Vintage shots from days gone by!

'57 - my dad had a Century.

 

I remember these most used by parking meter readers before the little Cushman 3 wheeled scooters came along.

I remember the stick with the fat chalk they used to mark your tire.

For some reason I always think of San Francisco PD when I see one and I don't know why.

 

San Francisco PD. Knew them well.

 

Scrubba, I remember the steam train at the visitor's center. My son was a train nut as a toddler and we visited it a lot. This postcard is in the VCU Library archives. I have a similar postcard from when it was new in the 1920's. The station was built on the property of the OLD Hermitage Golf Course in what was once the far west end of Richmond.



Below was taken in March, 1975. The station closed in December 1975. Sometime around that time I took my roommate there a couple of times to catch the train. It was a very cool building inside. I've been to it a lot since it became the Science Museum too.

 

I googled "Mississippi City, MS Anchor Motel" and it appears that this is on eBay. Thank you internet.

 

Vegas

 

Seattle

Wisconsin




Allandale FL



Limon Co

 

St Augustine Fl

 

Buffalo NY

 

How about a train wreck?

Oh the humanity...


One potato, two potato

 

That'll buff out



Sharp dressed




All images from

The Boston Public Library

http://www.bpl.org/

 

THANK YOU! Sorry to "yell" but that really makes me so happy. I have Googled (albeit) incorrectly it appears, many many times. I cannot thank you enough!

 

Man just sittin there up to the rims in ground.

 

Okay, I don't know a thing about this car except that it certainly is sweet-looking. Anyone have any info about it?






IMO, it looks later than 1933, closer to about 1937 or 38.
I wonder why it didn't enter production. Oh, wait. There was Depression going on, wasn't there?
Kind of a shame though. Pretty car.

Robert

 

Hey, I jus like seein new picturs !!!!!!!!!!!!! scrubba

 

I see old rvs and old cars?
guess I need new glasses

 

Curio salesman (and Rockologist) Chuckawalla Slim poses with his vehicle at Papago Park in the 1920s: Gotta love that moniker. Chucawalla's story http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=840

 

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1930-1940-cadillac-v-165.htm

 

This one with the tag axle and mud and snow tires is bad ass to me.

 

Seaside, Oregon

 

Park Falls WI

 

Park Falls WI