Vintage shots from days gone by!

Larry, Moe and Shep could never figure out why their lunchtime races always ended in a three-way tie...

 

lol me too

 

39 Fageol Supersonic

 

Ellensburg, WA

 

The Charge of the Light Brigade at 6 am. Uncle Stainless. Word of the day. The man
had class. Sure miss it.

 

I admit, he had one of the greatest radio voices. Dad liked him because he played swing music when nobody else did. I further admit that I liked swing music as a kid, no shame in my game.

 

Picture was taken at Colonial CC in Ft Worth. Car in front was built in Arlington factory and the car in back was built in Michigan. My best friend owned the car in front and the car in back was mine. Sold mine in 1977 wish I still had it. My friend kept his until 74 when he traded it on a vette. We were both students at TCU.

 

SA 1914003 by mactexas, on Flickr

 

Horse-drawn fire Engine No. 39 leaving Fire Headquarters at 157 East 67th Street for the last time after being replaced with a motorized fire engine (parked in the background), New York City, February 19, 1912.


I'm hoping there is at least one engine powered vehicle in this photo, it is just too cool not to post. Telephone wires in New York City, 1887.

 

Ya'll know why this place is infamous, dontcha?

Hint: This shot was done in 1957. 10 years later. somebody would not eat there again.

 

LOVE that place. The Fox and Hounds is on North Woodward Avenue. Drove and raced by it millions of times. Jimmy Hoffa history....

 

I was looking for a better photo, on account of this is one of my all time favorite styling efforts. The Chrysler team also applied the same aesthetics to the Valiant, and marketed the results as the Plymouth Barracuda.

Well anyway, the 1964-1996 Chrysler Imperial was so tough, it was used in demolition derby's until it was banned. Sad in a way, but they were amazing cars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demolition_derby

"The 1964-1966 Chrysler Imperial achieved near-legendary status for its crashworthiness, and is still banned from most derby events."

 

I'm a Pontiac fan boi through & through, but I also loved that era Chrysler. So much so, I bought my Mom a 1966 Chrysler 300, exactly the same model & color as in the photo.

When she passed in 1976, I inherited the car. Had 60K on it, Michelin radials looked like new. When I got married in 1978, wifey drove it. When we divorced, it still had no rust, but I had it scrapped.

http://www.automobile-catalog.com/img/pictonorzw/chrysler/1966-chrysler-300-2.jpg

 

Daughter of a gal I've known for years put together a history book on our home town of Clarkston MI.

Back then, they held parades when Main street got paved. The thing in front with the horses is a road grader. I'd guess it was a symbolic "putting out to pasture".

 

So sorry....I was wrong about the Fox and Hounds. It was the Machus Red Fox restaurant where Jimmy ate his last meal....

 

You are so right. No sooner had I posted & I realized my mistake.

 

When I bought my place in Clarkston on Deer lake, it was on the water, but this Inn had once stood above it on the hilltop overlooking virtually the whole town. It had an artesian well, and made it one of those "elixir of life" type places. Just the sort of excuse a businessman needed to buy one of them newfangled auto-mobiles and drive all the way out from Detroit on a Saturday afternoon and spend the night.


I had artesian feeding my place directly below it too. But I got to tell you that water was so rusty, it stained the ground red.



Anyway; the Inn is gone now, and fancy houses stand where it once stood.

 

Here's another 1922 Clarkston parade shot. Same street, different "vehicle" - guess it was the Cedar Sedan?

Anyway, there's a stone building with a curved roof and you can make out the tire sign.
At that time, it was a car dealership! It had become Rudy's Market sometime in the 50s. Around the 80s sometime, I was helping Rudy's sons get some repairs made and we were rummaging up in those old trusses and I found that sign!

I never knew until just today what its history was! I'm flabbergasted. I sure hope Freddy or Bobby Schwartz kept that sign!

Man, there is so much history in that shot. I have another photo of a later "back in the day", this one from 1970-71 of Bobby Seger standing in front of Rudy's store, my Mom's old Baptist church in the background.

We were so wasted....

 

Rootie..Is this the results of Chuck Engle crash of the Dayton Spl ??

 

And they're still looking for him.