Vintage shots from days gone by!

Fokker doing a death defying loop



Early Aerial photography



Prohibition, city workers dumping whiskey in the sewer


broke down and broke


making money the old fashioned way

 

Stranded between Dallas and Austin



New York's Finest



US Forest Service



Steam in the Black Hills SD 1890

 

All images early Chicago:

 

First car I ever owned, paid £40 for it in 1966(?), 2 litre engine was basically a TR4 one so that was the way to hop them up. Went on to own two estates (wagons), had some great times in them.

 

Chicago continued

 

more Chicago, urban decay 1940's

The grime on the buildings came from the massive coke ovens at the southside steel mills.

 

Chicago continued.

It's hard to imagine what life was like back then.
It certainly was a smoggy place among other things.

 

Chicago continued











Directing traffic 1917

 

"jeez guys...we been drivin round this block for hours and ain't seen even one chickybabe!!"
"nah ...they must be at that rapper guy's concert..."
"lets go round again..."

 

The MEL engines in the Edsels were similar to the FE engines but were not available in the Fords, IIRC, so there were other differences besides the sheetmetal.

 

COOOL CAR!!! got any more info on this one Dog427435 ?

 

And there were two distinct wheelbases because they were based on the Ford Chassis for some models, and the Mercury chassis for others.

 

MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm the Spitfires big brother!! S5!!

Doc.

 

MMMMMmmmmm.... more like the Spitfire's big GRAND-DADDY!!!

 

Man, after what those men and women went through for 4 years, a little hood surfing was pretty harmless I suppose. God bless em they earned it.

 

Moefuzz, thanks for showing what makes Chicago a great city. Also, your Virginia City photo should serve to remind us that it survives like that to this day, having been saved and partially restored. It's just an hour up the road from Carson City on a mountaintop, south of Reno. One of the great side trips.

 

Just like having a magic looking glass back into time.
Moe, THANKS for the pix of filling stations long gone
and the shots of ordinary people and daily life!





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Grahame, I haven't seen the shot of Fuller's Dymaxion with the US Capitol in the background before. THANKS for posting it! I wonder if this is the one that survives (?). I think there's only one, and with no interior, as no one knows what it should be like. Any HAMBer know some modern details?

 

I'd say she won a supermarket shopping spree.
Big events in the 1950's.

 

Either that or time for spring cleaning?

 

Darn - lookin' at these old buildings & signs, one would think we're all Coke addicts! Great images, great memories for sure!

 

Coke addicts! LOL

 

thnx Jimi for makin that big!

 

I guess, if you see those old Coca-Cola ads, Santa would be a Coke addict, too. Our society has always had some funny, ironic twists to it, eh?

 

http://cerno-group.blogspot.com/2010/10/buckminster-fullers-dymaxion-car-circa.html



http://www.illustratorworld.com/artwork/8106/



http://inbetweennoise.blogspot.com/2007_10_01_archive.html



http://sleepingturtleart.blogspot.com/2009_06_03_archive.html



More drawings and photos on this site, including workers constructing the vehicle:

http://www.carstyling.ru/en/entry/Fuller_Dymaxion_1933/images/853/




and Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion House:



http://bohemianhellhole.typepad.com/bohemian_hellhole/2008/07/buckminster-ful.html



http://paavo.tumblr.com/post/2445441678

 

http://quandbienmeme.wordpress.com/2010/05/



http://kyon.pl/img/17149,Range_Murata,Dymaxion_car,Buckminster_Fuller,.html