Vintage shots from days gone by!

After the film censorship of the 1930s, Howard Hughes "The Outlaw,"
1943-46, was controversial to say the least! Though the movie
ostensibly was a story of Doc Holiday and Billy the Kid running
to evade bad guys out for their hides, the REAL STAR of the movie
was Hughes' camera angles on a young, hot Jane Russell's hide!
Dated now, but it was racy stuff for '43! Hughes fought with incensed
censors, finally getting the movie into general release in '46. Russell
was so sensational that Bob Hope quipped that "Culture is the ability
to describe Jane Russell without using your hands."

 

This fantastic 1935 pic was taken by Walker Evans for the Farm
Security Administration near Easton, Pennsylvania. Just look
at all that great sheet metal and what, now, would be GREAT
project cars! It's been shown on Shorpy and many other 'net
sites; Evans' original neg, I believe, is in the Smithsonian col-
lections or the NY Public Library -- not certain. Doubtless,
these cars disappeared in the scrap drives for WWII, eh?

Nearly three dozen cars in the frame! Can we try
and ID as many of these as possible?

 

'25ish Dodge Brothers coupe and roadster in the foreground and a '27 Buick 4dr behind them.

 

Ehhhhh!

who wants a buncha old cars anyways!!!

 

Magnificent!! The red aircraft is a Stinson SR7 Gull Wing monoplane, one of the first aircraft I ever flew in when I was a young Air Cadet. They are like the Rolls Royce of the sky they are so well appointed. A truly beautiful aircraft!

Doc.

PS, they are Piper Cubs in the background........ I think.

 

I think those are Interstate Cadets in the back, deffinitly not Cubs.

Love that picture by the way. Beautiful Stinson!

 

The house I grew up in. What sort of plane did my Dad fly.


The house today.

 

Looks like the "B" movie Hot Rods To Hell