Amelia Earhart chats with Allen Lockheed, Carl Squire, and Floyd Steam outside Lockheed's hangar in Burbank, CA. 1932
Here's a surprise, a photo I took some time in the 1950's, at Meeks Bay Resort, Lake Tahoe, Ca. The Plymouth coupe was powered by a DeSoto Hemi V8. I can't remember the name of the guy that owned it, but he lived in the San Francisco Bay area. I still have several other photos I took of this car, but the weird thing is that I never digitized any of them. Where did you find this photo?
Rex Mays was not only a good race car driver but was also a good pilot. A former Air Force Pilot. After WW11, Mays bought a Lockheed P-38 for $1,250 dollars. New they were $120,000.00 dollars. He flew in the the Los Angeles to Cleveland Bendix Trophy Race and finished 13th.
A few LAFD fire apparatus photos, from back in the day... A 1937 Segrave Hose Wagon on the right, with a water cannon monitor from a fire boat on top. Hose Wagons carried no pump, water was fed to it from a Duplex Pumper... A Hose Wagon with the same specifications as the Segrave, this one built by American La France, also in 1937. This is one of LAFD's America La France Duplex Pumpers. Two V-12 engines (one in the front and one in the back, each driving separate pumps). Other than short supply lines from the fire hydrants to the rig, the Duplex Pumpers carried no hose. The Duplex Pumpers always ran with the Hose Wagons, as a two-piece Engine Company. Because of the usually good weather in Los Angeles, most of the early apparatus had open cabs. This changed after the Watts Riots in 1965, when bottles and rocks were hurled at the firemen responding to the fires. From then on, all the new apparatus was ordered with enclosed cabs, including the tillers.
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