VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

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Coal miners waiting for the bus while eating ice cream popsicles in Pursglove, West Virginia, 1938.

 

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Food truck: 1919 the birth of mobile dining​

 

Pacific Highway, San Diego (1941)​

 

The Texas Ice and Fuel Co. in Houston had a helpful sign in 1928. ​

 

Dolly Parton and her family in the 1950s​

 

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Porsche Racing driver Lew Bracker with Steve McQueen, and McQueen’s Jaguar XKSS at CBS Television City, Hollywood CA - May 1960

 

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French actor Jacques Charrier and his recently purchased Jaguar E-Type. It’s believed that Charrier was the first owner of this model in the world.
Geneva, Switzerland - 1961

 

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A woman serves school lunch at the cafeteria in Randolph Henry High School in Virginia, where meals cost about 15 cents in 1943.

 

Humble Station at NW Highway and Easton Road, Dallas (1956)​

 

An Austrian girl poses on a 1930s Puch 250 Sport motorcycle.​

 

Magnolia Brewery, Houston (1912)​

 

Looking up Main Street from 2nd Street toward Los Angeles City Hall, Los Angeles (1952)​

 

Hotel Esmeralda at Goldfield, Nevada ca. 1905​

 

A woman who works in a company boarding house for miners prepares their lunches in Tazewell County, Virginia, 1946.

 

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Esquire Theater, Oak Lawn, Dallas (1960s)

 

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Piccadilly Coffee Shop, Broadway, New York City (1950s)

 

Palm Springs, California (1920s)

 

The corner kitchen of a sharecropper's shack in Southeast Missouri Farms, 1938.​

 

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Washington Square, North Beach, San Francisco (1954)

 

A 30-horsepower combine grain thresher in operation, Washington, USA, 1912.​

 

Horton Plaza, San Diego 1941​

 

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1700 Block of Lombard Street, San Francisco (1939)

 

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Hi-Way Sandwich Shop in Waco Texas in 1939

 

Simms Service Station #34, Dallas (1933)​

 

View of the Embarcadero Freeway, San Francisco (1959)​

 

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On June 28, 1953, workers at a Chevrolet plant in Flint assembled the first Corvette, a two-seat sports car that would become an American icon. The first completed production version rolled off the line two days later, one of just 300 Corvettes made that year.