Vintage shots from days gone by!

SWC vs Beswick

 

SE Stark St., Portland, OR

 

More real gassers

 

Trying to move the Synagogue...it didn't end well.

 

Submerged roadway at NW 35th Avenue looking south from NW Yeon Avenue, 1938 Portland, OR

 

Interesting read:

http://www.ameshistory.org/content/ames-tune-and-service

 

Man! Nothing was bland "back in the day"!

 

Nope, it's West Covina. Drop the photo into google images and that's what comes up.

 

This is Lakewood.

 

Snow in LA 1949

 

Christmas in LA on Broadway, 1940's

 

It was call a Cushman Highlander---I had one too at age 15. After it broke the piston, I had it bored out to fit a biggerWisconsin piston, had the head milled, and advanced the timing with a homemade woodruff key. It gained about 10mph.

 

Now that is traditional backyard engineering at its finest.
When I was a kid I had a minibike with a Mac 10 kart engine, fastest thing around.
My buds had Clintons and Tecumsehs on theirs, they couldn't buy 10 mph to get close to me.

 

My Great-grandfather was an engineer in the designing of the L.A.County Courthouse. My Grandmother later worked there in the records department.

 

No..To become Altereds too, like this one.

 

North Platte, NE High School, 1944:

 

And Merry Christmas to all on the H.A.M.B. Remember, if you're nice to Santa, he'll be nice to you!

 

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