A bunch of pictures from the 50's

Just got a new scanner that will do 35mm slides, so While I was visiting
family last week I picked up the old slide collection and picked
out some interesting ones, mostly ones my dad took in the 50's
before he was married.

His new '54 Ford

Traded in on a new '55 Crown Vic

Taking a road trip

 

going fishing


Old boat motor, interesting axle on the trailer

Some bad road in Kentucky, that's US Hywy 41

Springtime swamp road in Wisconsin

 

"Working" on his A pickup in the shed


This beverage dispenser may have something to do with the work ethic

 

The Pickup.

Used for ice fishing on Lake Winnebago


He had a proffesional restoration done on it in the '80's. It got sold when he passed.

 

The sedan I now own. Dad bought it in '58, started an amateur resto in the early 70's

This is me getting ideas. I must have been about 8 at the time

Resto started

 

He was also into bikes before he got drafted to Korea
He's on the right

 

Some "oops" pics




Someone went through the ice on the lake

 

Stew, Thanks for sharing those photos! They are real good quality, felt like you could walk right into them. I think slide scanners are going to be on a lot of Christmas lists! Hope this thread takes off with more photos of this type. I'll be posting some in a while.

 

some pic's....great to see the real stuff from way back, thanks for sharing.

 

Great Pictures! Thanks for taking the time to put them on. I notice that someone in your family has or had a farm & the Ford N series tractor looked great also. Gary 4T950 Chevy Guy

 

that was great, i park my old 51 on the kicker pedal, cool to see that. the damn think wont corner to the left with the kick stand on.

 

Realy cool. Love the pic of the back o the boat and motor. Yeah neat axle.

 

Thank you for posting those pictures.It is fortunate that someone in the family had the good sense to document some of the events.I wish that my family had done that when I was growing up.About the only pictures I remember are snowdrifts and this damn spruce tree in front of the house.

 

Those old slide photos have an almost 3D quality to them, and some really good, clear shots too, not all wrinkled and yellowed like old photos tend to be. I dig the old schoolbus in the background, too.

 

I've got some of those too... Found one that has a Willy's Jeep wagon in it.

 

Those old 35mm cameras were all manual settings as well. I've got the camera that took some of those pics, manual exposure manual focus manual f-stop. If you get it right, it looks great. If you're off, its a fuzzy overexposed mess.


I have no idea whats going on here;

 

is that the shape of the visor, or is that cause it got crushed...i kinda like it.

thanks for showing those great pictures.

 

Very Big OOPS,

July 12, 1947

 

I love that wrecker! it looks like it was made from a 1 ton panel truck. Heavy duty!

 

Excellent pics. Could spend all day looking at old pictures, thanx!-MIKE

 

Great pictures, thanks.

 

Priceless! Thanks for sharing....And the still??? Good to see he was 'into' alternative fuelsSparky

 

Could look at those all day! Thanks for sharing!!

 

Your dad was a neat guy. Thanx for showing us a little of the good old days. Really cool.

 

hot roddin', moonshine'n and wreckless drivin'... gotta love it. thanks for sharin.

 

Nice picts !!! Thanks for sharing!!!!

 

Man those pics are Sah-Weet. The bike pics are very kool. Nothing like moonshine and motorcycles.

 

Great pix, very "real", like someone said: I could just walk in to them.

Love the motorcycle "gang" pix !

Priceless...

 

Great family history, great pictures.............love that one photo of all the boys on there hog's with those kool Captain hat's on.............thanks again Stew!!!

 

Wonderful pictures and it's even cooler that you have one of your Dad's cars.

I especially like that viscious Waterloo Biker gang!! Great shots of some old bikes like they really were back then. I'm planning out a bike project for myself and I'll save those pics to help me with design.

Thanks a lot and if you find more share them please.