This world's first color "selfie"! It was taken some time between 1891-1895, and is of (and by) the physicist Gabriel Lippmann using his ground-breaking process for early color photography, dubbed the Lippman Process.
I love these pages with original pictures of Model A's. Just wondering if one of them is the one in my garage. Please keep them coming Mr. John.
Photos from Dad's scrap book growing up in Cando, N.D. Do not know which fairgrounds or track these were taken.
That looks like one of the six 1936 Fords commissioned by Allegheny Ludlum to have bodies fashioned out of stainless steel. The stainless was hard on the tooling so the cars were done near the end of the model run. I’ve seen one that was mechanically restored and the body was completely polished, a mistake at least to me. The polish job makes the car look like a circus wagon rather than the dignified brushed look as original. Found it, here’s the polished one.
[QUOTE="fyrffytr1, post: 15565623, member: View attachment 6378469 ][/QUOTE] I believe that’s fatty Arbuckle!
There also was a Lincoln and a Thunderbird made of SS. And Mack built a conventional Tractor trailer cab for a local steel company that delivered steel to a machine shop I worked at. The Lincoln and T Bird were not polished the last I saw them, just a brushed finish. I agree, the polished finish looks fake.
Hello, In 1955, our dad was still into his shoreline surf fishing expeditions. Our mom went along early in the morning because the little kids went along with our dad. She packed her delicious food for an all day adventure. Where did our dad take us? Almost 40 miles South to Laguna Beach. At the time, it was South Laguna in unincorporated property. But, the sign was right on the listed city limits. The hills up the street called Nyes Place was short lived and stopped about a few blocks into the steep hillsides. The top of the road listed now goes up almost a mile up into the hills that have sprung a bevy of homes built in the last 30 years. Yes, they were once affordable, but now, the prices are outrageous… The highway was the main coastal road from Long Beach toward San Diego along the coastline. (still is if one wants to take the coastal route instead of the faster freeway) Within 5 years as we grew into the teenage years, we drove past this intersection almost daily in the summers and weekends throughout the rest of the year. It was our main route to get to the surf spots in Laguna Beach and South, around the bend in Dana Point, San Clemente and farther South to San Diego. The noted intersection (NYES PLACE and Coast Blvd. back then) is a steep off camber turn and dip that was a no stop light crossing now named: Coast Highway. It was a terrible spot on the highway as it dips and turns to continue in either direction. 20 years later, they put in a stop light to slow or stop the traffic to allow the folks on the inland side homes to enter Coast Highway safely. (That giant sign was gone in several years) Our mom really liked the beachside community and wanted to buy some property along the cliff top edge. Wow, what would that have been like for a couple of pre teen kids always looking for the next adventure? In a retrospective moment, the homesite and simple home, if built back in 1959 would have risen quite a bit as far as today’s prices are concerned. Our dad heard our conversation and nixed that idea. Down the coast 40+ miles was a fun weekend or summer vacation spot. But the daily drive to Los Angeles would have been horrendous. City streets all the way to Downtown Los Angeles and back. 50 + miles one way was a long drive without freeways. It was not sounding like he would want to move to this cool coastal city anytime soon. Jnaki Our shoreline fishing was on a cool cove with lots of huge rocks along the cliff base. We were busy all day, while our dad was patiently fishing on the shore and then from the rocks below the cliff. Our mom was sitting on the sand under an umbrella just staring out at the ocean and two boys playing on the rocks. “This is a welcome sign in Laguna Beach around 1956 promoting the well known Festival of Arts in the art colony city. As a means to draw business back to Laguna after the Depression. The local Art Association had the idea of creating a summer festival held the week following the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics to lure visitors south to Laguna Beach before journeying home.”
The Jalopy Journal
