Vintage shots from days gone by!

I think they are 1946 WL's not WFL as that's what I was told by a Harley dealer but you guys may know better

 

Here are some from my Fathers side of the family from the early 1900's to the 50's. I wish I could put a caption with each picture but I don't know how. That's some kind of Woody behind my mom and My dad's mom (my Grandmother)

 

Here is my GrandPa,my cousin Marsha and her two kids. I am the little tike on the lower right trying to figure out this new thing called show laces. Taken around 1957-58 in Pasadena.

 

No, Lions Gate Bridge, Vancouver, B.C.

 

Thank you for your service..

That Black sand still hasnt changed from my understanding.. Its has hard to go up today as it was then and in 1945

 

What is this truck? I know where one is and have been wondering.

 

jeepers creepers.. lol
41-46 Chevy coe... looks like a crew transport, not sure thats what they call it tho

http://www.best-horror-movies.com/jeepers-creepers.html

i wish i knew where one was,,
that i could afford..

 

Mobile Command Center

 

That's what I would think... and / or the 6's traveling fox hole. Gary

 

Old Bridge had some really great racing. The driver played a much bigger part on the short track. You HAD to cut a great light, you HAD to control wheelspin and you HAD to make a clean shift. There just wasn't any time to screw up and "horsepower" past anybody. When Englishtown ( 1/4 ) opened up, you could always tell the guys that ran Old Bridge.....they left first, usually by a car lenghth.

 

Interesting!!.
Using the Bank of England inflation calculator £1 in 1931 is equivalent to £5.58 today.
Thus, an old English penny in 1931 is now equivalent to 2.3 new pence today ( 3.6 $cents ) and so a packet of 20 would be 47 new pence ( 74 $cents) today.
A packet of 20 today costs on average £6.13 here in the UK ($9.68)
THAT's TAXATION FOR YOU.....and you have to light them yourself!!

 

it's Lions Gate Bridge , Vancouver BC

 

1930 Colorado Rocky Mountain national Park

 

1929 Colorado Rocky Mtn National Park Fall River Pass



1927 Colorado Rocky Mtn National Park Fall River Road, First Autobus



Colorado Eagle River Canon, Denver & Rio Grande Railroad

 

1929 Los Angeles County, California Pacoima Dam



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1965 Bristol, CT Bernice Wyszynski & Car She Bought for 1395 Bananas



1963 Denver, CO Freemen Electronics Transistor Tape Recorder



1944 Actress Andrea King

 

1951 Chicago, IL Street Lamplighter

 

Main

 

The D.o.D. ID card from Feb. 4, 1954, in Post #40,933 got me wondering, as I hadn't heard
of Marilyn Monroe doing any stints for the USO. So, as so often happens on this thread,
curiosity got the best of me, and I had to go look up the dope on it. It all makes perfect
sense, too. Joe DiMaggio and MM were maried in January '54, and in February they com-
bined an extended honeymoon with a business trip of Joe's in Japan. While there, Marilyn
decided to pop over to Korea to perform for the troops who were maintaining what was
then a very tenuous peace following the armistice at Panmunjom in mid-'53. These are
just a tiny FRACTION of the pix that were taken from Feb. 14 - 19 of '54. (BTW, South
Korea never did sign a peace accord, so a state of war still technically exists.)


Thanks to ClassicMarilynMonroe and Empire.



AllStarPix



Photo thanks to RokDrop.




Stars serve mess for the troops in this USO photo. Marilyn Monroe can be spotted in the background
beside a brunette whom I can't place. Foreground, Mickey Rooney clowns with another actor who, to
me, resembles Jack Carson (?).



Rank DOES have its privileges, eh? One has to wonder if the medal
is for in-theater service OR maybe a Purple Heart??? If you look at
Marilyn's right thumb, you'll see where she gashed herself pretty badly
while cutting cake for the GIs. Pic thanks to AVeryLushBudget.

 

Continuing with the Old Bridge Drags, here is a shot of the layout. Old Bridge was a 1/2 mile oval. The drags were run on the front stretch for 1/12 of a mile. You would pull across the starting line and back up close to the wall, then stage. The two guys standing by the line were there to hold standard shift cars from rolling through the lights.

 

The D.o.D. ID card from Feb. 4, 1954, in Post #40,933 got me wondering, as I hadn't heard
of Marilyn Monroe doing any stints for the USO. So, as so often happens on this thread,
curiosity got the best of me, and I had to go look up the dope on it. It all makes perfect
sense, too. Joe DiMaggio and MM were maried in January '54, and in February they com-
bined an extended honeymoon with a business trip of Joe's in Japan. While there, Marilyn
decided to pop over to Korea to perform for the troops who were maintaining what was
then a very tenuous peace following the armistice at Panmunjom in mid-'53. These are
just a tiny FRACTION of the pix that were taken from Feb. 14 - 19 of '54. (BTW, South
Korea never did sign a peace accord, so a state of war still technically exists.)


Thanks to ClassicMarilynMonroe and Empire.



AllStarPix



Photo thanks to RokDrop.




Stars serve mess for the troops in this USO photo. Marilyn Monroe can be spotted
in the background beside a brunette whom I can't place. Foreground, Mickey Rooney
clowns with another actor who, to me, resembles Jack Carson (?).



Rank DOES have its privileges, eh? One has to wonder if the medal
is for in-theater service OR maybe a Purple Heart??? If you look at
Marilyn's right thumb, you'll see where she gashed herself pretty
badly while cutting cake for the GIs. Pic thanks to AVeryLushBudget.

 

Great piece of history, thanks for looking that up..

 

I have to agree with Bill. I didn't want one until they straightened it out, and didn't get one until the second generation body came along in 1965. From then on I loved those things.

 

Anita Page- c.1920s