Vintage shots from days gone by!

Los Angeles Speedway, 1918. A large group of cars is gathered near the grandstand at right but not many patrons

 

Broadway Department Store decorated with signs and bunting welcoming the Shriners to Los Angeles, ca.1925

 

First Hawaiin Motorama' Honolulu 1957

http://www.hotrod.com/features/history/stories/1301rc-1957-hawaiin-motoroma/

 

Another little batch from various sources - and I promise no more airplanes.
Petaluma, CA 1961 (OK, this car got hit by an airplane ):


Kansas, 1958 (OK, it's on the ramp at Forbes AFB but again no airplanes):


Sebastopol, CA 1951 and '53:



Colorado City, TX 1953:

Santa Rosa, CA 1962:


Bangor, ME 1955:


Ohio, 1930-something (can't quite read the date on the plate):

"OK, Private Snafu, I want this car washed and waxed on the double for my date with the general's daughter!"
More fuzzy memories to come.

 

Interesting that the car got the blame, and being a 1933 Buick it was only about 20 years old.

 

Donated many pints of blood at the United Methodist Church (steeple on right)

 

Hers is 'cripbcritter's' Impala convertible in context with airplanes. Funny thing I found this this AM on a warbird site and thought it would fit in here.

 

Only two pre production Rebels were built with the FI system. They were never released to the public due to cold weather start issues.

 

They where like fat girls fun to ride but you did want your friends to see you

 

I think the most entertaining time for by buddies is when they "suckered" me into trying to jump a ditch with my Vespa, they had Honda dirt bikes (late 60's), looked easy enough.
I found out the hard way that no matter how much of a run you have at it or how hard you "gas it", Vespas do not lift the front tire. Was not a pretty sight!

 

Very well said, Denny!!!

 

Kaiser Homes (postwar)
Developer Fritz Burns and Henry J. Kaiser set up a model home on Wilshire Boulevard

 

Famous Merle's Drive-in (Visalia), ca. 1950:
WOW!!!

 

Fleet of moving vans, birth of the Los Angeles suburbs

 

LA. 1948