Vintage shots from days gone by!

I don't have a definitive answer for you Mart, but can hazard a guess. Jacksonville, FL is a huge U.S. Navy town. A navy person may have been stationed in the UK and brought it back to the US, where it was converted to LHD. You don't often see a RHD vehicle on the road here.

 

A switch from high school; these are all from the Dig Memphis archive. Really high-quality large format scans there; in some cases I was even able to zoom in and get two good images out of one.
Part 1:





















More to come...

 

Part 2 (Keedoozle was a grocery store, per the original caption):













Yikes... scratch one Model A and one awning .







As always, a tip of the hat to all the photographers who saved these little slices of life...

 

...thankyouverymuch.

 

Ha! 5000 mile tires. We've come a long way.

 

[QUOTE="Chrisbcritter, post: 11365814, member: 162904"]thankyouverymuch[/QUOTE]

Back atcha Chris, I really enjoyed that batch.

 

Uphill, both ways...

 

Gatlinburg, TN

 

Yep then that freshly delivery milk would freeze if you didn't get into the house quick enough and the cream would expand and push up and out the top of the bottle about and inch or two driving the cap right off.

 

Nice old Gas Station shots from LA.
Still looking if anyone has a good picture of the Union 76 Station that was on the corner of Sepulveda and Sana Monica Blvd in the 1940's. My Uncle Ralph ran this station in the late 40's / early 50's before he was drafted for the Korean War.
One of his employees was Michael Ansara (Cochise from the TV show Broken Arrow). Even after Michael started working in TV and Movies, he kept in touch with my Uncle. In 1958 he married Barbara Eden (I dream of Jeannie) and on their Honeymoon trip back East they stopped in Rochester to see my Uncle.
We have been looking through his pictures but have not found any of the Station. It would be nice to find an old shot that I could show him.

 

Note the custom grille on '59, and it looks like it is 'nosed' also.

 

Looking at all the old gas station photo's made me think about the days when I could go into many different gas stations and they knew on a first name basis and I knew them the same way.

Today I have no idea what their names are and and no one calls me by my name.

How times have changes and maybe not for the best!!!

I guess they call that progress. Jimbo

 

I expanded the picture in an attempt to read the script on the deck lid chrome plate just above the license. However, with my software it becomes too distorted. I was trying to read if the plate read Hillman or Sunbeam. Export models of Hillman (circa ~1962-1968) were called Sunbeam. In 1967 I transferred back to the U.S. (Navy just like Bowtie Coupe referred) and brought back a new export model Sunbeam Tiger (known in the UK and Scotland as Hillman). Additionally, in the mid-60s, Chrysler bought (or bought into) Hillman/Sunbeam and while they still were called Hillman/Sunbeam, they had a litttle badge on them saying "Roots Group" (I hated that little badge on the side of the Tiger). Anyway, my best guess on that car in the Piggly Wiggly photo it that it's a Sunbeam (made LHD for export). I can't image someone going to the expense to change a Hillman (four door sedan) over to LHD. Those cars just weren't that desireable (and in many cases, dependable). Also, while each state is different, in Maryland, I was allowed 30 days to run my UK plates before having to change-over to stateside. Just my 2-cents...

 

The Three Stooges, well 2 of them any way.

 

Good thing US Army engineers built the Sepulveda flood control project later.

 

1934 L.A. flood















The Los Angeles flood of 1938 was responsible for inundating much of Los Angeles, Orange, and Riverside counties, California during February and March 1938. The flood was caused by a pair of Pacific storms that swept inland across the Los Angeles Basin, causing abnormally high rainfall across much of coastal Southern California.

 

My mom said that when she was a kid in Philadelphia, if you didn't get the milk in soon enough and it froze (with the cream expanding), you'd see the neighborhood cats crowded around the bottles licking the frozen cream as fast as they could before someone noticed and brought the bottles in...yuck.

 

Montague drive in, Madison Tn..
1950-1976

 

What is the vehicle with the BIG tires?

 

It's one of two snow cruisers for Admiral Byrd.

 

English actress Wanda Ventman, mother of Benedict Cumberbatch, in UFO, a Gerry Anderson production.

 

Hello, Car Fax...?

 

Oops. From Shorpy super full size version available at their site.

 

Another from Shorpy. This looks like it hurt.

 

More Shorpy...

 

And one more.