Vintage shots from days gone by!

hmmm, not bad, should be wearin the hat..

 

Mt Uncle Ernie back from World War II with my grandmother in Arcadia, California, where I grew up...
Note the sign on the house that says "ICE"...that was to let the ice-man know to stop to deliver ice for the reefer....no refrigerator yet....nothing but ice in an icebox...



some dork hit my dad's '59 Ford in a parking lot...the Ford was that horrid tomato soup color...but dad did put chrome skirts on it.!



Dad was a local policeman and he ordered the new police cars each year...this year he chose Chevy's.......



dad took this photo in the late 1930's...a plane was having mechanical problems, so the guy landed on Baldwin Ave. He fixed whatever the problem was and then the cops blocked off the street so the guy could take off again. Here some of the locals were guiding the plane around a corner to get it to face the right way....



one of the local car clubs that dad used to work with to do reliability runs, etc.............



every year dad would make a "snowman" out of tumbleweeds that he's get from vacant lots. He's spray paint them white and dress 'em up for the Christmas season...no snow for us in SoCal



Uncle Bob in his beloved Corsair....he died in this plane when I was four weeks old...



photo that dad too as part of an accident that he responded to on Route 66 (Colorado Blvd.)...what makes this interesting is it involves an Anglia and if you look real hard you can see, what appears to be, another Anglia in the background.
Personally, I don't ever remember seeing one until they appeared on the drag strips.

 

Kool66, I agree about Henry Leland
being one of the early giants of auto-
mobiling. One laurel no one seems
to know about, though, is that he sup-
ported accelerated development of
the electric starter. He was motivated
by the tragic death of his friend Byron
Carter, whose CarterCar pioneered the
CVT (continuously variable) transmission
we still use today. Carter suffered tre-
mendously and eventually died of gan-
grene after a starter crank severely broke
his jaw.

 

As always, really cool stuff guys. Thanks

 

Thanks, Smirnoff. I forgot about that change.

 

"I shop here."

 

Yes jimi,He did along with another auto hero of mine,Boss Kett,Charles Kettering.Kettering developed the modern Delco point ignition which enabled the starter to fire the engine quickly so as not to over work the starter motor.Boss Kett's legacy includes Freon,Lead fuel and many other items we take for granted today.The world could use a couple of guys like Henry Leland and Boss Kett today!





//http://i897.photobucket.com/albums/ac172/kool66/220px-Time-magazine-cover-charles-kettering.jpg





Kool66, I agree about Henry Leland
being one of the early giants of auto-
mobiling. One laurel no one seems
to know about, though, is that he sup-
ported accelerated development of
the electric starter. He was motivated
by the tragic death of his friend Byron
Carter, whose CarterCar pioneered the
CVT (continuously variable) transmission
we still use today. Carter suffered tre-
mendously and eventually died of gan-
grene after a starter crank severely broke
his jaw.[/QUOTE]

 

Right on. Kettering did the real hands-on work. I just meant that Leland lent some priority (and probably dough) toward the R&D of Charles K.

 

I wish I'd located this fine, fine publicity shot of Gable
& the FUTURE Mrs. Gable (Carole Lombard) a couple
weeks back when covering these two screen giants (and
Packard lovers!). Shot is for "No Man of Her Own," 1932,
and is THANKS to twentyfourframes.wordpress.com.

 

We mentioned this movie a day or two ago. A very gritty action film of near-epic
proportions, it was filmed mostly on location around McCall, Idaho in 1939. Not
a movie for children, it might be considered a niche sort of movie. Despite the
narrower adventure-romance mold, "Northwest Passage," nevertheless, was 15th
among the top 100 grossing films of 1940. And even modern critics give the King
Vidor-directed film three of four stars. It was nominated for an Academy Award
for best color cinematography and won an Oscar for its crisp editing. In spite of
its decent reception by filmgoers, powerful Vidor could not persuade MGM to let
him film the second half of the '37 novel upon which the first was based (note the
reference on the poster to "Book 1, Rogers' Rangers").

Poster image THANKS to filmsgraded.com.​

 

Poster available inexpensively as a reprint 11 / 17
"lobby card" size or regular one-sheet 27 X 40 at
www.moviegoods.com/movie_poster/northwest_
passage_1940.htm.


