Vintage shots from days gone by!

"Don't Waste Your Holidays! Have A Kodak"

(All these were harvested from various sites, and they weren't credited there either.)

 

Australian actress Olivia N-J with the Ambassador-at-large
for QANTAS. He likes to fly other US citizens to Australia, too.
Did he try acting at some stage??????



As a matter of fact, he WAS trained, at the Kaplan
School of Drama. Unfortunately, he never made it
past the Barbarino technique. LOL <!-- / message -->

 

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Future motorists... check the wood blocks under the kickstands (maybe the photographer was an engineer?).

 

1954 Lakewood High, Larkspur, Calif

 

1949 Hudson in 1954.

 

1911 NYC
Licking blocks of ice on a hot day.

 

1950 typical small luncheonette.
This is exactly how most of them looked.
Low cost, generally great food.
Sometimes hot waitresses.

 

Holey shit! That building is bigger than all the schools I went to, from kindy to University!


Doc.

 

1939 Fresno.
This was a big thing into the '50's and early '60's in working man neighborhoods.
The owner offered solid advice and sometimes helped.

 

Might be a converted industrial building like warehouse or war effort bldg?
Actually, the woman and dog caught my eye first

 

1924 Buick display showing the assembly process and rugged consruction.
Not many guys without a straw hat.

 

1922 Olds and big league ballplayer.

 

1962.
Emergency brakes and "park" didn't always hold.

 

1955 Calif.
It must have been a sign...

 

1925...washington, DC

 

1963.
Baseball was a huge event but the JD's did not participate.
Can't tell if that's striped tape on his shoes to imitate the big leaguers or just made that way.
Thinking tape.

 

1953 Santa Cruz
"No, doctor he just woke up screaming one night after we got back from our vacation".

 

Housewife showing off what was then a huge and well-stocked refrigerator.
I'm guessing 1956-1959.

 

Rain.
1941, Pittsburgh, PA.

 

OK, this is for the youngsters on here.
This is what the old photos of the hot babes from long ago look like today.
A little more respect would be nice.

 

1936
Prob looking for work.
Yeah...the good old days...

 

anybody else remember this place?

 

Boy, Do I remember!!!! March,1951!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

That is an awesome car, it's the 1938 Phantom Corsair!

I stole this info from Wikipedia.

I hope to see this car in person some day!

 

RE #22,282: AMAZING that we could still mail first class in '69 for only six cents!

 

Good post, Paul. Most places now, they won't even let you walk
into the work area -- and probably wouldn't even if you signed
a liability release. In the early- and mid-'70s when I bought my
gas at the Union 76 station, the owner repaid the business by
letting me put my '55 DeSoto up in the air any time the lift was
open. It surely made life more pleasant, as I was always doctor-
ing the exhaust system (we've all been there!). I was finally
able to collect and buy all-new in '75 and put them on for their
cost plus my elbow grease. But you don't ever forget favors
like my friend did for me. He made life a wee bit easier by let-
ting me use that lift!

 

This is probably one of my favorite threads on here to watch. Thank you guys for keeping it going.

I found these old pics of family members on my computer. Im not sure who scanned them, they didnt do a very good job, but here is my contribution:













-Justin

 

Very early starring role for future "Rifleman" Chuck Connors.
Starlet Lori Nelson drives a killer '55 T-bird, too. HOTROD
magazine called this "a dopey diatribe against street racing"
but praised the early 'rod-racing footage. Inexpensive repros
of this 1956 poster available on eBay!

 

One you almost never hear of. Released in 1950, well before
the "Teensploitation" trend in Hollywood.