VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

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The original caption to this photo said,"The competition doesn't always go smoothly either..."

 

'62 Ford taking a leak?​

 

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Missisippi River Traffic Bridge


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Yucca Market, Hollywood 1928


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Looks like an advertisement for Camel smokes!

 

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Forgot to buckle up?

 

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^^^^ A bit brutal! ^^^^

 

I see some wooden casks floating there, could that be Canadian whiskey coming into the US during Prohibition?

 

Still about the same. Less clutter and wires. 1850s Ca. gold rush town. Fire station on right with bell on top.

 

I think she's gotten the Willys.

 

I believe this is the aftermath of Hurricane Camille in 1969 at Woods Mill, Nelson County, VA

 

No one is street walking on my beat.

 

Yep....https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/virginia/deadly-storm-in-virginia/

 

A guy I work with is a diver and there is some old cars in the bottom of the Detroit river from the prohibition era. The rum runners as they were called would often drive across the ice with their doors open so if the car went through the ice the they could escape. I grew up around the Detroit river and there were many bars and even private homes around that still have tunnels and hidden rooms that go back to the era.