Vintage shots from days gone by!

Jordan Blueboy

 

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Great shots once again.

I miss old gas stations where you could get a tune up, brakes, muffler or many other things fixed.

I know you can not stop progress but I am not sure what we have today is progress for the better.

When we had the old gas stations you knew the owners name along with the names of the people who worked there and everyone was friendly where today you take your car to a place where you in most cases you do not know the owner or the names of anyone who works there.

I really miss the old more with each passing day.

Just my opinion. Jimbo

 

Same here.

 

Possibly not vintage shot of the Model T? Sunglasses and cap on driver just do not feel right.

 

Edward G Robinson will always be one of my favorite movie actors ! scrubba

 

nicely done....don't think I could afford one....


I know, I know......just enjoy.

 

very first Ferris Wheel, 1893

 

Wow, check out #92, got his Socks, er Stacks knocked off...

 

Seeing Earth for the First Time

On October 24, 1946, a group of American military engineers and scientists did a very strange thing: they used a Nazi V2 rocket to take the first picture of the Earth from space. It was a strange but perhaps fitting time to find this kind of perspective—World War II was barely over, NASA did not yet exist, and Sputnik wouldn’t be launched for another 11 years. The only people who had seriously given thought to spaceships were the Nazis, who developed the V2 rocket bombs that wreaked havoc in London and Antwerp towards the end of WWII. When the Allies captured Nazi factory and launch sites, America seized some of these V2s and took some to the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, where they were launched into space for testing. Clyde Holliday, an engineer there, understood that images would be a powerful tool for space exploration, so he developed a 35mm camera that could take a photo every 1.5 seconds, and sent it up with a V2. Before this, the highest pictures ever taken were by the Explorer II, a balloon that reached 22 kilometres high in 1935, but Holliday’s V2 rocket climbed to an altitude over 100 kilometres. It snapped photos every 1.5 seconds, then fell back down and slammed into the Earth, destroying the camera—but luckily a steel cassette protected the film. The image seen above is the first image the camera took: the grainy grey Earth against the vast blackness of space. Later images stitched together in a panorama can be seen here. National Geographic released these photos in 1950, giving the world our first real glimpse of how small we are, and how high we can reach.

 

Penny arcade at 620 Canal St., New Orleans

Photo by Jack Robinson, circa 1955

 

Seeing earth the first time... WOW!

 

Greg Weld in the Ward Dunseth #92
Rollie Beale in the Ken Lay #82
Bruce Walkup in the ???? #12
Mickey Shaw in the Doug Lang #28
September 17, 1967, Winchester Speedway?

 

Rochester NY















As with all grand theaters........

 

Lower Left...Could that be a Tucker with a Roof Rack?

 

You betcha! Agree 100%

 

Your probably right....Tucker would have been neat though....

 

Let's play two. Ernie Banks.

 

I find it interesting and surprising that I read that Hitler's bodyguard who was there in the bunker with Hitler and Eva Braun died last week. I would have figured he would have died years ago.