Vintage shots from days gone by!

Remember "Spin and Marty"?

 

How about "or not?" This is not a modern PR photo.

 

A Gambler's Willys, 1933 vintage.

 

"well I'll be a blue nose gopher" carefull seb you'll show your age! Do you still have your ' Frontier Pants"?

 

I think it's a '34, horizontal hood vents.

 

The Remco Drive in Theater. Recognize the girl?

 

My older brother and I were huge fans of Spin and Marty! Great stuff!

 

As promised a while ago, I've dug up over 200 images from various high school yearbooks, and I've cropped, cleaned up, fixed the brightness and contrast and generally made 'em look as good as possible for your enjoyment. A few have a black band running across them; those were across two pages of the book so the band covers the gap in between. There are a lot of San Gabriel Valley schools represented this time, but also schools from New York, Illinois and South Dakota.
And remember, if someone else reposts them, you saw 'em here first!




















More coming up...

 

And more...

 

On to the next batch...

 

And yet even more still to come...

 

Still more etc. etc. etc.

 

Over the halfway mark. Bedtime.

 

Hey Chris, cool old stuff. Thanks for the hours of tedious work.

 

Great photos from SoCal back in the 50's. I lived in Highland Park, class of '57, and I recognized some of those dealerships. Thanks for posting.

 

Does anyone remember the way to break in a new pair of Jeans? - Got my ass whipped because I tried it

 

Glad you like 'em! Next batch. The first photo is from Glendora HS, circa 1966-1967 if anyone thinks they recognize this Deuce roadster:




















More bang-up fun to come!

 

And as if that wasn't enough...

 

Looks like somebody was an Economics major.
Continuing...

 

And finally...

 

...one more short batch.













Any car in Yankton, South Dakota in 1956? Probably.
That's it for now - but the digging continues and I already have about 300 photos from an archive set to load up (and they haven't been posted here a bunch of times already!).
Thanks for viewing - and thanks to the many photographers who captured these little memories.

 

Some more that I collected over the years. First batch will be dealerships from around the country.

Morang-Robinson Co Bar Harbor Maine - 1958


G.C. Rayne & Co Ford - Salisbury Maryland - 1956


Parrish Motor Co - Benson North Carolina - 1966


Dillies Garage Ford - Freer Texas - 1955


Buna Motor Company - Buna Teas - 1958


Sullivan Motor Company - Cherryville North Carolina - 1956


Powell Motors Inc - Lillington North Carolina - 1957


Rudy Fick - Shawnee Mission Kansas - 1956


Shaffer Ford Sales - Oakland Maryland - 1956


O'Karma Motors - Nanticoke Penn. - 1956


Now for a few generic pictures.

Pedestrian Bridge over Buffalo Drive - Jan. 1956


Auto Wash Bowl - 1920's




Radio Special 1 of 2


Radio Special 2 of 2

 

Really? The water speed is like 1 and 1/2 knots! I've been involved in a couple of restorations of those cars and as cute as they are... I'm glad someone else owns them!

 

My first demo as a car salesman.

 

Hardy Boys too I think..No pants..Had a Winki Dink Screen...

 

The BAT MAN of Birmingham Al.

 

Yeah they're pretty slow but will run up 6-7 knots on a good day. His had major rust when he bought it.