VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Not Yet.

 

Rod Stacy '49 Merc...

 

And did you? We need a mug shot.

 

Ed “Big Daddy” Roth

 

Y’all come on back real soon– we’ll keep an eye out for ya’.

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Roberta Pedon straddling a Harley Panhead chopper. Think she knows how to ride?

 

August 1936. Drought refugees from Abilene, Texas, following the crops of California as migratory workers. Said the father: “The finest people in this world live in Texas but I just can’t seem to accomplish nothin’ there. Two year drought, then a crop, then two years drought and so on. I got two brothers still trying to make it back there.”

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California, March 1937. “Toward Los Angeles.” Another ironic pic– “Next Time Try The Train– Relax.” Well– give me the fare and I will, buddy. We ain’t walkin’ for our health…

 

Norm Grabowski on his custom ’54 Panhead Harley with special high-torque cams on a ’38 H-D rigid frame. This was later equipped with a Steib sidecar frame adapted by Mike Parti. –pic via Irish Rich

 

Here's a picture of Norms Covair beast

 

Jazz Age 1925

 

Empire State Building 1930

 

There were others…