Vintage shots from days gone by!

Boodlum, there is no gun camera footage of any of Cunningham's kills. I'm pretty certain that is an AF Thud kill video.

 

The Allen's car lot looks like Cedar Rapids Ia. late 50s or early 60s .

 

Bit of info for the aircraft carrier pic:

The U.S. escort carrier USS Thetis Bay (CVE-90)enroute to NAS Alameda, California with a deckload of war-weary planes in 1944. The planes visible on deck are eight Consolidated PBY Catalina flying boats, 18 Grumman F6F Hellcat fighters, and a Grumman J2F "Duck" amphibious biplane.

I didn't realise there were that many planes on there, until I realised there are a lot with the wings folded up.

Mart.

 

i think this was the restaraunt on top of mt. evans in colorado, just west of denver

 

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Contrast between "back in the day" and now:

Then: a "nice driver" used as a footrest with smudges and handprints and badly in need of a washjob.

Now: selling for 6 or 7 figure prices and treated like Faberge eggs.

 

I like the mobile chain oiler. Dude has some serious calf muscles!

 

^^^ this is back in the '50's, 2 chain rings up front, 4-5 gears out back, not any where near the gearing on todays mtn bikes.

 

Contrast between "back in the day" and now:

Then: a "nice driver" used as a footrest with smudges and handprints and badly in need of a washjob.

Now: selling for 6 or 7 figure prices and treated like Faberge eggs.[/QUOTE]

My sports car club in the '70s, Bonnet and Boot SCC, had hundreds of members during its heyday in the late '60s. The monthly meetings were huge. During a reunion of old members one of the guys related an episode at one of those meetings. He was seated, waiting for the meeting to start, when a fellow across the table stood up and offered his hand. When he shook it, the fellow introduced himself. Igor Sikorsky.
He drove a gull-winged Mercedes.

 

Horseshoe Bay, BC. Now you can hardly see the shoreline, as it has such large docks for the ferries to Vancouver Island.

 

i thought this picture looked a bit familar!
fished king crab off the dock there back in the early '70s.

 

Game over!!!

 

Italian cyclist Gino Sciardis during the 1949 Tour de France.

 

nothing in his blood but pasta, tomato sauce, meatballs, cheese and wine.

 

Don't be so sure. Fausto Coppi admitted to using amphetamines in the 1949 Tour de France. He said that you couldn't win without them, even way back then......by the way he won the Tour that year.

 

Brenham, Texas

 

Igor Sikorsky!! I do believe I would have fallen at his feet bowing to the messiah!!
What a brilliant man, almost on the level with Harry Hawker and Sir Reginald J Mitchell!!

Doc.

 

Wow! Never seen this pic before, it looks to be an early war Japanese Aichi D3A1 Val Dive Bomber. I would say at a guess one of the 29 aircraft lost over Pearl?
They believe that several more of these may still rest both around Pearl Harbor and not too far out side the Harbor entrance.

Doc.

 

Probably so,----there's a big red meatball under that wing!