Vintage shots from days gone by!

ALTERNATE CAPTION - "Infamous Moments
in History! On this date in 1951, notorious town
drunk, village idiot and general all-round
ne'er-do-well., Wilfred J. Runnamuck - with the
aid and encouragement of at least five 'companions'
on that particular day - a certain Mr. 'Jack Danials',
a Mr. 'Johnny Walker' - plus the three infamous,
'double-shots of tequila', 'Margarita' sisters -
attempted to - and in fact, very nearly succeeded
in - creating the world's very first drive through
bank!!!"

Mart3406
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The Eldorado Brougham Show Car on display at the 1956 Cadillac model year kick off in Detroit. Too bad the swivel seat didn't make it to the production model. See this pic and many more from this event here on my blog,
http://1956eldorado.blogspot.com/2012/10/on-this-day-introducing-1956-cadillac.html

 

Lots of musicians in the last few posts and I see some familiar faces. The three grinning jazz players in post 55945 are, from left, trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, drummer Joe Morrello, and pianist Dave Brubeck.
Looks like that might be Lorretta Lynn directly under the Corvair in post 55941. Looks like a Fender Dreadnaught she's holding.

 

Thanks for the background info about the ending!!! "The Horse Soldiers", "Fort Apache", "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon" and "Rio Grande" are 4 of my favorite movies of all time. I had a Great Great Great Grandfather and a Great Great Grandfather ( not related to each other at the time, Grx3's grandaughter married GrX2's son years later) that were troopers in Co. B of the Kansas 7th Cavalry, aka "Jennison's Jayhakers", and a Great Great Grandfather who was a Sergeant in the Illinois 80th Infantry during the Civil War. Both units were operating in Tennessee and upper Mississippi about the time of Grierson's Raid. Although the Kansas 7th had a bit of a tarnished reputation due to some of their activities early in the war in the Kansas-Missouri border area, the Jayhawking to be exact, I still find it kind of cool to have a family connection. Both my ancestors in the 7th were part of a group from Illinois that volunteered to fight for Kansas in 1861 as Illinois had met it's "quota" at the time and wasn't accepting more volunteers. They had no idea where they would end up, it was just the "luck" of the draw that found them assigned to the Jayhawkers. At least they weren't part of Sen. Lane's "Red Legs" (The Outlaw Josey Wales) another infamous Kansas cavalry unit..... In reality the Jayhawkers were just as bad, they just didn't get made part of a Clint Eastwood movie. From my research it seems the opening scenes of The Outlaw Josey Wales was historically quite accurate but both sides were equally guilty. A very dark part of our country's history they didn't dwell on in history class, now I doubt they even mention it.

 

Walter Brennan ?

regards,Rod

 

Auto bidet

 

Should be Jeannie C. Riley.

 

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Jeannie it is

 

Most likely to keep the dust from pouring into the rear window.

I have 60s wagons, live on a dirt road & wish I had one of those big flaps. I remember they had them with peace signs and other stuff on them up into the early 70s.

 

1937 Adler Trumpf Rennlimousine



1937 Adler Trumpf Rennlimousin & Bugatti Tank



1935 Adler Trumpf Spezial Monoposto





Powerful Peep's Car



more...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27862259@N02/7086422129/in/photostream/
http://www.autogallery.org.ru/adlsf.htm

 

I think we cant let this pic slip by in this colossal thread without further info!

 

Going by the name on the side of the car:
Jack Henry (First President of Road Runners) Charter Member Road Runners SCTA in 1937.

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Looks like the same car.
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Pugh Brothers - John & Rob picture from Veda Orr's Lakes Pictorial-1946 Season

 

Yes, that's Miss Riley, and also the first one in the series under the Corvair was Loretta Lynn

 

theda Bara

 

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Could it be O.Z. Whitehead? WikiLink to O.Z.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Z._Whitehead

Oops - no, it's not O.Z. Whitehead - it's Hoot Gibson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoot_Gibson

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Hoot Gibson it IS! I didn't know when I quizzed other HAMBers. One of the biggest B-Western stars of the '20s, Hoot did his first of hundreds of Westerns in 1910. He made and lost a couple of fortunes -- not unusual for a movie star, right? Hollywood legend has it that Hoot did old buddy John Ford "a favor" by doing a cameo in "The Horse Soldiers." Maybe, but both Wayne and Ford often were the ones doing favors by giving bit parts to old friends or Western stars whose tin stars had lost their shine. Anywho, this was Hoot's last Western appearance. "Oceans 11" in 1960 was his very last role, and he passed on in '62 of cancer at age 70.






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Kind of makes you get into the holiday spirit don't it?

 

Jack Henry V8 Service 4230 N Firestone South Gate CA. Building still survives today.

 

Strictly by the numbers, he was the heavyweight champ just shy of 12 years, pretty much double most anybody else. I'm sure he fought some pretty tough, skilled boxers, but my dad remembers when he hit a long stretch of fighting stiffs. People would ask who "he bum of the month" was, scheduled to fight Louis. The boxing world has had some interesting episodes, fer shur!

 

Speaking of "The Brown Bomber," here are three heavyweight champs in one frame! Joe Louis, right, "Sugar Ray" Robinson, center, and the then-new champ Cassius Clay, soon to take the Muslim name Muhammad Ali.

Photo by Howard Bingham.