Vintage shots from days gone by!

Amazing effort to find this photo. Thank you.
This is a typical sock hop type dance from the late '50's. Note all the kids have Coke bottles in what appears to be the 8 oz. size. Some kids couldn't afford one so they just sat there or other kids gave them a swig.

 

Hey; and no back wash.... !

 

Now if I just turn right here, I can shave a few seconds off my lap times...

 

I know who the guys are but who is Edith Lafriniere? Google says she's on Facebook

 

^^^Who is the "punk kid?"

 

I found this
Ed "Edith" L LaFriniere refused to remove his wig after police arrested him on October 9, 1967 for disturbing the peace.

 

Holey mackerel, HarmsWay. I love car-lot pix.
Any DATE on this photo??? THANKS!

 

A beautiful, free-thinker, dead at age 26. Though Sharon Tate
had talent that even proven male and female actors in Hollywood
attested to (David Niven and Patty Duke among many others), her
exceptional looks and shy demeanor actually held back her career
in entertainment.

Though she was due to deliver a son in two weeks, she and the
unborn infant were extinguished by 17 knife wounds in August 1969.
The murder flabbergasted Hollywood -- and the whole U.S. -- for
a month, until the perpetrator was nailed and jailed -- permanently.
This fine publicity photo is thanks to El Conde Estruch
(cpndeeestruch.blogspot.com). Thanks for the photo and for the
memory of Sharon.

 

she has a very modern look to her.... very pretty!!!

 

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Interesting.The shape of things to come. Plymouth's gone but the little Fiats live on!Who'd of thunk it!

 

Looks like Henry Leland,Father of both this Cadillac and Lincoln.

 

Am I crazy or is that a very young George Barris holding up the driver side A post?

 

Gas stations

 

Your eyes are not failing Rich.Old time George getting his hands dirty.

 

There's a blast from the past... Re-cap tires.

Say, why dont they recap tires anymore?

 

They do for big rigs all the time.
Cars are a different story, new tires are better and about the same price,
cannot recap a tire much cheaper than new,
..
I used to buy recaps on an old nova, but the summers down in Riverside Ca use
to cause them to come off. Once or twice is not a coincidence, but it became a
regular occurrence, so i bought new, first polyester belted bias ply, then radials,
I remember when I first put a pair of radials on it, wow, it was like I had power steering.

 

Disneyland 1960

 

I don't know if they still do it, but they used to "re-groove" big rig tires and sometimes car tires. They just literally cut new tread into what was left of the tire casing. I am not sure of it was legal then, but surely it isn't now at least in the US?

 

1955?-56?

 

opening of Villa Capri restaurant In Hollywood

 

I'll stick my neck out a little and say that regrooving is/was legal on tires that are designed to be regrooved. That probably did not include any passenger car tires though. On the big rigs they can mold on a lot of rubber but the initial grooving can only be just so deep or the tread would squirm. A way to determine how much meat was left to regroove would probably be provided by a series of little holes placed around the tire circumference that could be checked with a dipstick like gauge. The grooving iron is equipped with a shoe that can be adjusted to cut to a certain depth.

 

1946 NY, NY