Vintage shots from days gone by!

Photo's above by Swiss Photographer Karlheinz Weinberger. Gay/rebel/gang scene.

Not England, I'll have you know.

Mart.

 

Scene just before the car was turned into the" Death Mobile" in" Animal House" !

That's my brothers car. .. we can't take this on a roadtrip. .. he wrote the mileage down!



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The Connecticut Yankee hasn't changed too much. Our Model A club meets around the corner from there. Thanks for sharing!

 

I don't know if a seat belt would have helped this guy or not….

 

I don't know if this photo has already been posted because I didn't have an extra 2 weeks to peruse all of the previous posts….

 

Hoss Cartwright (Dan Blocker) riding a minibike on the set of Bonanza….

 

This Plymouth must have been there for awhile….

 

I really like this body style. The car is nice too….

 

Got a caption for my "Kentucky Speedboat" photo?

 

Drag racing in the good old days….

 

No my dad was not one of the Dead End Kids, as they were actually group or part of the 5307th that had been in new guinea the year before. My dad was 30 years old in early 1943 when the draft finally caught up with him working in a munitions plant in Seattle, so he would of been one of the old men in the troop but was one of the original 5307 who had started in India and out onto the Burma Road. He trained in Trinidad for jungle tactics, trained by special Koreans for hand to hand tactics. He was a South Dakota farm boy with the nick man Eagle Eye and was rated an expert sharp shooter. He started out assigned to H.Q. and had traveled with Gen. Merrills company. Had started barbers school before the war and had apparently been asked to cut Merrills hair more than once while in India and later in the field or something like that. My dad did not reach Mytchina airfield as he was taken out by Typhus and Malaria just shortly before that encounter. By that time, reportedly most if not all of the unit were dealing with at least one stage or another of malaria, throwing up, sweating and crapping in their pants where they stood or lay with high fevers all the while actively engaging the enemy. The ones with the Typhus had to be removed since they became almost delusional with very high fevers much worse than just malaria and many of them never made it back due to this alone taking a high toll on the outfit. Also contrary to the many " All Volunteer" monikers told of this unit, he had always sternly maintained he never ever volunteered for this tour of duty and just taken from Texas, to Trinidad and then off to India and still was part of the original 5307 as of November 1943.

Go ahead an send me a PM and we can talk further so as not to hi - jack this post. If anyone else wants to learn more about the Merrills Marauders you can go to the link below. Apparently the Army Rangers today have adopted them as their namesake unit:

http://www.marauder.org/marauder.htm

 

How long do you think their hats will stay on?

 

Oh I would say about 5 seconds after they say "contact"!

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"I told Mom I was goin' fishin' before she told me to set the table".

 

The only one remaining is in the Pioneer Museum at the Mason City airport

 

my father mid 60`s stock car after roll over .

 

another angle

 

The old Tai Shan building is still there in San Antonio, just a change in ethnicity. Now the Fiesta Store.

https://maps.google.com/maps?oe=utf...=us&ei=pie-UtOfE8nN2wW-8oHgDw&ved=0CCwQ8gEwAA

 

I rode in this car (1959) with the bubble top when it was used for Queen Elizabeth in Ontario, Canada! My Dad worked for Chrysler Export-Import Division and he drove it home one evening to take us five kids for a ride under the stars. VERY COOL!! Thanks for posting!!

 

You can always tell an airplane guy. LOL.

 

yep, sure has. Waaaaaaay back on page 2 of the thread, post #25.

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=659214&page=2

There a re heaps of "re-posts" happening all the time now. Understandable I suppose.


regards,Rod

 

What we all now know as "Cline's Corners"

 

The Applebees here in town got a remodel last year, and the grand reopening had those lights. I was surprised to see them. I used to see them all the time in Calif.

 

Then and Now.

 

Pawnee Bill had a Wild West type show for a while. His ranch is west of Pawnee, Oklahoma and is open to the public as a historic site.

 

Pictures of pictures of the Waite Phillips Filling Station in Sapulpa, Oklahoma which has now been restored to this.

 

screw John Wayne

 

But, if I don't remember them, does that count? There are also many new photos surfacing all the time.

 

Rough times back then.