VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

That’s Craig Breedlove steering the dolly to get his Spirit Of America out of his father’s garage. It sure was a different time in America, when an average guy could have a dream and achieve it without cubic dollars.

 

The lowest price I can remember was for $1.50 for a haircut where my mom would take me. There was a bakery across the street that had 10 pies for a $1.00. I would ask if my mom if she would buy me some but she always found an excuse not to.

 

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Western and Wilshire, Los Angeles (1946)​

 

1958​

 

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San Diego Federal Savings & Loan at 1027 Sixth Avenue (1940)​

 

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Herald Square, 34th and Broadway, Manhattan, New York City. Photographed on July 16, 1936.

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Dinty's, Biggs Junction, Oregon, ca.1956. ​

 

Oxnard St. & Fulton Ave
1948​

 

German passenger airship LZ 129 "Hindenburg" passing over Wildwood NJ just prior to exploding. May 6, 1937.​

 

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Cliff House, Sutro Heights, Topsy’s Roost billboard advertising fried chicken for 50 cents, Ocean Beach, Playland and Great Highway, San Francisco, circa.1934

 

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Spud Fish and Chips 6860 E Green Lake Way N, Seattle​

 

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Littlefork, Minnesota 1937​

 

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