Vintage shots from days gone by!

What a loss of talent, certainly one of my favorite musicians.

 

A couple of stories about General Lemay. He flew into SAC bases for surprise inspections periodically. On one occasion, he was walking from his plane puffing on a cigar. A young airman aide said to him, General, you are not supposed to smoke around aircraft, it might blow up! Lemay turned to the airman & replied " IT WOULD'NT DARE " !

The other is, he went out to a runway one night & waited for another young airman with weapon, who was walking guard to come within range. At which point he took off walking across the runway. The airman yelled Halt! Lemay turned around & said "Boy, do you know who I am" ? The airman replied " Yes Sir General I know who you are & I also know what my orders are, & if you don't turn around & walk back to me, I'm gonna have to shoot you. The story goes that Lemay promoted the airman, on the spot to Sergeant.

 

Kansas City Star? Southern Belle?

 

Thanks Pharouh. I kind of figured it was one of the Monkees guitars, and very fancy looking. I'd love to hear what Jimi was playing when that picture was being taken. Maybe easing through a chorus of "Daydream Believer?"

 

altho Jimi is playing a right handed quitar, left handed he restrung his so the strings were in correct order. this quitar looks like it is strung for a right hander (e,a,d,g ect.from bottom)

 

That's two of the Monkees there (Peter Tork and Mike Nesmith), it's possible he just grabbed one of their guitars and started playing.

 

Here's some more random shots from British Columbia.

 

and some more.

 

British Columbia continued...

 

Gee, the FOA had all this info about a movie shoot with The Duke,including the title, but somehow didn't have a name for that little town down wind from "the test site" that the location of was also absent from "The Freedom Of Information.?

 

St. George, Utah IIRC.

 

Central Terminal Buffalo NY

 

Everyone had so much fun with the last one.......

 

She's not having Fun Fun fun

 

market research.

 

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1916 Harroun Seven Passenger Touring Automobile, source: MikeStuffOnly.​

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the little black car between 2 Chevrolet is a Renault Dauphine

 

I thought the trunk in my 50 was awfully big. Now I know what to do with my extra baggage!

 

1936 Graham Supercharger model in red. Only the Supercharger was designated the "110" series that year. The Cavalier and Crusader
models were different series. Reportedly, the bodies were shared for '36 between REO and Graham to save production costs. Above ad
thanks to Alden Jewell of the FlickR community.



Shared is body evident on this '36 REO Flying Cloud, end of the line for REO as an auto builder.
I read that styling was by the REO folks, and the Grahams are today considered the least attractive
of that line during the '30s. Thanks to car guy Alden Jewell of the FlickR community.

 

They had it I just don't remember it right this minute I'm getting to the age where CRS creeps in from time to time. As for the name of the movie that was easy I have it sitting here along with about 25 other John Wayne movies .If any one doubts the information you can just look it up for yourself. I didn't spend days studying these papers I read them once they weren't mine.This doesn't say it was pre planned the papers I read did say it.
Nuclear contamination

On May 19, 1953, the United States government detonated the 32-kiloton (130 TJ) atomic bomb (nicknamed "Harry") at the Nevada Test Site. The bomb later gained the name "Dirty Harry" because of the tremendous amount of off-site fallout generated by the bomb.[10] Winds carried fallout 135 miles (220 km) to St. George, where residents reported "an oddly metallic sort of taste in the air."[11]

The Howard Hughes motion picture, The Conqueror, was being filmed in the area of St. George at the time of the detonation. The fallout is often blamed for the unusually high percentage of cancer deaths among the cast and crew.

St. George received the brunt of the fallout of above-ground nuclear testing in the Yucca Flats/Nevada Test Site northwest of Las Vegas. Winds routinely carried the fallout of these tests directly through St. George and southern Utah. Marked increases in cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, thyroid cancer, breast cancer, melanoma, bone cancer, brain tumors, and gastrointestinal tract cancers were reported from the mid-1950s through 1980.[12]

A 1962 United States Atomic Energy Commission report found that "children living in St. George, Utah may have received doses to the thyroid of radioiodine as high as 120 to 440 rads" (1.2 to 4.4 Gy).[13]