VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

Puyallup WA, three-wheeler club

 

The boy is keeping a watchful eye on the ghostly looking one.

 

Why the long face?

 

It's a small world.

 

I like the stance.

 

These single axle tractors were a popular replacement for the horses in steam pumper fire apparatus...

 

The 1887, the LAFD purchased a horse drawn Water Tower,

Which eventually led to adding a single axle tractor around 1910 to pull the much modified trailer,

Which ultimately replaced the ladder on this aerial ladder truck in 1937 to bring it up to date, or at least up to the early 1940's. The LAFD never purchased a new water tower. The water tower worked fine on fires in lumber yards, but less than fine in buildings. If I recall, the water tower put so much water in a 6-story building that the floor collapsed, followed by the rest of the building...

 

Thanks for taking the time to post some very interesting photos, I enjoy seeing the older architecture and of course the vehicles.

 

Enjoy your posts. Thanks for being a consistent contributor. I look forward to the pictures that make this site a must see for me.

 

I remember those days. Mom gave us all hair cuts a she was good at it. No bowl top for me..

 

Now that we have seen every corvair made how about about a switch to YUGOS,!!

 

Trooper at that time eventually to become Sgt. Shaw who ran our shooting complex for many years. RIP SGT

 

Corvairs are neat,
you can see just HOW popular they were back when........
In ALMOST every picture.....

 

I cut my own hair......

 

That tunnel is about the only way to get through the Windsor /Detroit border right now with the Truck convoy blocking the bridge right now.

 

"Roger That!"

 

August 4th, 1932 - NE Sandy Blvd. & NE 24th Ave.

 

one on each side and has his eyes on another one!

 

1952 - Portland, Oregon

 

Kind of like '32 Fords..... more to be seen now than were manufactured!

 

Mom cut ours too. Did a better job than the barbershop too! Thanks Mom!

 

From 60-64 a lot sold.. 65-67 not too much because of some a..h… gone pretty quickly. Big time oil leakers for the most part due to lack of maintenance. Never on my dance card….. working at a Sears auto center they were right near other POS.