Vintage shots from days gone by!

1936 (I wish these pics were more clear)

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1937​

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1950​

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1939

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"...coffee - five, donut five, coffee and donut ten. . ." - or so the song goes. These pics from 1935

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1941 Royal Crown Cola taste test booth

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No, Art took his Cyclops Green Monster and removed the pontoons and continued to run it at Drag Strips - changing the engine from a J47 to a J79. Craig several years latter built his own boat using a J85 jet engine. He was killed around the late 80's or very early 90. Craig was traveling around 370 mph on the water when he crashed. Sadly his Mother (Gertie) and father (Walt), brother Terry and
Craigs son watch the whole thing from shore. True lose of a close friend.

 

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photo: LIFE onlinephotoarchives​

 

Count the stars on the flag?

 

Found on e-bay, got caught up in this sellers pictures, probably all of themfrom Southeast KS
http://www.ebay.com/sch/m.html?_from=&_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ssn=3dmore&_pgn=2&_skc=25&rt=nc

 

The Memorial Colosseum - Portland, Oregon. It was dedicated January 8th 1961. Judging from the cars seen here (the few '64 Chevy's among others) means that this is sometime after 1964. The lights, buses in background and the full parking lot mean it is a big event (obviously one big enough to warrant the outside being photographed at night)....so this very well could have been taken when The Beatles played the Colosseum on August 22nd, 1965 in front of 22,000 screaming fans as part of their 1965 American tour.

 

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The comment or question was asked about this ad, utilizing a demeaning stereotype, being actually
acceptable in 1940. Not only accepted but very commonplace. This guy is using poor grammar,
Aunt Jemima had her cliche' head rag, Uncle Ben, if I recall, was portrayed as just a waiter or
butler. Lynchings were down after 1935, but Jim Crow was still in swing. Stepin' Fetchit (Lincoln
Perry) was a popular comedic movie draw, African-American ballplayers were still confined to the
"Negro leagues," Rochester (Eddie Anderson) was Jack Benny's butler on radio -- and about as
cliche' as Jack's Maxwell car. And scores of stage and screen entertainers (including African-
Americans) were still performing in "black-face" makeup. Wikipedia shows that more than a dozen
score of entertainers appeared in black-face, at least on occasion.​

Here are just a few who did so, just in the '30s and WWII years: John Wayne, James Cagney, Myrna
Loy, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Will Rogers, Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Bing
Crosby, Bob Hope, James Stewart, Shirley Temple, Spencer Tracey, Mae West, Al Jolson, Fred
Astair, Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Joe E. Brown, Martha Raye,
George Burns, Eddie Cantor, Betty Grable, William Holden, Billie Holiday, Hedy Lamarr, the
Marx Brothers, Dick Powell, Red Skelton, and The Three Stooges.​

A few more: Gene Autry, Billy Barty, Noah Beery, Ed Begley, William Frawley, Stewart Granger,
Walter Huston, Betty Hutton, Ralph Richardson, Jimmy Rodgers, Sophie Tucker, Sonny Tufts,
Lupe Velez and Jane Wyatt.​

 

I don't uderstand?
What gave me away?
LOL

 

The three pix below are from a rather interesting blog by one John Edward Mason. You can
read Mr. Mason's whole text and see more, rare photos at: America in Blackface: Photos
from the Farm Security ...johnedwinmason.typepad.com/john_edwin_mason_photogra/2010-
/02/fs... Thanks, John, for helping the world better understand a different world during the
first half of the 20th Century!


Premier of "The Jazz Singer," starring Al Jolson, New York City, 1927


Bing Crosby in blackface. A still from the movie "Holiday Inn" (1942).



Actors Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll in blackface, as radio
characters Amos 'n Andy. Life magazine. 1935. Copyright, Time Inc.​

 

Sign of unvarnished segregated times. Marion Post Wolcott shot this nominally integrated
lunchroom in January 1939 in the vicinity of Belle Glade, Florida, for the Farm Security
Administration. This pic is from the U.S. Library of Congress which has an entire section
devoted to the history of the period -- broadly known as the era of Jim Crow -- roughly late-
1870s to the 1950s. Seems amazing, in a way, that deep-seated societal institutions of segre-
gationism only began to lose their grip after WWII, as the civil-rights movement of the '50s
and '60s finally got traction. Hey, nobody I know ever said the country was perfect. Its
growth pains over a couple of centuries included some undeniably dark chapters. And if
we want to learn from history, we have to look objectively at both the sweet and the bitter,
right? I think it was Jefferson who called the United States of America the "grand experi-
ment." And we are STILL a work in progress!

Photos fro the Library of Congress, thanks to Wikipedia.



Photo by Jack Delano for the Farm Security Administration, an FDR "New Deal"
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created to give photographers work documenting depression-era life
throughout the country, particularly the poor, whether they were city or country
dwellers. Delano captured this shot in May 1940 Durham, North Carolina, bus
station.



Hey! Right in my own territory! Window sign snapped by Ben Shahn,
photog for the Farm Security Administration, August 1938, Lancaster,
Ohio.



The original cutline for this photo: "Negro drinking at 'Colored' water cooler in streetcar
terminal, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma." Photograph by Russell Lee, July, 1939, for the Farm
Security Administration, thanks to Wikipedia and the Library of Congress. ​

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Marion Post Wolcott caught this photo in October 1939. Original cutline: "Negro going
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in colored entrance of movie house on Saturday afternoon, Belzoni, Mississippi Delta,
Mississippi."

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Equal-opportunity discrimination? God Bless America! Must have been some
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thirsty Indians around Birney, Montana, in August 1941. Wolcott caught this
scene at a Saturday night dance.
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A present wrapped in NEWSPAPER?????.

 

I can't wait to hear what kind of car this is. The GMAC and Buick decals near the door would suggest a GM product. I'd guess Pontiac by the nose under the newspaper. Certainly there is a HAMB'er that can identify the car on the right from the trim.

Of course I'd love that 60 Chevy convertible on the used car lot out front.

 

I'm with you, '63-4 Pontiac is my guess. That '60 convertible looks great.

 

The Barnes Auto tow truck is from a Brisbane Company who still operate today.I can remember going to their inner city service station/car park back in the 60's/70's as they were the only after hours fuel place in town before the days of self service late hours pumps.What about those gas pumps in the main photo.

http://www.yourbrisbanepastandpresent.com/2010/01/barnes-auto.html

 

SWI66, I have a set of Halibrand Kidney Bean Mags (Yes real magnesium) with aluminum knock offs for a Corvair. 4 bolt. I can drag one out of the attic one of these days if your interested in seeing a picture of them. I have never seen another set like them. Unfortunately they are corroded and I believe they're not usable anymore.

I've had them at least 40+ years. When I put them in storage I never knew that Magnesium would corrode like that.

 

Now that's funny.

"That's a fact, Jack!"

 

The Corvair at the top looks like a Fitch Sprint.