1968 The photo poster created some interesting conversations with our visiting friends. But, it was a classic photo poster for us. We had to take it down when our parents came over for a visit. Ha! Hello, As newlyweds, we had nothing to decorate our empty apartment. My mom gave us an old davenport sofa to help with friends coming over for an overnight visit. That was the only big time furniture we had at the beginning. A small one bedroom apartment was inexpensive, but was not very large. The stereo and giant speakers were the next items as part of our early decorating. Loud rock music, empty apartment, being alone was all that was necessary. Plants were a mystery, back then. Our first living/growing plant was bought, we watered it, put it on the front porch for guests to see when they came for a visit. It died two weeks later from salt air moisture every day and night. The salt air fog is/was relentless on every thing metal, plus nice looking living plants. At least our parents thought it was nice flowers in a pot, when they first came over for a visit. So, after we found out about living plants versus the salt air, we opted for an indoor balloon tree. Nowhere in the apartment was safe from the daily scourge of salt air. Metal items were kept at a minimum, even indoors... In the upper corner of the above photo, there is a small poster of a famous actress posing in such a way as to be provocative during the mid 60s. So, we made a custom high contrast photo, mounted it on a thick poster board, trimmed it, as well as glued it to a small wood block. Now, the custom made redwood slat wooden frame was made to simulate the photo poster floating in air, surrounded by old antique wood. We used brown tint to make it look as if it was taken back in the real old days, despite the pose at hand. It was a nice small poster customized for our photo skills work. But the high contrast B/W photo was the best. Jnaki The effect was one of old, but new appearance and friends started to ask us to make some frames for their walls. Geared more to photographs, the custom frames made any photo color/B&W stand out. I did make a large poster of another photo, but as large as the negative was, it still looked blurry. A small business started, plus our photography involvement increased, too.. The 65 El Camino was used to cart around small boxes of redwood/cedar custom framed 8x10 mounted photos when I went to photo shoots. the standard 8x10 photo frame was a perfect fit for any decor. The mostly young custom motorcycle folks and hot rod builders loved the unusual frames. They were hot sellers to the owners of hot rods and custom motorcycles and after I showed them the way the photo could be mounted. They sold like hot cakes at a hungry pancake breakfast car show. Mount the hard backed 8 x 10 photo I created for them, a simple gluing to the block to make it float away from the edges and backing plate.
This little idea I have been playing with, just cracks me up, every time I see it. I will eventually blank out the lettering on the tire so as to not reveal any branding or tire size or anything that identify's the tire's origin. To me, the end user would be a wanna be drag racer, or race car enthusiast, ( semi nerd ) that really doesn't know anything about racing or cars or tires or anything automotive related at all! Think of the end user, wearing it on the front of a shirt, preferably a black 100% cotton preshrunk one. Printed large 13" X 15" To me the total joke is, ( Of course rubber tires, what the hell else would they be made out of, soybeans ? ) Just the thought of seeing someone, wearing one of these shirts, at any gathering or event, just cracks me up! If anybody wants to use this idea, go for it ! I know @hotrodjack33 will totally understand the idea of this shirt design. Your mileage may vary ! Thanks from Dennis.
Too funny Dennis. But what's even stranger is the drawing. Assuming that's a 15" or 16" rim, that tire would be close to 45 inches tall
Per your cool hot rod slang chart, there is no listing for a "Semi-Nerd" the chart list's the NURD as a person that is not in the know! As a point of clarification, a "semi-nerd" ISNT a truck driver with a bow tie and a pocket protector! It's just a term I made up!
Just picked this up from an online auction. Impko water slide decal in the original package. Here’s the thing… it’s huge! It’s the size of a full sheet of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. I can find smaller examples of this image online, listed as part of the “ hip-eeze” series, but nothing this big. Probably going to frame it as is.
I decided to take back to the 50's week off so what to do on a Monday morning go to the antique store. Picked match books in a frame from my home town all are at least pre 1950s. If you zoom in on the lower right corner there's one from the Bagdad Pavillion my dad went there chasing girls and partying he took my mom there dancing when they dated. He told of a time a local biker gange road there motorcycles on to the dance floor and proceed to whip cookies. The club was torn down in the 50's for a gulf corse club house.
I met the owner at an old abandoned ranch property and building in the city of Fountain Valley, just inland of Huntington Beach.(long gone, now) The property had seen its days and with the new development approaching, this was one of the last farm properties available for some good “old” photos. Hello, My wife and I got married right after college graduation. We found a small three room apartment and lived happily as a newly married couple. I took several college graduate classes in art and photography. For one of my final project in the photography class, I decided to make an art print of a motorcycle I had seen at a car/motorcycle show in the Long Beach Sports Arena. The arena was made in 1962 and when my high school class was ready to graduate, we could have been the first class in the new Sports Arena. But, as the city did not approve the opening of the arena to the public for several more months, we ended up being the last graduating high school class to walk down the aisle of the old Municipal Auditorium. Municipal Auditorium in the foreground... the new Sports Arena connected to the old building. Currently, the old auditorium is gone, the Sports arena is still viable and functioning. Jnaki Several years later after our college graduation the Sports Arena had many custom car/hot rod and motorcycle shows. One of those had a custom Triumph Motorcycle that reminded me of my college days in Northern California on a custom TT pipe Triumph Motorcycle for the weekend. But, this one was a custom motorcycle to the "nth degree." Although, I have the final project from my photography/art class, I do not have any color Ektachrome slides in my files. The magazine had all of the best color slides, but those magazines are now long gone. So, the art process was difficult and needed to be precise as to the different colors applied. The large print negatives and silk screen layers are also gone and so, the tri-color photo is all that is left of the time in that college photo lab. Note: I still have one of the original art paper prints in a sealed envelope for future use or 10 years down the line, my son or granddaughter will find it and say ahhhh… where the heck did this art work come from and what time period was it made? Hard work from an aspiring college project from 1969. Yes, I got an “A” for the project and class. It was also mounted on an old wooden frame I made at home, but it was attached to the wall in the classroom until the class was over. YRMV
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