Vintage shots from days gone by!

Lockport NY

Palace theater in Lockport 1935

 

Happy St. Paddy's Day Everyone!!!









The below image is of the scene of Eddie O'Hare's murder. Eddie O'Hare worked for Al Capone at one point in time and eventually was the Prosecution's star witness against Capone. He was murdered in his Lincoln in Chicago in 1939. His son went on to become a highly decorated fighter pilot in WWII and Chicago's O'Hare Int'l Airport is named after him.


-Tim

 

Most be a prototype, don't think they ever sold a 4 door convertible.

 

swi66, I am suprised I have not seen any pics from you showing the Ultraman Corvair. Science Patrol issue car. 1966 Japanese made super hero show.

 

Being that I was born on the south side of Chicago and I grew up with a lot of Irish families....Happy Saint Patrick's Day my fellow Hambers.....

 

Equally dubious is that the car is wrapped in clear plastic. Did they have that type of material in 1939?

 

They also sold those early aluminized fire suits. I recall seeing a few guys wearing Bell fire suits. The complete safety package!

 

Minden, Nebraska

 

A friend's mom and sister where up there that day taking photos (mom was a news photographer) and died in the blast. At our high school baccalaureate a speaker was going on and on about the eruption, not realizing we had a student who'd just lost family as a result, she was sitting beside me sobbing her heart out - and none of the faculty had the presence of mind to shut him up....

 

What's the grouping noun for a collection of Edsels?
A clutch? A whoop? A murder? A catastrophe? A nightmare?.........?
Hmmmmmmm....?

 

OMG I've gotta get one of these! Endorsed by Barney Fife to boot!

 

Nassau Bay, Tx about 1/4 mile from the NASA Johnson Space Center. It is now a Dollar Store.

 

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Shirley Temple - 1938

Temple leaving the White House offices with her mother and her bodyguard Grif


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This is the NB Harbor Fwy approaching downtown. The Statler Hilton on the left was on Wilshire and the Richfield Tower can also be seen. The newest car I see is a '60 Ford so I will guess this was fall/winter of '59/'60. It appears that the "Downtown" exit sign has been enhanced.

 

[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Amazing pic here. [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The fire apparatus was manufactured by Luverne [/FONT]which had built the "Big Brown Luverne"
automobile in Minnesota from 1904 to 1917. Luverne began making hearses and trucks in 1912 and, after '17,
concentrated only on trucks, particularly fire vehicles. From '23 on, Luverne built fire apparatuses on chassis
by other companies and is still in business today, under another name.

This truck was built in 1934 for the fire department of Thief River Falls, Minnesota. The chassis is from the
Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company, Clintonville, Wisconsin. (The Badger Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company was
founded in Clintonville in 1909. The name was changed to the Four-Wheel Drive Auto Company in 1910, and
in 1958 to the FWD Corporation.)


That was THEN, this is NOW. Forum member Ron Pearson posted the Luverne-built unit during a parade.

 

Here's a Luverne two-tank chemical and hose rig from 1917, the FINAL year
that Luverne would build any passanger motor cars. It was built for Wash-
ington Twp. Fire Co. #1, Mechanicsburg, PA. Member Box2565 of the afore-
mentioned forum speculated that this unit was built on a high-quality auto
chassis. GIVEN the year, plus the fact that Luverne had been building trucks
since 1912, I'm wondering if this wasn't actually built on one of Luverne's
own chassis (?). My WAG, but the fancy detailing on the wheels could be
a hint.

 

1907 Luverne Model C Runabout, above, and the Montana Special, below,
thanks to American-Automobiles.

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Happy St. Patrick's day!

 

One-of-a-kind 1915 Luverne Special Speed Roadster -- I love this car, but very little
history seems to exist on it. American-Automobiles says this: "Legend has it that
this 'Big Brown Luverne' Special Speed Roadster was built to race at the Indiana-
polis Speedway but various problems arose and the car never made the race. It was
produced as seen above as a sports roadster."

And, "The Leicher Bros., Fenton and Ed, made no attempt at quantity production as
each automobile was hand built. By 1916 it was apparent closed cars were in de-
mand. Only 2 Luverne's were built in 1917."

Myself, I believe the Leicher brothers had determined that more money could be
made, with rather less expenditure of man-hours and capital, by building trucks
and fire apparati. Just my two cents; I wasn't there in 1917! lol​

 

Sawmill item from an issue of Ford Times, 1912, thanks to the Model T Ford forums.

 

Yes: "Cellophane was invented by Swiss chemist Jacques E. Brandenberger. . . . By 1912 he had constructed a machine to manufacture the film, which he had named Cellophane, from the words cellulose and diaphane ("transparent"). Cellophane was patented that year. . . . Whitman's candy company initiated use of cellophane for candy wrapping in the United States in 1912 for their Whitman's Sampler. They remained the largest user of imported cellophane from France until nearly 1924, when DuPont built the first cellophane manufacturing plant in the US. . . . Following the introduction of moisture-proof Cellophane in 1927, the material's sales tripled between 1928 and 1930, and in 1938, Cellophane accounted for 10% of Du Pont's sales and 25% of its profits." -- Snippets from Wikipedia<SUP id=cite_ref-hounshell170_3-1 class=reference jQuery18306844831662714238="71"></SUP>