Vintage shots from days gone by!

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"Sitting behind the Portland Company foundry, this Caterpillar "60" has a 10-ton Sargent snowplow with side wing plows on each side. Here we can see how extensive the pulley system is to raise the plows."--Fletcher, David H. 'The Portland Company 1846-1982.' Charleston, S.C. : Arcadia Pub., 2002. 113

 

Used to see these things lined up at the Santa Barbara airport when I was a kid. Thought they were the neatest thing.

 

An insatiable appetite for vintage shots???

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Image courtesy of Peel's Prairie Provinces, a digital initiative of the University of Alberta Libraries ​

 

thanks wish he was still around he worked for Packard Motor car co.quite a guy

 

Back in high school, we used to laugh at guys who picked up sheep dates.





RaceRon: We're a-lookin' for that mangey no-account whut came this a-way
on a motorsickle with a side car...He made off with our date!

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Ron, I'm particularly concerned about the two desperadoes on the right.
Seems THEY came prepared with , er, uh, protection for the date.​

 

Lincoln Tunnel. Weehawken NJ to Mid-town NYC.

 

NovaDude, the drive-in theater shots in #36,662 by Empire and you are great. THANKS!
I've never seen the two black-and-whites. How can you not like the HAMB?)

Originally Posted by empire

Estimate about 1938?


Estimate about 1952?

 

some more

 

MM has been a FREQUENT subject on this HAMB thread, but 99 percent of material has concentrated on her life after stardom hit. Anyone who finds her fascinating really should read about her birth and early life, before stardom. You'll probably be very surprised by the sadness of her as a "nobody's child." (Her birth name was, in fact, Mortenson.) One can't view many of her movies without catching the unmistakable vulnerability; reading her whole story lends depth of appreciation, IMO.



Norma Jeane at 2 in 1928. California baby portrait
THANKS to the invaluable LIFE magazine.

 

12-year-old Norma in 1938, seated in front of Ana "Aunt Ana" Lower, one of Norma's
numerous foster mothers. The time spent with Ana was a sort of calm in an otherwise
tumultuous and abusive childhood. Once again, LIFE magazine recorded real life, as
we lived it. Thank you, LIFE!

 

Defense-industry worker Norma Jeane Dougherty, as shot by U.S. Army
photographer David Conover for the June 26, 1945, issue of YANK magazine,
the weekly news for U.S. military personnel. The photo was colorized for
publication, and it is contended by some that this led to modeling and pinup
work and, in 1946, a movie contract with 20th Century Fox where, eventually
she acquiesced to the screen name Marilyn Monroe, mainly because of the
phonic appeal of the "MM" alliteration. It worked, and she finally had her
first real hit with John Huston's multi-Oscar-nominated "The Asphalt Jungle,"
1950. Photo THANKS to Wikipedia and the U.S. Army.

 

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmyessssssssssssss

 

Johnson Smith Catalogue Ad, 1950s

 

Wonder Woman #7, Winter 1943, cover by HG Peter

 

This tread is the BEST thing on here!!!! Lets not spoil it by bad mouthing on of the leading role models of our era, i for one have total respect for his great body of work.....and i heard he's on the TV too.........

 

Rough House Rosie, 1927

 

Oh them? They're the 'ramrods'. Baa-dum. ​

 

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? - 1967

 

Captain America #1, 1941

 

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lena horne singer actress dancer 1940s portrait

 

eartha kitt singer actress dancer legend bad 1960s

 

Finnish Army horse sauna