Vintage shots from days gone by!

mmmm...Roof rack...………..

 

Safari

 

Damn there were a lot of people with very bad taste, LoL

 

Downtown Los Angeles facing north on South Broadway between West Second Street and West Third Street, 1939

 

Fitting sign above it`s parking space....

 

China Town, L.A. 1937

 

Wilshire Boulevard and Stanley Avenue across from Hancock Park and the La Brea Tar Pits, 1948

 

Possible inspiration for a Jimmy Buffett song

 

Wilshire Blvd, 1938.

 

4th & Main, L.A. 1906

 

Hotel Lankershim, 7th & Broadway, 1910

 

Delivery truck of the Standard Woodenware Company, filled to capacity., 1911.

 

l400 block of 3rd Street in Santa Monica, 1910

 

someone notify the Irony Police.....

 

Free-For-All Race in Santa Monica, 1912.
The course covered San Vicente Boulevard, Ocean Avenue and Wilshire Boulevard (then named Nevada Avenue).

 

Just think Marv,,, in 50-60 years there will be laws that kids will be required to wear helmets to ride a bicycles and they will be too hypnotized staring at a invention called a smart phone and will be too lazy and pussyfied to build a hot rod

 

1916

 

Interesting how often there will be 1...But so seldom 2

 

Dyno and Dave McGrane I believe.

 

The truck is a Grabowsky Power Wagon, built by the Grabowsky Brothers in Detroit. They had initially set up the Rapid Motor Vehicle Company but sold that in 1905 and set up again on their own. Grabowsky went bust in 1912. Rapid became part of General Motors and evolved to become GMC trucks.

 

Hold still honey, only another 5 or 6 hours and I'll be finished.

 

"I'm having trouble getting the right grace, the aerodynamics, here. Maybe if you took the swim suit off...