Vintage shots from days gone by!

No that building is older than dirt... My first recollection of it was as Victoria Dodge DeSoto. That whole part of the street was known as Auto Row. The corners around Ensign is the last of them. Mazda was Ford and Audi has had a number of different brands over the years.

 

Speedway Motors was located at the corner of Yates and Vancouver.

 

My memory was Ensign was Pacific Chrysler before that I'm not sure. Mazda across from Ensign was a Plymouth dealer (Olsen Lumsten Motors) and National was the Ford dealer then, and Plimleys was the Packard dealer. Across Quadra St from Wilsons but still on Yates St. was Jeffery and Jeffery Auto Electric (my pop worked there, Wilsons and Olsons in the late 40's 50's and early 60's) Then do you remember Merlin Motors?

 

That is a whole bevy of Betties! ShaaaZZZAAAAMMMMM!!!!

 

Yes just down the street from the Wilson / Morrison building. That is a sorta *modern* picture by my standards.. <Grin> if you look at the detail of the top of the building you get a hint of the true age of it. It looked MUCH different when my dad worked there when it was the British Auto Center. Speedway upgraded it several times then gave up and put up a new building at their current location, which has since had several major renos.

 

I remember the name but cannot place it, we had long moved to the new building by then. I remember when the Chrysler auditors rolled in to Pacific Chrysler one morning and shut it down... Major fraud scandal was big news back then.

 

I remember these guys from when I was a kid although I can't remember the guy's name holding the guitar, the one sitting next to him is Desi Arnaz Jr, played drums, and on the right is Paul Martin, Dean's son who played bass. I remember seeing them on the Dean Martin show. Paul Martin was later a Capt. in the national Guard (I think) crashed his jet into a mountain here in so cal.

 

"Dino Desi & Billy"

Billy Hirsche is the one on the left.

 

You've got a better memory than me, I would have never got that name.

 

I just remembered "Dino Desi & Billy" from when they were on Dean Martin's show.

More famous was Jerry Lewis' son - which I had no clue of at the time.

About even with Frank Sinatra's daughter Nancy.

 

Along US 101 at Neahkahnie Mountain in the 1950s from Oregon State Archives.
Pretty much the same today.

 

Natatorium at Nye Beach, Newport, OR, ca. mid-1950s.

 

Silver Moon Tavern - Reedsport, OR

 

Reedsport, OR.

 

Looking South East down Hwy.101.

 

1950's America.

 

Color shot of Neahkahnie Mountain Viewpoint -
There is supposed to be pirate treasure on the mountain or surrounding area!
Early Spanish and English explorers passed by here, large pieces of beeswax dated in the 1600's have been found. These are from Spanish treasure galleons! Carved rocks, hieroglyphics and arranged stones too! But nobody has found the treasure yet!

 

early 1950s, Neahkahnie Meadows.

 

I've seen more than a couple cars sinking fast as the tide comes in! Nye beach, OR.

 

Main street in Joseph as it appeared in the early 1950s.

 

No matter how many times we go to this part of the Oregon coast, we have to stop and enjoy this view.

 

Back from the Pendleton Round-Up, ready to start posting again...

 

Gary Lewis & the Playboys

 

Google "Dino, Desi, and Billy" for all the information you are seeking.

 

Says Otto M. Schmidt on the back...