Vintage shots from days gone by!

That's true.
Little Nipper was the radio. I can remember being with my parents when they bought one of the first ones sold at H G Palmer in Bell St. Ipswich. It replaced an Airzone Mantle radio.

 

1947

 

Hey there WVaEnfield! Man, everybody ought to read the back-
ground on this unnecessary and deadly incident (not an accident,
just pure stupidity on the part of the brass). It'll make your blood
boil. Those men didn't need to die, and that keen airship didn't
need to be wasted. In many ways, the U.S. program was ahead
of the others, but the Shenandoah was the next-to-last straw leading
to cancellation of the rigid-frame, lighter-than-air program. The
U.S. was lucky enough to be able to use scarce helium, which
solved one of the two major challenges with flying dirigibles.
The Germans and British had to use highly enflammable hydrogen
-- which made their ships potential flying firetraps. But piss-poor
decision-making was the other problem; the brass should have
left it to the CAPTAINS whether to take their ships up in inclement
weather. End of rant.

Hey, BYW, how are things goin' with the Model A you bought
up here in Columbus? Just curious if you got a start yet, bro.
I don't want to be OT, so PM me if ya get the chance!

 

Thanks for asking but it wasn't I that bought the A but I certainly wish it was.

 

Sorry, buddy! Had ya mixed up with somebody else
(meaning, a lucky stiff!!! LOL).

 

I agree with the ID of the jet on the CVE-88 as a Banshee. Is the aircraft to the left an AD?

 

Train wreck at Montparnasse Station, Paris, 1895

 

And THIS one was not an accident but a STUNT! In 1896,
promoters planned this pre-Evel Knievel event at a site
they dubbed "Crush," Texas. 40,000 people showed up
and paid to watch what was expected to be a well-planned
spectacle. Below are the before and after pix. The crews
had actually practiced, so that their trains would collide at
45 mph (90 mph combined). Engineers backed the trains
up to a distance of four miles. With boilers fully fired and
pressure up, it didn't work out QUITE as well as planned!
Three spectators were killed by shrapnel pieces half the
size of a drive wheel, and the photographer had a bolt
take out one of his eyes. Oh, well, best laid plans, eh?

 

Sorry I have to ask,, Who keeps their train on the 2nd story??

 

Fairlane?

 

looks like mercury comet?

 

Uh, I think it's an Airlane.
(But I guess I shouldn't Comet
on that, as I'm a MoPar guy! LOL)

 

remembering Full Service..

 

Hoo-wee, I love a woman who isn't afraid to work on her own car!

 

Hey now, NovaDude, loosen up. Have you forgotten Miss Lube Rack??? LOL

 

,, hmmmmm,
could have fun with that one,
'a slippery slope' ,,
or should I say, a Lubed Rack, is a slippery slope!

 

(Photo first posted by 49RatFink)

There was an old lady who lived...

Oh, never mind! Here comes that guy from Peters
Child Protective Services with the PERFECT solution!

 

Over 600 pages, 12000 Posts and there ain't one damn picture of me - well folks thats been fixed.
This is me and my Mom and Dad at his new Atlantic Service Station about 1957.

 

Dick, I'll bet that pic DOES make you proud. And it should! I hope your family enjoyed many decades of prosperity there, buddy.

And, Twin. Man, SPEAKING of families: Do you happen to know where and the real year for that young warrior, his proud forebears AND that red&white '56 Firedome?

 

No relation,,
(that I know of...)

 

old gas station, Nebraska, 1928

 

wigwam village 1940

 

Says Comet on the back of the quarter. I guess it impacted the earth shortly after picture was taken.

 

Looks like NJ plate, possibly 1958.

 

Kurt;
I stand corrected and apoligize for my ignorance!
Bill.

 

1947 MM