Vintage shots from days gone by!

awesome pics man ,terrific .....i saved some on pc ...

 

The sheep is actually Denise Diplock at 15.
She went to Norwalk High, class of 72..

 

Hate to correct you but...it is actually a 1955 Eldorado Brougham concept car that was at the 1955 Motorama. I've seen it on a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pYIpZAwFz8&feature=related

...and more pics:
http://www.carstyling.ru/en/car/1955_cadillac_eldorado_brougham/

On the front, the production Broughams had a different styling on the headlight bezels plus there was some sort of round thing below the lights.

 

,,,,Maybe the guy already had his Beer Goggles on ,,,

 

Returned servicemen making a motorcycle side-car at Fewing and Company's factory, Christchurch, [ca 1920]
Reference Number: 1/1-019509-G
Unidentified returned servicemen making a motorcycle side-car at Fewing and Company's factory, Christchurch, taken by Steffano Webb, circa 1920.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=109223&recordNum=0&q=motorcycles+returned+servicemen&s=a&l=mi




Clyno motorcycle, [ca 1920]
Reference Number: 1/1-008536-G
Clyno motorcycle with a wicker sidecar and passengers, including a dog. Photograph taken circa 1920, by a photographer for The Press newspaper, probably in the Christchurch region.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=5232&recordNum=1&t=items&q=clyno&s=a&l=mi



Group around a Zenith motorcycle with sidecar; location unidentified, [ca 1930]
Reference Number: 1/2-024679-G
Photographer unidentified. Includes Steib pattern chair, probably with J A P engine.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=97158&recordNum=0&q=zenith+motorcycle&s=a&l=mi



Group on motorcycles in Paraparaumu, [ca 1913]
Reference Number: 1/2-071053-F
Group on motorcycles in Paraparaumu. Includes Harry and Georgina Heffer on a Douglas motorcycle with sidecar (in front), a child on a tricycle, Mr Vaughan with children (middle), and Mrs Vaughan (back). Photograph taken circa 1913 by an unidentified photographer.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=40546&recordNum=2&q=motorcycles+paraparaumu&s=a&l=mi



Man painting the sign at the entrance to the newly opened Kilbirnie Stadium, Wellington, 1929
Reference Number: 1/4-032457-G
Man painting the sign at the entrance to Kilbirnie Stadium, Wellington. Taken by an unidentified photographer in 1929.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=22568&recordNum=1&q=painting+stadium&s=a&l=mi



Group with bicycles and motorcycles outside the business of James Tasker Harris, motor and cycle engineer, on Sumner Road, Redcliffs, Christchurch, ca 1925
Reference Number: 1/1-023957-G
Two men (Mr Harris on right?) and a boy, with a row of bicycles and motorcycles standing outside the business premises of James Tasker Harris on Sumner Road, Redcliffs, Christchurch. The one storied wooden shop is on the corner of the street, alongside houses. A sign on the front reads: "J T Harris, Motor & cycle engineer". "Barnet Glass" is advertised on one side. On the right is a motorbike with a sidecar. On the left a poster advertises Everbody's (cinema?) and the (film?) "The Sea Wolf".

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=34669&recordNum=1&t=items&q=sumner+redcliffs&s=a&l=mi



Harry Heffer and his wife Georgina with motorcycles outside their home, Paraparaumu, [ca 1913]
Reference Number: 1/2-071000-F
Waikanae blacksmith Harry Heffer sitting on one of two motorcycles in a driveway (a Douglas motorcycle with sidecar), while his wife Georgina looks on from the verandah of their Paraparaumu house. Photograph taken circa 1913 by an unidentified photographer.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=40545&recordNum=0&q=harry+heffer&s=a&l=mi



