Vintage shots from days gone by!

Orig. post, Dog429. Anybody have a clue on WHEN & WHERE?
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Check out this Bugatti T43, chassis 43264, that Twin 6 has posted on The Old Motor. It is one of the three T43&#8242;s Leon Duray received in exchange for the Packard Cable Specials (the two front-wheel drive Millers which were rescued by Griff Borgeson in the late 1950&#8242;s). 43264 was originally bodied as a Weymann cabriolet and received this one-off two seat aluminum coupe designed and built by the Derham Body Company of Rosemont, PA, reputedly for owner, John Fritsche, Jr.

It is obvious that the fenders and headlights are FORD. They look to be 1938 - 39 Ford parts. Can you give us a positive ID of what they came on originally. More details here.

 

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Photo thanks to Wikipedia, from public domain.

Bozo the Clown and Buffalo Bob, eat your hearts out! How many HAMBers remember this guy? In the Age of Television, Mister Wizard was the original science nerd! Conceived and produced in Chicago, "[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Watch Mr. Wizard" was broadcast live in its primary markets, and shown by Kinescope in the markets that soon signed on after the 1951 premier. In restrospect, it seems amazing to me that the program's original run lasted until early 1965!

The host and resident science "wizard" was one Don Herbert, a decorated World War II B-24 bomber pilot and erstwhile purveyor of a fresh idea that lent itself to the relatively new broadcast medium: SCIENCE CAN BE BOTH EDUCATIONAL AND ENTERTAINING FOR KIDS! Don kept things basic, so that even younger children would gain a valuable, lasting love of science. He esposed "the science of ordinary things," and he designed his on-air "experiments" so that they could be safely replicated at home with household items.

WAY before "Nova," "Discovery Channel," "Bill Nye, the Science Guy," and even "Beakman's World," there was the grandaddy: "Watch Mister Wizard"! A virtually instant hit, the program spawned some 5,000 Mr. Wizard Science Clubs by 1956 with more than a hundred thousand kids signing up. At its peak, the show enjoyed a viewing audience in the millions (FOR A KIDS' SCIENCE SHOW?!?). In Don's obituary, Bill Nye wrote, "Herbert's techniques and performances helped create the United States' first generation of homegrown rocket scientists just in time to respond to Sputnik. He sent us to the moon. He changed the world."
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Today's experts in early childhood education contend that a child's brian, figuratively speaking, is like an informational sponge, ready to soak up worthwhile input -- even science. Minnesotan Donald Herbert Kemske (aka Don Herbert) sensed that all that was needed was to make the subject ENTERTAINING! Herbert used basic experiments and employed child-actor "assistants" to teach essential scientific principles. The program won numerous accolades nationally, including the Peabody Award and citations from groups such as the American Chemical Society, to name but two.

Born in 1917, Don passed away in 2007 of bone cancer, just shy of 90 years of age. I find it ironic, though, just how many successful people after WWII had bravely served their country -- and defended world freedom -- in the military. Entering the U.S. Army as a private, Herbert soon joined the Army Air Force and, in short, became a B-24 bomber pilot with the 767th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force, flying 56 combat missions against Germany, out of Italy. When the war ended in '45, he had attained a captain's rank, earning a Distinguished Flying Cross, as well as the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters.

I mentioned a certain irony. Well, Bob "Captain Kangaroo" Keeshan -- who also made a post-war name in children's educational TV -- was a veteran of the Pacific Island Hopping campaign, seeing rough action. It seems that, somehow, veterans sometimes channel the energy of soldiering toward making the world better for future generations, eh? (Some HAMBer help me here: I seem to recall that Fred "Mister Rogers" was also a war veteran.)






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Image thanks to the Chicago Daily News

 

Kinda looks like Ralphie's neighborhood! Anybody spot a '38 Olds in there?

