Vintage shots from days gone by!

Cool story. I haven't seen an image of an ATF in years, but my dad was stationed on a sister ship, the USS Quapaw (ATF-110) in 1956. I was an 8-year old then, but can still remember visits to the ship and the kindness of one of my dad's pals (one of the ship's machinists) who fab'd two axles for lawn mower wheels and gave them to me for Christmas one year. I used them to make a coaster car. Ships in this class were named for Native American tribes and provided Fleet towing, salvage, rescue and repair. Gary

http://www.navsource.org/archives/09/39/39idx.htm

 

1956 Wehrle Drive-In on Transit near Wehrle.


An IRC Peter Witt trolley on Parkside Ave. sometime between 1948 and 1951. Trolley is heading towards the Lackawanna Railroad Terminal at the foot of Main St.



Nickel Plate #285 (NKP) 0-8-0 switcher plus others shown in storage near the roundhouse in August 1958. Location is Buffalo Jct., in the background you can see the South Park Ave. bridge and the Purina mill on Prenatt St.

Mayer Bros. Cider Mill, 1540 Seneca Creek Rd., W. Seneca

Ted's Jumbo Drive In, 2312 Sheridan Dr, Tonawanda, NY. Earlier era before expansion of building.


New York Central's Frontier Yard in 1957. Village of Sloan is at lower left and Broadway St. Lower right OFF picture would be Harlem Rd. and the Thruway Plaza.



Eastbound Lehigh Valley train headed by LV #2089, a 4-6-2 engine, is shown here leaving Buffalo in 1940. In today's world the location is where I-190 crosses Bailey Ave. The LV right-of-way in the mid fifties became I-190 from roughly Dingens and S. Ogden to downtown Buffalo.

 

The one that's upside down is a 51 Ford Vivci

 

Only partially...... It did go "aero".

BUT... to get serious - All of these pictures (except the few tragic ones) show a great sense of pride found in days gone by. I for one wish we could at least recapture some of it!! Look at the new/old cars with the owner posed beside them. It was a major investment and accomplishment in their lives. The military pictures also show great pride.
YES the pride shows.