Vintage shots from days gone by!

"Um, excuse me. My friend down there is a bit down in his luck. If you could spare some change or even a few dollars..."


The origins of the Sitting and Rotting thread.

 

Looks chopped.

 

Ranchero!

 

Cooke City, Montana, on the highway to Yellowstone Park. When I was 17, my History teacher owned the Ma Perkins Café across the street, and I spent the summer there working as a dishwasher. I also spent a lot of time with the daughter of the folks who owned the Standard garage next door. What memories!

 

Mishawaka Somewhere....LOL.

 

Mishawaka Indiana.

 

Constantine Michigan

 

I'm gonna guess Mel Larsons Phoenix Dragway.Sure looks like the turn at the top end.

 

Is that Mobil oil logo? Same logo on this car and if you zoom in you can see a trophy. I guess the number 8 was used on all our cars.

 

Yes, the red horse with wings is Mobiloil logo.

 

This Studebaker electric was on of two such vehicles used to shuttle members of Congress from their office buildings to the Capital when the tunnel between them first opened in 1909. Today there is a subway type system that does this. This comes from Hemmings.com

 

Craggy Tunnel on the Blue Ridge Parkway

 

Are there mountains like these near Mishawaka, Ind?

 

I was wondering the same thing. I have only been through there two or three times, but do not remember anything like that nearby.

 

The car is being restored, as revealed in the Batavia NY Daily News Today.

http://www.thedailynewsonline.com/news/article_e9eab1ce-6662-11e5-abd1-1bc85cfa257f.html

 

I'm going to add a few photos, most of which are from the SoCal area.

Clark Gable and his Duesenberg roadster. Gable was a "car guy". I used to see him off and on at the Bob's in Toluca Lake with his McCulloch supercharged '55 T-Bird.

Another hot rodder, Roy Rogers (real name, Leonard Slye) at the Salt Flats with his hopped-up Hemi wagon.

A couple of early CHP cars. Maybe the young lady is working "undercover", or possibly, "under the covers"...

Straight-8 power, baby.


The town of Avalon on Catalina Island. The entire island was privately owned at one time, by the owner of the home in the foreground, Phillip Wrigley. He made a couple of bucks selling chewing gum. This photo was taken prior to the construction of the famous Casino.

A few years later, the Casino is built and still in use today. It was never used for gambling. It was (and still is) a huge dance hall. The hotel on the right was once a home to the U.S. Navy during WWII.

Here's a sailor that was housed at the Navy facility on Catalina, with his new wife. Lucky him.

Another photo of the sailor's wife. Not too bad for a 16 year old girl.