Vintage shots from days gone by!

Nice Grapefruit!

 

Funny how times change, look at the steps against the retaining wall in the upper right corner. Not seeing the whole picture, based on what we can see, I don't think these would be considered ADA compliant. No hand rails. Here in my home town, there are still concrete steps, usually two steps high, without hand rails next to the curb. These steps were for easy mounting on your horse, or buggy.

 

Mercury program????

 

Looks more like an I.C.B.M. (Intercontinental ballistic missile) getting lowered into a silo.

 

Minute man, silo with a house built over it.........

 

This home has been used in a zillion movies, eh? Gary

 

One of the local hoodlums named his hot rod ICBM. I thought it was kind of cool.

 

The minute man missiles had a concrete lid. They would roll and lift on some kind of rails and they would not always open because of frost heave. The solution was to over excavate under the rails and fill the hole with clean large rock that would not hold water and build a french drain away from the silo. There where large hydraulic cylinders that opened the silo hatch.

I think there is a silo that is now a tourist trap somewhere around Rapid City SD. Everything underground was mounted on springs. These may not have been the minute man but the ones before the minute man. The ones before the minute man were obsolete before the construction was completed.

There are probably some better experts on this subject other than me.

 

I grew up 7 miles from Huntington Beach in Santa Ana, went to the beach a lot, started when i was 8, walked, rode bikes, picked up pop bottles, when we got home had to use paint thinner to get that oil off, those derricks started going away in the 50s and 60s, almost all gone now.

 

RIP Ester Williams

 

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What is this beaut?

 

Sure brings back some wonderful memories from the good old day's.

Cars back then has a real classic look to them and were very stylish.

Great photo's Thanks Jimbo

 

If I remember correctly, the Rancho was in the Pomona area around Valley Blvd.

 

loving all these vintage photo(s) .... keep them coming =)

 

A few from my local historical society. Downtown Peoria, sometime in the late 20's I'm assuming. I like the "chromium plating" sign. Wish that shop was here today



Main Street, Peoria, IL probably in the mid 1930's.



The Kickapoo Hotel, a building that used to be an old Annheuser-Busch building and still stands today. The unique part was the Shell station that operated out of the ground level, right over the hotel. I doubt they'd let that happen ever again.


The current tenant is a coffee shop, and I've read that the giant old hydraulic lift cylinder for the Shell service bay is still in the basement.





Some youngsters in 1958 with some Harley-Davidsons, before tearing up the neighborhood I'm sure.