Vintage shots from days gone by!

Burlington Ontario Canada Russell Chevrolet

Wonder what the deal is with the attention getting little Caddy?
Wonder if it still exists? Wonder if it ran?

 

How many of you are like me and wondering if one of the rides you're seeing in these photos is the one in your garage?...

 

Josephine Baker takes her pet cheetah, Chiquita, for a walk (1931).

 

The “Old” Main Library. The Main Library has occupied a prominent position in downtown Cincinnati since 1874, when a new building was constructed at 629 Vine Street. Considered the most magnificent public library building in the United States at the time, “Old Main” featured one element similar to today’s library: a towering atrium with a skylight ceiling. Of the dramatic atrium,Harpers Weekly said “The first impression made upon the mind on entering this hall is the immense capacity for storing books in its five tiers of alcoves, and then the eye is attracted and gratified by its graceful and carefully studied architecture…” The building closed in 1955, when the “New Main Library,”located at 800 Vine Street, opened. More detailed information about the history of the building can be found in Free & Public: One Hundred and Fifty Years at the Public Library of Cincinnati & Hamilton County by John Fleischman.

Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County
800 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202-2009

 

The Return of the Kings

 

Lilliput. The smallest man in the world, the 21-year-old Midget, 1929

 

Auto Expo, 1969.

 

Smoke and Buicks, 1915 by George Grantham Bain

 

In 1886, the city of Atlanta passed a short-lived law prohibiting the sale and/or manufacture of alcohol. In response, a pharmacist named John Pemberton created a faux wine, mixing together fruit flavors with extracts from kola nuts (caffeine) and coca leaves (cocaine). He dispensed it via soda fountains—at the time, carbonated water was believed to have medicinal benefit—and with that, Coca-Cola was born.

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Bringing Up Baby - 1938

 

Carmen Miranda performing at the NBC Studios — New York, 1939

 

The Everly Brothers

 

Carol Lombard

 

Joanna Lumley

 

Bette Davis caught in a candid moment.

 

Whats with the hooded bloke in the forground?

 

I Care.
Thank You.

 

I remember seeing that car in town with all of the win stickers. looks like WOODBRIDGE HIGH in the background.

 

I care...

 

Cool dealership shots. Griffith Olds in KC (#41517) is long gone, but Clasen-Morse is now McCarthy-Morse and still peddling those bow-ties.

 

And that's Glendale Grand Central Terminal in the background.
The airport is gone but the Terminal still stands.

 

Yes, I'm pretty sure that's her. She was known for riding long distances on her Harley Davidson motorcycles. She was probably the first well known black female rider.

 

She's my second cousin once removed or something like that.