Creator unknown hotograph of group with motorcyles on the shoreline of an unidentified river, [ca 1920]
Reference Number: 1/2-037561-G
A group of Maori men, women, and children, with motorcycles on the shoreline of an unidentified river, possibly in Northland. The boys and girls are sitting on the ground on a flax mat covered with a fur skin, while the young men and women lean against motor bikes, including Indian Powerplus combinations, a British single (second right), and a Triumph. Photograph taken circa 1920, by an unidentified photographer.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=43443&recordNum=0&q=motorcycles+shoreline&s=a&l=mi



Indian motorcycle, [ca 1914]
Reference Number: 1/1-019924-G
A 1914 Indian 1000 cc motorcycle with rider, sidecar, and a passenger. Photograph taken circa 1914 by Sydney Charles Smith, probably in Wellington.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=87781&recordNum=5&q=Indian+motorcycle&s=a&l=mi



Motorcycle display, possibly Invercargill, [192-?]
Reference Number: 1/1-011119-G
Motorcycle display at a motor vehicle show, circa 1920, possibly in Invercargill. Signs advertise the businesses of Wilson and Fraser (of Invercargill); J Bath and sons; Triumph Motors; Johnson's prepared wax; and Dunlop tyres. Photograph taken by Samuel Heath Head.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=88559&recordNum=2&q=motorcycle+display&s=a&l=mi



Motorcyles and riders at a show, probably Christchurch region; includes a BSA solo and a Harley Davidson with a sidecar, [ca 1926]
Reference Number: 1/1-005674-G

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=96906&recordNum=22&q=motorcycles+show&s=a&l=mi



Indian motorcycles outside the premises of P C Price, cycle importers, Stratford, 1915
Reference Number: 1/1-012816-G
Indian motorcycles outside the premises of P C Price, cycle importers, Stratford. Both of the motocycles are being ridden by women, and the one nearest to the footpath has a sidecar attached. A sign advertising Ah Ping, fruiterer, is next to the cycle shop. Photograph taken by James McAlister in 1915.

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=11887&recordNum=10&q=Indian+motorcycle&s=a&l=mi



Motorcycle rally, New Brighton beach, Christchurch, [ca 1920]
Reference Number: 1/1-007225-G
Motorcycle rally, New Brighton beach, Christchurch, circa 1920, photographed by Samuel Heath Head. One rider wears a shirt advertising the "Excelsior Autocycle".

http://mp.natlib.govt.nz/detail/?id=88457&recordNum=1&q=motorcycle+brighton&s=a&l=mi

 

man cave or stalkers lair

 

Yep, saw the bucket-T too, but I knew what that was. Not sure what the Rambler/Rogue is across the drive. Looks too much like a SC/Rambler, or one of the Mexican SC/Ramblers that were built with no scoop and a 6 cylinder.

 

Awsome pictures, ehdubya...thanks!!

 

This must be Nurburgring, eh? I remember seeing the jumping cars at certain "photo opportunity" places. What you can't hear in a photo are the engines gaining several hundred revs in the process. That always blew me away. Gary

 

The Ice Cream Parlor is now vacant as well...............

You don't know what you've lost till it's gone............

 

One season in 1948 before being ruined by high winds. Located near where the Transit Drive In is today

 

Now Regal Cinemas and Imax theater

 

Now a BJ's Wholesale

There was also a Fun N'Games amusement park there, and a Twin Fair Store

Thanks to NY Drive Ins.com for all of these

 

Niagara Drive In is now a Verizon Wireless and a Starbucks

 

lasted longer than most............but now a medical building.
Torn down 2007

 

Now a plaza

 

Now Allied Frozen Storage

 

Could be Nurburgring. But I'm pretty sure that it's Graham Hill chasing Jimmy Clark, both driving the new 3 litre Lotus. You can tell from the position of the velocity stacks that these are the new for 1966 3 litre engines.

 

I'm 99% sure it is the Nurburgring, I think the hill is called "Flugplatz" for " Flying Place". But that is Graham Hill following teammate Jackie Stewart-Clark never drove for BRM.