An eBay poster image. The film co-starred three-time
Oscar winner Walter Brennan, left.

Gritty battle pic is THANKS to the archives of Boise State
University. Some elaborate sets were built in the area of
McCall, Idaho, for the movie.
​

 

Anybody but me remember this series? After the TV success
of Disney's "Davy Crockett" mini series, MGM apparently thought
the timing might be right for "leather stocking" fare and produced
"The Northwest Passage" NBC series, running for but one season
in 1958-59. Starring were Keith Larsen (real-life husband of Vera
Miles), Buddy Ebsen (direct from "Davy Crockett") and Don Burnett.
NBC put the show up against stiff competition on the other networks,
so they probably never had a chance. Images THANKS to Oldies.com
where you can buy series DVDs, if you like.

 

Ed Lowther's #2 sprint car. I believe the driver this day was Cotton Farmer but am not sure. Ed's regular driver was Van Johnson. Van was killed in another car at Williams Grove Speedway in 1959. After Van was killed, Ed painted the top part of the tail of this car black as a memorial to Van. This was one pretty car. I can still remember the goosebumps I got when seeing it as a kid.

 

This is Ed Lowther's #2 sprint car. I believe this day the car was being driven by Cotton Farmer. Ed's regular driver was Van Johnson (both Ed and Van were from Pittsburgh, Pa.). Van was killed in another car at the Williams Grove Speedway in 1959. Ed painted the top part of the tail black on this car as a memorioal to Van.

 

Crowd of bathers on the Lake Michigan beach, Chicago, Ill., circa. 1925

 

Hey, we did that too down in Santa Ana,, stick a pole in the ground and stacked two or three tumbleweeds on it, tie em down, flock the crap outta them, decorate em, great snowmen,, even had one hangin from the ceilin in our house one time,, my dad was such a kidder,,,my dad worked at Northrup in El Segundo, maybe he got the idea from you..??

 

For NovaDude: Commander Gatti's arrival in Africa, 1938. An
International D-2 woody station wagon waits on the deck.

 

thanks jimi'shemi291,,
added to the collection,,
someday maybe i should start a woody thread,,
if it hasnt been done already

 

"Hey, we did that too down in Santa Ana,, stick a pole in the ground and stacked two or three tumbleweeds on it, tie em down, flock the crap outta them, decorate em, great snowmen,, even had one hangin from the ceilin in our house one time,, my dad was such a kidder,,,my dad worked at Northrup in El Segundo, maybe he got the idea from you..??"

Wait...
Your dad tied a snowman down and "Flocked the crap" out of him!?!!
That's just...wrong...

 

Ha...although I never saw another one, I doubt that they were all that rare. We were about 40 miles northwest of you in Arcadia, just east of Pasadena and just south of where I am now. (I didn't get very far in 60 years...three miles )

 

That's funny. I, too, didn't get very far in 60 years, From Hermosa Beach all the way to Redondo Beach, CA. Maybe 2-3 miles...

 

http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-20611.html

 

CWA = Country Womens Association (in Australia)



http://www.utas.edu.au/library/companion_to_tasmanian_history/C/CWA.htm

 

http://www.dwdnsw.org.au/images/votes_for_women.jpg

 

http://vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/all-the-way-with-lbj/images/RR/P03220_001_1.jpg

 

The Country Womens’ Association (CWA) and the Australian American Association were among groups that organised hospitality services for Americans on R & R, giving them the chance to visit Australian homes or join families on outings. Some Americans preferred to spend their leave outside Sydney and visited rural New South Wales, but for many their experience of R & R was largely limited to Kings Cross.


http://vietnam-war.commemoration.gov.au/all-the-way-with-lbj/rest-and-recreation.php

 

http://localhistory.kingston.vic.gov.au/htm/imgal/5.htm

 

http://archivesoutside.records.nsw.gov.au/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Womens-services-on-parade.JPG

 

http://archivesoutside.records.nsw....vers-Dot-Peg-Honor-Nellie-and-Una-RW1938.jpeg

http://archivesoutside.records.nsw....services-an-important-part-of-the-war-effort/