Vintage shots from days gone by!

1950 Altadena, CA

 

Something that this photo shows is the sheer volume of paper trash on the ground that was very common up until the 1970's or so. I mentioned this about 500 pages ago and pointed it out in a separate photo as well.
I vividly recall the large amount of trash thrown about in the "old days" as well as the cavalier attitude of those tossing it on the ground.
I realaize this is a car race but it was like this in most places.

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Race car driver and WW2 Spitfire pilot -




http://www.changelingaspects.com/Life Stories/Roberta Cowells Story.htm

 

Robert Cowell - 1951

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Roberta Cowell

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This would likely be late 1940's or later. The locomotive is an ALCO RS- series,though I'm not sure exactly which model. First RS rolled in 1945;this one looks like like an RS-2 or RS-3. Livery is New York Central,though they had lines all the way to the Mississippi River.

 

1957 Marie Helene

 

Anyone got the back story on this here geetar?

 

1955

 

1950

 

That's a resonator guitar, also known as a Dobro.

Kurt O.

 

[I love seeing that 52 Merc. Don't see them often

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1949

 

July 7th 1949

 

1930 Cleveland, OH,

 

Thats SIR Jack Brabham!!

Doc.

 

What an amazing collection of pictures! What little peeks into what life used to be like. Can I share any of these with the society for commercial archeology( a non profit organized to recognize and protect 20 century roadside achitecture etc) on Facebook? I think that community would flip over some of these...
Thanks

 

G G Gia cars

 

Very cool, I've always had a love for DeSotos, bu my earlier comment was not that the car was a DeSoto specifically, but that it was a 42 model of one, those hide away headlights are the coolest thing, I would love to either have a 42, have the clip off of one (dad used to have a 41 Coupe) or have that part of the fender to convert my chopped Canadian variant Dodge sedan!

I see you're photobucket is going over it's limits, mine too, this site is hard on PB!