History Old Time Junk Yard Photos PIX 1920 to 1970

BTW, how MANY cars would you estimate were in this yard?[/QUOTE]

Gee, I'd have to say 150-200 as a guess. He was a pack rat and took anything scrap that he could get his hands on so there were walls of crap. I believe most of those cars were given or cheaply sold to him, none were from wrecks. Any damage or broken glass was from local kids. Harley motors were inside a panel truck I walked past a dozen times and didn't know it. One out building filled with wood yielded a surprize when they took one wall down. A nice Indian motorcycle sat in the corner, tassle leather sidebags and all. I stuck my head in that shed a couple times and couldn't see it. I heard someone got to strip stuff off a Ford retractable and the Merc 4dr was saved.

 

Bob49, man, am I gonna check that out! Sorry to hear the yard is closed/defunct. BUT (unlike ME) some of you guys CAPTURED the EXPERIENCE of these gret old places before they became Cinderella stories -- GONE!

NONE of us HAMBers can stop this "progress, " NOR can we stop Mother Nature from ravaging cars still sitting outside in the elements!!!

BUT -- THANK GOD -- a bunch of guys THINK to take along a camera or phone-camera!!!! THANKS, guys!

 

I still can't get over this pic Frankie posted. Just LOOK at everything in this pile! It's great that this pic was taken in color. Really adds interesting touches.

 

BobK49, man! What a great virtual tour!!!! I could spend hours, guy. What a COOL yard this was. The cars were generally NOT trashed. Look, cormorant hood ornament still on the Packard!

Bob, did you say you're hoping to go back and see for sure if it really got closed up? Is this on the U.P. or on the southern peninsula? GREAT photo album. I am crazy-glad you got these pix od a REALLY keen bone yard!

 

Oops, left out the Packard!

 

Well, guess the Packard didn't wanna come up. Heck with it! LOL

Posted TODAY by HAMBer OutlawSteel of Falkville, AL. Cool thread for us guys who love virtual tours of REAL junkyards! Check him out at the thread, "pics from junkyard trip." Damn, I love the HAMB and HAMBers!

Windsor or Newport?

 

Here is another GREAT PIX link from an existing thread ('07) by Stan "ChevSotoLac") of Bethlehem, PA, of a yard in So. Carolina (note that SAND?).
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HAMBer Jeff ("HotRodJeep") of Tama, Iowa, posted one of
MANY cool shots from his vintage tin find. Cool thread Jeff has!
Posted Oct. 30, '09. Go check it out at thread, "Good stuff in
the woods since the 1960's."

 

HAMBer SafariWagon posted this pic June '09 from a rural
boneyard in Michigan on his thread, "Michigan Salvage
Yard that Time Forgot." Poignant shot by Safari of a sight
that, maybe, won't even be around for our children to see.

 

Newbie HAMBer Jitterbug posted what can only be
called a HAUNTING photo of this coupe in someplace
named Bodie. Don't know where, but it sure looks like
JOSEY WALES territory! Must be a ghost town 'cause
Jitterbug says legend has it that ANYTHING TAKEN
from Bodie carries bad luck with it! Whooooo!!! Just
one of MANY great shots on a popular recent thread
entitled, "Sitting and Rotting...........picture thread."
You could spend HOURS looking at all the cars! If you
haven't checked out this thread, do yourself a favor!

 

Did some checking, and Bodie is an old mining town now located in a California state park hard on the mountains near the Nevad (?) border. In its 1880s heyday, Bodie boasted a 10,000 population. Today, only about 10 people live there. Looks like the ghost town reeks with nostalgia!

 

This is NOW, not a 20th-Century junkyard! 38 great shots
of the yard tour by Iowa HAMBer Hal396 of Center Point,
Iowa. He gives directions, too, if you live nearby! SEE his
post ("My favorite junkyard in Iowa") & take the tour, if
you love old stuff in an outdoor setting! Thanks, Hal !!!

 

I'm thinking '37/'38 Plymouth or Dodge. Anybody?

 

HAMBer Chris of Spokane, WA, posted this artful shot of a survivor deuce Feb. 2. '09, on the thread, "Sitting and Rotting . . . . picture thread." The angle of the setting sun really makes this an appealing shot.