 

Sure looks like some kind of hot rod roadster! one year of the scramblers was built without the scoop and some were built without the red white and blue paint scheme.I no longer have my AMC published history book but I remember reading that a friend of mine was a huge AMC fan he even owned stock in the company moved from scramblers to Javelins

 

I've found this 1857 photo fascinating and have intended to post it for a long time. I just
needed time to find a little background info about the subject shown. COMMENTS wel-
come!!! It is from the vast catalogue shot by famed Minneapolis photographer Edward
Bromley and was finally publish in a circa 1890 Bromley Collection and is now in the
collections of the Minnesota History Society, as I understand. I ran across it on a keen
site called Chuck's Toyland.

It depicts a band of fur traders who used oxcarts in the fur trade on the northern Red
River, mainly in the region of North Dakota, Manitoba and territory of the old Hudson's
Bay Company. This must have been a tough life, considering the number of frost days
still can exceed 150 days each year. Interestingly, I think I do see a bedstead loaded on
the carts. Does this suggest that these folks stayed in one place seasonally and drove
furs to market in, maybe, the spring? Given the year, I'm also wondering if Bromley
shot on glass plates and printed his photos on tin? Tin or paper, I'll bet after his field
work, he did all of the printing back in the city in his darkroom, rather than carrying dark-
room equipment with him on what had to have been some pretty rough forays afield! I
hope everybody enjoys Bromley's photo half as much as I have, but I still have so many
questions about the content, for sure.

 

Another 1857 Bromley photo that gets my vote for CLASSIC status! This semi-formal
family portrait is just priceless, showing a slice of life and its trappings, just four years
before the civil war's outbreak! This would have been in the Minneapolis region,
though I cannot GUESS just how far Bromley ranged during his period of greatest
activity, from about 1849 to 1885. I'm transfixed studying this photo! The folks' period
handmade clothing (Sunday-go-to-meetin' wardrobe, ya reckon?) and the fence of
saplings are great. BUT, the cabin is a WONDERFUL example of the earliest log-cabin
construction methods -- save for the fact that these folks apparently did well enough
to be able to afford double-hung glass windows! The logs are round, not with any mill-
hewn faces, as on later cabins. And those are hand-split wooden shakes on the neat
roof there. I'd give a dollar to know just WHEN this log home was ACTUALLY built --
a decade earlier? Two? Again, THANKS to Chuck's Toyland!

 

Jimi, to answer you're question, I could safely say pictures would have been made onto "Tin plates ". These would have been easier to transport safely as opposed to the Glass plates I have come accross in the Meuseuem business. I build exibits for a couple of historical societies . scrubba

 

Well that's actually Denise Diplock at 15.
She went to Norwalk High, class of 72..

 

That's the original Ford dealership in Calgary Alberta Located somewhere along 9th ave S.E.
I believe the building still stands but the face has changed.


Your pic is a vastly improved pic of this original dated June 4 1914

 

Gary Cooper and his hot rod.


Sent from my POS phone.

 

Apparently someone working at the Library of Congress cleaned it up; that's where I sourced it. They did a great job on it.

 

Gee now you have gone and done it. I live in Calgary and now I have to figure out exactly where this building is located. It definitely is not in the S.W. area as that would put in in present day downtown. I think it would have to be somewhere in the S.E section of the city. The area is now known as Inglewood and was supposed to be the downtown section of the new city until CP rail arrived. The pioneer settlers of Calgary got wind that the railway was on the way and figured on making a few dollars off the railway. CP Rail got wind of this and said noway and literally moved lock,stock,& barrel across the Elbow River to where present day Calgary stands. They built the railroad station where the currant Calgary Tower stands today on 9 Ave X Centre Street. Anyone who wished to be part of the growing city was forced to move their businesses across the river. Inglewood has buildings dating back to the 1890s and is undergoing a massive restoration and is one of the trendier areas of the city. Houses that were basically slums are now been restored to their former spendor