Vintage shots from days gone by!

Huron Ohio

Memphis







Nashville

 

Abbye Stockton

 

Gatlinburg

 

Erie PA

 

Patrick St. Bridge, Charleston 1964



40's

 

Today

 

North Charleston


Today

 

Summers St. Charleston

 

1938 Ford Type 48 Van (Germany)

 

That Post Office is still there, minus the flag poles on the street, but that bank on the other corner of N.Garfield is now 9 stories tall and everything on the South side of Colorado is new. The Photo is looking East on a rare stormyday by the way.
Thanks for the post!

 

So what's happening with the car in left hand lane?

 

Here's a THEN&NOW. I doubt I'm the only one who enjoys an occasional walk in cemeteries,
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]the older the better. I never feel creeped out, the way some people say they do. I usually feel [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]quite peaceful, being surrounded by folks who, mostly, lived long, eventful lives. Many grave-[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]stones read a bit like books, describing not only birth and death dates (defining the historical [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]ERA in which people lived, labored, fought illness or hardship, reared families, etc., etc.). They [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]also reveal names of spouses, children, sometimes ancestors. Of course, many stones tell proud-[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]ly of war time service, down to rank attained, campaigns fought, etc. (A favorite of mine, e.g., [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]tells of a man who made lieutenant, before dying hundreds of miles from home in the Battle of [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Missionary Ridge in Tennessee in late 1863.)[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]The wonderful photo below of Benton B. Shrode and Mary Margaret (Simpson) Shrode is courtesy [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]of Carolyn Hess and was posted to the internet by A.C. Akins, a descendent of Mary Margaret. [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Thanks to their research and effort, we can put faces with what would probably otherwise be [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]merely NAMES on gravestones. These were not aristocrats nor famous politicians, but ordinary [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]folk. Though they didn't make significant history in the big scheme of their country, you might find[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]the available details interesting, if you click on the link. (Mary, e.g., was born in Indiana, outlived [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]three husbands and bore several children, before losing her life in her adopted home of Arkansas[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]in the awful flu epidemic that swept the world in the closing days of World War I. We car folk[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]know, of course, that the flu abated but lingered around the world, killing both John and Horace [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Dodge in 1920.)[/FONT]
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Grave on the left is that of Bennett Barrett Shrode, grave on the right is believed to be that of Mary Margaret Shrode.
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Benton B. Shrode and Mary Margaret (Simpson) Shrode www.findagrave.com/cgibin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=79117494

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Betty Brosmer again - The Ultimate Pin-Up:

 

Looks like a movie shoot.
I see what loos like light reflectors on the front of the custom(?) car.

 

Great shot of the "Topper" car stopped in the fast lane.

 

Officer Frank loved to play "police standoff", but the neighborhood children had grown tired of the game years ago.

 

The intersection of Lafayette St., Grand Central Ave. and Brevard St., in front of the University of Tampa, looking southwest, 1942



B-17E Bomber crew at MacDill Field, March 1942