Vintage shots from days gone by!

Covert Gear and Manufacturing Company


Covert Motor Vehicle Company

 

Harrison Radiator West Plant

 

Main St. Lockport.





















Can you imagine a time when we all walked up and down Main St. for our needs?

 

RBAntique, amazing photo. It takes a long time for one to grow
to a size like that. Seems a damn shame that a twerp with a gun
feels compelled to KILL it. Sheesh. Darn trophy hunters. When
will the killing stop? Well, gotta stop the rant. Time to go out
and round up the Christmas turkey. Yum!

 

^^I was able to nab a 'hopper a little bigger than this one way back when I was a kid. Scored a 170 according to the Large And Unusual Grasshopper Hunters scale...

 

Good info. 440 Magnum had 375 HP, 383 Magnum had 335

 

Stephen, I'm with everybody else here. How times have changed. Funny how
a touch of lace and a beautiful woman can be so effective, yet in a classy way.
Today, it's often in-your-face blunt, plus piercings and tattoos.

The model here resembles Fay Wray a bit, but I'd like to know who it really
is. Fay did a great deal of fashion photography in the late-'20s and early '30s.
But I don't think she did any cheesecake at all. Anybody?

 

Reckon what would it have scored on the Boone & Hoppit Scale?

 

Woody, big THANKS for the vintage junkyard shot. Just studying the pic fires the imagination and the nostalgia center of the brain, eh? I looked the location and date up at the Milwaukee Public Library site. So, here's some background that others besides me will, maybe, find a fascinating backward look through a portal in time!

And, THANK YOU, Milwaukee Public Library!

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Shot for the Fire Prevention Bureau by photog Henry J. Hunter on June 10, 1932, these pix show what must have been one of Milwaukee's biggest auto wrecking and parts resale businesses. Apparently on the city's southeast side, this seems to have been named simply Milwaukee Auto Wrecking and was located in the vicinity of Kinnickinnic Avenue and Bay Street. Unfortunately, I can't make out some words of the building copy, e.g., "Wisconsin's Largest Auto Replacement Parts"?

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Airborne! Gary

 

Gee, you guy's only get the small ones over there??

Doc.

 

Since we're on Milwaukee, here's another CLASSIC junkyard shot, this on from 1936.
Posted elsewhere two years ago by Gasser57. If you love scoping junkyards, you have
to love just staring at this photo. There something cool in every corner of this pic! Ap-
parently a busy little wrecking yard, smack in the middle of a residential neighborhood!
Who wouldn't love to jump in a time machine and take his/her pick of cars here? Most
probably just needed a vale job, rings, or a clutch, starter -- basics. But here they sit,
junked, most not even 10 years old! How many cars can YOU I.D.?

 

Not sure...that was more popular in the northeast, I think. 'Round here we were always LAUGH-ing...<grin>

 

Okay, Doc. Maybe our 'hoppers are tiddlers compared
to the Ausie critters, but our mantises are a bitch,
if allowed to mature. I think the one below is the U.S.
record-holder, from 1957. It took the best scientific
minds and the might of the National Guard to finally bring
him down in the Manhattan tunnel. (Top THAT! )




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Merry Christmas to all. Cardboard ad from a street car.

 

Ahh yes, the indefatigable Airborne!
Boy does this bring back memories of a busy day at work...............

Doc.

 

It took the best scientific minds and the might of the National Guard to finally bring him down in the Manhattan tunnel. (Top THAT! )




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I cringe at the destruction of all those fine Tootsietoy cars & trucks!

 

must be just before the start of "bewitched)

 

Merry Christmas!!!

 

Hmmmm, to beat that.............................

I guess we get the occasional spider.........



.................. Man yours is hard to beat!!

Doc.

(Edit: Errr, just ignore the buildings in the background)

 

Hey....that's The Birds actress Tippi Heddren !

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