VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

At a glance, that looked like 1960's Autopia at Disneyland.

 

Nice wide sidewalks and Wide boulevards.
An example of the brilliance of the forward thinkers with commerce on their minds in 1930's Southern California.

 

Thanks Hemidav. I made a comment in an earlier post about cops in the 50's using their ticket books for that reason.

 

James Hong born in Minneapolis 1929 (My favorite was Seinfeld at the Chinese Restaurant)

 

Vern West using his 1922 Ford T Engine to cut and sell ice in Minneapolis Minnesota

 

3 empty suits.

 

Last Cable car from Minneapolis was June 1954

 

Cold miners.

 

That looks like the log rafts that Simon Benson (??...I think) used to assemble on the Willamette and Columbia rivers and ocean-tow across the Columbia River Bar and down to coast to Californica. Hard to imagine the work that went into that. That's some chain, huh?

 

"See this? It's a turn signal! Use it, dumb ass!"

 

Harvesting ice and shipping it south was a HUGE business in the Upper Mid-West back then. Shipped down the Mississippi and through the great lakes to New York, etc. A perfect product...... free raw material and scheduled obsolescence!

 

Might say 1954 on the photo but it has the gold Vee in the Corvette for a V8. There are many differences from the 1953, 54, or 55 as we know them. Maybe just a effort in “changing” that didn’t happen..

 

I think the '55s started production in September of 1954..... If I'm wrong then shoot me!...

 

Shoot you? No....Belittle you, call you names, laugh at you, make snide remarks about you, question your parentage, use you as a bad example for our kids....Oh HELL yes!!! But shoot you (thereby putting you out of your misery).... no way... (there are cruelty-to-animal laws after all)

 

I like this photo, I have a 1922 T engine that was once in a rig like this. Best one I ever saw was a 1920's Harley with the rear wheel replaced with a saw disk.

 

Springfield, MA.