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  1. jimi'shemi291
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    Whew! Back to semi-normal (close as we EVER get to "normal").
    Thought there a page or two back that three of our regulars
    had accidentally stumbled into the poison mushrooms again! :eek:
     
  2. jimi'shemi291
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    1957: The first major film for director Robert Altman ("Mash") and actor Tom
    Laughlin ("Billy Jack"). Each considered the other a royal pain in the ass, but
    BOTH got a career start! Set in Kansas City, this '50s "Teensploitation" movie
    isn't unknown and can be found with a little searching. Peter Miller, BTW, was
    in "Blackboard Jungle." Shot in July and August 1956 on a $63,000 budget, the
    movie benefited from full (and free) help from the Kansas City Police Department.
    Pictured material for sale on eBay, if interested!
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    Even little sister (played by Christine Echols) can't dissuade big brother Scott White (Laughlin) from "running
    with the wrong crowd." Before the movie winds down, Scotty has engaged in some heavy necking, made an
    ill-fated deal with hotrodders:eek:, been kidnapped, kicked out the jams at a wild party, drunk a whole bottle of
    scotch, almost been framed for a gas-station holdup and been in a fist fight and a switchblade fight:p. Though
    the plot sounds contrived today, the movie made money, and it impressed Alfred Hitchcock enough to help
    Altman get into TV writing and production. Tom Laughlin went on his own way and gets much credit for
    pioneering the current "Blockbuster" style of mass film distribution via simultaneous national film release.
     
  3. Always been difficult to get that early small block to quit leaking oil!
     
  4. jimi'shemi291
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    UHGGG! :mad:
    BACKWASH!!! :eek:
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    Image THANKS to wholivesinthatteacup!
     
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    #27686 I believe that 'could be' Harry Bridges, union leader in the 30's San Francisco Longshoreman strike.
     
  6. jimi'shemi291
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    IMO, our history has usually consisted of periods of relative calm, interspersed with episodes of strife, sometimes violence. How public protests and strikes were handled historically is, for the most part, nothing to be proud of -- YET, the good AND the bad are BOTH part of our history. We can't turn away from the realities of the past, or we just might repeat them for lack of learning. The concept of PC is just a modern way of saying thought control and abridgement of freedom of speech. I say, LET PEOPLE HAVE THE FACTS, ugly though they sometimes are. Then we can all look objectively and make up our own minds.
     
  7. jimi'shemi291
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    Well I'll be a dirty double-poster, but this pic is TOO good not to show on this great
    historical thread! An "interior" shot at a spot popular with teens.:) The jukebox
    (which would have played 78-rpm platters! :eek:) is a joy to behold! And I NEVER knew
    saddle shoes were popular as early as 1940! (Maybe I should have paid closer atten-
    tion to more Andy Hardy movies? LOL! :D)

    Man, we HAVE to give a vote of THANKS to LIFE magazine for capturing "candid"
    shots of every-day life in the Free World, especially in the days before we had to
    defend our way of life against the totalitarian regimes of the "Axis Powers"! :mad: (Photo
    THANKS to LIFE magazine, Jan. 1, 1940. Photo by William C. Shrout for Time/LIFE.)
     
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  8. jimi'shemi291
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    A day at the beach, Santa Monica, 1950. How could
    anybody TOP this real-life shot by LIFE magazine
    photog Ralph Crane?:D THANKS goes to the site,
    Coastal Living, which has many more LIFE shots.
     
  9. BashingTin
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    That is some funny shit right there.... :D
     
  10. Jagman
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    Is that a set of wheels I see under the tongue of the trailer? Someting done to keep it level? Or am I just seeing things? Good call on the Lincoln, I always wondered why the car sounded different in different shots, and how it had enough power to pull those hills!

     
  11. jimi'shemi291
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    Yup, the fact that Hollywood had to fake the Lincoln/Merc to pull off the grades has been well known. You pointed out the helper dolly which is a new one on me. Nowadays, they's just computer matte that out.

    As it IS, it sure makes it FUN for cars guys to spot the errors, doesn't it? Just like the car that was TWO cars in "North by Northwest"! Nyuk, nyuk!
     
  12. 4everblue
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    Sometimes I think it's more of a curse to be a gearhead where movies/TV shows are concerned. I drive my poor wife crazy pointing things out. Man gets in 78 Olds Cutlass. When he starts car up a Mopar starter motor is heard. Man drives off down the street in a mid fifties Plymouth......to the sound of a late forties Ford 3/4 ton straight cut geared transmission?????? Never mind seeing a car with four headlights in a movie set in 1956 and while I'm on a rant why is it you never see a dirty car in a movie set back in time ???
     
  13. moefuzz
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    Both cars were automatics and the stress on the 125hp Merc was taken into consideration when pulling 6000lbs.
    Realistically, The 32 foot trailer was designed to be pulled by a pick up truck.
    I really don't think that in '53 cars were rated for there 'bumper pull' capacity so hooking up 3 tons of trailer to 2 tons of car was kind of 'out of the ordinary'.
    Hollywood proved it could be done but they used an ohv car for the hard pulls instead of the Flathead powered Merc./V8/Automatic

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  14. LN7 NUT
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    Which ones? The 55 Chev sedan deliveries that kept changing? Or is there another one that I missed (haven't seen it in years) that movies has a ton of errors that are fun to spot, and their not due to sloppy work IMHO, but just not noticed.

