Vintage shots from days gone by!

1939 Tulare CA

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1939 Santa Clara County

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1917

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1967 - a bit OT but still kinda vintage

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That quasi-military motif (phrasing, font) would not have passed....muster....I suspect, by the following year. By then it would all be cartoons, flowers and paisley.

 

...and Big Attitudes, evidently!

 

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DID YOU KNOW: Bob Keeshan who was the original Clarabell the Clown on The Howdy Doody Show on NBC.

 

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Another fantastic job Swi66 !

 

Remember when these were everywhere? They've gone from this to bankruptcy after owning the very field they created for essentially a century. After losing a near $1B lawsuit to Polaroid (whose patents they foolishly violated) and much of it's market to Fujifilm (who they ignored as an insignificant threat...interesting as Fuji was thought by many to have more realistic color) and then disregarding the digital camera (which Kodak invented) they have been reduced to a chemical company with a dwindling line of professional photography products. I can remember when there were flowers blooming all winter in front of Kodak Park in Rochester (steam lines ran under the flower beds) and a private, ironclad supply of coal nearly a mile long when strikes were crippling other companies.

Watched a fully armored, battleship grey 65' tractor trailer arrive one morning (Kodak was the largest consumer of silver ingot in the world in it's heydey). Now you basically have to find a specialist to get a roll of chemical film processed.

 

Makes you think all the world is a sunny day ~~

 

Try 205 E Anaheim. Right between the two vacant lots you see.
There's a "205" sign on the building in the google picture
That vacant lot to the South of it is now a 5-6 story apartment building
I made a Y turn in a friends '59 T-bird in the driveway to the service department that used to be the Monster Garage just this past Monday so I know it's still there.
I heard it's being renovated inside for a Restaurant now.

 

"Listen, sweetie, I'm a worldly man, a man of MANY parts!
In fact, I was born here ... and here, and here, AND HERE!"

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Thanks, SWI. There have been TOO many good pix lately to comment
on them all. As for this one, I think the actress may be Evelyn Ankers,
in one of the last of a long string of horror flicks that kept Universal
Pictures alive through the '30s and most of the '40s. The actor appears
to be Glenn Strange, who made the jump from professional wrestler to
movie actor. He was the last Frankenstein's Monster of the Universal
series, I do believe.

 

...Wasn't he the bartender in the later episodes of "Gunsmoke" too?