Vintage shots from days gone by!

I read somewhere that after she came back, she told DiMaggio that they cheered her so much, "You've never heard the like." He said, "Yes I have."

 

I drove a N900 super duty truck like the tractor hauling the Shelbys back in the day. Once you got into the cab you felt like you were sittin on the floor. The cab was basically a f series PU cab on a beast...

 

Ford did the same design with HD trucks in the eighties using an F series cab on a lrge frame truck F700 and F7000 but my favorite line was the L series Louisville cab style which was built starting in 72. I drove many different configuerations throughout the 70s into the 90s but the best was the areomax 9000. This truck had the same cab style and room along with the same large windshield that I loved about my 72. Damn, I miss that areomax. Today the call em Sterlings. Not even close.... woops, this post is in ref to the pic on post #4197 1I also forgot to mention that big Detroit and the Eaton 13 one sweet truck... sniff

 

According to the State Library and Archives of Florida, “The Tin Can Tourists of the World (T.C.T.) was an organization of camping and trailering enthusiasts founded at a Tampa, Florida, campground in 1919.” Morris Monts de Oca, Charlie Anderson, Bill Buford, Freddie Crews, Wyatt Blassingame, Von Walker and Wilton Sauls. After six days and nights on the beautiful Suwannee River, these men are headed home. They traveled the river from Okefenokee Swamp to the Gulf of Mexico.



House car named Harriet at Tin Can Tourists convention, Arcadia, Florida, January 10, 1929. “Harriet” belonged to Mrs. Harriet Warren, Mrs. Flora Kavanaugh and Westel Ashe, all of Brattleboro, Vermont.

Campers in Corkscrew Swamp: Collier County, Florida.

Retired railroad man from Ohio at the Long Branch Trailer Park.

iew of trailer parked near entrance to the Myakka River State Park: Sarasota, Florida, August 1947.

railer enters the Bradenton Trailer Park, Bradenton, Florida, July 1949.

Michael Sadler, holding a sculpture, stands outside a trailer: Dead Lakes, Florida.

William Frost Layton in a recreational vehicle on tract of land he later developed into Layton’s Cottage, Trailer, and Fishing Park: Riviera Beach, Florida. Between 1935 and 1955

 

Over at Modern Mechanix this week was a story from the September 1938 issue of the blog’s namesake on housecars, including the Pribil and the Dodge-based housecar below.

Streamlined COE fuel tanker of unknown make built for Gilmore, 1935, these photos were taken during the Yosemite Economy runs, 1936-38

 

Around the time you stated, it was called California Custom Coach.
It was there at that location till about 1985, then moved to another former Pontiac dealership that was on Lake/Corson on the S.E. corner.
In the millenium it did attempt to sell muscle cars,but not for long.

CCC sold exotics and Neo=Classic Replica Auburn Boatailed Speedsters and even their own version of the Mc Burnie Daytona Spyder. Cecil owned it and when someone made an offer on the Lake Ave property for a Hi-Rise
they relocated to 1st ave in Irwindale next to the old dragstrip.

That building was used on Charlie's Angels and a Remington Steel.
The other Pasadena Dealership building =Olds, was an Olds dealer till the mid 90's as Crown Olds then Heritage Olds, back to Crown then turned into a Ardvarks Thift-Resale store, which I think it still is.

 

Hemmings Classic Car reader Peter Betz saw the writeup on the Stewart-based motorhome in a recent HCC Lost and Found and shared with us the following story of a family from Johnstown, New York, their one-and-a-half-ton Dodge truck and the trip of a lifetime. Peter wrote:

During the fall of 1924, George Chamberlain and his brother Tamerlyn or ‘Tam’ purchased a new Dodge one and one-half ton truck and during the winter built a “portable home” on the chassis. They were both carpenters and from the photographs, we can see the resulting motor-home must have been large enough to contain Tam, Goldie, George plus their seven sons. Close to the end of building season, September 7th 1925, the entire clan climbed into this self-made mobile home and headed west for their long, memorable trip to California. They did not have a lot of money, but George and Tam somehow found room on board for their carpenter’s tools, and whenever funds ran low, they managed to find carpentry jobs along the way to replenish their credit.

