Vintage shots from days gone by!

some more

 

Still more to come

 

I'm into the Os now

 

Getting closer to done.

 

This should be the last bunch for a while, make good use of them?

 

Before and after Lee Bible's fatal '29 run, Daytona Beach

 

And, as if Roadkill's raft of woodies didn't ALREADY pump up NovaDude's blood pressure! Two more:



Jacksonville, FL, blood bank, 1946



At the entrance of the Hillsborough River State Park, Thonotosassa, FL

 

As if there's not ENOUGH destruction in a junkyard!!! Must have been one BRAVE photographer to keep a steady hand for this shot in the early or mid-'50s at Texas City, near Galveston!

 

The shot is from 1947 and that is not a junkyard! It is after the explosion but not before. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_Disaster

 

Sorry to hear about your father-in-law RoadKill,, my condolences.
ps,, thanks for the wood-ies

 

What a coincidence finding a "Phoenix" hosiery ad on HAMB. The old Phoenix building still exists in Milwaukee - I do some work on it once and awhile. Although its been converted into office space, they still have the old hosiery ads posted up in the hallways

 

Holy crap, RoadKill. Even though everybody and his/her brother had seen the devastion
of the atomic bomb in late-'45, THIS had to have been a jaw-dropping shock. Shit! One
HAS to wonder how the blasts would equate in MEGATONS. Seems somewhere between
the Halifax blast and the Alfred P. Mura Building sabotage.



The parking lot was a quarter-mile from the April 18, '47 explosion, and the five story factory
below was near Slip #1 of the harbor. Both pix thanks to Wikipedia, via the "Courtesy of Special
Collections, University of Houston Libraries."

 

Shit! has always been a problem in shipping. The ammonia in it anyways. Thats how we got the term "SHIT" because of the they would ship crap they would mark it Ship High In Transit. To keep it from being put in holds below deck where it could get wet and burn.

 

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Whoa, that was an unbelievable story. Thanks for the link, I had never heard of that disaster before. S.H.I.T.

 

Got behind on my reading - just spent several hours going through the last 30+ pages
Some really cool stuff!!

Here's my ex-father in law in the late twenties / /early thirties Valley Stream, NY

 

YEP!!---I was riding my 1947 whizzer motorbike when that happened, not much TV at that time, but all the L.A. newspapers carried lots of pix showing all the disaster!!

 

them melons sure are juicy....mmmmm

 

There's positively no monkey business here. Transports just delivered two loads of new Studebakers - Coupes, 4 Door Sedans, Station Wagons, Champions, Commanders, Land Cruisers. Come in! Take your pick! They're moving fast, so you'd better hurry. Whattoff Motor Company - serving Ames' automotive needs for more than a quarter century. Studebaker and Packard sales and service.

 

The first shots are 5C, 3C-type Citroën torpedo bodied, from 1922-25, very reliable and popular in Europe. The secomd appears a to be a custom- made racer wth stretched WB.
The Opel is a smart 1936 Blitz model : It was later "re-incarnated" by the Russians as the postwar Moskvitch 400.

 

Italian Engineer and race driver Piero Taruffi with TARF Gilera-powered Bisiluro of his own design, setting records in Montlhery autodrome. 1954.

 

Italian Engineer and race driver Piero Taruffi with TARF 500 cc Gilera-powered Bisiluro of his own design, setting records in Montlhery autodrome. middle 50's

 

The famous (For all the wrong reason) V2 bomb that the Germans fired on London held 1 Ton of Ammonium Nitrate based explosive. This was enough to destroy an entire block of residential buildings.
To have a whole ship go up? I couldn't even imagine it, and I worked on a Military Bomb range for a while too!!

Doc.

 

No the Opel is a Olympia the opel that russians
made as the Moskovitch vas the Kadett similar
but smaler
The Blitz was the opel trucks

 

Great post!!!

 

Is that on the way back from Suffregette City?

Doc.

 

I really like those car haulers! Just don't get to see pics of them too often. I've saved this pic to my car hauler album. Thanks!

 

This picture speeks to me for some reason.

 

Photo THANKS to JosephRah12BuzzNet.



Photo THANKS to DavidBowieDoingShit.Tumbler.

Ever pushing the edge of the envelope, to make a
statement, forge a new creative path, spit in the eye of
convention -- or just for shock value and image-
enhancing prestige -- David Bowie (David Robert Jones)
is one of relatively few who have declined the honor of
knighthood. What better way to be a rebel (or portray
yourself as one) than to get cheeky with the queen???
A few others who did likewise include actors Trevor
Howard and Albert Finney, Irish playwright George
Bernard Shaw, futurist author Alduous Huxley and
architect Charles Holden (famous for declining TWICE!).

Love him or just go, "WTF?" you have to admit, it's
always been hard NOT to watch and see what "Bowie"
was up to at any given time. Me? Whether he was
morphing through a transient pseudo-alient alter ego,
busting out alternative rock while wearing a tight skirt,
or taking on disparate, challenging acting roles, he has
always passed my base rule of thumb: Not BORING,
always "entertaining." If nothing else, he surely seems
to have made a ton of dough and had a hoot hanging
out with luminaries, while following his notions, wherever
they took him!




As Jareth, the Goblin King, in "Labyrinth," thanks
to DavidBowieDoingShit.Tumbler.



Fair-use of artwork for Bowie's '72 concept
album, "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust
and the Spiders From Mars," presented here
for the sake of commentary and discussion
only. THANKS to Wikipedia for the image!

 

Of course you are right Heo2 !.
The Opel shown is actually the two-door Olympia version of the early 50's. Moskvitch-400/420 series (1946-56) are apparently the copy of the former Olympia series OL-38.