Vintage shots from days gone by!

Yup, All over the place. Except later in the Casino Districts (as in the above photo) the trees remained pretty much until the mid 70's. Other than huge expansion taking it's toll there was a city wide "Elm blight" and a considerable lowering of the natural water table and most of the old trees died off. Now landscaping laws demand a more desert environment, They even have 'Water Police' to enforce.

 

I heard she lost her Head

 

Ha see that car in the background a Renault Floride
i had one when i was 13-14 something. A real "sports"
car with a lift off hardtop and a rear mounted
5hp Black&Decker vanilla blender
based on the 4CV. watercooled rear engine rusted
real bad nice design exept the fron thats real ugly

 

I have worked with my hands my whole life and think white shirts and ties is prize-winning idiocy. White shirts can be cleaned, somewhat - but wearing a tie around running machinery? you must have a death wish.

 

"Let's see now, If we had a device that had a direct radio beacon to one of those sputniks..."

 

It was too taxing

 

Dude - somebody's fixin' to die... in style.

~Jason

 

Fanny's N Fur, Popular fashion icon since the 1870's. Still popular today, Fur Vest (tho faux fur nowadays) still sell. http://www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2004/05/05/azzollinifur,0.jpg

 

Your lack of accuracy is matched if not exceeded by your lack of taste.

 

^^^^^Well said. Now the facts.

"Allegations that Mansfield was decapitated are untrue, although she suffered severe head trauma. The urban legend was spawned by the appearance in police photographs of a crashed car with its top virtually sheared off, and what resembled a blonde-haired head tangled in the car's smashed windshield. However, this was probably either a wig Mansfield was wearing or her actual hair and scalp".

 

I've seen this photo before, some have even posted it on my Vintage Vegas, page and labeled it as 70's Las Vegas Strip. I put the date as late fall of 1967 for several reasons. as a life long resident I'm pretty familiar with Vegas History, so analyzing the photo I see no Circus Circus which opened October 18, 1968, The Mint Hotel, 26-story hotel tower was added in 1965 (Top of pic) Jimmie Rodgers, (on Frontier marquee) suffered his accident (police beating) December 1, 1967 and though he may have appeared later I never remember him doing so in Vegas and certainly not as a headliner. Pzazz 68 at the Desert Inn is visible on the Desert Inn marquee which actually started in the fall of 67 (Originally just Called Pzazz, then 68, 69, 70 respectively were added on before the beginning of the year, much like car model years.) This was big news back then because of the "Easter Egg Riot" and the Howard Hughes conspiracy involving all that.

 

the Port Mann bridge going from Coquitlam to Surrey ... opened in 1964 .. bringing a boomtown

 

Bonnie and Clyde's Death Car, now on display in a casino, along with Clyde's shirt of death at Primm, Nevada (Stateline town between Vegas & L.A.) http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/2894

 

look close and almost all the "Shirt and Tie" pics are pre WWII as far as line workers are concerned it was WWII where workers started getting told HOW they should dress for a certain job(Beginning of OSHA?) And the truth is I think a lot of that was more to promote "STYLE" than anything else! "Proper" dress even for the lowest worker before then was shirt and tie and even hats! One way for mills to promote safety was to make a new form of work dress mandatory,Think about this and I'll use my trade as an example in welding you don't wear cuffed jeans, You don't want loose clothing around grinders etc. BUT if you were the only guy that suddenly cut the cuffs from your jeans and did away with your tie according to dress standards of the day you weren't smart just a low life slob!During the war years companies HAD to protect employees they couldn't take time to keep training new help and keep up with war demands there just wasn't enough skilled labor to go around and ladies in the work force I think had a lot to do with that! My Mother in law and Grand Mothers all worked in defense plants and all agreed that it was defense plant work that put them in pants! "Ladies" were not seen "off the farm" in pants! It became immediately clear during the war dresses and Machinery didn't play well together! Suddenly mills required ladies to wear "Appropriate Dress" for work and suddenly you weren't "A tramp" walking the street in pants. Veronica Lake even cut her hair in a "Safety Film " to be shown Nationally at theaters because she heard how woman copying her hair style were "Getting scalped" working in defense plants around the counrty! My moms dad Managed a cotton Mill during the war My gram( His wife) worked there on a different shift. They told me how one afternoon the company SHUT DOWN for a couple hours and met with all the workers asking about safety suggestions like what would be the best "Dress" for working the machinery. This was a Saturday on Monday they came in to find notices all over the plant describing how employees were expected to look at work! Gram & Gramps said they both think that was one of the first times the company listened to the help! Woman's dress was suddenly "Modestly snug" jeans and blouses or men's shirts with snug cuffs no loose clothing no necklaces , Scarves or loose, Dangley earrings flat shoes or low heal no "Open shoes" The war changed the dress code of America and most likely the rest of the world!

 

Nice to find them like this today.

 

ya the "posse " had several automatic weapons in use including I believe 2 B.A.Rs and they didn't give them any kind of "Halt and surrender " They knew all to well given even a hairs breath of a chance they would have been in one hell of a shootout! Once a positive Id. was made they just opened up on em!I had a book that showed pics of the actual ambush site with Bonnie and Clyde still in the car etc. Funny thing till the day he died the sherrif that found the picture of Bonnie with a cigar in her mouth standing on the front bumper of their car insisted in his picture she had a rose in her teeth not the cigar! Early photoshop!

 

I also at 13 or 14 had a Renault that looked like this with a lift off fiberglass hard top it was called a Carvell? or Carravelle? I got mine for 25$ for a field car it was rotted so bad that if you opened both doors at once what was left of the rocker panels would drop to the ground!The car didn't look bad at all outsiide but there was almost no bottom! I drove it to the neighbors and he welded the doors closed! Hey Kookie jumped into his hot rod so I was cool!mine was a factory gold color.this was about 1968 I don't remember the year of the Renault

 

That's some thumb you've got there mister

 

Not sure if you guys know this but Mariska Hargitay from Law and Order SVU was her daughter and was in the car at the time of the crash (apparently went up under the front seat) - more here

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002127/bio

 

Average length is 3 times the length of your thumb.

 

R.I.P Reg Ball, later known as Reg Presley, bass player from the TROGGS, died today from cancer. "Wild Thing" great song.

 

R.I.P Reg Ball, later known as Reg Presley, bass player from the TROGGS died today from cancer. Age 71. "Wild Thing" great song.

 

no shit..rings and watches too

 

Albert Einstein's casket, moved for a short time from the Princeton Hospital to a funeral home, Princeton, New Jersey, April 1955

 

U.S. Customs agents tailing a suspected drug smuggler, 1969.

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Scene from U.S. Customs' anti-drug smuggling effort, "Operation Intercept," along the U.S.-Mexico border, 1969.

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couple shows I enjoyed growing up...