VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Racing on Wilshire in Santa Monica, 1910

 

cool advertising bus idea that Goodyear tires had

 

this soapbox derby contestant has the right spirit, and a cool as hell paint job

 

the Manhatten project van and tractor trailer

 

. Bellytanker streamliner . with a plexiglass nose, . .

 

Thank him for me.
Boys to men in a matter of weeks.

 

The Reservatory (motor life blog) has found photos of the "round door rolls" Jonckheere Rolls Royce at a New York motor show in the early 1950's

 

forgotten history of what might have been, the California Cycleway (bicycle only elevated wood road from Pasadena to LA)

 

Look at the photo of those clowns posing as soldiers, then go back and look at the photo of the real men at Guadalcanal...

 

I didn't know that Dick Smothers raced anything but the dragster!



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. 1910's, 1920's, women's shooting club

 

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. 1910's, drug store

 

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1920's, U.S. Marines