Vintage shots from days gone by!

One seriously used up drop top 55!

 

One careful owner - only used on Sundays..........??

 

Ripped from another site.

The Main Street Station (Shockoe Bottom)in Richmond VA around 1957. In the background behind the clock tower you can see the bridge piers for I-95 are going up.


This is what the area looks like today. The clock tower is in the lower center of the picture.

 

Old buildings seem to have so much more character then new buildings.
They had style and grace and classic looks.
Today's building just look like boxes to me.

Just my opinion. Jimbo

 

Ageed, American builders have lost the talent. Just square boxes w/ no soul.

 

Here's a few from downtown Yuma, Arizona

 

I hate to say it, but it is the architects that do the designs....poorly. NOT the builders. The builder simply builds what is drawn.

 

Geez, don't blame the architects. The fault lies with the bean-counters.

 

As an architectural draftsman, I can say that I hate to blame the architects, but they mostly do what the client wants. You are correct, though that the bean counters have a say in what fits in the ground footprint and what the client can afford. The bean counters really have no say in the design....just the size and money spent on the structure.

 

Exactly, nobody whants to spend the extra money to build a beautiful building, when a box is cheaper... its a hurry up get it , use it , start over society now.... just sad.

 

Family times

 

. . . And let's not forget the skilled trades craftsmanship that no longer has a place in modern construction, and those jobs that have been lost.

 

We're getting away from the subject that this thread is supposed to be focused on, folks.

 

WTF is that on top of that wagon???

 

Some guy with a hat on sitting on his haunches, smoking a cigarette.

 

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The plank highway that ran across the Imperial Dunes(Glamis), west of Yuma, Arizona. It was used in different variations from 1916-1926 when highway 80 was opened(what is now I-8). It was a single lane "road" with turnouts every mile for when there happened to be oncoming traffic. This is how many people headed for a new life in California traveled during this time, as Yuma had one of the few bridges during this era to cross the mighty Colorado river.

Remnants of the Plank Road are still intact today.

 

I am not familiar with what kind of car this is but I like the landau top. The picture was taken in 1929 in Burgaw, NC.

 

Burgaw, NC 1953

 

1924 flood in Kinston, NC

 

Kinston, NC