Vintage shots from days gone by!

My uncle was an Olds man...

 

My mothers youngest brother, a car guy, was home on leave in 1944, and wanted to see his girlfriend in Bernardston, MA. It was a rainy Sunday night and the family begged him to stay home. On the way home in the early am, his '35 Ford Cabriolet overturned and he was killed. My mother always told me that he and I would have got along great. Consequently, I was told I was told I would not be allowed to buy a ragtop when I got my license. After a few years, I convinced my mother and father I was trustworthy enough to be careful with a droptop. After that, I've owned countless numbers of convertibles to this day.

 

I don't know who any of these people are, what year these pictures were taken (around 1954 is my guess) or where. All of these are from slides which I got (with the projector) at a yard sale ten years ago, for a dollar.







This last one looks to me like base or post housing.

 

Red-letter day for great posts on Dog's thread. Salute to StarWalker, YellerSpirit, SWI and many others! Nice to see repeats are down, too.

A big AMEN! to women sitting on cars, Mike & John! A perennial GREAT combo, eh? I really like the shot below, as there's a certain sweetness about a non-pro photog hubby shooting a home-grown "cheesecake" photo of his wife. They must have had wonderful chemistry. But -- hey! -- you can read much between the lines of these old photos, right? Whoever said one picture is worth a thousand words, well? Guess it's why this thread keeps making like the Energizer Bunny!

A BIG ditto on sitting on modern cars! You can do literally hundreds of dollars' worth of damage sitting on somebody's new car these days.

As for the Lewis Carrol poem snip: Gosh! How MANY of us have just sat staring at a fire, particularly when it's burned down until the coals shimmered??? One of life's trad times, from an age not so long ago when we didn't have 100 TV channels,
etc.







Gotta believe this ol' lady had a blast driving the young'n around
with the fifth wheel! What a treat for both of them, back in a time
when mostly only RICH people could do this type of thing for their
kids. Is it just me, or does this job have a homemade look to it?

 

Hey, YellerSpirit, did I hear right? The "Old Man" -- which
had undoutedly stood for eons in New Hampshire's wilds --
collapsed shortly after the image appeared in the U.S.
commemorative QUARTER series???

 

I thought it looks like someone put a home crafted body on a Sears Buck board 5th wheel car.The Buckboad was sold under differrent names but that's the only one that comes to mind right now.

 

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Decatur, Georgia, 1948:


Atlanta, 1950s:


The old Sears Warehouse, Marietta Street, 1952.


Main public library, Forsyth Street, 1958.


Cabbagetown, 1952. Looking toward the old Fulton Bag Mill, which closed down on 1977.

And a little later in downtown Atlanta:


This shows construction of the MARTA subway line, west from downtown. This section was Contract CW-140, Fairlie to Mangum Streets, on which I worked as project engineer from 1977-1979.

 

Awesome!

 

Yesterday I posted the cover of one of fictional Frank Reade's adventures with steam-powered contraptions in the years preceding 1900. But there was nothing fictional about the innovations of Roxbury, MA, machinist and inventor extraordinaire Sylvester Hayward Roper (1823-1896).

Among Roper's many brainchildren were a steam velocipede, steam carriage and steam-powered bicycle. In fact, Roper is in the Motorcycle Hall of Fame. Some of his other notable contributions included the fire escape, the shotgun choke, a firearm magazine and a repeating shotgun using a revolver-type cylinder. It strikes me that, in some ways, Roper's endeavors mirrored those of the famous Maxims, father and son! (For their fascinating stories, just initiate a thread earch at the top of the page.)

Folks witnessed Roper driving one of his steam carriages around Boston as early as 1863, which would make his one of the earliest American automobiles. An 1863 version is in the Henry Ford Museum. Illustrations below are THANKS to Wikipedia.









[Note: If my memory serves, Boston was also the sponsor of a self-propelled steam dredge, the first of its kind in the U.S., around the time the War of 1812 was ending. Called Oruktor Amphibilos, the clumsy machine moved overland by steam power and with no need of rails. Some historians, then, claim the beast can lay claim to being the prototypical pioneer U.S. steam traction engine, first U.S. "automobile," AND first U.S. steamboat, greatly predating Fulton's!]

 

Sylvester Roper with one of his steam carriages. Though the vehicle
was built earlier, the photo is thought to have been shot in 1868.

 

Looks like Rice Chevrolet in Derry N.H.

 

Family-- Dad was a Buick man!!

 

In April 1921, the Orange County Jail entertained perhaps its most-famous "prisoner" ever. Silent film star Bebe Daniels, 20, was arrested by "county motorcycle officer" Vernon Myers for speeding in her Marmon automobile, traveling 72 miles per hour south of Santa Ana, on her way to San Juan Capistrano. She is shown in her jail cell with her booking number around her neck.

 

Oops! The ol' memory was wrong! In fact, Oliver Evans not
only built the Oruktor Amphibilos earlier than I remembered,
1804-5, but it was done for the city of Philadelphia rather
than Boston. Its Greek name alluded directly to the fact
that, like an amphibian, it could move about on land (albiet
slowly!) and in the water. Just imagine the amazement of folk
witnessing such a spectacle so soon after the American
Revolution!

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Further adventures of Frank Reade. This is from John Adcock's great
site. You can lose yourself for hours there, I assure you! He's a
cartoonist, illustrator and storyteller from British Columbia. I think
you can find him at john-adcock.blogspot.com/2011/08 (if not, try
STEAM MEN AND ELECTRIC HORSES to get into his ballpark).

