Vintage shots from days gone by!

Making Moonshine in the Sunshine State

 

Captioned "a new Fiat," 1940, some Topolino-like features...

 

I believe that Devastators were used at Corral Sea and Midway. Replaced by the Grumman Avenger.

 

Old Cadillac is readied for another race At Rosenwald Museum

 

New Orleans

 

American Bantam roadster, from 1947 Life, would love to have it today, lots of them laid down their lives to become drag roadsters:

 

...and I guess you could pick up girls with one!

 

...or maybe one of these!

 

Downtown Valparaiso , Florida . Located near Eglin Air Force Base .

 

1911 Aircraft Carrier , USS Pennsylvania

 

I love this car and the photo too.




Balanced Rock Garden of the Gods.Colorado

 

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</td><td>Old frame house at 2610 Jackson St. from Alta Plaza. San Francisco.1953 I wish this is what I saw when I step out of my house.


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Detroit Bike , Motorcycle , & Gramaphone Store circa 1912 .

 

All I did was tell him to heel…

 

The woman in the photo is Preston Tucker's secretary Dee Dee Jordan. On the left is her husband Al and on the right is the late Richard Jones who was the authority on all things Tucker. The car is Tucker #1022.

If you like Tucker photos and history check out my Tucker thread on the HAMB at:

http://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=534872

 

The Devestators were totally obsolete by 1942, the Japanese made mincemeat of them. Destruction rate was nearly 100% at Midway, they were so slow it was like skeet shooting for IJN gunners.

 

Here's some more from the Vancouver,BC. area, including the first "horseless carriage" to arrive in the area.

 

....................And then, in the end Dog's ruled the world, and they too build cars in the 19th century of their reign over the green planet.
Then at the pinnacle of the K9 race 'Fidoryan' looking back over many kennels past dedicated the greatest kennel on the Intercollar and started the H.A.M.B. (Someone think of a K9 hamb).

Doc.Yeah, I have no idea what I'm talkin' about either.........

 

Yup, that is the Grumman J2F Duck, mainly used as a Utility aircraft they were also used as Search/Air Sea Rescue aircraft by US Navy, AAF, Marines and Coast Guard. They saw survive until just after the end of WWII, apart from that I don't know shit about them!!

Doc.

 

Looking at Google earth this house is gone, but the white one to the left of it is still there.

 

My '47 Whizzer was fun too!

 

Awesome pictures.

 

what are you referring to? for this purpose you should use the qoute-button, and the first post here should be some lines about you in the intro area,
welcome here..

 

More from Vancouver and surrounding area.