Vintage shots from days gone by!

LMAO! I was going to say that!

 

Here's a vintage shot from days gone by & of Christmas past... Drag Racing Underground's John Gill, seated on the lap of an extremely lackadaisical and intoxicated Shopping Mall "Santa Claus"... John claims that "Santa" smelled as if he was boozing it up since the previous year's Christmas!... "Santa" was so "sauced up" that he could barely sit up straight!... This historical mid 1960's photograph comes from a time when it was okay for "Santa" to be loaded, and a reindeer ride was a far more robust and reckless experience than today...



my daily drag racin' blog...
http://www.dragracingunderground.com/~dragrac/index.php?option=com_myblog&Itemid=27

 

Did anybody take note of the sign atop the factory building with all the trees stacked in the foreground? "Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Co. Machinery and Tools." Still leaders in precision measurement, the place where Henry Leland learned his trade before going on to run Cadillac and found Lincoln.

 

Hamtramck 1952

 

I would say 1940s.

 

This is the headquarters of Motown Records. The famous 'snake pit' recording studio was in the basement of this building. I wonder what tune they were cutting while this photo was being taken?

 

Be careful kid you'll poke your eye out.

 

Be careful kid you'll poke your eye out.

 

Reprise time! It was just about this time a year ago when we had a spirited exchange
about this INSTANT CLASSIC photo, shot by Marion Post Wolcott and posted here by
WVaEnfield, Mazooma or NovaDude -- can't remember. Though this is NOT the street
from "It's a Wonderful Life," we agreed that the observer almost expects a distraught
and hatless Jimmy Stewart to come a'running out some door into the middle of the
street! If I understood correctly, Twin6 knows the real-life name of the Vermont town
where Wolcott shot the photo (Woodstock, VT?). I'll give him a jingle if he doesn't
check back in this Christmas evening. MERRY CHRISTMAS to regulars & all visitors!

 

Poster thanks to WikiMedia



Still thanks to InternetMovieDatabase



Still thanks to Online-Inquirer

 

That's correct, Jimi, and thanks for re-posting this classic!

 

Some irony here, eh? A shop that sells four-wheel hydraulic brakes using as a delivery vehicle something that might charitably be said to have two-wheel mechanical brakes.

-Dave

 

old orange county ca














and a story for the next pic, njoy :

Fish Scales And Bikinis
by DON ROBERSON
By
Don Roberson
When my father moved our family to Newort Beach in 1957 my brother and I were immediately befriended by a bunch of guys at Newport Harbor High. One of the guys was Grant Hornbeak, a quarterback on the football team and an accomplished golfer (he later won the Club Championship at Santa Ana CC).
Horny (as we called him) had a ’56 Ford and drove us to school almost every day. It was a 2 block trip. He also lived on Lido Island where he had many contacts. One of them was a Mr. Felton on Via Lido Soud.
Mr. Felton lived on the bayfront with his private dock and a cool yacht made just for fishing, the kind with a flying bridge and its own bait tank.
Mr. Felton fished every Friday with his buddy (I think his name was Mr. Jewell).
The boat came back covered with sea salt and fish scales. Mr. Felton was a perfectionist and paid guys to clean up every Saturday. Horny’s dad recommended the Roberson Boys for the job.
As high school kids in Newport we all needed a litte WAM (Walk Around Money) to buy Nui Nui burgers at the Snack Shop, Big Boys at Bobs and ice cream at Wil Wrights. Working for Mr. Felton was our source of WAM.
The job was basically OK; swabbing the decks, wiping down the hull with a chamois and removing fish scales from the aluminum rails. We were expected to be there at 8am sharp and were paid the same day.
Then came those autumn mornings when the fog hung like a cheap suit over Newport Harbor. It was football season and the Harbor High Sailors just got pummeled by the Anaheim High Colonists on Friday night. The last thing I wanted to do on a Saturday morning in November was to remove fish scales from Mr. Felton’s yacht. I couldn’t stop thinking about those big Dutch farm boys from Anaheim running over the beach kids from Newport. My sore muscles were a reminder compounded by the damp air.
Then Spring came. The sun would break through and it was track season. Time to put on the shorts and run for the Tars Track Team. Also the time of year when young ladies preview the seasons swimwear.
And so it was that Mr. Felton’s neighbor, a Mr. Bergen, would come to his Lido Island vacation home from his place in Beverly Hills. The Saturday morning clean up job became much more bearable. Harbor High won most of its track meets and who could complain about working on a private yacht on Lido?
The job also had its perks. Mr. Felton turned out to be a very generous guy and Mr. Bergen had a teenage daughter who would sun bathe on the dock while I removed the fish scales.
I didn’t know until later that the statuesque girl was Candice Bergen, star of the silver screen and television.
A pleasant memory indeed!











more pics here: http://ochistorical.blogspot.com/2011_03_01_archive.html

 

What brand is the truck between the two White fire engines?

 

wasnt me, i remember it, extremely eerie, yet calm, evokes a lot of emotion

 

ok, i am goin to say Blue,,,,
lol jk
need to reference a post in order to help on this,, use quote feature

 

Speedway riders (from left) Jack Arnott, George Corneal, Bill Allen, Wally Kilmister and Max Graham, with AJS motorcycle, photographed ca March 1929 by Crown Studios of Wellington

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id...items&q=motor+race&f=|genreid$583491&s=a&l=mi

 

Ford truck, circa 1918, photographed in Christchurch by Samuel Heath Head. The truck is parked alongside Boon & Co, who did the coachwork.


http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=26552&recordNum=5&q=truck&f=|genreid$583491&s=a&l=mi

 

Chevrolet house-truck/caravan photographed in 1927 by Mark Lampe for Tesla Studios, probably in the Wanganui district.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=53790&recordNum=10&q=truck&f=|genreid$583491&s=a&l=mi

 

1938 D series, International Truck, used by the Atlantic Union Oil Company. Probably taken in Wellington, circa 1939

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=27266&recordNum=25&q=truck&f=|genreid$583491&s=a&l=mi

 

Premises of coachbuilders H Chapman & Co, Nelson, and truck of E Funnel & Co, carriers, alongside. Photograph taken by Frederick Nelson Jones, circa 1920.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=26507&recordNum=13&q=truck&f=|genreid$583491&s=a&l=mi

 

Truck, with passengers on the back, on the Mangaroa Hill Road, Upper Hutt. Shows the vehicle on an unsealed road, facing the camera. Photograph taken in 1927

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=33961&recordNum=23&q=truck&f=|genreid$583491&s=a&l=mi

 

From the movie "Cool Hand Luke":

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'Big Tree' petrol tanker alongside S Wright & Co, carriers of Wanganui, circa 1920s. Photograph probably taken by either Frank J Denton or Mark Lampe.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=26511&recordNum=11&q=truck&f=|genreid$583491&s=a&l=mi

 

International truck parked alongside Bath's Garage, circa 1926, probably in the Christchurch region. Signs on the side of the truck read: "Bellbird. G Heads proprietor"

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=27283&recordNum=1&q=truck&f=|genreid$583491&s=a&l=mi