Vintage shots from days gone by!

I wonder if those Yenkos are still radioactive...

 

Yep, that's the building I referred to as appearing to have "1.5" floors, or floor with attic. Has the "7 North Studios" sign in the window. Looks taller from the side street (back where the service area is).

 

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Ok now! Everybody just act natural!

 

I've said for quite a while now that if back when I could, I had spent less on cars and chrome and more on cameras and kodachrome, I could put my kids through Vanderbilt ! Tom S.

 

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dont know about the 69 yenko camaros .....but a guy i used to work with worked at the norwood ohio fisher body plant back then and he told me stories of the yenko deuces that sat behind the plant and how the guys at lunch and breaks would go back to the lot and start em up and let em idle for long periods and im betting did more then just let em idle and he told me they were fully dressed as yenko cars not like the camaros seen in the previous pic

 

It's deceiving. I've been upstairs in it and it's definitely got a full second floor. That's where all the offices for the dealership were/are.
The building is really BIG!
If you watch the movie "Seabiscuit" the South West corner of the building and interior is used as the bicycle shop of the jockey in the opening scenes of the movie. They blocked off Anaheim for two days and built the train station facade in the middle of the street and shot all the scenes one afternoon, in the RAIN!
I was hanging out by the commissary munching down on shrimp and bagels and lox.
They rented all the bicycles and bike stuff from a friend of mine who has a shop near by.

 

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How I miss those days...

 

Do you have a year for this issue? Cushman made a number of scooters for the military, most (but not all) with tractor seats. The one in the right foreground looks very much like one of the cushion seat versions.

Edit: I see a '47 Texas tag...so it could well be a surplus military model.

 

No, sorry I didn't note the specific date but as you found, it is likely '47 or '48. I found the pic several months ago and don't remember issue

 

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1930 Long Beach CA Ford Plant

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I could take her home in a minute!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

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"I've been here and there, man . . ."

 

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Veronica is so bewitching!

 

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photo: LIFE online archives

 

A couple of Gene Clarke's #1021, probably at a West Coast A-C-D meet around 1973. Photo by designer Alex Tremulis...