Vintage shots from days gone by!

From Richmond Virginia :


Built as a Ford tractor dealer in 1921, this facility became Coleman Scales / Richfield in 1940. Specializing in towing and heavy repairs including Body work on the third floor . Cars were brought up on the largest elevator in all of Richmond . In 1978, Coleman Scales became Capital Garage / Phillips 66. Gasoline was sold under the canopies of the 1st floor . Retail gasoline was "grandfathered" until 1980 when it was decided to cease all gasoline sales in Richmond in Garages with "INSIDE Facilities . For example , parking garage . In 1998, the building was sold to become Capital Garage apartments


Former Mobil station built in 1929 at the corner of Allison and Cary Sts , Richmond Va.


Built in 1930 as The Harvey system, this Atlantic Refining co. dealer survived until 1956 . Aurthur 's Electric took the building and later in 1960, became Moore's Body shop . Broad and Moore sts , Richmond Va.

 

The first pic has a 41-46 chevy truck in the background,,

 

Better try again.... pic's didn't show up.

 

This is a sad commentary on America and our manufacturing industry.
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I remember as kids as soon as we got a 1/4 mile from the father baker bridge u had to close all the windows and breath very little because the steel plant stunk so bad.....

 

Never got to see Daisy or your family Ford sedan.
But, don't worry about it.
I can imagine what they looked like.

 

I remember as kids as soon as we got a 1/4 mile from the father baker bridge u had to close all the windows and breath very little because the steel plant stunk so bad.....[/QUOTE]

I grew up in lackawanna... both grandfathers retired from Bethlem, and yes the father baker bridge stunk.
My dad used to say that dogs in lackawanna didn't bark they coughed.

 

Sorry guys. The photo shows up on my preview and your replies. I'm still a dumb newbie and straightening metering rods on an old thermoquad is easier. I thought that I could just paste the BB code from my album. I'll try again when I figure this out.

 

You need the IMG code. Then paste it using the yellow button that looks like a mountain with a postage stamp

 

Yvette Vickers Dies Mysterious Death
By Stephen M. Silverman

Tuesday May 03, 2011 09:50 AM EDT

Yvette Vickers, in the early 1960s

Everett Collection
Facebook Tweet She caused guys at the drive-in movies of the '50s and the readers of Playboy to swoon, counted Cary Grant and the actor Jim Hutton (father of Timothy Hutton) among her lovers, and even appeared – briefly – opposite Paul Newman in the Oscar-winning Hud. But when it came to Hollywood endings, pinup model and actress Yvette Vickers reached a heartbreaking fadeout.

As her uncollected mail gathered cobwebs outside, inside Vickers's dilapidated Los Angeles home last Wednesday, police, acting on a concerned neighbor's tip, discovered the mummified remains of the onetime 36"-24"-36" cult star of the space-alien B-movies Attack of the 50 Foot Woman and Attack of the Giant Leeches.

Vickers was 82, had long been a recluse – and could have been dead for as long as a year, reports the Los Angeles Times.

An autopsy has been ordered, though foul play is not suspected. If anything, her sad demise almost seems like something out of a movie in which Vickers once played a cameo, as a giggling girl in Billy Wilder's acid-etched 1950 portrait of a glamorous movie life gone sour, Sunset Boulevard.

"She kept to herself, had friends and seemed like a very independent spirit," her neighbor in Benedict Canyon, actress Susan Savage, told the Times. "To the end she still got cards and letter from all over the world requesting photos and still wanting to be her friend."

Still, the Times also quotes Boyd Magers, editor and publisher of the movie publication Western Clippings, as saying the once "bright, intelligent" actress grew "paranoid" in her later years and was convinced she was being stalked.

"We've all been crying about this," said Savage. "Nobody should be left alone like that."
Brief Career at Paramount
Vickers's earliest professional work was in commercials for White Rain shampoo. According to Variety, it was Billy Wilder who discovered the actress, though her studio career was short-lived and completely finished after a major role in Paramount's 1957 crime drama Short Cut to Hell, a directorial effort by actor James Cagney that flopped at the box office.

Turning to B movies and TV Westerns, Vickers also appeared on Broadway, acted right up until 1990's horror flick Evil Sprits (starring Virginia Mayo, Karen Black and Laugh-In's Arte Johnson) and even recorded a couple of jazz albums – one, a tribute to her parents.

Both the Times and Variety report her birth name as Yvette Vedder, born in Kansas City, Mo., to jazz-musician parents Charles and Iola Vedder. Entering UCLA at the precocious age of 16, she studied journalism but left school to seek an acting career. Her Playboy appearance, shot by "King of the Nudies" filmmaker Russ Meyer, was in July 1959, the same year she starred in Attack of the Giant Leeches, in which she was, well, attacked by giant leeches.

"I did want to play other kinds of parts and to go on into bigger pictures," Vickers is quoted as saying in author Tom Weaver's 2006 Science Fiction Stars and Horror Heroes, "but these things just eluded me."

Her relationship with Hutton was said to have lasted 15 years, and she and Grant reputedly remained friends after their affair. Married and divorced twice ("at least," says the Times), Vickers leaves no survivors

 

Its a DOBRO....a resonator guitar.....they have a very unique sound

 

Which post are you refering too????


BB

 

Darn!, I missed the Dobro too.
How about this shot of the above ground pool at my grandparents house?

 

thats a very sad story on Yvette....could've been dead for over a year....and no one even thought anything of it. how sad

 

I remember as kids as soon as we got a 1/4 mile from the father baker bridge u had to close all the windows and breath very little because the steel plant stunk so bad.....[/QUOTE]

 

When I was a kid we used to drive past the huge steel mills along the river in Pittsburgh. I remember the 'rotten egg' smell. My dad said it was the "smell of money". It stunk but a lot of people had good paying jobs in those mills. When they shut down all the towns along the river became distressed because most of the people living there worked in the mills. No job . . no money . . small business suffered and closed up. Another thing . . . I always hear about how dirty and bad the air is in Pittsburgh. It was! When I was a kid every morning your car was covered with soot from the mills. The sides of the houses facing the mills had a coating of red dust on them. However, that said, I have to question: If the air was sooooo bad then why does Pittsburgh have the second highest number of senior citizens in the country? I personally know many many people in their 80's and 90's who breathed that air for mnost of their life. Shouldn't they all be dead? Most of the older people I know do not have breathing problems . . . just aches and pains from all the years of hard work.

 

Absolutely STUNNING, Church Key!

 

AND...Dont forget Erik Von Zipper and his bike gang

 

Here it is from waaay back in March! The Dobro.

 

You have to love the guy holding his American Flyer train transformer

 

Found these on a website http://citynoise.org/article/9641

 

Here's a then and now of the Sydney harbour bridge. I pinched the before shot from bluemoose I took the after one a couple of weeks ago.

 

I lost a family member during this tragedy. The air may have been bad in the Pittsburgh area decades ago, but nothing like it was prior to 1948...

 

Often the dobro is played flat with a slide. I always thought it was cool to watch a guy play the dobro that way while standing up. It does indeed have a unique sound.

 

I love the pics like this because u know that poor little boy had no idea what he was looking at or how to use it

 

Gets rid of the interior and rubber parts.... leaves steel behind.