    Yes, the perfectly clean car and perfect in fashion everything else pisses me off... looks wrong... I work in the industry and the people I normally work with we all go for the realistic look, things have wear, they get dirty, things are out of style for the time frame, nothing is newer then the time frame of the movie/TV show/commercial. People rarely notice it, but it makes all of us feel better and makes it look right.
     
  15. Yeah, the forest service picked up Cary Grant in a 56 Chevy ambulance/wagon that had the one piece sedan delivery type rear door. When they delivered him to Eva Marie Saint out in the woods, the wagon had the more common split opening rear tailgate with the window half that opened going up and the lower half that opened in a downward direction.
     
  16. Mr.Quadratic
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    First of all, thanks for the kind comments. I showed them to my mom"Look mom, I posted your pictures on the internet", and she enjoyed it.
     
    # 26921
    Q - thanks for all the great pix. It sure looks like they made a car radiator into a space heater for the garage (upper left). Check the plumbing and fan. Now that's shade tree engineering HAMB'ers can identify with. Hats off to those who made do with what they had!
    I just noticed that. Good eye you have.
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    I can't make out the hubcaps or hood ornament so I'm going to guess and say Studebaker.
    You're good. Searched 32 Studebaker . Looks like the chrome wheels were factory.
    Good catch on that studebacker, I'll show that to my mom. I bet it was an expensive car for the time.
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    I had a twin to this car during the same time.
    That was my first 'real' car, 69 Chevelle SS
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    Now that is a lost art!


    I took photography in high school and in college.
    Learned how to develop and print my own pictures.
    I was going to buy my own darkroom equipment, but then came marriage and kids and had no room for it.

    Recently saw a complete set for sale at an estate sale.
    And couldn't help thinking that now you probably couldn't even buy the chemicals anymore, let alone film!

    I have 4 expensive 35mm cameras..........and various lenses and attachments.
    All sitting unused now due to digital cameras
    Once in a great while, every 4-5 years, I will get it out, and take some pics. It was fun back then with the 'f' stop, and all that.
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    More photos posted soon.
     
  17. Mr.Quadratic
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    More of grampa's garage, Ames. N.Y. circa 1930s

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    reading the paper......

    Now..for the ladies...

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    Note the broom on the side!

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    Cleaning the garage, because us men are (a-hem) slobs...?
     
  18. Mr.Quadratic
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    Now this was a auto parts salesman from Amsterdam, N.Y.

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    So, naturally, grampa got out his camera.​

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    And no better way to make a sale, than to play with the kids.​
     
  19. Mr.Quadratic
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    Another race type car.​

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    I guess these were for the original 'roundy rounds'. I think that's my late Uncle Paul sleeping in it.​

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    You can trust you car, to the man who wears the star...​
     
  20. Mr.Quadratic
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    I think that's my uncle Paul on this old STEAM ROLLER. the grass was high even then.​

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    ICE CREAM in front of the garage, it's my mom, and my late aunt June I think.​
     
  21. Mr.Quadratic
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    FARMING COUNTRY

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    What kind of granny gear did this have?

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    And is this a trailor (left side)with more hay to tow behind? Farmers worked HARD back them, but there was a unity among them

     
  22. Mr.Quadratic
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    Horse Shoes

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    No Playstation, X-box, cell phone apps....
     
  23. jroberts
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    I remember the first time I saw this movie. I was about 6 years old. My dad was stationed in Salzburg, Austria at the time and we were vacationing in Berchtesgaden, Germany staying at the General Walker Hotel (A place Hitler used to stay in and is seen in many of the old WWII German war films.). Our family often lived in trailers when in the states and my mom and dad got a kick out the antics Ricky went through pulling that Blue Moon trailer. My mom thought the Blue Moon brand was like the Cadillac of house trailers.
     
  24. Mr.Quadratic
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    I wonder how many government agencies....

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    Would be here to inspect for disease, germ, kids near by?
    because....

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    It's right in front of the local store, I think I'll get some 'FRO-JOY' ice cream!​
     
  25. jroberts
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    I agree and I am sure my family does too. They always hated going to movies where I found incorrect car stuff ( and being a history teacher I couldn't historically incorrect stuff go by either).
     
  26. Mr.Quadratic
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    Just another shot of the garage with old cars out front....

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    He sure took a lot of pics for the 1930s
    Now below...

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    This is dated, 1927, Palantine Bridge,N.Y. Grampa talking to another gas station owner.​
     
  27. Mr.Quadratic
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    Remember the pool hall in the back of the garage?

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    Time to move it.

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    Looking at these pictures, I see people just getting along with each other...

    the date may be the 40s, looking at the car in the back ground.

     
  28. Mr.Quadratic
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    Local boys

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    Outside the garage


    Now one last photo in this bunch.

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    Check out this belt sander. One big electric moter to power it.

    And somewhere in the old farm, grampa put a Hover vacumn motor on an alluminum pole, with fishing line spinning, an early 'weedeater'.
    Next trip to N.Y., I'll see it if can find it.

    thank you again, for this wonderful place to share these pictures
     
  29. Love this picture... Hey let's go over to Bob's house to play pool, I'll bring the table if you bring the beer.
     
  30. fbi9c1
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    Me too. After we see a movie with period cars in it, my wife and daughter just say "go ahead and get it over with, tell us what errors there were about the cars!" Most recently in Transformers, there is a 66 Lincoln in the part about JFK :):)
     
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