Vintage shots from days gone by!

"What we GOT here is ... a FAILURE ... ta COMMUNICATE!"

 

Don't know about anybody else, but I just can't help thinking: In a perfect world ,
wouldn't it have been great it all cars "parked" permanently in junkyards, behind
barns, etc., have been tucked inside a piece of concrete pipe??? How MANY more
decent project cars would we have now?

 

You can surely tell that this is a GENUINE "Hooverville"! Not one car owner in the whole ramshackle slum!



RoadKill, great pix man, as always! Any idea WHERE the following were shot?

 

What red-blooded family is there that doesn't like family get-togethers, picnics, cookouts
and barbeque??? I'd guess the pic to be about 1935. THANKS to FriscoFinder!



Postcard photo THANKS to SendingSunshine!
This reminds me of the fun when we'd get to-
gether at my granny and grandad's place in the
country in the '50s and early '60s. About a day
ahead, the men folk would put a watermelon in
a big bucket and put it down the well to chill
until we were ready to cut it for dessert!

 

Maybe recently back from the war and enjoying family life again?
Photo thanks to ThePerfectGift, recently sold on eBay.




Even city folk have always liked a barbeque! This one from the '30s on a New York
rooftop is THANKS to FrenchTowner of eCirque, an online company that makes
available for publication thousands of images shot commercially over years past.

 

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A barbeque is THE chance to really be yourself and get relaxed! ​

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The fella above looks as though he could be in step on the golf​

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course, eh? The fellas below represent the OTHER side of the ​

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fashion coin! Well, AT LEAST they're not wearing Bermuda ​

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shorts, gartered white socks and sandals!!! ​

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For SWI! Image THANKS to K.M. Robbins
of DownHomeFoodie!

 

Don't get me started......

 

Parking at Old Orchard Beach, ca. 1920

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Airplane swings, Riverton Park, Portland,Maine 1924

 

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Dave Glovsky, popularly known as Dave the Guesser, worked from 1945 to the 1990s at Old Orchard Beach operating a popular guessing booth. He used signs such as this one to attract visitors. This sign reads, "Do You Drive? Let me guess the make of your car - American Foreign."

 

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Eastern Maine General Hospital (EMGH) pictured in 1953

 

Lobster trap mill, Steep Falls, 1946

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A fleet of delivery trucks are parked at the Maine Baking Company in Auburn. Philippe Couture was the proprietor.

 

I've been that close. even stood at the door and walked through it!

 

Let me guess.....he was NOT a signpainter.

 

Postcards from Syracuse NY,

Thanks to syracusethenand now
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All that's left........other than some dilapitrated ruins

 

Sometime in the 30's Title: Gunder Rust's snowmobile near Alkobo N.D.
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Gypsum mine, USG Oakfield



The Boulder Park elephant with wicker basket on the popular carousel ride at Indian Falls, circa 1960.