VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

I got “the well” in our Bug. Same effect except that horsehair loop carpet was seriously itchy. I fell asleep back there many nights on the way home.

 

Seal Beach, 1940s.

 

Home of Al Capone.

 

The Lowly F/Gas 1952 performing double duty as a tow car for the D/Gas 1937. Sorry about the photo quality.

 

The 37 front center while 52 sulks in the background. Circa 1955

 

37 Chev. Wayne 12 port

 

Owens Virginia

 

Weeki Wachee Florida

 

Ray Kroc’s first restaurant in Des Plaines, IL after he bought the name from the McDonald brothers. It opened in 1958.

 

Someone must of had a few too many extra helpings the hot chili special.

 

I would have been happy to get marooned on Gilligan's Island with Mary Ann.

 

I never had a problem with the horse hair since I'd have a blanket to lie on. I never forgot the smell though. It seems a lot of German made cars had the same smell. I never knew the reason for the peculiar smell until I got my first Mercedes. It had the same smell as the Bug I remembered. Then I was told it was from the horse hair that was used in the cushions.

 

I bet that guy walked into that pole the first time he walked by her.

 

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