Vintage shots from days gone by!

"I like short shorts..."

 

Yup, that's probably right. I tried the same thing a few times and they wouldn't open. Ended up using photbucket. It takes time but the great pics and stories are worth the effort. ron

 

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Taken on 08/01/59 and we'll be celebrating our 52nd anniversary in a couple of weeks .....

 

Those two gals have PERFECT legs. Feet on one end and...never mind.

 

Congrats Bullet Nose, love the pick.

 

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LN7 NUT.
Thanks for persevering with the dealership photos, they were well worth the effort, just great

Ross,

 

rare wood !
Jimmie: A 1942 Mercury Woodie Wagon. Only 792 produced and at a price of $2,955.00, you get the Deluxe, the top of the line at the time. The average price of an automobile in 1942 was $1,100.00. At the time, the only factory built woodie wagon, with timber from Ford’s own lands on Iron Mountain Hill on Lake Superior. Solid, strong, wood, durability grown in upstate Michigan
Ref: http://www.curbsideclassic.com/curb...ic-1942-mercury-woody-wagon-an-american-icon/

 

I've been to their old factory in Iron Mountain Michigan, saw a lot of cool stuff... joked how it would have been cool if there was still woody parts in the building, several years later i find out that there actually was... damn...

 

In this day it's incredible to think of 1/2 of 1% sales tax, $8.79 on a $1757.00 bill. Here in California, now, it would be $153.00 just in taxes!

 

http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/m/monart/monart.htm"

 

Bulletnose, great pic for your one-thousandth post! 52 years, wow! Shows
that the lovely Mrs. Bulletnose is a fine, fine human being! As of Sunday, July
17, Mrs. Jimi'sHemi will have put up with ME for 40 years without killing me,
for which I'm grateful. I wish every guy could be blessed with such great
mates for life as we have been blessed with! CONGRATS!

 

Wow, NovaDude! Nice car, but when you stop to realize that ONE dollar in 1942 equals about 13 U.S. dollars TODAY, That woody would be nearly $41,000!

Hmmmmmmmm! Come to think of it, I believe I know a 'Dude in California who'd probably mortgage the ranch to buy this car in NEW condition for $41,000 TODAY!

(Am I right?)

 

Henry had numerous locations around Michigan where lumber was harvested for cars and - charcoal as a side product. Wifey and I visited the Alberta MI 'company camp' that he created; the old mill and many of the houses have been preserved.

It's a bit out of the way, near L'Anse and Baraga in Michigan's Upper Penninsula but is quite interesting. The facility was donated to Michigan Tech years ago. Here's the link with many pictures of the area: http://www.baragacountyhistoricalmuseum.com/photohistory/alberta.html

 

John, the link you gave on Post #27,909 leads to a FAB article by the son of the lady pictured above
(He goes by LongRoofFan). IT'S A MUST-READ for woody fans! This photo is just CLASSIC! Seems
to transport the viewer back all those decades. Wow. There's also a bushel of great color pix of one
of the THREE coachbuilt Mercs that have been restored, out of only 10 known to remain in existence.
Awesome all around. THANKS for the link. (PS: One of the restored cars sold in 2000 for $75,000.
Now, just 11 years later, that equates to just shy of $100,000.)

[PPS: ANYBODY know of a computer program (somePhotoShop tool?) that could bring a bit of crisp-
ness to the above photo? Typical Brownie snapshot quality. Too bad it could not have been taken
with a larger-format Rolleicord or Rolleiflex!]

 

Ron, you touched on a very good point. Revere him or denigrate him, anybody and everybody would have to agree that Henry Ford was an interesting, complex, even convoluted human being. I am fascinated by the many, many varied things he dabbled in, some to make money, some he hoped would change the world even more than the original Model T had done. Not to digress on this great thread, but does anybody know if there's been a thorough HAMB thread on the life and times of ol' Hank? (There was a brief one a few weeks back, but it was not a "big picture" approach or theme, just from a business standpoint.) It would be interesting to see how the forthright HAMB community would address such a complex personality.



Looks like an elderly Henry in the 1940s. Clara appears in good
health, and that appears to be Edsel's son, Henry Ford II, filling
out the Ford photo-op. Photo THANKS to henryford.webnode.

 

Does anyone know what the sign on the side of Emmert Chevrolet's building mean?

BUMPING & PAINTING​

 

It refers to body work, metal bumping. I've read the term used but never saw it myself, might be a regional thing. In Australia, body work is referred to as panel beating.

 

Ryan posted a lot of stuff about Henry over on the Ford Barn; others have also posted there about the family.

My dad was just a few years older than Henry II and grew up in the area where Edsel's 'resort' (I think it's now called Haven Hill) was located in SE Michigan. Dad told me he remembered "... those Ford kids out from the city, raisin' hell..." on the estate. Probably more than just the Ford kids were out there, but dad isn't here anymore to confirm or add to his stories.

When I was a kid in the 50s and early 60s we used have 2 week tent-camps and would ride horses on the old Ford estate, much of which had been donated to the state, I think in the 40s. Much of it was open only to foot, horse and bicycle traffic at the time. I remember some of the buildings had fallen into disrepair but much has now been restored.

I currently live about 15-20 miles from that area.

Ron

 

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