Vintage shots from days gone by!

Apparently nobody could see the Big Trees pix but me, so I'll delete that and try again another time when I can find them on a different source.

 

The best brief account of the Johnstown Flood I've read -- told in human terms, not just statistics
and sterile facts -- is from 2002 and was written by John Templeton. The article says as much, or
more, in a couple of pages than entire books written on the subject. Search: www.redlandsfort-
nightly.org/papers/templeton02.htm.

Below: Romanticized, sanitized, and published in 1890 by Kurz and Allison Art Publishers, this artist's
conception of the Johnstown fires following the big flood is subtitled "Hundreds Roasted Alive at the
Railroad Bridge." Image thanks to Jeff Smith at SoapySmiths.Blogspot.

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Debris at the stone railroad bridge took three months and thousands of men to clear
away. Image thanks to Jaha.Org.




Since no photos were possible during the actual deadly flood tide, artists did their
best to recreate the event by illustrating events, based on first-person accounts. This
engraving ran in Harper's Weekly and is thanks to the Johnstown Flood Museum.



Photo of the Shultz house, skewered by a tree,
thanks to the Redlands Fortnightly Club, Red-
lands, California. Below, thanks to Jaha.org,
a wide-angle view with the Shultz home at far
left.







Photo thanks to WestportK12.


Photo thanks to TrekaRoo.


Image thanks to Jaha.Org.




Photo thanks to Swartzentrover.


Image thanks to Jaha.Org.




Per WikiMedia Commons, photo originally published in "History of the Johnstown Flood", by Willis Fletcher Johnson, 1889.

 

Racing's North Turn Beach Bar & Grille is currently at the location circled in the photo.

 

Twin Falls, Jerome Toll Bridge, Idaho.

 

Trail Ridge Museum ~ Rocky Mountain National Park

 

Trail Ridge Museum ~ Rocky Mountain National Park, ..........

is now called the "Alpine visitor center" Old Fall River Rd, Estes Park, CO

you can kinda see the building from Google street view Old Fall River Rd, Estes Park, CO

 

i've been going there since the mid 60's, i've never seen this pic with the old cars, really cool. still looks very similar but the parking lots bigger, thanks

 

Amphibious Buick, Detroit River

 

1946 Mercury Woodie Wagon 4x4
outfitted with a Marmon-Herrington four-wheel drive system

the full story is here:
http://www.thecarconnection.com/tips-article/1000637_1946-mercury-woodie-wagon

 

Do you know where this photo was taken

 

what he said

 

Here's a couple that I got from Vintage Phoenix on Facebook. 1st is downtown Scottsdale in the '50s and the 2nd is looking north from 724 So. Central, also from the 50s.

 

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Driver in the second photo down in Post 63373 looks like the late Dick Freeman from the Dayton, Ohio area. A great ARCA driver and a good friend.

 

That is a modern photo of Ray Kroc's 1st francised McD's in DesPlaines, IL. It's about 10 minutes north of O'Hare Airport and it's a static museum.

It was actually a working McDonald's until about 1986 when they built a modern one across the street and decided to turn this into a museum.

 

Any history or details on these photos? Post #63405

 

Looks like the destruction by fire of the old Sutro baths in San Fransisco. Google it, it was a pretty cool place.