Vintage shots from days gone by!

bsa ?

 

Yes. Looks like an old pre unit BSA 650. Maybe a Road Rocket?

 

Ford Mahwah refers to the Ford assembly plant once located in Mahwah, NJ. It started production in the mid '50s and built Edsels during their heyday. The doors closed in the early '80s.

 

"Were' here from the Government!--And we are here to help you"!

 

"You know how those "Limeys" are!!

 

Do Tell...............

 

1931 Model A Roadster with side mount spare tire(s).

 

Man, you guys had it made in the "later" years!
I could just see loading my old '41 Chevy onto our APA in the Korean war!

 

Back then,(late 40's & thru the 50's) Guys were buying all the "Limey" bikes from England, etc.
Some of those were: Arials--Vincents--BSAs--Triumphs--etc.

 

"I'll show ya mine, if you'll show me yours."

 

Bobby Darin, used car salesman??

 

Nah, those with that mentality don't have fifty or sixty grand disposable....but now shiny black.......

 

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One thing that comes to mind. Due
to the massive U.S. troop build-up
in Britain, starting a couple of years
prior to the D-Day invasion, British
men in general and British soldiers in
particular, had the famed, often
muttered lament about the Americans,
claiming they were - quote - "Overpaid,
over sexed....and over here!"

Mart3406
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NYC circa 1942








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Mounds of coal, catwalks, and barges at the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company coal docks, Dec. 1942

 

A huge vat of molten steel being poured into a mold at the Jones and Laughlin Steel Company, Pittsburgh, May 1942

 

Rear view of an "Okie's" car, passing through Amarillo, Tex., on its way west, 1941

 

I'd love to have a nice Honda Dream.

 

Continental Divide Raceway 1968




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I was fortunate as a kid in 1967 to watch this hydro win every heat and the final on a very windy day on the Detroit River!!!

 

January, 1954
playing Army...I'm the three year old pud on the left, my sister on the far right and the other two kids lived across the street.
Nothing could have been better growing up back then. We were all more than happy in our family's 900 sq. ft. houses and wearing t-shirts in the middle of winter.

 

Rows of frame houses in a hilly area of Pittsburgh, with the smoke-shrouded city in the background, circa. 1940

 

Five steam locomotives, side by side, outbound from Chicago at dusk, circa. 1940

 

THANKS for the catch on Richard Crenna as Walter Denton
and Gale Gordon as Ol' Marblehead in '50s TV's "Our Miss Brooks"!




Photos (up/down) THANKS to s225.photobucket and dibblyfresh1.



Eve Ardin did a quasi-reprise of her '50s "Our Miss Brooks"
role, this time as Principal McGee of Rydell High in the smash
movie musical, "Grease." The shots above are as she delivers
the closing line in her daily "P.A." remarks to the whole student
body. What a classic!

"Remember, if you can't be in athletics,
at least be an athletic supporter!"

 

If I'm not mistaken and my memory hasn't completely faded, this is George "Buddy" Byers Jr. of Columbus, Ohio in the "Chrysler Crew," powered by two supercharged hemis.

He ruled the APBA 7-litre class in what was first "Miss DeSoto," with the older hemi. That boat became the "Chrysler Queen" with the demise of the DeSoto. It was my understanding that when the newer hemi arrived, Chrysler wanted to go unlimited racing and decided to take on the Allisons and Merlins with a pair of them.

I'd like to add that I dearly love this thread. Aircraft, cars, trucks, people standing around, old advertisements, old city photos - everything. Once you catch up with it you have to check every single day or you'll spend all your time catching up again.

Thanks to everyone who has a part in it.

 

Who is this actress?
Rob

 

Henry Haigh, winner of the World Aerobatic Championship, with the Nesterov Award. Accomplished in an aircraft built by him and of his design.