Vintage shots from days gone by!

Big Daddy day.

Daddy's brother

 

Town & Country Rambler in Fullerton California raced a Javelin called "Hav-a-Java" that had some work done on it by Von Fritch Engineering in the neighboring city of Garden Grove. Nice to have the memories brought back.

 

Photo: Courtesy of the Port of Long Beach
View attachment 3896197 or the old pontoon bridge coming from the freeway.
Old Edison power plant with plants 2 and 3. The open area was plant 1 but in 1909 but torn down before I started working there in 1967 already in a standby mode. Photo is before the island started sinking from oil removal. All the cooling pipes were moved above ground. I could tell you hours of stories about that plant. Spruce Goose was just to the left in a hanger.

 

control arm on the table on right looks very "trunnion-ie ala AMC.......

no upper ball joints on amc til 1970 I think.....

 

JUDGING BY SIE OVERALL,I'D SAY THIS IS A ONEOFF RAREITY.........THE PREMARLIN PROTOTYPE BULIT ON AN AMERICAN PLATFORM...TARPON????

 

Mr Google told me it was AMC doing the teardown..

 

Terminal Island So Cal
Hey Jimmy,

We remember going to that place in Terminal Island a lot. A shifter rod here, transmissions, a few heads there, we worked fast and got out of there quickly. It was a dump. It was only what you could carry or put in the trunk. Many parts were found that would replace your broken part. (It was take the whole transmission home and get the parts at your leisure. )

The easy take off part was for interchanging your old cracked part for a decent used one. The ratchet and speed turning wrench were quite busy attacking the old parts for removal. No 12v-18v cordless drills/removers back then, just So Cal teenage gorilla, muscle.

Jnaki

Terminal Island:
It started out as a sand spit in San Pedro Bay called Rattlesnake Island. After the construction of a bridge and a rail line, it was re-christened Terminal Island and a fashionable resort named Brighton Beach flourished there in the 1890s. In the 30s, my dad used to swim across the channel from San Pedro to Terminal Island with his friends, to go to this newly created “Brighton Beach.” In the 60s, it was a short drive across the huge drawbridge from our Long Beach house to Terminal Island.
Two Bridges: The Commodore Schuyler F. Heim Bridge with the replaced Henry Ford Bridge behind, looking west | Photo: Courtesy of the Port of Long Beach
The famous drawbridge location in the Terminator Movies and other earlier 60's car films.
The Pontoon Bridge from the freeway or driving from downtown Long Beach going West.
“By the 1930s, the sand spit was a busy industrial zone that included at least eight canneries, commercial and naval shipyards, oil tanks, steamship berths and a tile-roofed rail station. There was regular ferry service to San Pedro.

Many of the newcomers came from Wakayama prefecture, a poor, remote coastal region in western Japan. As relatives followed, Fish Harbor came to resemble a Wakayama village transplanted to the California coast.

In 1919 the Navy established Long Beach as the home port for the Pacific Fleet. Then in 1940, the Navy paid $1 to acquire 100 acres of land on Terminal Island from the City of Long Beach to establish a new naval station and shipyard. It opened in 1943 and was a major employer for the region for many years. As part of the U.S. military’s base consolidation program in the 1990s, the Long Beach Naval Facility was shuttered and the land returned to the Port of Long Beach for development.”

 

My guess is whatever car is behind the table is the background

 

Fort Worth, TX

 

The guy in the nasty coveralls looks out of place on final line, can't imagine where he would get that dirty outside of the chassis line and wet paint

 

That bear seems really focused on that guys fingers he's thinking "come on, come on, a little more, a little more, finger food".

 

But if you don't he'll die.