Vintage shots from days gone by!

Carpenters Drive In Los Angeles @ Sunset and Vine circa 1932

http://www.hollywoodphotographs.com/detail/306/carpenters-drive-in-at-sunset-and-vine/?c=37&i=1&r=12



This site list other LA area attractions via the drop down menu...
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Carrol Shelby in his own words.....


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How ironic?? My hometown. I recognize that old pic!

 

A good buy!!!

 

This is Shelby's crew that got the DragonSnake to hook up in a straight line, probably about 63'. When these guys talk of working for Carrol they speak of the operation "before we moved to the airport". These are the original wrenches and drivers.

The draft got in the way a few careers back then.

 

DeuceDon, I've been searching for some it me now and haven't found a pic
(or evidence) of a White Castle ever being in Torrance, THOUGH I understand
you can buy the little burgers frozen at the grocery. (There is a White Castle
Construction company in Torrance, though.) Far as FRESH, they are still pretty
much a regional, privately owned company, second only to McDonald's in
per-store profitability. Though they started in Wichita in 1921, their main office
shifted to Columbus, OH, and the majority of their locations nowadays are in
Ohio and Tennessee, a smattering in NYC and a handful in major cities, not
much west of the Mississippi. I'll keep looking, but for now here's one from
New Jersey.


1959, White Castle in North Bergen,NJ, 9271 Kennedy Blvd. It opened August 16 , 1935.

Pic thanks to LennyD120 on FlickR.

 

Ditto, Ron! I loved the pic when you posted it. Just nails that time, and another one of thoe CLASSIC pix that tells a story no matter where you look in the frame. Auto, yes, but horses were still old reliable for many people who couldn't afford -- or didn't have faith in -- cars and trucks. My grandad never owned one car in his nearly 90 years. Chickens loose in the street, no thing. People did that, and they'd call them into their coop at sunset. Notice that the house also seems to be a general store? My great-grandmother and her second husband (first was killed in the mines)ran a store out of their home in West Virginia.

 

Thanks!

 

Cobra Daytona, designed by Peter Brock in 1964 ... an interesting guy, previously a major hand in the design of the split-window corvette (63) .... not much breathing room between the Chevrolet and AC/Cobra years.

He later went on to providing racing innovation for the 510 Datsuns ;through Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) early seventies. BRE with Peter Brock at the helms, still going strong.

 

The Shelby Factory located on Imperial Highway in El Segundo at the West terminals at LAX Los Angeles International Airport...those were the days we used to drive by this stack of Cobras every time we went to go surfing , maybe one day we should otta stop in there and check out the cars? ...we never did!

 

Here is a larger picture

 

First, let me apologize for mispelling "Cincinnatian". (That name confuses me everytime I write it-I thought I gave it a trial run that time.) By extra service I meant it was a "deluxe" type of service. The train ran daily with a schedule of approximately 12 hours between Cinncy and Washington.The name was of the train itself but the locomotive (4 President class 4-6-2s built in 1927) was shrouded in the streamlined casing specifically for this assignment. The concept was aimed at attracting travellers back to the rails (they had already begun the postwar drift away to the airways.). Alas, it was too little too late. It failed to develope the hoped for trade and was later reassigned to Detroit-Cincy. Inaugarated in January, 1947; reassigned in June, 1950; switched to diesel power in 1955; began to reduce service to the point where all character was lost and finally died in 1971-consisting at that point of a diesel unit and one coach.

 

You are correct that Cheboygan is about 14 miles east of the Mighty Mac. But highway old 27 cross's 75 at exit 133 and runs north east through Cheboygan and is also called South main St. This house is located at 314 South Main (27). Look at it on the google map. Grandpa moved to Cheboygan from Mount Pleasent in the 60's and lived right on the Cheboygan river next door to the paper company. We used to set in his back yard and watch the powerboat races. The paper company bought his house and tore it down to make room for expansion ( the paper company is now closed). He moved south of town across from Aloha State Park. We use to go to get up early on Sundays and drive 275 miles there before the highway was there and back in the evening quite often.

 

As a 15 year old, I flew into that airport June 1965 for my brothers High School (JFK) graduation in Buena Park. My ride didnt show and I took off hitch-hiking to Buena Park .... I coulda took one of those!! ... dang.

 

Jimi, these guys were heroes plain and simple, thanks for this post that reminds us of what they did.........

 

Me too, shortly after it took off, my father was driving near the field at Hawthorne, when he suddenely stopped the car, pushed us out, pointed up and just said "FLYING WING!!" never forgot it. (later the Air Force cut the survivors up, to punish Northrop for not merging with Consolidated, though the Air Force secretary denied the story). Great airplane, but bombing accuracy was a problem

 

1916 Wainwright Alberta Canada

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photo Univ of Alberta archives​

 

1940 Chillicothe OH

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19fifty-something (maybe '56?) Moose Jaw Saskatchewan

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photo: Univ of Alberta archives​

 

1936 near Hagerstown MD

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1948 Manitoba

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photo: Univ of Alberta archives​

 

There's a lotta dough ray me right there!

 

1955 Dodge Royal four door sedan.

 

Tom Mix was filming "The Deadwood Coach" at Zion National Park in 1924. He, according to one of the boys, said,

"I want to get my picture taken with the boy who never saw a train"​

 

On the afternoon of October 12, 1940, Mix was driving his 1937 Cord 812 Phaeton near Florence, Arizona, (between Tucson and Phoenix) on Arizona State Route 79. Mix had been visiting Pima County Sheriff Ed Nichols in Tucson,<SUP id=cite_ref-2 class=reference>[3]</SUP> and had stopped at The Oracle Junction Inn, a popular gambling and drinking establishment, where he had called and spoken with his agent, when he came upon construction barriers at a bridge previously washed away by a flash flood. A work crew watched as he was unable to brake in time, and his car swerved twice then rolled into a gully, pinning his body beneath.<SUP id=cite_ref-3 class=reference>[4]</SUP> A large polished aluminum suitcase containing a large sum of money, traveler's checks and jewels, which he had placed on the package shelf behind him flew forward and struck Mix in the back of the head, shattering his skull and breaking his neck. The 60-year-old actor was killed almost instantly. Eyewitnesses said Mix was traveling at 80 mph before the accident.<SUP id=cite_ref-4 class=reference>[5]</SUP>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Mix