VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

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Sevier County, Tennessee, 1939.
A group of tourists leaving in a hotel car for a trip in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Mountain guide Wiley Oakley is sitting in front right seat.

 

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Road being built from Rogersville to Haleys Springs, Hawkins County, Tennessee 1911.
New construction using marble as material.

 

Family posing in a Ford Model T Touring Car along the road side. Fulton County, Georgia, 1918
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Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, Michigan, 1930s.

 

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Tennessee Highway #71 in Gatlinburg, Sevier County, Tennessee, 1939

 

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Coca-Cola Bottling Company in Panama City in 1950​

 

Sangers Department Store Dallas, Texas 1920’s​

 

1928 Rainy New York City street as a police officer walks by a horse and carriage.​

 

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Part of a family that came for work in potatoes. Tulelake, Siskiyou County, California. They left their home in Turkey, Texas, November, 1938. Picked cotton in Arizona till March. Picked fruit in Oregon till June. Picked prunes in Idaho till September 15th.

 

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Father, mother, and children came from Albany, Oregon, for a season's work in the beans.
Oregon, Marion county, near West Stayton. 1939

 

Anna Haining Bates, one of the tallest women of all time at 8 feet 4 inches, poses with her husband in the 1870s. Together they had the largest newborn ever recorded, weighing 24 pounds and measuring nearly 30 inches. Sadly, the child survived for only eight hours.

 

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The winners at the Tennessee Field Trial Club near Jackson, Madison County, Tennessee, 1947.

 

Cornell Ave, Indianapolis, 1910.​

 

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“California Biker Chicks Gang 1949”

The photograph was taken in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park include riders Lucille Meeker on her Triumph, Betty Drafton on a Velocette, and Cecelia Adams on her custom-built “Royal Indianfield”—a motorcycle combining an Indian Scout engine with a Royal Enfield frame .

 

Young girls working at an oyster shucking processing plant, 1912.​

 

Greenfield (Weakley County) Tennessee in the 1930s​

 

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The Mission Drive-In, San Antonio, 1950. Opened in 1948 on Roosevelt Avenue, it quickly became a local favorite for catching a movie under the Texas sky. Known for its towering neon marquee and Mission-style architecture, it served generations of San Antonians before closing in 2007. The site now houses a library and community center, but the iconic screen still stands—a piece of mid-century moviegoing history.​

 

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Columbus and Kearny at the Sentinel Building, Also Known as Columbus Tower, San Francisco (1910)

 

1921 : Goodyear Four Wheel-Steer Four Wheel Drive Transit Bus.​

 

Main Street in Memphis in 1910​

 

Galveston Seawall, in the late 1940s​

 

Overland Stage Station. Fort Bridger, Wyoming. Circa 1860s. ​

 

Fulton Fish Market, New York (1943)​

 

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Manhattan, 1931: A city of 3–5 story buildings, with just a few skyscrapers rising in the Financial District—including the brand-new Empire State Building.