History Photos taken before WW2 - history in black and white

Times Square from New York Times Building., 1922.

 

Times Square, 1935. Betty Boop on the marquee. The Astor came down mid-sixties, along with Penn Station and Singer Building: a bad time for beaux-arts. Streetcars in the square, no overhead wires.

 

Lunch on the running board...

 

A chain drive 16/20hp. 1909 Sunbeam car with Louis Coatalen at the wheel. Only three were built with chain drive, the others had a live axle.

 

<small>Float used in July 4th Parade - Parked beside Presbyterian church (Hungarian) E. 126th & Buckeye Rd. Cleveland, Ohio. Note: On front of photograph "photo by Greszingh 1927." Note: Chain drive tractor (with 1927 Ohio license plate), old cars and traditional Hungarian dress. Date: July 4th (assumed), 1927</small>

 

Cecil Walkden Wood in his third home-built car, photographed circa 1910. The coachwork is by wheelwright and coach builder John James Grandi. The passenger is Wood's son, also named Cecil. Probably photographed in Wood's home town of Timaru, New Zealand

 

From Royal Feltner in Amesbury, MA, here's a family piling
into a big THREE-seat touring car. So QUESTION: What the
heck is it???

 

That is a real gem of a car....It is a Lozier six from around 1910.

 

A little easier on the eys than the Packard posse, eh?
So, again, what's the car under all the pulchritude?

 

5 litre chain drive car chassis 471 on the left with Ettore Bugatti’s children Jean and Lidia c. 1914. At Molsheim. The chassis to the right may be number 715.

 

A postcard photo that was mailed Xmass 1909 from Indiana, the car is an early high wheeler.....

 

1937.....

 

Coupe des Voiturettes. Le Mans 29 August 1920. (255.01 miles). Cars being worked on in the pits.

 

Thanks, T-Head! I'd HEARD Loziers were big cars . . .
but Daaaaamn! I checked out some stats on this car.
131-inch wheelbase (!) pulled by 554-CID six under
the hood with a 5.5-inch stroke! For the time, that
made a potent 55-hp for 1910. And the whole package
for only $6 GRAND!!! No wonder they eventually
went under. What would $6,000 equate to in 2010
dollars?

 

Looks like an IHC. Cool Indiana license plate. The "Ind" is covered on the right side, but I have never seen an early prestate (homemade) plate with "No." before the number.

 

Model 25 One ton chain drive - 1915. What make????

 

Well, shit, Margaret! Oh, well, dear. At least
you didn't hit a police officer like last time!

Oooops photo thanks to Royal Feltner, Amesbury, MA.​

 

I've read in several places what that amount would equate to at that time, and maybe that will help. Many of the high end cars cost about the same as a newly built brick home in a good neighborhood of a prosperous US city. Now the fun begins: would you trade your home for that Lozier? Ouch!

 

More Lozier's

 

Here's a vintage hauling scrap from
a boneyard, way back in the day!
No details, but THANKS for the photo
go to Royal Feltner of Amesbury, MA!

 

Oops, meant to say vintage C-cab. My bad!

 

It's about $136,000 in 2009 dollars according to westegg.com.

-Dave

 

You WERE kidding, Right?

 

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Family with their T, in Minnesota. The doll might be a first on this thread.

 

Sorry so large ..........

 

Twin6 & BigCheese, YOWEE! $136,000 ???

I wish I had a 95-point or concours-class Lozier, then, 'cause my wife and I could build a decent house way out in the boonies where we are wanting to retire. We have 13 acres BUT no dough. I guess lots of us are in that club, eh?

 

Large or not, that’s an awesome photo.

Rubicon trail, eh? Seems almost silly that nowadays, you’d absolutely “have” to have a heavy-duty Jeep to contemplate the same journey.

-Dave

 

Where did them monkeys go? Nice Selden, from RMSC.

 

Dated April 1934