Vintage shots from days gone by!

1943 Chicago area:

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Where did you get these photos?

This guy looks like General Curtis E. LeMay, WWII hero.

I would bet my last dollar that this is indeed General LeMay.

 

Yes, it is General LeMay.

TM



http://jetpilotoverseas.wordpress.c...may-and-his-chevrolet-corvette-roadster-1959/

 

</CENTER><CENTER>You can read these as song titles, but I can see them as a conversation between a guy trying to make time with a girl:</CENTER><CENTER>He: "Sweet Little Sixteen!"</CENTER><CENTER>She: "It's Too Soon to Know."</CENTER><CENTER>He: "Short Shorts?"</CENTER><CENTER>She: "DON'T!!!"</CENTER><CENTER>He: "Tequila?"</CENTER><CENTER>She "(hic) Oh, Oh, I'm Fallin' in Love..."</CENTER><CENTER>(short intermission for shotgun wedding)</CENTER><CENTER>He: "Who's Sorry Now?"</CENTER><CENTER>Mother-in-law: "Get a Job!"</CENTER><CENTER>She: "Are You Sincere?"</CENTER><CENTER>He: (sighs) "Lollipop..."</CENTER><CENTER> </CENTER>

 

here

 

or page 25 or 26 of this thread

 

Bicycle Polo, 9/13/21

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007005025/

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laddie_Boy_(dog)



Laddie boy's birthday cake, [7/25/22

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007006724/



Laddie Boy, [7/31/22]

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007006795/

 

The Laddie Boy dog link is a little messed up on Wiki, but they have a better link in their description. Don't know why they can't just fix the original, but it's their show.....

 

Queen of the wheel c1897

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2011661551/

 

F.L. Lewton with auto tire fabric machine, museum, 7/22/25

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007014008/

 

Fretwell 1922

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007006768/

 

Motorcycle races 1922

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007006767/

 

Pat Crowe in auto, [7/28/22]

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007006758/




Secty. Wallace, 7/25/22

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007006718/

 

Cavalry drill at auto races

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007006766/

 

Railroad wreck 1922

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007006782/

 

Central Union mission outing, [7/23/25]

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007014025/

 

Klansmen sightseeing at the Capitol, 8/8/25

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007014043/

 

Greenbank Consolidated School. Loading up the buses for a six-mile haul. 1921

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ncl2004004552/PP/

 

Eslie Williams 1922

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007006812/

 

Crowd with children and bus], 7/24/22

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007006731/

 

1943 Bar Harbor ME

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1943 Redlands CA

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1942 Geneva UT

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1942 Detroit

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1942 Lincoln NE

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1942 Hettinger ND

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1945 DesMoines IA

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photo: LIFE online archive​