History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

The Dust Bowl continues with this picture. It was taken in 1935 in a migrant worker camp in California. The men look to be rebuilding the engine in their car.

 

Aw, hell, folks, the ol' Chevy has done the Sluice AND the Baja. Let's just pull 'er down in four-wheel & away we go!



(And good teamwork, Twin & Mister-T, on the Dodge and the ALF!)

 

Another Dust Bowl picture from 1935. It shows a couple of men changing a tire on a Model T. Changing a tire on a Model T is actually very easy. The car was light, so easy to jack up. Then there are four nuts around the outside rim. The tires are lightweight, so easy to get on and off. Now days they put the lug nuts on too tight at the factory, and if you have a flat, the little Micky Mouse lug wrench has almost no chance or loosening the lug nuts, and hence you are stranded.

 

Blown Away in the Dust Bowl

Grandpa turned away from the 160-acre South Dakota family farm as the Great Depression, and a drouth turned what had provided decades of prosperity into uselessness. They loaded what they could into a car, turned their back on everything they knew, and headed toward Florida.

"One of the saddest things I remember was watching my Dad on the back porch, looking up at the sky and watching rain clouds pass over--but never a drop fell on his newly-planted fields...the only thing that grew were thistles. Then came the terrible dust storms, that felt as if it were actually cutting into your skin, " wrote my Mom, Lois, at left, age 7 in the photo above.

She recalled the "sad, empty feeling" at the Farm Sale in August 1936. "I finally went and layed down on my bed, which was about to be sold, and cried. They were selling lots of dishes and I asked Dad, 'but what will we eat on?' and he laughed and said, 'we'll probably have a trough.' I knew he was kidding and, even now, I'm sad that I made a hard day even more sad by being a crybaby."

The family never made it to Florida--from left to right, Lois, Lucy, Christian and Jenny--made a home in the Twin Cities. "Dad often said that leaving South Dakota was one of the best things he ever did," wrote Mom, "I have noticed in my own life that so often sad or bad things can be the catalyst for some very positive changes."

Car is a 1934 Ford..October 13th 1936

 

Nice lookin' Center Door sedan. That is true, the T demountable Wood spoke rims (1919-1926) are a cake walk to change. Now the early wood spoke CLINCHER style (1909-1918) and 1926-27 wire wheels are a totally different story on the side of the road. If don't have a spare wheel, your demounting and mounting that new tire with tire irons....pain in the rear!

 

Another Chevrolet?

 

Dust Bowl Remains

 

Touching story, thanks!

Easy to see that in that era, no handouts. People had to work to survive.

 

Dorothea Lange photo.

 

Waukesha, WI 1938.

 

Looks like a 1937 Cadillac.

 

What a great pic, where di you get it. Have no idea about it but will try to find out about that car.

Ive lived in BA all my life and didnt know about that hotel. Here it is now :
http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotels/argentina/buenos-aires/nh-jousten.html

 

I can't recall where I found that (or who passed it along to me), as it was long ago and a LOT of photos have come and gone since then. Sorry!

 

Here's one for Sunroof: Corner of Sixth and Nicollet, Minneapolis 1905. Wish I knew the make of car. Wish I had the car...

 

Does anybody know if she lived through it? It looks like the car would land upside down.

 

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RE Post #3574



SunRoof, I totally agree. Younger generations cannot POSSIBLY understand
the cataclysmic impacts of the Dust Bowl -- on TOP of the depression years --
without it all being put into human terms. It would be IMPOSSIBLE without
actual letters or diary entries like this and actual photos of real people, thanks
mainly to the efforts of Lange, Walker and other photogs for the Farm Security
Administration, a New Deal program.

 

T-6, looks like an early go-job (before the term hotrod was coined).
Any idea what it was made from or year of photo?

 

Sixth and Nicollet sure doesn't look like that any more. But, then what city does.

And Jimi; That's Gow Job, not Go Job. LOL

 

Brass Model "T" Roadster. Can anyone identify the car in the background?

 

T6...where did you find the photo of that T!? That is KILLER!

It is almost a spitting image of my roadster (except it's a touring)!

1926 or 1927 T touring with a Fronty Type S or R OHV head, 19"-21" Buffalo Wires and lowered! No Overdrive behind the T trans, so it may have a Ruxstall 2-speed axle instead.

Do you have a high res copy? I would LOVE one!

 

True, the term is "Gowjob", but the term "Go Job" was also used as the name was derived from the saying "Get up and go job".....it just just morphed into "Gowjob" and stuck.

 

Has a Ford look to it, and whoever posted it thought it was an A. I don't think it began as an A - possibly a T. They also thought the engine was a Fronty, and there's no way I would touch that without TH looking first. I like the wires. Maybe taken in the 30's, but that's a guess.

 

It is definitely a T, a 1926 or 1927 T touring to be correct.

I know the head is a Frontenac OHV head...can tell by the Valve cover and exhaust ports...I think it's a Type "R" Fronty.

19"-21" Wires are most likely Buffalo, but could be Hayes or maybe Houk...not sure.

 

Neat Model T and the head is either a Model T, R or S Fronty.....

 

I think the DB is pre-'20 because of the verticle windshield. Has differant headlights and lights on the rear fenders too.

 

Good Call! I guess the can-style headlights through me a little...Dodge didn't use them that early and not that style if memory serves.

...at least I got the ALF right

 

and a Brough Superior in a 4 wheel form:

 

Hillman Twenty-Seventy: