Vintage shots from days gone by!

That's not a real ad...it was in the National Lampoon as a joke, sick joke, but a "joke".
For those who don't know the National Lampoon is a satirical magazine where nothing is off-limits

 

Satire sometimes escapes people, wasn't Gary Panter's Hercules In the Modern World in National Lampoon?

 

My Dad's Royal Plum '67 SS that he bought new. The first pic is @ at my grandparent's house. The house still looks the same,but my grandparents are gone. Very sad. This car jumped out of gear,and rolled down a big embankment at a shopping center here in '72. Totalled it out. I was less than 3 years old so I can't remember this car. I came home from the hospital in it. Royal Plum was a rare color!

 

Yes Mazooma.I still have my original Red Suburban pumper and Aerial ladder truck from the 3 piece set from Christmas 1958.I destroyed the white tanker that came with it which is the most valuable piece,$500 or so now.I still collect old toys and have a few Tonkas i never had as a kid including a white Suburban pumper which were rare even then.Love those catalogs brings back good memories.Thanks for posting them,Merry Christmas to all the HAMBers.

 

One more Mazooma i also have my original Ny-Lint Michigan shovel but it needs restoring.

 

Christmas,1958 i got one of these,Black and chrome.Hand Brakes,three speed and an automatic stoplight.Mom and Dad and the bike are gone but the memory is still there,just one of many great Christmas presents i got growing up in the 50's.

 

Various Porsche photos. 904 at Sebring DNF'd due to a failed gearbox bearing. 908, well, that was not a very successful racer, but interesting. The 906 roadster was a rebuild after a fire. And the street driven Porsches are ex-race cars, sorta converted for street use. VERY quick!!

 

Ah, National Lampoon, that makes sense.

 

My Grandfather Andrew J. Staysko (Canadian Pacific Railway Engineer retired 1955) and L.A Hill beside the car used by the Superintendent of the CPR Lethbridge, Alberta Division. In this picture my grandfather is taking possession of the car on behalf of the Sir Alexander Galt Museum of which he was one of its founders.

 

I've got a couple of buddies who live in Lethbridge.....for such a small town and such a short season they have an amazing car culture up there.

 

Rolf Harris - Australian entertainer



http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5087536.stm



http://watvhistory.com/2009/11/a-message-from-rolf-harris/

Seen here with Shirley Bassey. Rolf introduced the Wobble Board to music



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1260642/Rolf-Harris-A-life-pictures.html

(If you haven't heard a Wobble Board in use, listen to this, the song is a bit PC incorrect - so, please, bear that in mind)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGCiYDWGZv4


Because Christmas in Australia is in the middle of Summer, he collaborated in writing an Australian Christmas Carol (again a bit PC incorrect by todays standard, but it wasn't back in the day.... 1960's)



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FdVXca9hys

An early Christmas greeting to all HAMBers - wherever you are and whatever you do, enjoy the festive period and keep safe.

 

RacerOn, that is priceless. What the HAMB and this thread are about!
Christmas, loved ones, memories, trad rods & customs.

Is there anything else that really matters?

 

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Wow, I do feel sorry for those who don't understand the concept of satire. Are we the only one's who watched Saturday Night Live? The National Lampoon pre-dated that AND fed into the genre. Sheesh.

 

Sorry, Mike. I guess I saw your first post and posted a reply before I knew the whole story. MAYBE, we both should get the whole story before taking things at face value and flying off some handle(?).

 

Hey, are these guys really okay? Pretty girl with tan
riding through, and nobody (not one) glances?

 

The only answer is she's the sister to all these brothers in the same family..........or maybe there's a skimpier bikini clad chick just out of the frame further up the street.

(That's my hope anyway)

 

San Francisco?

 

I'm not sure, but sure looks like Pacific Beach, San Diego

 

Surfers

 

could anywhere

 

Looks like the Strand in Hermosa Beach. I spent many nights there working the LightHouse Jazz club on Pier Ave.

 

I was thinking the same thing. The Strand in Hermosa or maybe Manhattan Beach. I know I've walked by that wall.

 

Wow! An early original Campus Green J-38 Schwinn Stingray! Like to get my hands on one of those today!

 

Yeah, it's the little stuff for sure. Wife's grandparents took tons of pics & slides from the 30s thru the 60s. They were part of the estate and we've barely begun to go thru them. This was one of the slides, my wife had forgotten all about it.

The pedal car had been all but forgotten as well and was literally a barn "re-find" in her folks barn after her dad passed away in '04. It's in poor shape but still complete. It's gonna undergo a "frame-off" next summer. I'm going to use this pic as reference to bring it back to original factory condition & color. Hopefully by next Christmas I'll be able to do an updated pic of wife along with the car by the Christmas tree.

 

Click this link for some graphic WWII photos. Amazing are the photos of the Japanese cities after the A-Bombs were dropped.

Captured: The Pacific and Adjacent Theaters in WWII | Plog — World news photography, Photos — The Denver Post

 

I would guess Newport Beach, girls in bikinis during summer are a dime a dozen,
she looks pretty young too,, doh,, there I go again,

 

Maybe it's a guy. . It is a boy's bike!

 

VintageAuto, have you seen the pix of Desden? I imagine you have, or you wouldn't have commented. Incendiary bombs, fire storm. Pix not pretty. Eye-witness accounts even worse. Lends a different perspective to what Wm. T. Sherman said about war. Not to say I feel sorry, as Japanese and German armies inflicted terrible pain and death on civilians too.

 

I have a like new sand loader on display in den all i need now is the dump truck.

 

RacerOn, you and your dear wife have a real TREASURE there! I wrote a book on my wife's side of the family, and I THIRSTED for more pix than what they'd kept. Photos double the value of a family history! Congrats & Merry Christmas!