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Vintage shots from days gone by!

Discussion in 'The Hokey Ass Message Board' started by Dog427435, Dec 18, 2009.

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  1. 49ratfink
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  2. ropat
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    Taken at the Buenos Aires Zoo, paying a small fee kids could drive these original Baby Bugatti type 52 electric cars. More than 20 were purchased from Bugatti by the Town Council for the Zoo.
     
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    My Firebird was in that parking lot straight ahead in June of 72. We stayed at Honeymoon City on our honeymoon. Oh the memories !!
     
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    Due to Stratford upon Avon being pretty much a conservation area this hotel looks pretty much the same now.

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    Here's one from me, a 32 ford used in the 1957 Benny Hill film "Whodunnit"

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    It met a sticky end on a stock car track unfortunately.

    Mart.
     
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    I'LL BET YOUR GRANDPA WOULDN'T HAVE TAKEN $300 DOLLARS FOR THAT DOG IN '45! :cool: And LOOK! There's the young pup training alongside its parent! :) Folks, this is American folkways at their best, IMO. ;)
     
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    This photo looks very familiar....it's what my dad & uncles' did every year watching the unlimited hydroplane races on the Detroit River back in the 50's.
     
  8. Bob K
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    We stayed there also on our way to the NSRA Nats in Syracuse NY, in 95 as I remember. It was our PRE HONEYMOON, we didn't get married til 96.

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  9. Johnny Gee
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    Looks more like the front clip off a D type Jag (but I can't see how a Jag clip would fly off like that), so is this a drag strip or a road coarse?
     
  10. They were still using pin boy's in the mid 1950's in the small lanes in Salem New Hampshire. I had two friends that were pin boys and told the stories and laughed about the experience. They had to watch the bowlers that would send the balls down before they set the pins just because they were either jerks or because the boys were to slow. My friends were real scrappers, and if a guy sent a ball down on them they would fling a bowling pin back at them at full speed at the drop of a hat. My buddy Art was really a wild little bugger and would walk up to a guy twice his size that attempted to hit him with a ball and jump up and belt him with a pin right in the head and run off into the alley. Looking at the picture you can see that this was not an easy life for these young kids. My friends grew up hard and later when they were in the Vietnam war in the late 60's did what scrappers do and distinguished themselves and became leaders. They were the kind of guys that grew up hard and when it was time to become Dads and raise family's you can bet that their kids never went threw the hardships that they did.
     
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    Thanks for that, Johnny - for me, and maybe others, yours has to be one of the most memorable posts, even with no photo, on this thread. It's all about memories, days gone by, former lives, machines, those who have left us, etc. Great glimpse into the American soul. Jeeze, I'm starting to sound like Jimi, but I mean it. Thanks for sharing.
     
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    Post #52958. This was on US Rt.40 between Hancock and Cumberland,Maryland, now by-passed by the new Interstate Rt. I-68 in Western,Maryland. Russ
     
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    Road course :)
     
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    to all of you have posted pics i need to say thank you. these pics help me more than i can ever tell you. since my wreck in 05 ive had a hard time wanting to live in todays world. i dont like the cars,music hell not much of anything except this here computer and the hamb .lol anyway these pics take me back to a time in america where we all knew it would be alright in the end. and much more simple time. and thats what im in need of. a more simple time.and these pics take me thwere for alittle while. so thanks again and keep them comin!!
     
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    Now, that's funny right there! :) My dear departed Mom always said I was the sentimental one of her kids. :p But, yeah, the shot of actual pin boys -- and the discussion it spawned -- has to be the first time in the thread the subject was touched on. Another piece of bygone, but worth-remembering, piece of Americana! :eek: And, it goes to show that if blue-collar men had a hard time making a dollar, it was just as challenging for boys who wanted a little jingle in their pocket. My own first job, working in a movie theater in '66, paid a whopping 65 cents an hour. But it made me proud, 'cause I had a real paying JOB. :D

    Sorry, I lost PercBoy's pic, but YOU know the one!
     
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  25. ^^^^^^ Notice the "Duck Pins" in lanes 3 and 4?
     
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