Vintage shots from days gone by!

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This was my Grandfathers Plumbing truck in Freeport Illinois taken in front of the old court house..... My dad is peering over the hood. By enlarging the hub cap I discovered it was a Stutebaker. Probably taken around 1927.

 

1930s lineup at the opening of a brand new firefighting headquarters. Portugal.

 

Not a hot rod, in the traditional sense.
Comments optional.

 

Two accidents on Santa Ana Freeway

"At 8:30 a.m. a stalled car was rear ended in the fast lane of the northbound Santa Ana Freeway – numbers 3 and 4 in above photo.

After the first accident, Los Angeles Times staff photographer Frank. Q. Brown arrived to take pictures and parked his car, foreground, on the southbound shoulder of the freeway.

Forty minutes after the first accident, five cars collided in the southbound lanes. They were, according to the Los Angeles Times, “slowed by curious drivers ahead of them.” These cars are numbers 1, 2 and 5 in photo above. The overturned car missed Brown’s car by an inch.

Arrow points to injured driver in the second accident, Jesse Kasner. Two cars involved in the second accident were able to drive away."

I found the above info about that crash.

regards,Rod.

 

Wonder if they sold stroker cranks too?

 

The hole in the Empire State Building after a B-25 bomber crashed into it on July 28, 1945

 

The immediate aftermate of the Wall Street Bombing, September 16th, 1920. The bombing was never solved.