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  1. jimi'shemi291
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    Keen! That's the so-called Spanish Aero Car, over
    the whirlpool a couple of miles below the Niagara
    Falls itself. Opened in 1916, it got its name from
    the Spanish engineer who designed it and oversaw
    the construction. I think it's only accessible from
    Colt's Point on the Canadian side, though technically
    the opposite suspension point is still Canadian soil,
    nearly 2,000 feet across the pool at Thompson Point.
    I seem to recall that the Spanish investment group
    only constructed three or four of these around the
    world. A ticket is a tad pricey, BUT dangling 250 feet
    above the whirlpool is an experience WELL worth the
    cost! BTW, the ride is a thrill but really not precarious;
    no passenger has ever been injured, and the hidden
    rescue car has never had to be called upon. Now
    officially known as the Whirlpool Aero Car, it was
    designated an International Historic Civil Engineering
    Work in 2010, nearly a century after its opening.
    More than 200,000 people visit the cable car each
    year, SO it's interesting to GUESS HOW MANY people
    have made the jump over the whirlpool!
     
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    This great mag cover was posted by MrMayo on another
    thread, but it's SO cool, I have to reprise it here. Check
    out all the period touches, such as the fox tail on the antenna.

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    Proud owner and his new Hudson. Sweden winter 1947.
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    Dodge owned by the warehouse ICA. Sweden in the early 50´s.

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    Old junkyard pic from the early 1960´s.
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    Keepin' an eye on those Ferraris??
     
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    Family with their two year old Ford on Skiing vacation in Åre, Sweden 1936.
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    Three newly delivered taxi´s in 1956, two Dodge´s and one Volvo PV830.
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    Bugatti used for ice racing in the 1930´s
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    some old post cards (I paid too much for.) three from the US, one from nice, italy. (looks like the 60's for the italian one.) notice two overpaid their postage....
     
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    The Pike, Long Beach pier, 1963.
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    1932 Ford that have been in an accident.
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    Thanks for posting these,
    I grew up in Long Beach back in the 50's
    was living in Orange County by 62.
    Spent a few Saturdays at the Pike with my late gramma.
     
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    In Honor of Oscar...

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    Bellfolower, 1952.
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    For anybody who wants a better feel of life in the Great Depression
    or the Dust Bowl (aka the "Dirty Thirties"), there are two more
    GREAT movies: "Bound for Glory" (1976) with David Carradine as
    the great Woody Guthrie, and "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" (2000)
    starring George Clooney.

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    As a dust storm picks up, a farmer and his boys head for the house,
    Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936. Arthur Rothstein shot the
    photo as part of a project of the U.S. Farm Security Administration
    documenting the plight of the poor in the American south and west
    during the depression years. The Library of Congress archives many
    of the photos of Rothstein and FSA contemporaries such as Dorthea
    Lang and Walker Evans. Digitally enhanced for definition and
    contrast, this image is THANKS to the WikiMedia Commons project!
     
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    An instant cult classic IMO, this energetic comic
    allegory, set in 1937 Mississippi, is a real bag
    of depression-era spoofs, from Babyface Nelson
    jacking up banks, to Robert Johnson's alleged
    selling of his soul to the devil, chain-gang labor,
    a crooked Bible salesman, a pragmatic governor
    modeled after Huey Long, bloodhounds, the KKK,
    a burning barn, oodles of cars, hidden treasure,
    ol'-timey music, moonshine and poverty!


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    George, in character as Everett McGill, looks a bit like '30s
    movie "King" Gable, eh? Photo THANKS to Cinema.com!
     
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    Here the REEL-life Woody Guthrie (Carradine) catches a breezy free ride.
    Both of the above posters are for sale on eBay at very reasonable cost,
    if you want to add the period feel to some corner of your house!

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    And the REAL-life Woody playing his anti-communist "machine."
    Photo, taken by Ed Palumbo for the New York World-Telegram
    originally, is in the U.S. Library of Congress and is THANKS to
    the WikiMedia Commons project!
     
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    A book I have published in 1931 says there was more then 3500 individual car companies before 1930, and that doesn't even count all the Canadian ones and imported ones that were also available in the US. Wild!

    Oh man, on the far right is a black 1959 German Ford Taunus 12M, I have 2 of them and need parts so bad!

    The red COE above the burn Volvo is a Hanomaug, too cool!
     
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    There are some GREAT one-liners in that movie! And great dialgue in general! One of my favorites, when the barn is set on fire:

    "We's in a tight spot!
    We's in a TIGHT spot!" :eek:

    Another:

    "Wait. You sold yoer soul to the devil?"

    "Well . . . I wusn't USIN' it!" :rolleyes:
     
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    There were many companies that only built ONE car or even none and went out of business. Let alone the ones that just built a handfull. Almost every major city had a car Co.
     
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