Vintage shots from days gone by!

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New Hampshire circa 1900 The Wizard Tree

 

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Washington DC circa 1925 Stoneleigh Court L Street NW

 

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Note the safety net

 

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The Spirit of America







And a track over run caused by a chute failure

 

Pat Musi had the old Tick Tock in his yard in Carteret. I think it went to Europe. I wanted the rubber mat in the entrance airlock that said "Watch Your Step"

 

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The L.A. Zoot Suit Riots





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8 on the running boards,
6 inside?
3 hoodside
and ?? rear bumper

These L.A. citizens and WWll Naval/Armed Forces personnel show torn/ripped clothing during the zoot suit riots.

 

1950

 

Picture of the girl with the 'barn find' beach buggy looks modern to me :/

 

He's gonna get shot in the ass if he's not careful

 

Princess May aground on Sentinel Island Alaska, August 5, 1910

 

HAHAHA!! Now that's funny!

Doc.

 

Is this the Frank Lloyd Wright house in Pheonix?

 

The founder of Blount Seafood Corporation, F. Nelson Blount, was a collector of steam locomotive
equipment. He bought a railroad so he could be an engineer.
In 1963 Blount moved his Steamtown U.S.A. steam locomotive collection to a new site
(Steamtown was moved several times before). This latest location was a the former site of a
proposed Rutland yard in Riverside, near Bellows Falls, VT. Tracks fanning out from a turntable
provided an excellent place to display his collection of steam. Regular excursions were run
between Riverside and Chester.
Tragedy struck in 1967 when Nelson Blount was killed when his private plane crashed into a
tree in Marlborough, NH. Nelson was only 49. This event took a lot of steam out of Steamtown.
Most of the operational steam locomotives were either sold or fell into disrepair. Then, in 1970,
Vermont passed air quality regulations which prohibited steam operations. Diesel locomotives
were then used on Steamtown excursions, however, ridership fell dramatically. Despite the air
quality regulations, the Steamtown Foundation again began operating with a steam locomotive.
By 1983, Steamtown again had many (six) operating steam locomotives.
Despite the resurrection of steam locomotives, Steamtown was in financial trouble.
It was determined that the main problem was its location -- isolated from any major population
center. In 1984, Steamtown was moved to Scranton, PA. Still losing money, the Steamtown
Foundation went bankrupt in 1986.
Congress created the Steamtown National Historic Site and the National Park Service acquired
the collection.
Congress created Steamtown National Historic Site in 1986 to interpret the story of main line
steam railroading between 1850 and 1950. The park now occupies about forty acres in Scranton, Pa

These shots were taken in the summer of '75 in Bellows Falls, VT.
You can see the poor condition the site was in. I believe the former site is currently listed in
the Vermont hazardous sites list.

Talk about massive amounts of horsepower!!
The first shot is my Dad taken in front of one of the locomotives, a Union Pacific 4-8-8-4 Big Boy. They had 25 built to run the steep mountain grades of eastern Utah and western Wyoming, he is over 6 feet tall!<O</O

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Kinda funny what you see on here. My dad bought the house in the middle picture about 1964 or so. My mom refused to move "so far out of town" so he resold it. It is located on the north end of Palm Springs, wasn't long after they started on the tramway, the road leading to the bottom station was run real close to that house, dad was real glad he sold it when he did.