 

When my Dad retired from the Navy (ETCS) he took a freebie VA training class and in the process built a Heathkit color TV, exactly like the one in the upper right of this photo. It was bullet-proof - and was in my family for 20+ years - because he was smart enough to test each component before it was installed. There were quite a few bad parts in each "lesson" package. I think it took him 3 months to build it but he couldn't pedal any faster because the parts came in shipments matched to a pre-programmed class schedule. Gary

 

http://twotogo.homestead.com/TwoToGopageone.html

 

Seattle 1940 from here

 

I love this picture..

 

Nope it's Basils' creation... Local folklore around here...

http://www.spiritoftomorrow.com/

 

OK, so this is very early porn - before they worked out you have to take your clothes off first......????
Hmmmmm????

 

Took the image out so to not take up too much space.

While everyone, myself included wants to drive Rt 66, I want to follow US 60. Maybe because it's the main street through my hometown. Coast too coast.

 

The 2nd verse of the Brylcreme song was,, Brylcreme, a little dab l' do ya, Use more, only if ya dare,,,,,But watch out , the girls will all persue ya,,,,,,they love to get their fingers in your hair!" See, C.R.S is a myth ! ( Isn't a myth an effiminent moth?) Happy New Year all !!!!!

 

Holy cow! You remembered every word! And don't worry about CRS! I never believed in that crap either, uh, umm, er . . . now what was your HAMB handle again?

Never mind. Just to show what a great memory I have, a MYTH is, uh, a affemiate moth! Trust me!

 

remember when you could sit on a car and not dent it?

 

Photo, Seattle Municipal Archives


John, I don't know how you found it (I'm not a computer wiz), but I'm glad you did! This was a Seattle
landmark, opened in 1940 and the largest of the Triple X Root Beer restaurants. "Served in the Car.
Come any time, but come!" was apparently their motto, reflecting that you could eat inside OR be
served in your car, 24/7. The photo appeared in the May 1, 1940, edition of the Seattle Times, announcing
the new Triple X location, above, at 3301 Fourth Ave. S (several others had already been serving since
the 1930s).

Here's what Rob Ketcherside of the online magazine, Seattlest, reported in mid-2010: "From the 30s to the
50s, Triple X was a Seattle institution, selling burgers, fries, and the XXX Barrel line of root beer. Another
opened at Yale and Olive that same year. They were everywhere, and franchises spread across America.
Today there are two left in the country."

At that time, one of the remaining two Triple Xs was in Issaqua, WA. ... Sadly, most Triple X restaurants
have gradually given way to the onslaught of fast-food chain outlets. The pride of the Triple X fleet, the
above restaurant -- IN BUSINESS FOR SOME SEVEN DECADES! -- became a Burger King, about 2010.

 

Wow, Joe, I don't recall offhand Barney Oldfield's name being even remotely linked to any of the "teardrop" cars. THANKS!

 

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WWII air raid siren brochure, circa 1943, thanks to the Seattle, WA,

Municipal Archives and FlickR.

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The Spirit of Tomorrow looks a bit like The Dymaxion car made by Buckminster Fuller in 1936

Dymaxion car

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dymaxion_car


http://www.washedashore.com/projects/dymax/pictures.html

 

I also remember this car from when I was a kid . Sat in a driveway at the top of Mt. Tolmie as I recall .

Rob

 

She was a pretty lady, but in most of the still shots she always looked like you just said something stupid and she was waiting to see how long it was going to take for you to realize it

 

Using Google Chrome browser, right click on any image, and then click on
"Search on TinEye", it searches thousands of images on the web,
in this case it found 2 occurrences,
might work similarly on other browsers

 

Close relative to this mystery Harris made vehicle.....

 

In 1973, when the first embargo hit, gas went from 35 cents to 55 cents per gallon, overnite in Fort Worth Tx. I thought it was the end of the world !

 

3D curled toes?

 

I believe that pink T-bucket was Bill Traquar's, the red 26/7, belonged to a few guys over the years, one of them is a parts guy at Ron Ford's dealership now, drives a 40 coupe. Was owned by Roger Melunchuck in the late 50's
It's now in Langley, and looks totaly different.
My memory must be on Vacation right now as the names are escaping me.

 

My Dad did about the same with IBM and CREI courses after he retired from the Navy as a Senior Chief CT (CTS).