Vintage shots from days gone by!

Item 20715 zoomPurchase a reproduction of this item onVintageMaineImages.com.


Description

On the back of the photo is written in pencil "Chrysler towing 'Old Glory' from in front of Capt. Jones' hangar at Old Orchard Beach to a point 2 1/4 miles distant, enabling 'Old Glory' to have more of a run [here writing cut off] Chrysler Sales Corporation, Detroit, Michigan.Old Glory, a Fokker monoplane attempted a transatlantic flight, leaving from Old Orchard Beach Sept. 6, 1927. The plane was lost, with portions found several days later off the coast of Newfoundland. The three men aboard were never recovered.

 

Item 22192 zoomPurchase a reproduction of this item onVintageMaineImages.com.


Description

The monoplane, Pride of Detroit, leaving Old Orchard Beach for Newfoundland in August 1927. It was the first plane to attempt a transatlantic flight from Old Orchard Beach. The pilot was Edward F. Schlee; William Stewart Brock was the observer. They made it as far as Japan, then aborted the rest of the trip due to poor weather over the Pacific.

 

Item 21436 zoomPurchase a reproduction of this item onVintageMaineImages.com.


Description

Charles Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis rests in a hangar at Old Orchard Beach. The noted aviator landed at the beach after fog prevented him from landing at his planned location in Scarborough as part of his victory tour of the country

 

maybe is because you keep callin them hillbillies.

 

Roger that. My Grandparents lived adjacent to the B&O tracks on the east side of Indy. A train towing two of them derailed about a block away from their house one night at dinner. The last one pushed the first one completely under ground, and when they both left the tracks it snapped the back of the train like a whip. A very long string of cars were derailled and the track looked a lot like the mess in this photo. Lots of pissed commuters, too, as the grade crossings were clobbered for hours. Gary

 

I love this one! Go to see the Celtics in a high school gym. Probably cost 50 cents! $100 a head now

 

I spy AMT 49 Fords, 64 Riviera, 64 T-Bird,Lil Coffin, AMT Double T kit, X-r6 and T-Tub kit, bunch of pyros and weirdo kits, AMT 50 Merc, AMT Watson Indy Cars, Road Agent, Revell Model A woody, Small scale AMT 32 3 window and 64 Vettes, Monogram Little T, Mickey Thompson"s Attempt !, Monogram Model A tub, Predicta, and the rest I don't care about just like when I was a kid! Thats the best damn toy store ever. Must have been about 1964. Some were already opened, you had to watch out for that. I like how they had so damn many models , that they stacked any which way too. I've had dreams like this. Thanks swi66! Where did you get that picture?

View attachment 1539897

 

That brought back memories for me as well.
Remember when you could go to a store like Twin Fair and there would be a shelf full of kits, and near them were the AMT Friction cars that were basically Promo's with a friction metal chassis!

I also had a hobby shop where I lived, had a fair supply of models, but also had a larger amount of slot cars and model rockets.

I spent my allowance very often on model kits and HO slot cars.
If not at the comic book store(DC only) or across the street at the Variety store that had Matchbox cars.

And all in the village of Akron, NY right on Main Street!

 

1928 Sara DeSota Pageant, Sarasota, Florida, thanks to soflgal.

 

I would love to see those two horses move that load,and I would realy like to see them stop on any kind of down hill.

 

if you look at that test car in #38370 you can see the hitch thing at the top

 

That could of been me. But 18 in '64. I still have a set of Pontiac from '61-72 Tempest/Lemans/GTO's, 61-64 full size Pontiacs. $1.29 each.
Some supposedly worth $300. Wow......what memories.

 

731132, seriously cool pic! I've seen the '55 that was for Australia. I haven't seen the '56 version.
Both DeSotos seem to have been mainly Plymouth-based. Thanks for the post.

 

Aussie cars with left hand drive ?????


BB

 

Nope, the pic is from Sweden

 

Well that explains that all right.


BB

 

Hi Jimi,

Thanks for the vote of confidence..

All I can add is....Live and let live..

At our age we have experienced soo much of what the world has to offer, the best way to share it is in photos because they speak louder than words.

Not only that, the internet and this website has offered us the opportunity to share with the world our personal lives, experiences and sharing of historic photos.

This IS the Worlds first digital photo album and I bet there will be many more set up in the future.

I know the HAMB is about cars but this page is about real life, with all respect and yes we should keep it respectful.

Cheers to all.

Post on.

