History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

Amador Garage, Dublin Ca. 1930

 

Re: post 5104, that's a 1907 Packard 30 from the Del Monte Hotel, in Monterey, CA.

 

President Roosevelt, 1939

 

Nice wrecker.Anybody got an idea on what car?

 

San Jose Ca.

 

Mabel Franzen in butterfly costume sitting on Jim Smith's Model T hot rod, Santa Ana, California 1918

 

Sunshine Special Lincoln. After it was finished in Presidential service it was returned to Henry Ford Museum,Dearborn,Michigan were it still resides.Started out as a Model K Lincoln and was modernized with 1942 style sheet metal.

 

Re post 5112, looks like a 1921 Packard model 116 ("single six").

 

Oakland Ca.

 

Main Street , San Mateo Ca.

 

Floyd Burtiss and friend.

 

Franklin St, Santa Clara Ca, 1914

 

Thanksgiving Turkeys.

 

Woman pulling car with teeth, San Jose, California [ca. 1926]

 

This is a 4-cyl 1918 REO Type "T" and most likely started as Touring. It is believed that only one 1918 Type "T" REO survives today.

 

San Jose Ca.

 

this building is still there, thuogh remodeled. Santa Ana Cal.

 

Dublin Ca.