Vintage shots from days gone by!

See, Ralphie? I told you you'd shoot your eye out!

 

Note the British Ford Mk 2 Zephyr in this pic - were they common in the US at all?

They were the staple diet of young guys here in NZ back in the 60's.

 

Paulette Goddard

 

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20121031/ALMS/121019873

John Fitch has passed away.













By John Fitch



The Fitch Barrier for highway safety.

 

Still one of the best threads here!

 

The Disbrow special was built by retired racing driver Lou Disbrow in 1917. After several years of searching we were finally able to uncover all the details of this fascinating car in a 1917 issue of The Automobile Magazine. All the interesting details and more photos are on The Old Motor.

 

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This covered bridge photo is so well composed and perfectly seasonally lit. I suppose "Turkey Run Narrows" was photographed in the first quarter of the 20th Century; anybody know WHERE this particular Turkey Run was/is? Can somebody blow this up so I can frame it and put it on the wall??? Another [FONT=Comic Sans MS, sans-serif]INSTANT CLASSIC[/FONT] on this great thread!






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Jimi:
A group called The Technical Edge has a great site (link below), LOADED with pix and both current and historical material on Turkey Run State Park in Indiana. Thanks to informed HAMBers (Hoosiers?), I got an education on Indiana's second oldest state park. Of course, this happend because I'm a nut about old cars, trucks, rail engines, bridges of all kinds, etc.! Below, from the site, is a NOW photo of the Turkey Run Narrows covered bridge, built in 1882. Great vintage pix at:

Guide to Turkey Run State Park in Indiana

www.turkeyrunstatepark.com

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You can see why this is called the "narrows," in that Sugar Creek cut a narrow gap
through bedrock. With that underpinning the bridge backwalls, this might help
explain the bridge's survival for 130 years!


Other park attractions, mostly historical, include an early log cabin, church, settler's home and a swinging bridge. Not a commercial here. It's just an exciting place, rich in geological and historic stuff. Hits a familiar note with me, as it reminds me very much of the area in Hocking County, Ohio, where I mostly grew up. Long a tourist attraction, the area is variously known as the "Seven Caves Region" and "Ohio's Scenic Wonderland."

 

Back on post 54999, somebody wanted to know what the lady was wiping. I guess I'm one of those "ailroad blokes". She was cleaning the exterior of the steam locomotive while it was idle for one of its regular (and all too frequent) service stops. She has a can of "coal oil" (kerosene) and a wad of cotton waste. Her task was to clean everything she could reach-steam locomotives being notoriously dirty. They covered themselves with steam cylinder oil out of the stack combined with soot and cinders. The heavy lubricant in the rods flung itself all over the running gear. Every time they stopped (typically every hundred miles) they had several people swarm over them to make sure they were fit to make another hundred. In spite of their heavy construction and appearance of invincibility, they were self destructive and failure prone thus requiring intense maintenance. That's why, at one time, the railroads were the largest employer in the country with service facilities in every town. And that's why the Diesel knocked them off the throne so easily.

 

Vintage Las Vegas

 

That is exactly what I have always thought of when I see this picture

 

I'M SURE YOU MEANT TO SAY DE BEST !!!!!!!!

scrubba

 

Not only another thank you for all of the great photos, thanks for the information that is added.
Turkey Run State Park brings back many early camping memories for our family. I'll never get caught up with this thread !

 

Hey Baseball Fans, anybody know where and when this was taken? Looks like a AL all star game. I recognize Gerhig and Dimaggio. Who else? Ted Williams?

 

AL All Star game? Anybody know?

 

Nope, Larry fine on the far left, Moe, in the middle & "Babe" on the right, better known as "Curly".

 

Can't be Betty White. This lady only has one leg.

 

Henderson

 

Thank you!

 

1950's Cafe in Deming, NM

 

The two Las Vegas's. New Mexico and Nevada.

 

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Rocky, you can't just post a cool assed picture like that and not have some kind of explanation!! What's the story?

 

Hoover Dam.

 

I had one, a rust free California LHD example, it went back to the UK, I still have a 57 Consul convertible sold new in Arizona that I'll get to one day, if I live long enough.

 

Right on, what Ed said. And any newer HAMBer who LOVES Dog's thread BUT is still wading through it, PLEASE be aware that you can VOTE a 5-star rating at the top of any page. It's easy, and it'll keep new pix coming out of the woodwork, closets, etc.

 

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A locomotive and a car combined in one vehicle. Early in the 1920s, the American Locomotive Company (ALCO) joined forces with General Electric and Ingersoll-Rand to produce to a motor car for the Jay Street Connecting Railroad, Model GM-50 was essentially a diesel powered motor car, somewhat similar to an interurban car.
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Jim, so nice to see your way of loving your country, lot's a times i wish it would be mine, too.. this forum and especially this thread is my daily early morning coffee, and on weekend it takes 3 mugs of hot one to see what's 'nu' (hope nothing nu will ever approach), or two whisky sours to look through the friday art show, what a great bunch of comrades! after a few years in 'watching-the-Hamb'-class i'm lot's a better in overseas geography than in local things, i guess! always enjoying all of your writings, keep on, this thread has already written history for me. very proud to be here!

Cheers, Carsten

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and btw, all best wishes to NY, NJ and ND and all the other folks that were being hit, hope you had not the big mess with sandy and doing fine! i just bought lots of stuff from Kanters (eastern NJ) and they bought rubbers from Steele (ND), it's nice quality stuff and very nice and patient people, hope that they survived in best possible way! thought of 'em during installing some of my stainless stuff.. god bless you.