Vintage shots from days gone by!

Harry Belafonte and Dorothy Dandridge in “Carmen Jones” (1954)

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Missouri, 1945



arizona1960



New York City, 1947

 

New York City, 1944



Gatlinburg, Tennessee (1960s)



1960s california

 

washington state1954



Nevada drive-in, 1951



texas1940s

 

1960 Mustang .... pretty rare ...... gotcha!!!

 

If you have never seen this movie then you are really missing out, funnier than shit!@

 

1965 Mustang 2dr HT (note plastic insert in fuel cap). One of 490,260 assembled.

Casablanca was filmed in 1942, released early in 1943 (WB:1943).

 

Dogs Playing Poker refers collectively to a series of sixteen oil paintings by C. M. Coolidge, commissioned in 1903 by Brown & Bigelow to advertise cigars.<SUP id=cite_ref-0 class=reference>[1]</SUP> All the paintings in the series feature anthropomorphized dogs, but the nine in which dogs are seated around a card table have become derisively well-known in the United States as examples of mainly working-class taste in home decoration.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_Playing_Poker

 

I would venture to guess that was around 1966 at the earliest since there is a 66 Impala next to the building






arizona1960

 

Ahh yep, X2 it is outta place

 

all pics were found here:
http://www.forwardlook.net/forums/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=14389&start=951&posts=956

 

ALTERNATE CAPTION - "'Officer
Bill' was pissed when the factory
recalled and removed the optional
Bendix "Electro-Jector" fuel-injection
unit from the 318 in his new '58
Plymouth patrol car - but somewhat
happy at least, that they had
replaced it with a 'Fury-V800'
dual-quad set-up - and now, with it,
he was still just as determined as
ever to show all those 'hoodlum-punk'
scofflaw hot-rodders in their souped-up
Model A's and Deuce roadsters, that
he was still the boss in this town!!!"

Mart3406
=============

 

Not to ention the 66 Coronet right next to the Mustang

 

hehehe

 

Man, they had all the gear. My parents had one of those folding tables that went on every picnic and camping trip with us for years. It was heavy and pinched your fingers when setting it up or taking it down, but was really cool when you were using it.

 

I think you can still buy most of that equipment. Some things just never change, and really don't need to.

 

Joan Crawford


The sultan of swat getting his 26 Auburn Roadster


Bing Crosby in a 39 Olds convert

 

Oskar II King of sweden and Norway opening the
new railroad outside my hometown in 1903

 

A early Buick in my home town
A on the tag means it registred
in Stockholm 600 miles away
and probably atleast 100 miles
more in that day....probably
shipped by boat

 

Thanks, Empire, for taking my input with class. I wasn't trying to be insulting, and I'm not trying to be a quasi-mod. But, it's a big and popular thread, and we are all sort of "responsible" for its well-being (even improvement). Even more important than giving a credit-line or info caption is making sure pix are at least 25 to 30 years old ("vintage"), IMO. THANK YOU in advance for your energies -- everybody loves 99 percent of the pix you turn up, which they've said.

AND, you're right: If there ain't no info with a pic, then you can't include it; but under such circumstances, we all have to be all more wary whether a pic is "vintage" enough or not. E.g., just because the subject is a B&W of a junked '58 Chevy doesn't necessarily mean the photo itself is an old photo. Nobody's perfect, and we all run across pix in our stashes where we just failed to capture the info. All anybody can ask is that we all try to do our best -- provide background when available and keep it vintage (when in doubt, just find something else to post). IMHO, everybody putting forth a little extra effort has already made for at least some positive results.

Thinking out loud, we could probably all help to weed out pix that don't make the cut, for whatever reason, by pointing out the perceived error without quoting/reposting the same photo. Makes it tougher to delete the image when it's repeated two or three times. My 2 pennies-worth.

 

Hold on there, Sam! What about Elvis painted on black velvet!

 

Joan Crawford and a town car


Cary Grant 41 Buick


Erroll Flynn Nice ride

 

Cecil B. Demil


Ginger Rogers 37 Dodge


Johnny Weissmuller 32 Chevy

 

Looking North-note the stacks of the Ford Highland Park Power Plant on the right.

 

That was the plant that Henry Ford shocked the industry with the $5 day wages. My, how things have changed!

 

1936 Dodge Brothers....NOT 1937.

 

Sweet thread