Vintage shots from days gone by!

LN7/Ry is right. Even as popular as this nostalgia/history/wheels/-
wings/families thread has been, nothing is ever "perfect." Only in
a perfect world could every pic be indexed somehow to permit checking
and avoiding reposts. I've had my own gripe (doesn't everybody?),
but it has nothing to do with repeats nor with the fine company of all
the regulars and most visitors. 99-percent of the posters are earnest in
intent, and we just enjoy the usually fresh stuff, day by day, just as it is.
And even regulars post an occasional clunker. So, ya can just "scan on,"
and soon something cool appears! Thanks, Dog and everybody,
for reliving the memories! -- J

 

A big THANKS, fbi9c1, for the info on the "fly-in" theater being in New Jersey! I wouldn't have believed THAT much elbow room in NJ in the late '40s, ya know? BUT, FITTING, in that the FIRST "drive-in" theater was in NJ, in 1933!!!


And on a DIFFERENT plane . . .


Don't see these in wagon form often! If a repeat, somebody please PM me. THANKS!

 

I think this shot is from Texas, but it does remind me of Main Street
in my old hometown of Logan, Ohio, looking west from Mulberry.
INTERESTING how towns can be so similar, so far apart, eh? The
buildings changed little over the years. Only the cars on the street
marked the march of time. On the marquee is a Gary Cooper and
Richard Widmark movie, "Garden of Evil," so this would be 1954.

 

See, even the bicycle racers smoked back then!

 

Youth Week Parade, Main Street, Calais, ca. 1945

 

The 1st hipster. This is what all the cool kids want to look like.

 

thanks for the memories

 

That is BAD ASS!!!

 

Once you get through the whole thread it gets easier... because Going through the last pages on a daily basis is Kinda like taking a shit... you do it and don't think about it!

 

What a nice shotgun

 

You want fries with that ?

 

A 1931 and 1938 Scania-Vabis

 

Fininsh refuges from he war
somewere in Sweden near the
swe-fin border september 1944

 

Anybody know where the Lockheed plant was in Pasadena????

Or what they did there...

 

Shadflies... Back in 1969 they got so bad along the Mississippi cars were getting stuck in them.

Here's some my Dad took. New Boston, IL. July 1969, those are shadflies on the cars and ground.........










OK, who knows what the contraption on the front of the New Yorker is for? I do, I rode in it when I was just a "grasshopper".... The body of the car was cut off behind the front doors, haven't come across a picture of that part of it but it was used for a very specific purpose. I'd love to have that truck now. Pic was taken 65 or 66.

 

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ALTERNATE CAPTION - "Sue had a
12-gauge, double-barreled 'surprise' waiting
for George - the low-life rat-bastard who had
fathered her unborn child and then dropped
her like a dirty, worn-out dish rag. And with
her spiffy new Ford 'Zephyr 6' sedan for a
getaway car, Sue wasn't worried about
getting caught either!"

Mart3406 (who knows first hand, that "Hell
hath no fury like a woman scorned", that
"You can run but you can't hide" and that
"Double-ought buckshot is highly effective
.....even at 30 yards"!)
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CAPTION? "Try that again bub, and you won't have to wonder why you're 4F !"

 

Michigan, 1960's?

 

This pic makes me think it is a classic shot of Bodie California
And Judging by the cars, it looks to be late 30's or early 40's.

-I don't know if that photo is or isnt Bodie but the look and feel of the pic is familiar.

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Not much is left of Bodie as about %95 of the town was destroyed by fire in 1892
and a small boy playing with matches burned down most of mainstreet in 1932.





Bodie's remote location provided it with a degree of protection from vandals and treasure hunters
and as far back as the 1930's, The Cain Family hired caretakers to insure that what was left
after the fire, would remain.




At it's peak, Bodies main street was a mile long and there were 65 Saloons.
The population was said to be as much as 12,000 people and rumors have
it that in 1878 it was California's 3rd largest city.
But that was in 1878, by 1880, Bodie was in decline.





Bodie mainstreet after the decline, 1917 (declared a Ghost Town in 1915)



Mainstreet today




"Put in 8 Gallons Please"
"Sure, That'll be 45 cents Mr Cain"




The Bodie Bank was destroyed by the fire of 1932 but the Vault
and it's Grand Door still remain.







The Cain Family still owns much of Bodie and as far back as
1950 they were working on getting it declared a National Historic site.
The State stepped in and Declared it a State Historic Park in '62 with emphasis on
keeping the town in a state of "Arrested Decay".





During it's heyday, the Chinatown section ran at a 90 degree angle to mainstreet.
There was even a Taoist temple and Opium dens were plentiful.
The last commercial business, the 'Boone Store' remained open into the 1930's.





This was originally the local Photographers shop but with shootings and deaths a regular occurrence,
It soon became the office of the Mortician.




There are buildings as old as the 1870's still standing in the town.






The old School House









Move Time!
The story of Bodie part 1

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Part 2

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