noting the rack on the sidewalk with the plainly marked "Shotguns and Rifles" as well as the price. This store is in some sort of city; a small city maybe, but a city none the less.

 

Maggie
Aren't those referred to as a 23 window.

 

An Abilene icon since 1931, the Dixie Pig is still serving a dynamite breakfast and lunch. Here's a 1940s photo of it:

 

Border crossing in El Paso, 1964

 

Car crashed into a one story barbecue restaurant with Dr. Pepper signs at the corner of Harwood and Corinth street in Dallas, 1945. Two people were killed in the accident.

 

Leopard St. - Corpus Christi, Texas
1930's photo - From the Traces of Texas page.

 

The European Hotel(left) and the Horne Apartments(right). - Corpus Christi, Texas
The picture says Departments, someone wrote on the back it was Apartments.
Old picture postcard was mailed June 28, 1909.

 

Ship Ahoy - Corpus Christi, Texas