 

Just a cool vintage tin shot. '37/'38 MoPar (Dodge ?) at right. GM at left?

 

Posted in January '09 on the ACCA Forum by one of their junior members
whose screen name is "Midway," a good amateur photographer. It's a
1914/15 Maxwell. I think this puts this Maxwell BEFORE the company
had joined forces with Chalmers! Just think: this car was made before the
U.S. entered WWI !!! ACCA members were discussing how to get there,
find the owner and rescue this car, sitting by a condemned antique shop
in Boone, N.C., according to Midway @ E. King St. and Rt. 194. You can
read more details by checking ACCA at "Help identifying Maxwell -
ACCA Forums" on the net. I know this is not hotrod material, per se, but
seems EVERYBODY would hate to see it carted off for junk! What a shame
THAT would be!!!

 

Somewhere on RT 221 in between Roanoke, VA and Hillsville VA... Kinda doubt if any of it is for sale, but here's what you can see from the road.

 

Think this is from another thread here, I think many of the cars was bought by a HAMB' er...

Link to pictures:
http://www.kameraarbeiten.ch/galerie_autofr_start.htm

Link to the junkyard...
http://www.autofriedhof.ch




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Hi, YellowRR & THANKS for this post! Given the good
shape this material is in, looks to ME like the old man cared
about 'em and has probably gotten on in years. If he's not
in ill health, I am guessing he'd sell things to polite people.
Just have to approach old people with osme respect and
consideration.

 

These are of my 'back yard' as a kid in Binghamton, NY . My grandfather, father and uncle ran it from about 1947 til 1965. The pics ar from about 1948 - 1954. I can still close my eyes and see images that now bring a smile to my face.

 

Vintage44, bring a smile to your face? Heck, your pix bring a smile to MY face!!! I am SO glad you have pix of the yard as it WAS, '47 - '65, or so, buddy! THANKS for your post!!!! THIS is the kind of input I was looking for when I posted #1 months ago! This is about recapturing and PRESERVING old-car and 'rodding history!!! I love the HAMB!!!! I appreciate guys taking an interest on this theme. GOOD junkyards? Well, that is a time FAST slipping (rusting, cruching) away from us all.

 

Scotts52 posted this pic on another thread with the question, WHAT IS IT?
I can't make out the porcelain radiator-shell emblem, but surely SOMEBODY
in HAMBland can! Scott also speculated it MAY a cut-down car? I doubt that.
BTW, Scott lives in Washington State.

 

Someone tried to link to my webshot page for Temples yard in S.C.....it didn't work......try this....click on the picture for more.....stan

 

Stan, that works, man! Always enjoy a virtual tour of America's few old-time bone yards!!! THANKS!

 

After seeing that crusher, Mrs Trucked Up is wondering why im in the corner in a fetal position..............

 

Anyone in the York,Pa area that have pictures of the yard just north of York off rt 83 . It is a yard that is on top of a hill and I believe just opened after being closed since the 70's or early 80's. There was lots of old iron in there last year when I made a trip to look for 64 Comet parts. Jim.

 

http://www.damnyankee.com/page1/page64/page64.html

Interesting read on a ME junkyard with a bunch of '70s pics.
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>>"Anyone in the York,Pa area that have pictures of the yard just north of York off rt 83 . It is a yard that is on top of a hill and I believe just opened after being closed since the 70's or early 80's."<<

Google maps shows a couple: Newberrytown Auto Salvage off 382, and Baughman's on Ebert's Lane south of 83. Either of those (don't look like long-time yards from space to me...) ?

 

WQ59B, the story about your fave old-time junkyard, in Maine, was great reading and a poignant reminder to ME that what's great and enjoyable in the here-and-now can, all too soon, become just fond memories. Irretrievable, except in one's memory and heart.

 

Here's a luxurious and rare '55 New Yorker Deluxe
edition submitted just this week by StudeSled from
a bone yard near him in Willard, Missouri. Check out
his junkyard-tour pix on his thread, "Salvage yard
trip w / pics. "

 

"Scotts52 posted this pic on another thread with the question, WHAT IS IT?
I can't make out the porcelain radiator-shell emblem, but surely SOMEBODY
in HAMBland can! Scott also speculated it MAY a cut-down car? I doubt that.
BTW, Scott lives in Washington State."