Vintage shots from days gone by!

Here is the C.W. Saunders that served the Sawyer River Railroad in the logging town of Livermore,N.H. The C.W. had many accidents. Running off the tracks many times. The C.W. Saunders final mishap came in 1920. Rail operations for the Sawyer River Railroad came to a close in 1928 after the disastrous floods came from the Sawyer River in the fall of 1927. After 60 years of service the rail was gone. The sawmill in Livermore also closed in 1928. The representatives of the Saunders family did sell some pulp off their lands until the U.S. Forest Service purchased the Saunders tract of land in 1936. Photo from the Robert J. Girouard "Livermore,N.H. Collection". Color by rjg. www.facebook.com/NewHampshireThenAndNow

 

Mt. Cranmore about Aug. 1938. They were just starting to build the Skimobile tramway up Mt. Cranmore. It opened ready to take the skiers up the mountain Dec. 27, 1938

 

Hampton001 by mactexas, on Flickr

 

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The day, the Drive-In idea was born!

 

Last of the Old Strip posters.

San Gabriel Valley Drag Strip 1961



Santa Ana Blimp Base 1950 moved to Orange County Airport



Santa Ana blimp Base 1950



Vaca Valley Raceway Vacaville 1965



Visalia Airport 1959



Willow Springs 1954



Winters Airstrip 1954

 

This series will be from old Texas drag strips Sorry no captions included

 

Jack Chrisman (in dark jacket), with his Mickey Thompson Enterprises dragster, at 1963 NHRA Winternationals. Courtesy of Mel Bashore



Jerry Andrews at End of a run in which he was disqualified for crossing center line




at Lions



Marty Byrne's flathead-powered dragster set a Kingdon record in 1955 with a 137 mph run. Courtesy of Don Jensen



McEwen & Bivens AA/FD Driven by Tom Mongoose McEwen