 

just heard from my studebaker buddy that one of these Nash is sitting and rotting in my near, hard to imagine in Germany. love these cars, they are really unique, hope to see it soon, and if it's saveable i will do it, for sure, don't have a new project and the Poncho will be finished next year!

not exactly a DKW, but an IFA. not so big differences.. short lesson: DKW's plant stayed in eastern Germany after the land was divorced in two, with all the knowledge, future plans, parts etc.. in DDR,or as most of you remember by the name of german democratic republic, (democratic, jawoll! ) was founded the IFA-works (Industrieverband Fahrzeugbau = joint venture for building vehicles) and just started selling nearly unchanged DKW with exception of some details like the artillery-wheels, ribbed bumpers, the square IFA-emblem on the grill shell, some different louvers on the hood's side, and (novadude, for you) the started building a woodie, it was called the woodrod-stationwagon..on this one you can see some GDR-plates (think, i created a new term, woodrod, shit) after building these cars until '55 (!) they started to build the new IFA F9, what was to be released for the brand-nu 1940's DKW F9, nice cars and they had for the first time the typical streamline-sweep, that DKW's was well known for until 1963. if there's a plates collector in the HAMB-community, i think i have a pair of DDR-licenseplates somewhere, just PM and i'll look after them and send 'em out...

btw, can't thank you enough, SWI66, you're spending so much time to post such nice pics, always wondering if you're a vampire, or when do you sleep?

Yours, Carsten

 

Collapse

The site of the Old Man of the Mountain in July 2010, 7 years after the collapse



The "Great Stone Face" around 1911


Freezing and thawing opened fissures in the Old Man's forehead. By the 1920s, the crack was wide enough to be mended with chains, and in 1957 the state legislature passed a $25,000 appropriation for a more elaborate weatherproofing, using 20 tons of fast-drying cement, plastic covering, and steel rods and turnbuckles, plus a concrete gutter to divert runoff from above. A team from the state highway and park divisions kept the patchwork up to date each summer.<SUP id=cite_ref-2 class=reference>[3]</SUP>
Nevertheless, the formation collapsed to the ground between midnight and 2 a.m., May 3, 2003.<SUP id=cite_ref-collapse_1-1 class=reference>[2]</SUP> Dismay over the collapse was so great that people left flowers at the base of the cliffs in tribute. In 2004, the state legislature considered a proposal to change New Hampshire's state flag to include the profile,<SUP id=cite_ref-3 class=reference>[4]</SUP> an idea that was eventually shelved.
Early on, many considered replacement with a replica. That idea was rejected by an official task force in 2003 headed by former Governor Steve Merrill.
On the first anniversary of the collapse in May 2004, the Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund (OMMLF) unveiled coin-operated viewfinders near the base of the cliff. When looking through them up at the cliff of Cannon Mountain one can see a "before" and "after" of how the Old Man of the Mountain used to appear.<SUP id=cite_ref-collapse_1-2 class=reference>[2]</SUP>
Seven years after the collapse, on June 24, 2010, the OMMLF, now the Friends of the Old Man of the Mountain, broke ground for the first phase of the state-sanctioned "Old Man of the Mountain Memorial" to be located on an improved walkway along Profile Lake below Cannon Cliff. The first phase consists of a viewing platform with "Steel Profilers", which, when aligned with the Cannon Cliff above, create what the profile looked like up on the cliff overlooking the Franconia Notch. The second phase will include a "Granite Gateway" with tribute to the Nielsen family and others who maintained the profile over the last century. It will also include a remnant of the turnbuckle tie rod that supported the uppermost ledge. In the third and final phase, five large "Granite Monoliths" will be lifted in alignment which when viewed from ground level will merge, creating a 20-foot-tall (6.1 m) profile replica of the five ledges that generated the original profile. The project is being overseen by Friends of the Old Man of the Mountain/Franconia Notch,<SUP id=cite_ref-4 class=reference>[5]</SUP> a committee that succeeded the Old Man of the Mountain Revitalization Task Force. The Legacy Fund is a private 501(c)(3) corporation with representatives from various state agencies and several private nonprofits.<SUP id=cite_ref-5 class=reference>[6]</SUP>
Other proposals included one from architect Francis Treves, which won an American Institute of Architects Un-Built Project Award. It envisioned a walk-in profile made of 250 panels of structural glass attached to tubular steel framework and concrete tower, connected by a tram, rim trail or tunnel through to the cliff wall at the original site.<SUP id=cite_ref-6 class=reference>[7]</SUP><SUP id=cite_ref-7 class=reference>[8]</SUP>
In 2009, Kenneth Gidge, a state representative from Nashua, proposed building a copper replica of the Old Man on level ground above the ledge at the original site where hiking trails already lead.<SUP id=cite_ref-8 class=reference>[9]</SUP> That idea was rejected.

 

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Postcard showing scenes of the Green Mountain Railroad. The railroad ran from Eagle Lake in Bar Harbor to the top of Green Mountain. Today Green Mountain is known as Cadillac Mountain.

 

Green Mountain Railway on Mount Desert Island

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Just forgot the pic of IFA F9, it sure has some potential..



here's also to see the DDR license plate design.

the german cars often showed strong influences of some of the US-made models, speaking of GM it wasn't riddle for the GM-Managers told there german daughter Opel what to do. Ford also had to follow to what Dearborn said, i think.. look here:

 

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The Green Mountain House was a hotel located at the top of Green Mountain (now Cadillac) on Mt. Desert Island. Customers would take the Steamer Wauwinet on Eagle Lake to the base of the mountain where they would then take the Green Mountain Railway to the summit of the mountain. The original hotel burned but was immediately rebuilt.

 

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