Vintage shots from days gone by!

COOL watering can!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ur30bn_3G58

 

Interesting story:

The Upper Steel Arch Bridge, also known as the Honeymoon Bridge or Fallsview Bridge, was located in the heart of Niagara Falls, Ontario, about 500 feet (150 m) south (upriver) of the present-day Rainbow Bridge.
This bridge was constructed in 1897 and opened for traffic in 1898. It was the fourth bridge on the site in fifty years. The Second Falls View Suspension Bridge it replaced was moved downriver to Queenston, where it served traffic between there and Lewiston, New York until 1962.
The span of the bridge was 840 feet (260 m). The bridge decking was wooden, and was designed to support the weight of street cars operating on the Great Gorge Scenic Railway.
Although well designed for its time, the Upper Steel Arch Bridge was prone to sway under certain conditions (heavy winds, bands marching in-step, etc.), not unlike the suspension bridges it replaced. Doubts about the bridge's longevity surfaced as early as 1925. On June 8, when a parade commemorating the installation of new searchlights on Niagara Falls concluded on the bridge, it began to sway wildly with the added weight. Attention was also called to the bridge frequently in the 1930s, when the deteriorating bridge railing allowed some automobiles to crash through them easily.
In January 1938, a severe ice storm hit the Niagara Falls area, flooding the lower river with ice. The bridge stood on abutments built close to river level, and the ice pressed against them, damaging them until they failed in a grand collapse of the structure on January 27, 1938. The thickness of this ice supported the weight of the wreckage until the final three pieces sank in April 1938.
Plans were already in the works for a successor to the Upper Steel Arch Bridge before its collapse; these plans were quickly implemented, resulting in the construction of the present-day Rainbow Bridge.

 

GREAT STORY/HISTORY ! Thank You for sharing it with us today . scrubba

 

Love everything about this shot.

 

Me too. What do you suppose the cop is thinking about? Hot corned beef, the hot waitress, or Lefty with one suspender?

 

Used for adding water to your battery---Mostly made of rubber or hard plastic.

 

And it was supposed to be filled with Distilled water to make the battery preform at its maximum.

BB

 

It's only a man purse

 

I wonder how much static electricity was produced from those skates.

 

The fact that they keep harping on the "digestible" part makes it all seem pretty icky, as if repeating it a bunch makes it so. Bleh.

 

These illuminated tires were developed by Goodyear in 1961. They’re made from a single piece of synthetic rubber and are brightly lit by bulbs mounted inside the wheel rim. The Goodyear Tire Company intend to produce the tyres in a variety of colours. So they came up with this so that women could adjust their stockings at night?
These illuminated tires were developed by Goodyear in 1961. They’re made from a single piece of synthetic rubber and are brightly lit by bulbs mounted inside the wheel rim. The Goodyear Tire Company intend to produce the tyres in a variety of colours. So they came up with this so that women could adjust their stockings at night?

 

The Niagara Falls Suspension Bridge was the world's first working railway suspension bridge. It spanned 825 feet (251 m) and stood 2.5 miles (4.0 km) downstream of Niagara Falls from 1855 to 1897. Connecting Niagara Falls, Ontario to Niagara Falls, New York (the two cities assimilated the towns at the ends of the bridge by 1892), the bridge carried mixed traffic on ...its two decks across the Niagara River; trains crossed over the river by way of the bridge's upper deck while pedestrians and carriages used the lower. As the bridge was the result of a collaboration of two companies from two countries, it was also known by its American name, the International Suspension Bridge. The bridge had other names including the Niagara Railway Suspension Bridge and Niagara Suspension Bridge, but the most common and definitive was simply the Suspension Bridge.

 

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My dad had a Hudson Jet, but I don't believe he ever gave Ernest Borgnine a ride. This picture is from the movie Marty.