Vintage shots from days gone by!

Sylvian .I like all the after photos .


"Miss Los Angeles" Contest, 10 May 1954. Muriel Feltman -- 22 years; Shelly Smith -- 19 years.

 

Wow!------If it isn't flooding,raining,or fires down under, what would you do??---HA!

 

Notice the windshield,---Before safety plate glass!

 

Behind them is the Los Angeles City Hall. Below is how it looks today. Completed in 1928.


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Look close---I see 2 getting a last PUFF!!!!!!----HA!!

 

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Steve McQueen - 1963

At his home in Palm Springs, McQueen practices his aim before heading out for a shooting session in the desert


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Wayne Family - 1969

John Wayne and his family. John Ethan, Marisa, Aissa, and his 3rd wife Pilar.


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Frank Zappa 1970

Frank Zappa in his Los Angeles home with his dad Francis, and his mom Rosemarie in 1970


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Encino California 1970




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Nixon in Venezuela - May 1958


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Washington DC 1961

Ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower's driver taking the chains off the tires before driving home after President John F. Kennedy's Inauguration ceremony.


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A new 1976 Stutz Blackhawk being delivered to Dean Martin at his home on Copo De Oro Road in Bel Air.




Dean cycled through a few of them...


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Bette Davis - October 1959


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Zsa Zsa Gabor - 1955


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Man of Steel: 1942

November 1942. Columbia Steel at Geneva, Utah. Servicing one of the floodlights that turn night into day on the construction site of a new steel plant needed for the war effort. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Andreas Feininger.


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A Nice Hot Cup of Delicious Air

October 1942. Girl worker at lunch also absorbing California sunshine, Douglas Aircraft Company, Long Beach. 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information.


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B-17 Betty: 1942

October 1942. Long Beach, California. "Girl riveting machine operator at the Douglas Aircraft Company plant joins sections of wing ribs to reinforce the inner wing assemblies of B-17F heavy bombers." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer for the Office of War Information


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Fast Woman: 1915

Washington circa 1915. Women auto racers - Miss Elinor Blevins. Harris & Ewing Collection glass negative.


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Dorothea Lange: 1936

Dorothea Lange, Resettlement Administration photographer, in California atop car with her giant camera. February 1936.


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Innerwing Inspectors: 1942

October 1942. Douglas Aircraft Co. at Long Beach, California. "Carefully trained women inspectors check cargo transport innerwings before they are assembled on the fuselage." 4x5 Kodachrome transparency by Alfred Palmer.


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Dressed to Drive: 1922

October 6, 1922. Washington, D.C. "Emily Dial, daughter of Senator Dial." National Photo Company Collection glass negative.


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i just saw this truck on egay for sale, cool !

 

Is that Caesar Romero and Doris Day?

 

Bergen County NJ 1966. Not our car, so I have not figured out what it is yet Fairlane or Comet maybe. Not a big Pontiac is about all I can be sure of. I may not have been born drivin' 60s cars but it was close.

 

It's Caesar Romero and Ginger Rogers.

Oct. 8, 1960: Actress Ginger Rogers puts a Nixon-Lodge sticker on an automobile driven by Mrs. John R. Mount. In the background talking to Mrs. Mount is actor Cesar Romero. Source: Los Angeles Times


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"The truck is a Kelly, built by Kelly-Springfield Motor Truck Co in Ohio"

 

The Airplane Cafe - Whereabouts Unknown - 1924