VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Milwaukee, WI 1950

 

Chicago 1946

 

And this car is a???

 

Chicago Union Station

 

New Richmond, WI 1964

 

Milwaukee, WI 1952

 

Found it...Peugeot 203

 

Whitesville, WV 1948

 

Chicago South Shore & South Bend Railroad extra freight train led by electric motor no. 1002 westbound with twelve cars at Franklin Street in Michigan City, Indiana, at 5:47 p.m. on July 11, 1947. Photograph by Perry Frank Johnson

 

Alaska RR

 

Raleigh, NC 1962

 

Franklin, VA 1962

 

Austin, TX

 

Champaign, IL 1959

 

Applying the final touches
Lafayette, IN 1960

 

Monticello, IL 1959

 

Meridian, MS 1954

 

I lived in this building on the right for six moths in the '70s.

 

1940 - SW Park Ave. & Clay St.

 

SE 80th Ave. & Stark St. -- I spent much of my life on these blocks. I've been in every one of these building one time or another.

 

Interesting... Anyone know the location?

 

From 1940 to 1986, the only aerial automobile ferry in North America, the North Bend -Boston Bar Aerial Car Ferry, operated between the communities of North Bend and Boston Bar located on opposite sides of the Fraser River in the British Columbia Fraser Canyon region.

Postal History Corner: North Bend Aerial Ferry

 

Thanks! Great search work. That's a very interesting story, and a tribute to Good Ol Canuckdian Enginuity. Necessity really IS a mother!