Vintage shots from days gone by!

Rednecks, white socks and Blue Ribbon Beer !!

 

Heard stories about Mousey bumping the roadster to wake Willie. Had some sort of sleeping ailment...

 

Our gals on the Excelsior are better looking than the ( I presume) British gals, but that New Imperial is one mean looking bike. I guess it take the wicked witch from the west to control it.

 

Ed Roth at Santiago Canyon and Chapman. This near Orange Park Acres, Bob and Jeans Pool Hall(chili-sizes and beer), and the road to Irvine Park, back before urban sprawl phucked up the area

 

I think Willie suffered from narcolepsy, but only for short periods at a time.

 

I don't think the bike in post 118130 is an Excelsior. It has a big eagle on the tank.

 

Good Grief

 

From National Geographic, the days when "feed the bears from your car" sounded like a good idea.






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Ha ! Ha! Ha ! That's funny.

 

Excelsior bought Henderson to get the 4 cylinder... their logo.

 

The first bike pic has a couple Scott Flying Squirrels. Very nice bikes in their day. That New Imperial is a very serious bike. Might be a works bike.


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Pyle, you knuclehead!

 

Bud Winfield on the left?

 

Fred Offenhauser

 

Don't ask, don't tell.


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Thank you for the lesson. I see the "X" on the original photo, now.

 

Random real old shots all 1900's

Broad Street north of Spruce Street , Philadelphia , 1905.



Cadillac Square, Detroit , Michigan, 1916.



Corner of Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street , New York , 1910.



Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913.



Fifth Avenue, New York, 1913. Look at those top hats!




Fire at 55th Street , New York , 1915.



Forsyth Street, Jacksonville , Florida, in 1910.



The main street of Memphis , north of Avenue Gayoso, 1910.



Ninth Street, Washington DC, 1915.



The station Louisville-Nashville, Florida , in 1910.


The New York Public Library, New York , 1915. Didn't realize they had 4-laners in those days.



Wall Street, New York , 1911. The 2 sidewalks together are as wide as the street in this pic.



Woodward Avenue, Detroit , Michigan, in 1917.

 

"Opened in the early 1940’s by a prominent El Paso mechanic, Jim Durnal’s Standard Station serviced automobiles in Pecos, Texas for years before being abandoned with an old Pontiac still in the parking lot."

 

INJUN

 

I had a Vintage Crackerbox that I bought off a old lady that was sitting in her old garage in Lake Elsinore.
It had a Flat Head ford V8 complete. Needed restoring but in great shape.
I had too many projects and resold it..... Another one I wish I had kept

 

Excelsior-Henderson did have the wings for awhile, you can always tell if there's an X behind them.

 

Chic on the back needs a bar-b-que or a stove attached back there. Make herself useful