Vintage shots from days gone by!

Bruce McLaren in the Elva at the Riverside 200

 

Behind that Flying A sign was one of the coolest war surplus stores (we called them Army Surplus stores) I've ever been in.
In one of our trips to Reno my dad bought me a 32/20 single shot rifle there. I don't know what happened to it, all I really remember about it was it had a kangaroo stamped on it.

 

Mike Marinoff

 

MMMM delicious ditz.

 

Boerne, Texas

 

Have you never known or worked a route vendor type of job? The answer to the questions in your first paragraph is "no."

Second paragraph answer depends on where you live and what deals the local ice cream company makes for vendors.

Yes, it was nicer when the world wasn't overrun with people, things were clean and not expensive, people expected less and were happy with a slower pace.

 

Photo is new and from the Gilmore Museum in Michigan. That's a 1931 DeSoto.

 

Those were the days when some of those guys probably supported a family off that job.

 

1954

 

Depoe Bay on Oregons' central coast.

 

I'm guessing the milkman had better "fringe benefits" or so the legend goes.