Vintage shots from days gone by!

Maybe dirty fuel injectors????

 

Gee I love a good roadster...

 

It was pretty good where I live two bombs during the whole war, and even I am not old enough to remember them. Some food rationing lasted until 1954 and I think that was when gas rationing stopped. By the mid fifty's when things were improving, with rock n roll music, and American movies America suddenly became the centre of the universe

 

Anyone know what was going on here? Los Angeles in what appears to be '41. The photo label says "buses to Santa Anita", but look at all the stuff stacked on the curb. I wonder what that was about.

 

is this a 55 or 56?

 

Launch Ad for the 1934 Ford V8 De Luxe Roadster at Milnerton, Cape Town, South Africa.

 

FBI9c1 looks like the internment of japenese.

 

thats what it is all right

 

Wow, thanks. Upon closer examination of the people in the photo, I see that is exactly what it is.

 

White64 said: Gee I love a good roadster...


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Yo, White64! All true HAMBers FEEL your pain, ya know?
But... we all respect a guy who knows how to as...sess a good roadster!

(Now, if we could just get the 500 underway! though I know no HAMBers
like that silly mid-winter race in Florida, nor the silly May race when we
would really rather cook our weiners, eat baked beans and drink socially
acceptable beverages.)

 

April 30, 1942: Buses line up at 23rd Street and Vermont Avenue to carry 600 Japanese to the temporary internment
camp at Santa Anita racetrack. This photo was published in the May 1, 1942, Los Angeles Times.



more at this link
http://framework.latimes.com/2012/0...japanese-american-internment-in-world-war-ii/





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Wow ! What an amazing collection of great old photos. They really take me back to a nicer place in time. The black and white really adds to the aura of time and the early color shots with those soft muted tones is every bit as cool. Keep em coming they really make me smile.

 

Thanks moefuz for supplying these answers, I was just going to post them.

 

yes this was one of Americas darkest moments thats Japanes Americans being transported to "interment Camps " Santa Anita race track was one "Holding Facility" where rounded up Japanese people were held till wars end they lost everything the owned they could not bring with them. Through marriage I have a Japanese cousin from Hawaii that is Niesie(SP?) First generation born there that joined the military and when he got home on leave would have to visit his family in one of these camps. No other "Enemy" of the U.S. got this treatment Germans,Italians etc. werenever treated like this during the war .

 

A very interesting automobile. A gentleman in Lumberton, North Carolina owns one. He owned the last Studebaker dealership there as well.

 

No one else attacked the main land of the USA

 

Yes, we just watched War of the Worlds the other day. I never saw it when I was a kid but I remember the previews and posters at the theater. It was great fun and the flying wing footage was cool.

The prop driven wings were the XB and B-35's and the jet version was the B-49. Sadly, all were destroyed.