Vintage shots from days gone by!

Anybody need a door?

 

I'd love to know what company built those Hudson "Step-Down" bodies on the trailer there! Briggs, maybe?

 

An M-4 Sherman tank crew in training at Kentucky's Fort Knox
in 1942 bust out a proud grin for a photog of the U.S. Office of
War Information. This photo is in the U.S. Library of Congress
and is in the public domain. Photos like this depicting the day-
to-day human struggles to win WWII are a real national
treasure! Thanks to the WikiMedia Commons project where
I located this keen image!

 

Alfred T. Palmer of the Office of War Information shot this M3 Gen.
Grant tank in training action in June 1942 at Fort Knox. THANKS to
Wikipedia for the link to this image.

 

Please tell me that's not woodgrain on the side of that vette!

 

This is a 1945 poster done under the auspices of the U.S. Office
of War Information to promote war bond and stamp sales for
the seventh war loan. Artist C. C. Beall based the poster painting
upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning photo by Associated Press photo-
grapher Joe Rosenthal of the second flag-raising by U.S. Marines
on Mount Suribachi on the Pacific island of Iwo Jima, Feb. 23, 1945.
This poster is part of the World War Poster Collection at the
Universtity of North Texas Libraries. Sincere THANKS to them
for this fine WWII-era image! Thanks, too, to Wikipedia where
I found the link to this poster collection.

 

19-year-old Pfc. Ira H. Hayes of the American-Indian
Pima Tribe prepares for a jump in U.S. Marine Corps
paratroop training in 1943. Hayes was one of the five
marines in the Pulitzer Prize-winning lwo Jima flag-raising
photograph upon which the poster above was based.
(His heroism, decorations and sad end were the subject
of a hit song by Johnny cash, BTW.) Taken by a corps
photog, this photo is protected in the U.S. National
Archives, College Park, MD, to whom gratitude is gratefully
extended!

 

From the U.S. Library of Congress collection, James M. Flagg's
original painting of "Uncle Sam" was titled "What Are You Doing
for Preparedness?" and first appeared on the cover of the July 6,
1916, issue of the popular magazine, Leslie's Weekly. Adapted
as a recruiting poster for WWI, some four million copies were
printed in 1917 and 1918, and Flagg's rendering saw new life
during World War II. Thanks to Wikipedia for the link to this
historic image!

 

From the Library of Congress archives of the Farm Security
Administration and Office of War Information, this pic was
taken by Howard R. Hollem in February 1943. Doing final
checks and prep for delivering this fuel truck to the air force
are 41-year-old widow Helen Ryan (cap) and Agnes Cliemka,
23. Pre-war, Ryan had worked in a Milwaukee show factory,
Cliemka as a department store clerk. Her brother was already
at war, and her husband was set for assignment. THANKS
again to Wikipedia for the link to the Library of Congress
photo collections!

 

John Vachon took this 1942 photo of a worker at a carbon
black plant in Sunray, TX, for the Office of War Information.
THANKS to the U.S. Library of Congress AND to Wikipedia
for the link to the Library of Congress. Carbon black was
a critical war-production commodity, especially for making
artificial rubber products, and tires in particular.

 

Raise it up!!

 

how about some moonshine for your Labor Day picnics?

 

Come fly with me (1956),

 

my brothers 31 chevy around 1965

 

World's fair '64,

 

Mazooma, ya suppose this unpatriotic little squirt stole her
mom's ration book to score black-market smokes??? LOL

 

ORIGINAL roll bars !!!! talk about balls or death wish

 

I think you solved it!! 1 bad looking little bi.tch. I wouldn't mess with her then or now! would you? probaly still smoking to? lol

 

Love the picture but I don't think they were rationing smokes in the 1920s.
The ribbon on her mink coat says 192?

 

The photo details say "midgets-for-coolidge" so she might not have been a child.

Anyway she probably died of lung cancer at an early age if she didn't kick the habit.........

 

Sorry if some of these have already been posted.

This is where I found them and even larger size images and more like them can be found here http://www.shorpy.com/classic-car-photos?page=5

 

More from the same area

 

Yep, it is. That car is from my town. Picture is probably from around 67-68. Owner, John T. is sitting on fender. His dad owned a body shop.

 

One more batch and I will let someone else go.

 

I love this shot.

What happens to wood wheels when you drop in a Hemi?

I know a lot of you guys would kill for that rust free body?


Anybody have a trailer and a time machine I can borrow