The Johnstown Morning Herald of April 19, 1926, informs us that, “Starting about 8 each morning, the party traveled eight hours a day and always put up for the night when darkness came. They averaged 175 miles per day, some days going as far as 280 miles. Making numerous side trips to visit places of interest, they arrived in California just one month after leaving Johnstown.” Probably they traveled south, joining the Lincoln Highway, our first cross-country paved road, in Pennsylvania.

The Chamberlain family toured California for two months, and in early January 1926, turned the dependable Dodge back eastward. They toured Arizona and went as far south as Corpus Christi, sensibly sticking to the warmer states until spring, while passing through Louisiana and Mississippi. They remained in Montgomery, Alabama, for two and one-half months while Tam and George erected two houses and several barns on a large plantation whose owner appreciatively provided lodging and let the children attend a plantation school. When spring arrived in the north, “They again started for home, coming north by way of Washington. They made the last 1,162 miles in four days and five hours.” George and Tam probably wished to return home in time to obtain summer construction work.

In discussing the conditions of American highways during the mid Twenties, George related, “The roads on the trip westward were not so good; those over the southern route were excellent, but that stretch between Amsterdam and Johnstown over the Fort Johnson road (now Route 67) was the worst piece on the entire trip.” So the worst road was right at home.

George Chamberlain and his family were not the only ones to ‘hit the road’ during the 1920s, largely because this was the first decade of really reliable cars and trucks, and the dependability of tires had also greatly improved. It was the decade when major oil companies developed national service station chains, stretching them across the country and thereby lessening traveler’s anxiety about breakdowns.

We are indebted to Mrs. Gladys M. Chamberlain for the photographs of the Chamberlain motor home. Photographs of other early home-built mobile homes exist, sometimes accompanied by stories of the families and their adventures. As to the Chamberlain’s Dodge, one wonders how so many people – 10 in all, including the youngest at one year and eleven months – toughed it out so successfully. No doubt not all slept inside the vehicle except when necessary. Chamberlain related that they “attracted some little attention with their home on wheels. They lived in this home while traveling between towns, but whenever the opportunity presented itself, they stopped at various camp sites scattered along the routes.”

When Tam and George built their mobile home, they must have researched other contemporary designs in magazines like Popular Mechanics. They were not the first men to build one: pictures of such home-built RV’s appeared in The Motor Magazine as early as 1909. Ford made the one-ton Model TT truck chassis available for such use from 1917 through 1927 and the Nash Quad (four-wheel) flat bed was also favored for early motor home conversions. According to the Morning Herald, “Their portable camp carried all the necessities of a trip of this kind and it was a most delightful experience from every standpoint, costing less than $700.00, and no sickness or accident occurred to mar the trip.”

 

Michael Lamm’s



Prewar dry lakes racing

 

http://blog.hemmings.com/index.php/category/automobilia/family-albums-n-four-speeds/



watermelon T's

 

Pennsylvania Turnpike



1957 DeSoto at L Motel on Route 66 in Flagstaff



Standard Gas Station & Store, Spotted Horse WY



Hampton Beach NH

 

Henry and Harold Reutenauer, in front of their bakery in Hudson, New York, with a pair of delivery vehicles, one powered by oats and the other by fossil fuels. As happens all too often with photos like these, not only did the photo go undated, but there was no mention made of the make of the newer delivery vehicle.

 

Ozark Trading Post at Gateway, Arkansas



Pottery Queen 1950s Roadside Store in Zanesville, Ohio



Sea Shell City in Gaylord, Michigan

 

Francisco “Fran” Hernandez

 

Country Kitchen, Route 9, West Brattleboro VT



Montauk, Long Island Roadside Motel





Woolworth & W.T. Grant Stores, Brattleboro VT

 

Hotel Bonneville, Idaho Falls, Idaho



Tulsa, Oklahoma



Helena, Montana, Sunrise Motel

 

Stateline, California, Tahoe Tropicana Motel



Watsonville CA

 

Atlas Fiber-Glass, Inc.

 

Kingman, Arizona, Loma Vista Motel



Luigi's Italian Restaurant, Tampa FL



Motel Cee at Deming, New Mexico


Atlantic Shores Twin Court in Jacksonville Beach FL



Tom Tom Drive-In Cafe, Motel, Bend Oregon



Flying Saucers Ride in Tomorrowland at Disneyland



Phillips 66 Gas Station, South of the Border SC