Vintage shots from days gone by!

And it's one-two-three what are we fightin' for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn, next stop is Viet-nam!

 

Yeah, Country Joe & the Fish. The LOOK on the guy's face tells a lot about how miserable it could get during the rainy season (Hmmmm? When WASN'T it the rainy season in 'Nam? LOL).

If you were a grunt (and not a lucky REMF), you could step on a bungee stick, get shot or mortared, fragged when asleep, trip up a Bouncing Betty, donate blood to a million mosquitoes, or you were just as miserable as a wet rat most of the time, even with a tent available!

(Pete Seeger sang a '60s song called, I think, "Waist Deep in the BIG MUDDY," a synonym for the 'Nam.)

 

For those of you who dig reference books in the automotive vein, I recommend the following three books. Two are glossaries of automotive slang; the third is the highly-regarded BOSCH Automotive Handbook, which is available - online - in a fairly-current edition.

Automotive Dictionary – 1993 - by HP Books
By John Edwards (edited by John Lawlor)
ISBN 1-55788-056-5

Car & Motorcyle Slang - 1992
By Lewis & Jim Poteet
A Pigwhistle Book by Pigwidgeon Press
ISBN 0-9696454-3-0

BOSCH Automotive Handbook/English Edition
Robert Bosch GmbH
1st English Edition published circa 1978. ISBN 0-89883-510-0

Cheers!

 

Ranfla, THANKS for the pointers, man! There's a HAMB thread on old car and hotrod expressions. SO, I'll bet we can find a lot of material in at least one of those books, NOT previously aired on that thread! Great contribution.

 

I hear ya' JIMI,----About like KOREA,---The GOOK bugle charges,---The BITTER COLD,---Endless hill after hill, but not the heat & humidity like 'Nam.
At night the "Turks" had their own R&R---by going out & cutting off ears of dead Gooks!!!----Didn't have any Jane Fonda's abetting the enemy either!!!------Don

 

Those were "Punji" sticks my fiend!

 

Now thats a cool pic..
worth a second look

 

Movie set? Grand opening?

 

not sure, I'm thinkin its just a shot of Portland Oregon taken maybe on a Fri or Sat night, people out and about getting fueled up,,

 

Bingo!

It's the opening of a new Associated Gas Station in Portland. Here is the info on it.

http://vintageportland.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/associated-service-station-1938/

 

Good Job,,

 

Got it. Thanks for the catch on my spelling.

 

BTW, I take it "fiend" was an intentional misspelling???

 

By amazing coincidence there are two on eBay right now.

 

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Check out this pic from the UK. during WWII.

 

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I'm thinkin that the guys in the top right are squatters and that the dash in the bottom center is from a Whippet??


From the Portland archives:
This is a great Depression-era photo of the area just off the west end of the Ross Island Bridge. Contrary to the
marking on this photo, this is not actually Water & Gibbs Streets. The house at far right still stands at Corbett &
Grover, putting Water & Gibbs out of frame to the right. believe this was taken from the sidewalk on Front Ave.
just south of Woods Street.

 

SW Broadway at Night, 1935

Friday night and this city is jumping! Looking north on SW Broadway toward SW Madison, Portland’s brightly lit theater signs are on display; Paramount, Broadway, Orpheum, and Mayfair.

 

The navy cruiser USS St. Louis is shown on the Willamette River in this undated photo; the Morning Oregonian
reported that the she was in Portland for the 1913 Rose Festival. The “Crown Flour” and “Crown Mills Dock” complex
in the background is still in place along the western river bank. This is another fantastic photo from VP fan Roxanne
Cummings whose friend Eric Ammerman found the old glass photo plates in a friend’s attic.

 

This photo was probably taken during the 1908 Rose Festival when the “Mosquito Squadron” visited Portland.
The destroyers Preble, Perry and Farragut, and the torpedo boats Fox and Davis were among the ships in
attendance. This photo shows two destroyers (larger ships in the background) and two torpedo boats.
Coincidentally, the Fox and Davis, along with a third torpedo boat Goldsborough, were built in 1898-99 at Wolff &
Zwicker Iron Works at the foot of Hawthorne on Portland’s east side.

This spectacular photo features some of downtown Portland’s skyline. The Lewis & Flanders Block/Ankeny Block
(center with water tower), and the Kamm Block with distinctive finials, featured here last week, both stand out.
Between them, the Crane Co. sign can still be seen today on the New Market Annex building. This photo comes to
us via Roxanne Cummings, whose friend Eric Ammerman found some old glass photo plates in a friend’s attic.

 

<small>May 13, 2011 by Dan Davis</small>

There are many classic signs to be savored in this 1939 photo of a popular Portland
intersection; the Wentworth & Irwin logo at far left is a beauty. The view is east on W Burnside
and 10th Avenue, with SW Oak angling off to the right. I believe you can see one of the
surviving “Great Light Way” arches down Oak at 3rd Street.​

 

SE Powell & 39th, 1935

<small>June 8, 2011 by Dan Davis</small>

There&#8217;s still a gas station on the northeast corner of SE Powell & 39th but that&#8217;s about all this scene shares

with today&#8217;s view. We&#8217;re looking east on Powell here. The trees in the center distance, south side of the road,
are at Creston City Park.​

 

SW Broadway, 1955

<small>June 10, 2011 by Dan Davis</small>

These stately homes lined the west side of SW Broadway north of Market Street. Date of demolition is

unknown but they were replaced by the University Park Condominiums, built in 1988.​

(University of Oregon Libraries)

 

SW Main & 6th, 1936

<small>February 15, 2011 by Dan Davis</small>

This 1936 photo looks west on SW Main Street from 6th Avenue. The
Broadway Theater is just behind the Mobilgas billboard, and the old Masonic Temple Building, now the Mark
Building and part of the Portland Art Museum, is in the left distance.​

(City of Portland Archives)

 

Front Avenue Sewer Construction, Part 4


<small>February 10, 2011 by Dan Davis</small>

This precarious looking discharge elevator was built to raise the dirt
excavated for the 1928 intercepting sewer project along Front Avenue. The Portland Provision Co. was in the
Portland Seed Co. building on the northwest corner of SW Front and Alder Street. The two-story buildings at
center-right are the Wasserman & Weil buildings.​

(City of Portland Archives)

 

SW Madison & 5th, 1950

<small>February 8, 2011 by Dan Davis</small>

Lots of people out and about on SW Madison between 5th and 6th in this 1950
photo. The Milwaukee bus may have just dropped some passengers, women with kids out shopping perhaps, car
repair decisions being made, and IBM and Lincoln/Mercury/Cadillac sales indicate an active, mid-century city before
the high-rises are built.​

(City of Portland Archives)

 

Sheet Metal Works, 1944

<small>February 4, 2011 by Dan Davis

</small>

The A.O. Pedersen tin shop was at 232 N. Larrabee Avenue, on the east side of the street between N. Hassalo
and N. Holladay streets. This would put it in the grassy area just to the south of the Rose Garden outdoor

fountain today.​

(City of Portland Archives)

 

SW Stark Street, 1949

<small>January 24, 2011 by Dan Davis

</small>

This view of SW Stark Street is looking east between 6th (to our backs) and 5th Avenues. Traffic is one way

these days and the Loeb Building is now a parking lot (and a food cart nexus).​

(City of Portland Archives)

 

W Burnside & 21st, 1953

this 1953 photo is not much different from what you’d see today.