Vintage shots from days gone by!

Maybe they were working on the foundation of the Phoenix, looks like construction barriers set up there, and dirt tracks from trucks.
Yeah, it has been better than 30 years since I lived in the West End, lots have changed I'm sure. I have been back to visit a couple of times as I still have family in the area.

 

Ah, the Flint sit-down strike of 1937....

Some tough times.

 

Cute kid.

"Not your father's Ass-mobile"

 

And that is likely Bill's little wagon on the R. He was the only one of them who had a car.
He got to haul all the stuff.

 

Since today is June 6th...

 

Trouble Maker Coleman & Taylor



Tony Santucci at Dover



Throttle Queens



The Prussian

 

I'm assuming that the aerial ladder is almost up against a building...

 

FDR motorcade, 1941.

 

Throttle Queens----- " Rocket Muff" ??????????????

 

LOL............ MUFFLER

 

George Washington Way, Richland, WA, stop in for a Spudnut...


GO to the junkyard at the Y between Kennewick and Richland by the river.

Uptown Tavern! Hasn't changed a bit, still looked like something from the '50s when I was there 2002-2005.

Buses to Hanford, we had to do either POV or vanpool, buses would have been better.

 

Spudnuts, damn they are good.

 

Hanford worker, 1944.

Buying bonds at Hanford.

 

A float during the 1954 Atomic Frontier Days in Richland, Wash.
Franklin County's Public Utility District shows off its float during the 1954 Atomic Frontier Days parade in Richland, Wash.
Planes were part of the Atomic Frontier Days parade in Richland, Wash

 

1964 after the Tsunami

 

Tri-Citians were welcomed to inspect new facilities for the Washington State Patrol in this photo dated April 7, 1961. The building was located on Kennewick Avenue one block south of Highway 8. Chief greeter was Sgt. R.G. Liner, who commanded the 15-man detachment.

 

Ninety-mile-an-hour winds wreaked havoc with this house on Badger Road in the Horse Heaven Hills, tearing off the entire upper floor. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight M. Talcott and their two children were asleep in the home when the gust struck on Jan. 19, 1961.

 

This photo taken on Dec. 23, 1964, shows the effect of melting snow in the Tri-Cities.

 

My favorite "Boy band".

Rob

 

Edward Lang of Kennewick claimed the cutter and binder shown above had the first power take-off used. He said the machine inspired the invention of combines. This picture was taken in 1914 on Lang's farm. Lang (left) and his partner John Dahlquist (right) built the machine applied for a patent but the inventors never received a cent for the outfit.