Vintage shots from days gone by!

You are very welcome, I've really enjoyed the researching to find and share them as well. I work on Annacis Island, so I drive through the downtown New West area everyday. It's interesting to see evidence of what was there in the past.

 

Any favorites?

 

Marilyn Monroe and Cary Grant from the movie 'Monkey Business' 1952.

 

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"Oh, it came out of the sky, landed just a little South of Moline.
Jody fell out of his tractor, couldn't b'lieve what he seen.
Laid on the ground and shook fearin' for his life.
Then he ran all the way to town screamin' it came out of the sky".

John Fogarty CCR

 

I had me a flat top with fenders, kept in place with butch wax!

 

Wow, that brings back a bunch of old memories. I used to hear them flying overhead back in the late 1940’s and 1950’s; no mistake what they were – nothing sounded like those things. While attending simulator maintenance school at Chanute in 1960 some of us students helped tear down the only reamining B-36 simulator and sitting in the left seat was overwhelming for this 20 year old kid. We used some of it as a mockup for training.

On the way to school we would march by a B-36 that was sitting on display and sometime later, armed forces day maybe, they opened it up and some of us crawled up in it to explore. Many years later they took it apart and shipped it to Castle AFB and there it sits – a huge hunk of aluminum and stuff. The good old, bad old days.

That "video" really shows details. Wow is all I can say. Photo: bottom one I took in 1960.

Jeff