VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

A representative of Helms Bakery greets a customer in Los Angeles, CA (1936)

 

Greeley, Colorado, circa 1915.

 

Detroit, MI circa 1910

 

Men waiters in shorts and cowboy boots serve women at the Log Lodge Tavern drive-through in Dallas, Texas. (1940′s)

 

I remember those Helms Bakery whistles coming through the neighborhood

 

Sand Castle Motel, Fort Lauderdale
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Cactus Pete´s Jackpot, Nevada
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Canoes in Jack's Fork 1957
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and in the same year on Buffalo River
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San Francisco had them for decades.

 

My parents lived in Las Vegas. When I came home for Christmas leave, I used to go see Don Rickles lounge act every night. I was only 19, I wore my uniform and was never questioned.

 

In this neighborhood that's called an at***ude.

 

Ah, those cigarette vending machines. When my buddies were too young to buy them at the store they would just go to the local bar and in the entrance was one of those machines.

 

Love the ingenuity used in the spreader

 

Atlanta 1952
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Rex concrete mixer.

 

Barry´s Auto Sales, Burlington VT 1963




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Yep…real Texas Cowboys!

 

Ours was #99 and 101 in North Inglewood.
My uncle Bob owned a ****tail Lounge across the street from the Helms Bakery in Culver City in the 50’s. It was called the Talon. My parents always called it the “beer joint” as I remember.