Vintage shots from days gone by!

That's slightly disturbing Who ever came up with that one failed at marketing 101.

 

That row of building is still there...It is now known as the Watertown Aresenal Mall. Five miles away there was a Ford plant in Somerville, MA. That is known as****embly Square Mall. The Meadow Glen Drive In, is now the Meadow Glenn Mall. The old Westboro Speedway is now, Speedway Plaza... Unfortunatley I could list many more.

 

Border patrol??
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Superb photos, Rockey

 

This takes the cake for bad taste in off-
target advertising! Frank Zappa and
illustrator Neon Park put their heads
together to do the below '70 album
cover. It was about counter-culture
satire, sort of the "anti-ad"! It was a
successful, if offbeat, strategy.

But the above ads were apparently
actual attempts to sell products. The
people behind them shoehorned dis-
parate visual elements/messages
together -- and missed the mark
completely! LOL! IF we can have
a Bad Taste Award on this
thread, can I vote now???




Illustrator Neon Park did this, er, uh, parody
album cover for the 1970 follow-up to "Burnt
Weenie Sandwich" by Zappa and his Mothers
of Invention. Cover THANKS to Wikipedia, shown
here under fair-use rationale, for info only.

 

Almost makes you want to turn 'veggie'..........



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1953 John Ditullio at Soldiers Field, Chicago.....Is the car a Hudson??

 

Pacific Electric trolleys going over the Los Angeles River from Highland Park into L.A.



Dodger Stadium, today, would be just around the corner to the right







Disneyland













sheesh, what? Do you think I'd pay a 1,000 bucks for that?









I need that hat on the far right !



Deborah Kerr

 

AND,,,,a Fat Lucky interior

 

this entire collection of photos would make an amazing book. thanks for sharing everyone!

 

yuck..that's John Travolta

 

Yo, I defended the eclectic nature of the thread yesterday. But "vintage" is one of the few guides. What year was the Travolta movie? I don't think it's vintage -- unless "vintage" just means 2000 or earlier. Feel free to disagree, anybody. I just call 'em as I see 'em.

(Travolta as Danny in "Grease." That's vintage.)

 

At the time, I just figured it was a public-SAFETY kind of trendy thing.
Maybe to protect a lady's head while getting zzzz at night.

 

Phil Hill in the drivers seat, his buddy Richie Ginther waves to the camera.

 

Christmas tree anyone?

 

V16 Marmon powered Packard boattail speedster.

Vintageride

 

My husband went into the time machine,
I'm waiting for him to come back,,
wait, he's sending a message,
he's not coming back,,,,

 

thinkin 'Flip' would sound better,,,,