Vintage shots from days gone by!

This area looks very different today - I'll try to get a current shot for a then and now comparison.

 

Posted yesterday, this beautiful poster spurred me to look
for more WWI era posters about the nation's food supply.
The U.S. Food Administration was created in August 1917
under the Lever Act (aka the Food and Fuel Control Act)
under an executive order by President Wilson during the
country's involvement in World War I for the purposes of
ensuring efficient food production, equitable distribution
and transportation, and prevention of hoarding or monop-
olies. It was made necessary, in part, by a food-supply
crisis in 1917 as many of the populace feared shortages
and began hoarding, ironically causing shortages.

Future President Herbert Hoover stepped up to lead the
new agency WITHOUT PAY. As de facto "food dictator,"
Hoover felt his gesture gave him moral authority in the
public's eyes to ask the citizenry for heightened thrift, hard
work and personal sacrifice. He was quoted thusly: "Go
back to simple food, simple clothes, simple pleasures. Pray
hard, work hard, sleep hard and play hard. Do it all coura-
geously and cheerfully." He added, "Food will win the war."


F.H. Townsend did this poster circa 1916, THANKS to a site called BoysHistoricClothing.

Though rationing was a fact of life, willing homemakers and families
generally practiced wheatless Mondays, meatless Tuesdays,
porkless Saturdays and the like, virtually religiously. Americans
made do with food stuffs they would normally have eschewed,
items like sugarless candy, dogfish, whale meat and horse steaks,
to name a few! Mostly for PR value, the president even grazed
sheep on the White House lawn! Voluntary support was so
effective that within a year, America was exporting THREE times
as much breadstuffs, meat and sugar as before the war. Wow
factor!

When the armistice halted fighting in November 1918, the agency
was quickly shifted to perform the same essential function during
the reconstruction of devastated European countries. Its mission
fulfilled, the agency was terminated in August 1920. The following
posters are THANKS to the National Archives and Records Admini-
stration.

 

MM in 1945

 

Legless one armed rider who has put 51,117 miles on his bike.......1919

 

Jimi, here are a couple from WW2 on the same theme. Keep the home gardens growing...

 

Different eras, different technologies....

"And it's ladies night tonight, at the Palace Hotel Ballroom."

 

The Teddybears
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z72/Mazooma1
/number%20two%20neat%20and%20old/teddybears.jpg

 

Porsche.

Vintageride

 

Blues Brothers,,,, one of my favorite movies,,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCTJeT2i9QU&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6QF41RVib0&feature=related

 

Hey Mazooma,do you know what year this page is from,I've got what looks to be one of these guitars and have been trying to identify the one I have,Thanks Rich....

 

Forgot picture.

 

looks like 1967 from what is IDed on the scan

 

Thanks,Rich