Vintage shots from days gone by!

<B>U.S. Ordnance Co.</B>

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007015252/resource/

 

<B>Miss Abbie V. Eagan & Miss Maxine Brown at Bowling Field, 8/27/25</B>

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007014375/resource/

 

<B>So. Sea Islands</B>

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007000268/resource/

 

<B>[Train in station]</B>

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007018526/resource/

 

<B>Genl. Wm. P. Mitchell & Sergt. Howe, 9/25/29</B>

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007017630/resource/

 

<B>K.P. Royce of Graybear Elec. Co. making survey of noises, 2/18/26</B>

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007015549/resource/

 

<B>Harbor police boat, 7/1/26</B>

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007016001/resource/

 

<B>Ford Motor Co. Coal</B>

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007014389/resource/

 

<B>National American Ballet, [6/30/25]</B>

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007013894/resource/

 

<B>Firemen's Labor Day parade, 1929</B>

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007017608/

 

<B>Auction of bananas for Red Cross, [11/14/25]</B>

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007015042/resource/

 

<B>Berlin Bender in test room for airplane engines, Bu. of Stds., 2/3/26</B>

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/npc2007015494/resource/

 

Word up, Pipopak. With each recent decade that's passed, society has increasingly tried to dictate how an individual lives his/her life. Seeing how life ONCE was is exactly what I enjoy about this thread. Was life hard in "The Old Days"? Sure. But we were allowed to be self-reliant, to deal with whatever life threw at us our own way, endure hardship realistically and enjoy good times the same way. Sadly, I think a measure of "life" has gone out of living.

 

Thanks for showing this, Gary. OUCH! Seeing the
'55 DeSoto coupe hurts! (2nd, row, 2nd from left)
I wonder where this junkyard was and what year
this was snapped???

 

The gentleman here is indeed Robert Bourke. The designer of many Studebakers including the '53 seen here and the 2R pickup. Unfortunately he has not gotten the credit he deserves due to his being in the shadow of Raymond Loewy.

 

A J. Walter Christie design for combination wheeled/tracked vehicle with it's innovative suspension system. A brilliant designer (and early advocate of front wheel designs in automobiles) he proved completely inflexible and nearly impossible to deal with in his interactions with the army and eventually took his suspension design to the Russians, where it surfaced (after some modification) in the T-34 of WWII and the post-war era.

 

Photo thanks to Wikipedia and the National Archives and Records Administration.


"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do,
and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."

-- Gen. George S. Patton, Brolo, 1943

 

"Oh, sure....VMI and The Point were fine I suppose, but where I really wanted to go was Annapolis...."

 

Here's a few from the Mohawk Trail that my parents took in the 1930's.

 

This was our summer cabin at Lake Zoar, near Sandy Hook, Ct (wish we still had it).