Vintage shots from days gone by!

http://www.businessinsider.com/50-awesome-inventions-2010-9?slop=1

 

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http://www.businessinsider.com/50-awesome-inventions-2010-9?slop=1

 

http://www.businessinsider.com/50-awesome-inventions-2010-9?slop=1

 

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Jerry Grant in a Lotus 19 (ch.# 957) with an aluminum 215 BOP engine.

Kurt O.

 

Jim Espie, manager of Western Samoa for the first foray 1948-50, with his Ford 49er - newly arrived from the USA

http://www.fletchersince1909.com/gallery.php?g=14&category=

 

http://www.legeros.com/ralwake/photos/weblog/archives/archive_2010-m12.php

 

http://legeros.com/ralwake/raleigh/apparatus/aerials/aerial-1939-alf.shtml

 

Playboy goes to Russia - 1964



http://backthen-magna.blogspot.com/2010_07_01_archive.html

 

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http://www.tampapix.com/burgert.htm

 

Amazing, keeps you warm and doesn't melt snow.

 

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MM again



http://federicodecalifornia.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/marilyn-monroe-52.jpg

 

There are SO many open doors for commentary here. Wisdom dictates that I refrain at the moment...

 

Can't be "real" man, a real man would be driving that thing not his wife!! What a toy to cut the lawn with, & insulated as well, so he can't hear her nag him!!! A couple of cold ones, some rock on the stereo, ah well, I can dream!!

 

chrisntx, THANKS for finding this one. I kept being drawn back
to it. I think it's ONE OF THE BEST GAS STATION SHOTS on this
whole thread! That's gotta be ol' Mr. Fox, of course. But WHERE
was this probably shot? And, can anybody approximately date
the photo from the pumps and the signage? Great shot!

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You know, I thought to comment on this great shot a while back. My point was that old Mr Fox was likely born before the Civil War--"War Between The States"-- and look at the change he has seen in his life. From surgery without anesthetic to the automobile and airplane.

 

VDNK, a Moscow park dedicated to Soviet technology and industry. Now most of the buildings are used as electronic stores, car dealerships etc.

 

Catalina Island and the harbor with the theater in the background.

 

Please keep 'em coming. These are GREAT!

 

Spent my honeymoon there in 1980,
and I am still married to the same girl

 

Seems like a lot of this on the roads today! They should all have a sign!

 

I like that idea...

You know,maybe this was a shot from a "training" film.


...this is sarcasm,just sarcasm...

 

Gary's right. I think the original number was Mya-50.

 

These pictures came from the photo album of my Aunt. She was born in 1897 and lived in Kansas City in 1927 when these pictures were taken. Charles Lindberg flew the Spirit of St Louis to Kansas City on Aug 17 1927 to dedicate the Municipal Airport.

 

Maybe I can help;Going by the signage,pump and globe face design,I'm going to say mid 1920's. Possibly valid up into the 1930's if this were a rural shot. Atlantic was predominately an North-East Coast marketer,so it could be anywhere from Maine to possibly even Florida,and as far west as maybe Ohio...I've been away from this stuff for a while;I do have some books I'll check later-I'm wingin' it here as I type.

Way-cool shot;one I don't recall seeing before in any of my books.