Vintage shots from days gone by!

The first Donk????

 

I didn't realize so many people were "bothered"By who and or what is being posted in this thread .

 

They aren't all yachts, they celebrate pretty much any loved wooden boat. Good luck on the search. My dad and I stumbled across an old sailboat we'd raced on years ago in Portland mouldering up at the derelict dock in Bellingham, sides so rotten you could push a pen through them - fast forward to Dennis Conner spending a million bucks to restore it, you never know.

 

You have no idea how thin skin some people are just dont say any thang about the Kennedy boys

 

DarthG8R, here's a little differant kind of four door VDub.

 

You got that right!!-----24 pages of "Lungs"

 

Then they oughta' get educated & read "Killing Kennedy" by Bill Orielly!!
One helluva read!!

 

Concept or prototype? Based on info I saw with the pic, it's a 1953 Cadillac Ghia Coupe:

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July 1939. Gordonton, N.C.

 

as to speak just for myself, Jim, i always enjoy what you're writing, because you are touched and inspired by the vintage shots and your memory starts to work, and i'm sorry for all the people which can't catch up with you. always a good and entertaining read! don't stop and stay yourself!

Cheers, Carsten

 

never mind the drama, you're doin a fine job eddie!

 

I think that it was Gloria Swanson's personal car. I saw it behind a shop in southern California and it was in rough shape. I wondered what the hell it was and researched it. It sure is gorgeous, now. I have a picture of it in the rough condition somewhere.

 

No matter where you go or what you do.... someone will get pissed off.

Just grin and carry on enjoying life.

 

One of two bodied by Ghia. The one you have pictured is in the Blackhawk Collection and the one below is in the collection of the Petersen Automotive Museum. Both are claimed to have been Rita Hayworth's car. One truly was. Her husband purchased it off the stand at the Paris Auto Show.




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Ok....Thanks Dave.


(1948)* - This view of the Cahuenga Pass in 1948 shows one road of cars end to end.

 

This kind of cars were called OTP's, which stands for "offener Tourer Polizei", which means ragtop police cruiser, to take out more than two officers out on the fresh air..

 

Thanks

 

Picnic day in Sacramento, CA

 

1921 picnic at Ascot.

 

(1937)* - Three signs announce this open air Safeway market with a Spanish tiled roof located on 5509 Sunset Boulevard near Western. Die cut metal animals and farm scenes follow the roof line around and over of the rooftop sign which advertises "distribution without waste." Right below on the facade, a channel letter sign gives the same message, as do all of the awnings. In the parking lot a bulb sign with a wrought iron base, ringed with down lighting, rests on the lip of a zig zag concrete wishing well. Cars park facing the open wall of the market and produce is displayed prominently. Just behind the Safeway market on the upper right can be seen the sign board for the more modern Sam Seelig Market at 1515 N. Western.

 

Another concept/prototype pic I found; info with it says "1954 GM XP21 Firebird"

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"Austin 6 Belfast Northern Ireland 1944. Notice the gas tank (coal gas) on top of the car"

 

1956 Picnic area, Fogarty Creek State Park, Oregon Coast.

 

here yah go Ron....



"It'll Never Get Off The Ground
Though it hasn't got a name, this unusual auto is causing quite a stir in Wethersfield, England. US Air Force Lt. Col. Edward H. Risher seems to have carried the 'do-it-yourself' craze to extremes in this car. Beginning with a Ford Anglia chassis, Col. Hisher added, among other things, a cut-down Chevrolet hood, Austin Bantam wheels and rear windshield from an American Ford. The crowning touch, however, came in the form of two wing tanks from a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star jet trainer."

 

1958 Loading up for a trail ride.

 

1954 Grandparents car and trailer ready to vacation.

 

Glad you are enjoying the pics. I've been racking my memory trying to figure out it's location too. I'm thinking somewhere along Bridgeport Road and No.3. I'll ask one of my customers next week, he's worked for the city since it was a sandbar.

 

More from Life archives, 1940: I believe that these are Curtis A-18 "Shrikes," (no, I don't know what a Shrike is?)...caption had almost no information

 

More Shrikes: