VINTAGE SHOTS FROM DAYS GONE BY! (Part 2)

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Houston in the mid 1940s
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Stopwatch in hand, Preston Tucker is timing one of his V-8 Ford racers at 1935's Indy 500 trials with, from left, backer Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Henry II, Benson and Edsel Ford.​

 

Central Street in Knoxville ​

 

Corpus Christi in 1930s​

 

Yeah, and the headlights ain't bad either!

 

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Galena Kansas 1945​

 

San Antonio in 1872
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On May 4, 1931, the first car rolled off the****embly line at Ford Motor Company's new plant in Cologne, Germany. It was a Model A. ​

 

Travis Street in Houston in 1925​

 

The Alamo, 1876.
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At 16 my first job after school and weekends was at a Burger Chef. What an awful place it was. 57 years later I still don't eat at any fast food places. The first one ruined me forever!

 

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Central Park – New York City, 1933 during the Great Depression

 

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Front of Las Palmas Inn, Houston (1950)​

 

MacMillan Gasoline service station at 6210 Sunset Boulevard, Hollywood CA 1942​

 

The first franchised Whataburger (the fifth store overall and located in Alice, Texas)​

 

Brooklyn Bridge Terminal (1898)​

 

Aerial view of Manhattan, New York (1922)​

 

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Dallas Downtown Skyline from Commerce Street Bridge (1951)

 

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Times Square (1940s)​

 

Empire State Building 1930​

 

Traffic on 42nd Street in New York City (1918)
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San Antonio, 1895
Maverick Bank Building at the corner of Houston St. and Alamo St.

 

Early Bob’s Big Boy
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Construction Workers on the 27th Floor of the New Times Building, New York (1905)