Vintage shots from days gone by!

Gotta churchkey?

 

No relation:

 

Moefuzz, Thanks for all of the great photo's, I will be 71 in a couple of days and remember some of the times shown.

 

When I look back at the posts, they look fine to me. Are you logged in? Is anybody else seeing (or not) seeing the post photos"

 

Moefuzz;please keep those "then and now" shots coming. I have a few of my own I can dig up.

Bluemoose;I see your pics just fine,despite what the voices tell me. I'm logged in;not sure about the other personalities.

 

Awesome pics of your dad Doug! Any idea who #42 is? In 1956 #42 qualified with Freddie Agabashian driving and that's not him. In '57 and '58 the #42 DNQed so it's not in my book. No sponser on the car either and I can't make out the drivers name. The crew chiefs name looks like Ollie Prather (sp)? maybe. Anyways, really neat pic of your dad.

 

Your photos look great! He must not be logged in.

 

I wish I had time to make almost 1600 posts in 9 months.

 

Who cares, the content is what matters, and these are some of the best photos I have seen!

 

Works fine on my end.

 

There werent any photos on page 397 or so from mr fire. I love the stuff that moe and mazooma have been putting up. My reply is from early pages I revisited in this thread.

 

and Dog too..

 

Here are some shots from my grandfathers stash. My apologies for the direction of the pics.

 

Bluemoose I cant see a lot of your stuff either. I do love this thread....

 

I totally agree, The photos are great but some posters pics come across as red x. Bluemoose has some stuff I would like to see based on the descriptions and Ive tried to pull em up but no dice on my end.

 

Unless things have changed, when I lived in souther california, people were always slowing down to look at wrecks. They were so busy watching wrecks that usually, they'd cause another.

 

Per Kurtis history/g. White; car is a KK500 G2
1959 #42 Bill Homier Go-Kart Spl. Ollie Prather DNQ

1956 #42 Fred Agabashian Federal Engr. Spl.
mlight9

 

Bluemoose I apologize for some reasons some of your past posts were not coming up but now they are working fine, I went back after I posted, have no idea what happened I was logged in. Your photos were worth waiting for whatever hasppened

 

Interesting photo of Fremont Street in Vegas. Hotel Apache became Binion's Horseshoe.

 

Two things really stand out on these old Accident photo's are how most of the cars look like a pile of kindling!

Also noticed how many people were wearing suits and ties and the women had dresses and stylish hats!

 

It is Brand Blvd. I grew up in Glendale

 

Bad wreck about 15 miles outside Manistee Michigan
My granddad took this picture sometime between 1927 and 1930. What was amazing to me back in the day right after an accident on the open hi-ways the dead and injured were hauled off to the hospital but the wreckage was not cleared away immediately, sometimes the wreckage sat there for weeks.

 

Some family photos

 

GARY KLECKNER'S 55 NOMAD WHEEL-STANDER, CHEVADO. From my Flickr page.

 

Speaking of Chevado.

 

I tend to think that "it" was more exciting than what was on the 2 channels we had on TV,
either that or we weren't all just a bunch of couch potatoes


jmho.


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Thanks mlight9! I looked in my Kurtis book late last night and you are right. There was no #42 in '57 and '58 so Doug's photo is from '59. Those Kurtis cars sure were beautiful although none had won since Flaherty in '56. A.J. Watson was the new guru.