Vintage shots from days gone by!

Here's a way to sell new cars.

 

I remember the 'Helm' placard that you displayed in the window to indicate you needed a delivery

Someone told me years ago that Helms went 'belly-up' because too many women were getting bred at the door.

 

Happy Valentines Day

 

another small amusement park in Southern California was "Streamland".
It was in Pico Rivera on Rosemead Blvd. just north of Whittier Blvd. and south of Legg Lake...all homes now













thats Rosemead Blvd. in the background

 

YESSSS!!!!! I constantly trawl thru great vintage pics like these looking for cars like mine ( 58 Buick Limited or 58 Lincoln Convertable ) but never do.................. occasionally spot a 58 Buick special or a 58 Lincoln Premiere but here AT LAST a 58 Buick Limited Coupe just like mine!!!! What a rare sight!! Thank you for posting.

 

This was "Shady Acres Amusement Park" in Canby, Oregon.
Now it's "Pat's Acres" http://www.patsacres.com/ a nice go cart complex.
Imagine trying to get insurance for "Shady Acres" today.

 

Hermosa Beach, CA... My hometown and Playground. Notice the "Pier" ended at the water line when it "fell into the ocean". Off to the left is the Hermosa Biltmore Hotel, to the right of the pier at the start is The Hermosa Aquarium (Pre-Marineland).

 

Hermosa Beach, CA

 

Sounds like the women were going "belly up" as well.

 

Anyone remember the kennel where you dropped your dog off while you and the family went to Disneyland?

 

how about some old Knott's Berry farm...

 

or Pacific Ocean Park...1958-1967

 

more Knotts Berry Farm

 

WOW.... POP...... forgot all about that!.....oh!..... memory lane...what a trip!

 

POP
Pacific Ocean Park AKA Pay One Price

 

Knotts Berry Farm, Henry's Livery

 

The Monsanto house of the future.

Relatively speaking, I used to live a few blocks from Disneyland (Brookhurst and Ball) We could see the fireworks from our house.

We would sometimes go when all we had was enough money for admission to the park. That was in the days when you had to buy ticket books for the rides. I wonder how many people are puzzled when they hear that something was akin to an "E" ticket.

They used to give out free copies of our constitution in the City Hall on Main Street. Once, Walt Disney passed by me as I was walking
into the City Hall. They had a parade that day with him and Prime Minister Nehru of India ...Anyone else remember the Nehru jacket?

 

I'll see your POP and raise you one Fairyland Park! It was open from the '20s to the late '70s; my mom went there as a kid and my folks took us there in the '60s (although by that time it was in a very rough part of town so we didn't go very often). I understand that the Wildcat roller coaster is still in operation somewhere in Oklahoma.

 

Came across these shots of Fairyland Park in KC. Seems that Whippet-Knight had an annual picnic at the Park. This sign reads "Someone will drive these 3 Whippets Home. Annual Whippet-Knight Day Monday, Labor Day, Sept 3rd."

 

I want one of these to put around the neighborhood,the big amusement park south of me done away with their old car rides and wondered what ever happened to them as I sure could use one.

 

Tom Sawyer's Island at Disneyland..the very best place to play "hide and seek" in the world

 

It's a Small World was an "E" Ticket?? What a RIP!!

 

We still take the family to Knott's for the Chicken Dinner Restaurant. Best Fried Chicken around and the price for the whole dinner including the Rubarb apetizer and Blackberry Pie for dessert is very reasonable. Dang, my mouth is watering right now...

 

I grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa....We had Belgian block streets....real fun in winter...At least Belgium paid their war debt.....!

 

This is where I meant to post my reply about tne Belgian Block streets...

 

I remember it well! went about 5 times in the short time it was open. s
I saw Jackie Wilson there twice.Its now CO-OP city.
It had a boat ride thru the "great lakes" SF earthquake ride, tornado ride!
It was shaped like the USA & it had rides in each area that would be there.
When it finally closed down they would have "Un-sanctioned" drag races in the parking lot.I saw all kinds of wild cars run there!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedomland_U.S.A.
JimV

 

"I've always felt a wonder at old photographs that is not easy to explain. Maybe I don't need to explain; maybe you'll recognize what I mean. i mean the sense of wonder, staring at the strange clothes and vanished backgrounds, at knowing that what you're seeing was once real. That light really did reflect into a lens from those lost faces and objects. That these people were really there once, smiling into a camera. You could have walked into the scene then, touched those people, and spoken to them. You could actually have gone into that strange outmoded old building and seen what now you never can -- what was just inside the door."

...from Jack Finney's book "Time and Again"

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The plentitude of the past was not intended for us, but as fortunate inheritors, we can appropriate the often neglected legacies of that world.

 

At Knott's ..worked at the Chicken Dinner Rest, in the early 70's Walter and Cordelia were still alive and getting around ..

I always loved the bandits holding up the train and their six shooters mowing down the sherriff's with blanks... not very "PC" NOW...

 

I see Grand avenue there on the bottom, now Beach blvd. I used to go to Grand ave school, I went there in 49,it was the old school which was being torn down. it went from kindergarten thru jr hi. Buena Park wasnt a city yet, and I-5 hadnt been built. I used to go to the drug store near 9th st. and get a float on Saturdays. It had an oldtime soda fountain,and I would read the comic books, and my first Hot Rod mag there. Also got first hot rod ride in a 34 cpe. from some JD rodders down my street, which ruined me for life. Was a quiet little community with vol fire station back when there were orange groves in Orange county.hardly recognize the area now.