Vintage shots from days gone by!

And home builders still don't build safe rooms in new builds here in "tornado alley".......

 

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This looks like it could've been from the movie "The Great Race"

 

The men behind the Electric Vehicle Co. thought they had the 20th century by the scruff of the neck. After two inventors had fashioned a working electric vehicle in 1894, they formed an electric taxicab company in New York, that grew enough to be backed by a wealthy industrialist. As of 1899, there were 60-odd electric taxicabs in the city, and while they were heavy and slow by modern standards, they were a marvel of luxury compared to staring at a horse's behind over cobblestone streets. On this day in 1899, an EV driver named Jacob German was flagged down by a New York City police officer — Bicycle Roundsman Schuessler — who found his cab to be traveling at an unacceptable speed, which the officer estimated at 12 mph. German would receive America's first citation for speeding in a car, a historical note that has outlived the Electric Vehicle company, which foundered and collapsed a couple of years later.

 

This must be the beginnings of the Crimson Permanent Assurance.

Doc.

 

From a promotion report: "His one bad habit was collecting the boots from the enemy troops he would find on the battlefield." (Detail from post #72662.)

 

The Australian Army is still using those same bed's!
Stuff spit shining all those boots, just two pair take long enough!

Doc.

 

He was probably getting paid for shining other guys' boots.
We had guys in the barracks that would shine boots in exchange for cartons of cigarettes.

 

Yes, I remember about or before '64 for seatbelts, not sure on the road tax, seems to me we had that in '70 but the rules have changed soo much, I left Jolly Cold in '73 for the warmer climate in Calif. I do have family there and get back often. Uncle has a home built boat on the Trent-Mersey canal, 16 footer, nice rig with twin engines, went all over England on it as a kid. Those were the days when a day lasted forever.

Les

 

How about a drive-in liquor store. Los Angeles, CA 1949

 

my other passion is motorcycles

 

Pierce Arrow