Vintage shots from days gone by!

I'd be in 7th heaven with that set up!, been looking for a hearse for a long time..

 

I thought the Dept of Streets and Sanitation was supposed to follow the horses, not be in front of them.

 

I think they are actually following the Politicians....

 

rotflmao:d

 

Anyone remember the Man from U.N.C.L.E. toy briefcase gun set they sold ? I had the set same as in the TV show. My wife still has her Illia Kuriaken poster she was in love with him at 15! Now she just has Eyes for Ducky on NCIS

 

Boy do I remember that truck ! I had a Tonka or one of those types metal truck just like this one my parents bought me for my birthday from the Good Humor man himself I guess it was a promotional like the Hess or NAPA trucks are today I was 3

 

WOW would this create a riot today! There are major protest going on now about live bird shoots. Not many know that Audubon created the clay pigeon or trap/Skeet shoot used today to stop give clubs an alternative to live bird shooting.

 

Even in my early teens I found her Bewitching!

 

Hemp was a cash crop grown all over the midwest during WWI and WWI supported by the government for the production of Hemp fiber for rope making. I remember 60 minutes doing a show on a town that still had hemp growing so wild that it was everywhere this town was paid to produce hemp during the war, They blurred out anything that you could use to ID the town in the film this was in the 80s! every street sign ,Business sign, license plate or address was blurred. the hemp plants overran the town by means of self seeding during the years it was field crops.

 

Packard Dealership at 1626 Wilshire Blvd. in Santa Monica

 

The intersection of Main, Spring & Ninth in 1917.

 

Still there. Now W.I. Simonson Mercedes-Benz - Wilshire Boulevard, Santa Monica


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"Close-up view of a the back of a flashing stop sign powered by a one-year battery. It is manufactured by Pacific Signal Co."

 

I've seen pics of how Mr. Audobon used to collect birds to study. It included a shotgun, and a BIG pile of feathers.

 

the intersection of where Wilshire ends at Grand Ave., looking west, in downtown LA in 1946

 

"Re-elect Earl Warren" sign, future Supreme Court Justice. It cool some of the backround stuff in these photo's

Pat