Vintage shots from days gone by!

its too bad they dont build builings like this any more..now all just slab sidings...This is beautiful

 

There is debate among automobile fans about the very first car ever made. Railfans, however, agree that this was the first diesel locomotive built. This builder photo, originally from GE, shows the date of October 15, 1918. Jay Street Connecting was a New York harbor terminal railroad that went bankrupt in the 50's. The locomotive didn't last that long though.

 

Los Angeles Crime Boss Mickey Cohen and his armored Cadillac. Having been shot at and having his house bombed made Mickey a little nervous....

 

Yeah....that thick glass in the door tells the story!

 

"I think Knievel is gaining on us"!!-----FLOOR IT!!!!!!!!

 

"Break time atop the Chrysler Building Oct. 1929"

 

# 19 Bob Park Freeport Speedway

 

"Fifth Avenue. Easter, 1913"

 

The #19 car is Bob park at the old Freeport Stadium on Long Island.

 

"Under the Brooklyn Bridge 1940"

 

Is that old street scene Oatman. AZ?
I can' make out the name of the hotel

 

Bush Terminal Railroad #88 is through the First Avenue & 58th Street entrance gate and stops for a portrait on this historic occasion - November 1947
<small>photographer: Michael Rougier
Life Magazine archives</small>

The historic occasion is the movement of U. S. Army mortuary caskets in 1947 from Europe to various cemeteries in the U. S.