Vintage shots from days gone by!

John Wayne liked Dirt Bikes ?

 

Deck crew climbing up to get the pilot out. He did. That’s a fuel tank his foot is on. Empty?

 

Spitfire "tipping-off" a V1. If you've never heard of this insane tactic ....... At first V1's were shot down by gunfire.
.With the high risk of being blown up, some of the best pilots started tipping the V1's wing, because of damage to
wing tips they later developed a tactic of disrupting the airflow by placing their wing very close to the V1's wing,
causing it to topple. Not every pilot did this. At night this was not possible, the flame from the V1 blinded the pilot
to everything else, though some Mossie pilots flew past closely in front of the V1, again causing it to topple. The
thought of doing this at 450mph, 4,000 feet above the ground, at night, and being blinded gives me the willies.

 

W C Fields

 

German 280mm K5 firing

 

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</td> <td>Jun. 14, 1940 JACARANDA TREE. WEST LOS ANGELAS




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Snow on deck. USS Philippine Sea North Pacific 1945

 

Marlon Brando

 

More Marlon

 

Marlon Brando Sandwich , The-Wild-One

 

Ronald Reagan

 

What is Mrs. Goddard driving? That think looks cool as hell from what we can see of it.

 

Cecil B deMille with his Cord

 

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</td> <td>Street along Baltimore's docks, at noon
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Katharine Hepburn

 

Jimmy Cagney

 

Henry Ford

 

Frank Sinatra and Grace Kelly

 

Liz Taylor

 

Cary Grant atop his 1941 Buick Century

 

when I was 15 my grandfather gave me an autographed picture of her he got, telling me about her million dollar legs... made me a leg man for many years

 

Shirley Jones

 

Steven Mitchell tells a great story of a stoplight encounter between McQueen in that XK-SS and Mitchell in his Ferrari GTO: http://emcpb.blogspot.com/2010/04/steve-mcqueen-and-jaguar-xkss.html

 

More Shirley

 

craks me up everytime you say that, Dad told me how that was illeagle when I was real young... and yes I shared it with my kids, though they just thought it was corny and another of my stupid old jokes