Vintage shots from days gone by!

"Don't care who's lookin'----Gotta' pee!!!!!!!

 

"You guys shoulda' been here at high tide!!!

 

Looks like someone is getting a parking ticket. Or the short guy with all the scrambled eggs on his hat wants it re-done in flat black like a proper sub, so the bad guys can't see it as well. Gary

 

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Shanghai 1919.......






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That must have SOME chili he ate.........

 

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I don't know. But I lived in Eatonville, WA for 35 years.
My sis is still in Bellingham but I left in the 50's and have only been back a few times.
Mike

 

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Photo of the Buick that was bombed in Detroit from yesterday.....

 

Somehow I don't think Dean Jeffries did these scallops.....

 

And speaking of bombs read about this guy accomplishments.....

"THORNTON, WARD A. (TEX) (1891–1949), ... well shooter and oilfield fire fighter... He first traveled to the Texas Panhandle in 1920, while working with the United States Torpedo Company of Wichita Falls. Later the company sent him to Amarillo as a branch manager... He established his own business, the Tex Thornton Torpedo Company, in a canyon nine miles outside of Amarillo. There he constructed a torpedo factory, hired two engineers, and manufactured his own nitroglycerine explosives... The great amount of gas in the Panhandle field also made well fires a constant menace, and Thornton quickly gained a reputation as the man to put them out. Wherever there was danger of causing other fires by using explosives, he used massive amounts of water and steam to smother the flames. This process usually took about three weeks, required twenty to thirty men, and employed fifty steam boilers. The better-known and more spectacular mode called for extinguishing the blaze with a charge of nitroglycerine... Thornton's exploits earned him fame as the 'king of the oil-well fire fighters.' In January 1928 he traveled to Corpus Christi, where a fire had been burning out of control for some time. After spending a week preparing the site, he made the shot. The fire went out, but within fifteen minutes it re-ignited and blew a crater over 200 feet wide and almost as deep. Thornton called Amarillo, where his wife, Sarah, loaded up a company vehicle with nitroglycerine and drove 700 miles to Corpus with the load, a performance that made headlines throughout the state for several days. Once, while Thornton was attending a convention in El Paso, he gave oil company employees step-by-step instructions over the phone for putting out a gas fire that had erupted near Borger. Thornton was also known for his inventiveness. He is credited with designing the protective asbestos suit for fighting fires, although he preferred not to use the clumsy outfit. During the 1930s he invented a device with which he sought to produce rain by bombing clouds, but with only limited success. His ability to make friends and his generosity were legendary..." (Texas State Historical Association website)

 

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Maybe when he was just getting started???

Mart3406
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There ya go McTim... these would look great on your truck

 

Funny! I just did a right click on that one before I saw your post. lol

 

Lesley Hormby, aka, "Twiggy" born 1949, model and image icon of the 1960's

 

Flat black with red propeller.

 

That's Uncle Albert and Admiral Halsey...

In the town where I was born, lived a man who sailed to sea; and he told us of his life, in the land of submarines.....

(If I have to explain it, yer too damn young....)
Rob