Vintage shots from days gone by!

Check out the cruiser skirts on the 1957 Chevy Wagon.

 

how the US covered up locations of factories during WWII.

 

What Vette ?????

 

I love this thread and I'm determined to go through all 3000 plus pages.

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That gentlema is Colonel Roscoe Turner.

 

Hmmmmm?!?!? SEEMS you all are havin' WAY too much fun here lately!

 

Gary, BIG THANKS for the trade show pix, man! Some great -- and some quaint or odd! --
products and inventions there. This soda-fountain shot really grabs the eye, doesn't it?
Turns out that clicking on some of these photos reveals some fab facts explaining the who,
when and why background! The soda fountain is explained (I paraphrase):

At the time of the 1935 Pacific International Exposition in San Diego, soda fountains were
very popular, and impersonal coin-op "pop" dispensing machines had not yet displaced
them. Known at the time for using provocative artists like Wyeth and Rockwell, Atlanta-
based Coca Cola created this show-piece Art Deco fountain for the expo, featuring black
marble over a tableau of water nymphs. To me, this photo speaks of a time when human
attendants, not machines, still manned a plethora of posts, back before automation and
self-serve eliminated so many jobs.

 

Thank the Lord! My old fully manual accordion
had gotten to be SUCH a chore to play!

 

I found those trade show shots, and got sucked right in, just so many neat pics and stories. I love that old stuff!

 

We LOVE camping pix on this thread, eh? Two women sit in a very early Hudson
parked by a tent. Pensacola, circa 1909. Thanks to the Florida Memory Project!

 

Awesome Daytona Beach scene, about '52 or '53?
Thanks to the Florida Memory Project!

 

Nice bass catch , Sopchoppy, FL. Thanks to the Florida Memory Project!

 

A Miss Lewis with her unidentified '20s Austin model. Thanks to the Florida Memory Project!

 

Automobile transported by ferry, on the North New River Canal, Okeelanta.
Thanks to the Florida Memory Project!



Group of folks with automobile on a ferry, Pensacola Region. Nothing automatic
or powerized here! Thanks to the Florida Memory Project!

 

Cool picture for sure, but what look like whitwall radials on Cragar SS mags, and the way the girl is drawn (maybe just a little too tone), lead me to believe that this one is from a fairly recent time.

Still a nice picture, though.

 

Hitchcock's Vertigo, 1958 -- Before & after images of various San Francisco locations

Then, 1958 / Now, 2003

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That looks like a young Myron Floren. He went on to be featured on the Lawrence Welk tv show.