Vintage shots from days gone by!

FlinFlon Manitoba, about 1956:​

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These are from the old Danbury (CT) Fairgrounds race track, which disappeared to make way for a shopping mall in the 1980s.



The 7-11 car was driven by Don LaJoie, who owned the best auto junkyard in southern CT. I spent lots of time (and my youth) in that yard, and at Danbury on Saturday nights.



Chick Stockwell.





Moe Gherzi (trust me, these guys were famous where I come from).



Sonny Rabideau (from VT).

 

This is a early 1960's (Ford) Thames Trader from England, with a cab built by a local Swedish body shop.

 

I would say that the pic is from the late 1940's or early 1950's.
It shows a load of Volvo PV 444 in transport between different Volvo factories, you can see the front end of eight Volvo PV's on the both trailer's.

 

Paris 1918

 

Resistant in Marseille during the liberation of the city, in August 1944

 

Dunkirk bombed by German aircraft during Operation Dynamo between May 27 and June 4, 1940

 

Gordon-Bennett Cup, 1903

 

First car to exceed 100 km / h.

 

Grace Kelly

 

He was only 19 or 20 and just out of high school.
He'd have been 77 today. Born Jan. 8, 1935.

 

A whole lot of history took place in Sam Phillips' little
SUN Records studio, from 1952 through the '50s!




Graphic based upon the original SUN Records label is thanks
to SunYears, via MySpace.



Dec. 4, 1956. Some very familiar faces turned up at SUN
Records studio for a now-famous impromptu jam session.
Contrary to oft-repeated misinformation, Cash affirmed that
he sang on the session, which owner Sam Phillips and his
sound engineer deftly caught on tape. Photo was snapped
when Phillips notified a Memphis Press-Scimitar photog
what was shakin' (as in "a whole lotta"!). The paper labeled
the assemblage "The Million Dollar Quartet." All had re-
corded on SUN. Elvis himself did at least 20 SUN records,
before spending the rest of his career with RCA.



April 1982. Label, Columbia.
Thanks, Wikipedia!



Sept. '85. Label, American Smash.
Again, Wikipedia.

 

Stars who got their start on SUN

Thanks to Wikipedia

My favorite Johnny Cash song!

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And of course, Harold Jenkins! You know Harold!

 

Elvis and Bill Haley do a grip&grin for their fans. From the color of Elvis' hair,
I'm guessing mid-1956. Photo thanks to the Montreal Gazette. I tried to find a
photo of Elvis with Roy Orbison -- whom Elvis held in high esteem -- but I was
unsuccessful. Since both recorded at SUN, it seems they would have met on
more than one occasion. (BTW, Bill recorded on several labels, including Vogue
and Decca.)

 

Footnote: Sam had gotten in a financial bind in '55 and sold Elvis recording contract to RCA for $35,000! Imagine how many times he must have kicked himself , since RCA made mega-millions!

 

Those coins were segmented into eight pieces so they could be broken off and used separatly. Hence were called "Pieces of Eight". Money as we know is a pretty recent thing. It used to be a much dicier situation with lots of different types of exchange.

 

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