Vintage shots from days gone by!

SEE,, I told you they were unsafe!!

 

Here is a scan of an original photo I have, It was taken in Adelaide South Australia on the eve of the release of the 1940 Dodge and Plymouth. Its has some awesome detail when enlarged.

 

What is this? A class project to build a float to commemorate the battle between the Merrimack & Monitor? (And why was the photographer wearing a beekeeper's hat?)

 

Finially, someone else here "Gets It Too!!!!!! I think I'm up to seeing Three Gold Star winnas here now


scrubba

 

I don't know what affect DDT had on humans but one reason it got banned here was the affect it had on egg laying animals like birds,It was found that the DDT was causing the egg shells to not harden and the eggs would break as they were laid,This not only affected wild birds but domestics like chickens,ducks and turkeys. I know that today I see a lot of wild birds that I never saw in my early teens out here, Let's say what was extremely rare in the early 60s is very common today here like vultures and hawks.I was told it also affected animals like turtles and alligators but I don't know that was a fact.

 

When I was a kid, after dark the yard was full of small toad frogs. Now it's very rare to see one.

 

The Mobil Oil Company driving game at the 1962 Seattle Worlds Fair

 

An armored fighting hay wagon taking captured children to the very first rennaissance fair / pig party, sponsored by I-Atea-Theta. Gary

 

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photo: LIFE onlinearchives​

 

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photo: LIFE onlinearchives​

 

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photo: LIFE online archives​

 

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photo: WSU online archives​

 

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a few from my family,

 

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