Vintage shots from days gone by!

Yummy !

 

From 1955 Speed Age:​

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Caption: "This '32 Model B Ford Roadster took the ATTA Styling Trophy for the best looking car in the World Series. It was built by C.A. Gillespie, of Bradley, IL, who used a 1951 Mercury engine for power." ​

 

Ads from 1957:

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Accessory ads from 1958:

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Who wants to be a 'loser'? :

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Another from '58 - hmmm.....I'm glad that ain't my kid!

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Okay, last one tonight, also from '58:

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P-80 was top secret in 1946, these photos were taken outside the Lockheed plant at Burbank Airport. Thanks LowKat.

 

man, this looks like Southside Plaza in Richmond, VA

 

Does anyone know if this one is still around...................???


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more crazy cycle stuff...................

 

Looks like Elvis ??

 

that's cos it is

 

Mick Jagger behind the wheel of his yellowMorgan Plus 8 roadster in St. Tropez, France,



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The more I re-read the sign, the MORE I wondered what the heck
the story was here. How many people would have been carrying
-- much less firing -- their guns in the cemetery anyway? There
must have been a problem at this particular locale. Anybody want
to venture a WAG???

 

With Memorial Day this weekend, I thought guys and gals on this thread might
enjoy some quality photography from the WWII years to celebrate the talent,
training, patriotism, courage AND sacrifice of not only the USA but ALL of the
Free World nations. Images THANKS to the U.S. Archives and Records Admin-
istration! Search http://www.archives.gov/. BTW, if anybody objects to these
"war" photos, REMEMBER it's soldiers, sailors, flyers, marines, coast guards-
men, CBs, WACs, WAFs, Waves, medics, nurses, logisticians and an army of
factory workers on the home front who guaranteed OUR right to speak freely.
Freedom isn't free. The price is paid in sweat, pain, blood and tears.

So, feel FREE to say your piece . . . then say thanks for peace.


To me, there's something strangely serene about military cemeteries, somehow belying the awesome
power, pace, energy and destruction of combat. I suppose, that is the point: Rest in PEACE, finally.


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Standing reverently in the grassy sod bordering row upon row of white crosses in an American cemetery,
two dungaree-clad Coast Guardsmen pay silent homage to the memory of a fellow Coast Guardsman who
lost his life in military action in the Ryukyu Islands. They have a saying in the Coast Guard: "You have to
go out. You don't have to come back!" There are numerous American military cemeteries throughout the
world. Photography by Benrud, circa 1945.

 

Now this is rich! It's 1942, and some cat named Doolittle thinks he'll fly off a carrier, all the way
to Tokyo and bomb it! C'mon. (Actually, he did, and the Emperor was rather taken aback!)



Seen here is a take-off from the deck of the U.S.S. Hornet. The aircraft is an Army B-25 on its way
to take part in very first U.S. air raid on Japan. Photograph of the Doolittle Raid, taken in April, 1942.
This was barely four months after Pearl Harbor, and every citizen and fighting man or woman
needed a shot in the ol' arm! THANKS, Jimmy!

 

"Liberated" Nuremberg, Germany, 1945. "Hey G.I.! Please stop doing us favors!" Seriously, though,
those bombed-out French cities we looked at a while back from World War I really had nothing on
the destruction of the second big war!



Choked with war debris, a bombed water intake of the Pegnitz River no longer supplies war factories
in Nuremberg, a vital "Third Reich" industrial city and a festival center of the Nazi party. Nuremberg,
Germany, which was captured on April 20, 1945, by troops of the United States Army. The city would
later serve as the setting for the infamous Nuremberg war crimes trials.

 

The famous P-40 Warhawk with a young Chinese soldier minding the store in 1942. "Loaned" by the West,
these planes would help China defeat those who'd raped their country, as well as Korea, since the mid-'30s.

 

She had a pair of 38's. She also had a gun!

 

They didn't just call the Grumman F6F the Hellcat for nothin'! They were specifically armored,
and armed, to bust ships but were still maneuverable enough for effective dog-fighting.

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These pilots are pleased (no shit??? LOL) over their victory during the Marshall Islands attack, and are
pictured here grinning across the tail of an F6F Hellcat on board the U.S.S. Lexington. These men have
just shot down 17 out of 20 Japanese planes heading for Tarawa. Photo taken by Commander Edward
Steichen in November, 1943.
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watch out she'll get you with her bullets


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She had a pair of 38's. She also had a gun!


Careful! You'll put an eye out!

(Notice, she's so good, she can do it with her eyes closed! )

 

LowCat, this is one sweet, nostalgic "soda parlor" shot that appears to be from the late
'30s or early '40s. As our friend SixDogs says, life just used to be, well, more civilized.

 

Rest assured, they (the Germans) earned their destroyed cities. Keep in mind too that the Allies, America specifically, rebuilt both Europe and Japan (Marshall Plan, etc.) and airlifted food and supplies into these bombed-out cities until they could stand on their own again. It was the Germans who began the bombing of civilian targets (London, Coventry, etc.) in 1940. They had dared to sow the wind and thus reaped the whirlwind. (Based on the quote by Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur "Bomber" Harris.)

 

Actually, the Life Magazine P-80 photos were taken at March Field out in Riverside, CA in 1946. Note how desolate the area was then. Now it's all stucco and strip malls as far as the eye can see.

 

Rest assured, Cut, the comment WAS tongue-in-cheek. I agree that Hitler brought down the furies himself by his VARIOUS treacheries -- unfortunately not only on his own head but on those of civilians too. I dare say, Curtis LeMay's words were a darn sight less "poetic" than those of Bomber Harris. It cost over Yank 20,000 airmen their lives to fly those dangerous missions, hundreds of planes, and I'm not even including what the British lost flying the "night shift." I wouldn't want anyone to think that I didn't pay any attention to history in my decades of existence.