Vintage shots from days gone by!

looks great gotta love old pics

 

Now a scrap yard, the Redland was obviously something special in its day,
an entertainment Mecca for natives of Lufkin, Texas! Noxided posted this
pic on the lost drive-ins thread, and another HAMBer wondered how GRAND
it must have looked when lighted, against the night sky. Hmmmmm!
A PhotoShopper wanna snap those colors up and darken the sky and
foreground? (Sort of a Then-and-Now type of effect?)

 

Rough crowd then if this is from the 40's. Note the chain on the barrel. Hell Disneyland trusted us not to turn around and shoot the crowds, so I remember (just a kid). Not the same anymore with electronic shooting galleries of today. Loved hearing the BB's hit the target. Or even better I would aim low on the ducks so the water spashed just a split second before hitting it.

 

The pipes indicate a 812 supercharged, but many 810/812s had both pipes and blowers added over the years.

 

Another (The close up one goes off if you wait a second for it to load)

 

There are no '58 Bel Air 'verts, only Impalas. The top must have been crushed on the Bel Air.

 

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ALTERNATE CAPTION: "When Bob debuted
his new 'radical custom' for the first time, even his wife
and kids hated it!"

Mart3406
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How about the Thunderbirds in both of those photos?

 

Painted sometime since 1985, since that was when the Texas Beef Council was founded.

 

Notice the yellow 46 to 48 Chevy has flaired rear fenders, and some kind of picture or lettering on the front fenders.

 

How about the Thunderbirds in both of those photos?

I must be gettin' old, when I first starting going to junk yards, this is what they looked like !!!

 

The last group was pretty popular let me toss out another

 

And a few more

 

I like the one with the car stuck in the surf. Here is a larger pic and also one after it was pulled out with a bonus pic as well

 

super car didn't need'em

 

Cereal Killer

 

Great pics, as always. love this thread.

I don't think the car in the water and the car on the edge of the water are the same. There are a few detail differences.

Mart.

 

Take a good look Mart, the one on the edge of the water is a one of a kind custom.

 

I found the Enna Jettick blimp was the one and only to be tethered to the Empire State building mast...



this is as close as I got to a photo of Enna...

 

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To me, one of the most FUN things about cars is the PEOPLE who built and owned them. Thanks for this pic, Gary! This guy was a real character! Eddie Voight, Jr., is shown here driving his Abbott (not Abbott-Detroit), putting it from 1916 to 1918. I'm thinking it's a 1916, the only year Abbott offered the Herschell-Spillman 331.8 V-8 (on a 121-inch WB). Also, I suspect Eddie has turned the roadster into a bit of a racer, changing to disc wheels and losing the standard windshield, among other mods. Shorpy ran this photo a while back and ID's the Abbott as a 1920, but there were no Abbotts made after they went bankrupt due to untimely expansion at a larger Cleveland plant. Maybe the photo itself was 1920. The company had been turning out up to 20 cars a day in Detroit. But it turned out to be an accident of bad timing, as WWI, with its materials rationing, ramped up at the same time. To be fair, though, they may have overestimated the market for their mid-priced cars.

The son of a jeweler, Voight of Washington, D.C., once had a career as a successful banker and a big house with a swimming pool in the basement. Shorpy contributors filled in that Voight was actually involved in racing cars, even piloting his own (this one? who knows). This story has the ring of 1920s "success and excess", doesn't it?

His wife divorced him in 1928, and he finally went bankrupt with a debt of $45,000, or nearly $600,000 today. Was this another '20s lifestyle symptom? Does it at least SUGGEST that Eddie's sporting activities also included gambling? Don't know, folks! But if it walks like a duck . . .

Anyway, fortunes steadily declined for Voight who moved back in with his mom, then lived out the final four years of his life alone and in poverty. Voight's body was discovered by his landlord in 1959 a month after he actually died in seclusion. He was buried for $200 by the welfare department. The higher the climb, I guess, the farther the fall.