 

That's correct... just missing the truck assemblies

 

Well said, Empire. Moe and others have also been very eloquent when trying to sum up how this eclectic thread has developed, as well. Everybody states it in their own terms and from their own perspectives. For me, it's not about post counts. At 62, I know I won't be around much longer, relatively speaking. So, I like to share facts, pix, perspectives that only people who actually lived in decades now long past. I think a LOT of regulars on this thread feel something like that sentiment.

At least in the past, we earned a living from our society, and this thread is one way to give back. I'm not a Woody Hayes fan, but his words apply here. Paraphrasing: He noted that you simply can't "pay back" for what previous generations have done for you when you were just a snot-nosed kid. He said what you CAN do is "pay forward."

There are some other sites that do an awfully good job of painting the mechanical, scientific and societal backdrop of history in the era of photography and similar graphic arts -- the whole ball o' wax. Shorpy springs to mind. But, THIS thread on the HAMB is the only one that gets that done WHILE putting our beloved autos and truck right OUT FRONT.

Simply put, it's unique. I hope the internet stays free and open as an invaluable resource for accessing and sharing information, so that this super-cool thread can go on forever.

 

We almost lost this site today.....



I know this does not belong in this forum or on this page. You may not be aware of it but this page is alive today because of this protest.
Many websites closed to day for 12 hours, still are at this time because of a proposed legislation.
See more here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/tec...-pipa-lose-three-co-sponsors-in-congress.html


Three co-sponsors of the SOPA and PIPA antipiracy bills have publicly withdrawn their support as Wikipedia and thousands of other websites blacked out their pages Wednesday to protest the legislation.

Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) withdrew as a co-sponsor of the Protect IP Act in the Senate, while Reps. Lee Terry (R-Neb.) and Ben Quayle (R-Ariz.) said they were pulling their names from the companion House bill, the Stop Online Piracy Act. Opponents of the legislation, led by large Internet companies, say its broad definitions could lead to censorship of online content and force some websites to shut down.

In a posting on his Facebook page, Rubio noted that after the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously passed its bill last year, he has "heard legitimate concerns about the impact the bill could have on access to the Internet and about a potentially unreasonable expansion of the federal government's power to impact the Internet."

PHOTOS: Sites on strike

"Congress should listen and avoid rushing through a bill that could have many unintended consequences," Rubio said in announcing he was withdrawing his support. While he's committed to stopping online piracy, Rubio called for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to back off plans to hold a key procedural vote on the bill on Tuesday.

Rubio's withdrawal will reduce the number of co-sponsors to 39. Last week, two other co-sponsors, Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Orrin Hatch (R-Utah), joined four other Senate Republicans in a letter to Reid also urging him delay the vote. But Grassley and Hatch have not withdrawn their support.

Terry and Quayle were among the 31 sponsors of the House legislation before they withdrew their support Tuesday.

Quayle still strongly supports the goal of the House bill to crack down on foreign websites that traffic in pirated movies, music, medicine and other goods.

"The bill could have some unintended consequences that need to be addressed," said Quayle spokesman Zach Howell. "Basically it needs more work before he can support it."

Terry said that he also had problems with the House bill in its current form and would no longer support it.

Wikipedia, Reddit and about 10,000 other websites blacked out their pages Wednesday with messages warning of the dangers of the legislation and urging people to contact their congressional representatives. Howell said Quayle's office had not seen a major increase in calls or emails Wednesday, but that the piracy bills have been the main issue in recent weeks for people contacting the office.

There has been a "manageable increase" in visits to House member websites Wednesday, said Dan Weiser, a spokesman for the House office of the chief administrative officer.

 

The Japs cut off our rubber supply?

 

Originally Posted by pipopak


The almost buried car in front of the caboose seems to be a scale test car, used to check the accuracy of the railroad
scales along the system. They are rather small (probably it's whole height is seen here) but real heavy.

WingNutz: That's correct... just missing the truck assemblies

Jimi: Yeah, that does seem to be actual height, since you can see right where the coupler/striker-box
assembly is. I've never seen one of these scale test cars, so thanks for sharing this! And, WingNuts,
you know your railroad undercarriages, man. Most people don't know that there's a "truck" on each
end of a car -- bolster w. center-plate, two side frames and four wheels on each assembly (plus a lot
of miscellaneous smaller parts, of course).

(BTW, when I first saw that car, I mistook it for the rail equivalent of a highway-building profil-ometer.)

 

Empire, tough I'm concerned about the crux of 38,409, I'm not sure if it's in keeping with the HAMB rule against getting too political. We all get fired up about things, but we have to try and be sure to stay on topic. Maybe we all should check out the basic HAMB rules on the main page every now and then.