Vintage shots from days gone by!

Town square,Woodstock,il about 1960.......now all cutesy crap shops and bars.....Woolworth's a great hangout!!!! also sitting on the line of mopeds and Austrian "twingles" in Ward's!!!!

 

I believe it was rubber - early WW2 raw materials drive..........?

 

Wow, she sure is a pretty hood ornament. Our friend Google says it's Marla English who apparently had a very short acting career. Shame, I would have liked to see more of her.
The Chrysler is also very nice - perhaps someone can enlighten us on the model and year

 

She did make a number of B movies and had a chance at stardom but lost out to an apparent illness. She then gave up acting, married a businessman and passed away in 2012.

 

Lsd does some funny thingsto some people!

 

I'd say it's a New Yorker 1955.

 

Looks like maybe a SF parking run away? Left in gear with low compression flathead?

 

Nope, Photographer, Dorothea Lange on her woodie wagon.

 

My 51 in 61

 

Looks like there's a drag link going back toward the back seat on the right side of the picture.

 

The "twingles" would have been in Sears in the US. I still have one. An Allstate 175cc.
I also had a couple of bikes from "Monkey-Wards".Both were 350cc's built by Benelli.

 

Marlene Dietrich, I believe.

 

dad-bud, for your viewing pleasure...

 

You are absolutely correct on that.

 

Lacquer isn't used for striping because it dries too fast.

 

Thanks Bowtie Coupe. Very pretty young lady - shame she didn't make it bigger.

.............................. hmmmm, maybe that didn't come out quite as planned, but I'll leave it anyway.

 

Horror pictures like this should be banned!! Brings a tear to your eye.