Vintage shots from days gone by!

ModelAKieth,times have surely CHANGED, haven't they?!?!?

 

Nation's first drive-in theatre...

 

SixDogs, this would be New Jersey, 1933? Wow!

 

I believe this is in a building from the 63-64 World's Fair in Queens, NY.
Howard

 

There, try that....

 

Ok, it's all coming back now....
This as I remember is the floor of the NY State Pavilion, (this one )
I think it was a map of the entire state. I grew up 4-5 blocks away... and can remember walking to the Fair quite often, I would have been 4-5 years old. The car the little girls is in was a stroller that you could rent.
Later in the 70's the city tried to make use of some of the old fair buildings. This one was used as a roller skating rink because of it's super smooth floor. It was sorta surreal going round n round on top of a map... oops sorry, 70's thing ... So, the city shut it down when the colored plastic (?) roof a 100 ft. above started shedding panels, never fixed up, just sitting and rotting away now... pics from then and now below...
Howard

Howard

 

the map shows western ny SW of the Buffalo area. Exit 59 of the NY Thruway is directly infront of the mothers right foot. Dunkirk fredonia, ssouthern tier is usually thought of as the Bighamton area.

 

geez, sad and creepy.

It begs the question:
Why, if something could have given so much enjoyment years ago why it couldn't provide the same enjoyment today?
Is it because of it's location?
Are these places that provided so much fun now part of a derelict neighborhood?

 

It's sarcasm, I know what it's supposed to be, I am quoting a certain someone. I understand English quite well.

 

I take it back, I was mistaken.

 

Jimi..............yes they sure have.........sometimes for the good....


and maybe sometimes not. only time will tell.



Keith

 

T-H

Any info/story on this.......??


Thanks

Keith

 

It is sad, like old cars rottin' away, but not for sale.
Location? Well Mazooma, I've been gone about thi-r-t-y (wow) years now. I'm sure the old neighborhood hasn't gotten (better). The Worlds Fair grounds are now a public park (Flushing Meadow Park), it's a very nice open green space in the city, like Central Park. Back when the Fair closed, most of the buildings were demolished as they were "temporary" structures(?). Of the ones that made that cut a few sat empty, never a good thing in the big city. It sure was exciting/stupid exploring these once futuristic, now dark wet and piss stinking derelict's of my own past. You had to worry about older/badder hoodlums AND the cops. Then they tore those down. The ones that survived that were used as science museum w/ Nasa rockets outside (still there). The heliport became a restaurant up in the air on top were the copters used to land. I went to several Bar Mitzvah's (?) there in 72', 73',ten stories high, bell bottoms, platform shoes, gurls, bad jazz/jewish music, drunk old people, stolen bar carts... oh yeah! SORRY, I'm back. I don't think this building is used anymore. Anyway when the skating stopped the city said budget cuts blah, blah, but at this point I'd say she's a total lose and liability.
Did I type all that?

 

Nads, a sage once said, "Brevity is the SOUL of wit." I think you hit the nail on the G-D head, bro! LOL

 

Plym46, I was referring to the entire floor, but yes, yer right she's just SW of Buffalooo.
Howard

 

Not to step on Tee or Model-A Kieth; if I am, just tell me & I'll cancel the post.

Though this diving outfit looks ancient, it was the only way to do underwater inspections and repairs wherein a man needed to stay submerged for a prolonged time. After Jacques Cousteau invented the aqualung (S.C.U.B.A.) in the WWII era, a wetsuit and SCUBA gear supplanted the bulky "deep-sea" gear, including the lead weights in the boots.

So, THEN, we got Lloyd Bridges!!! LOL

 

Is that Miss Crump with Steve and the cops?

 

Yup. Jersey.
Can't imagine a bunch of T & A sedans at a drive-in.

 

no caption necessary







little boy even has a "Space Patrol" haircut

 

Sophia Loren...but you already knew that


Juliet Prowse, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland


Sam and Dave














Mariyln

 

Marilyn


Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner





Marvin Gaye


Marilyn

 

man, she's pissed !











Julie Christie

 

John Steinbeck












How to stalk pretty picnikers!!!!!

 

Thanks for the link Mr Fire,,
So cool to get lost in the 50's and 60's drag racing...
oh yeah, i'm still @ work,, ooops..

 

1950 Nash