Vintage shots from days gone by!

Does anyone know the location of the beach/surf hangout?

 

Hey Southurn,

a) You are on fire - about 50 posts in the last day or so - Wow!!!
b) new avatar - 59 Caddy - Nice!!!

Keep up the good work.

Cheers.

 

LIFE magazine image from Lima, Peru in '59.

Thank you. I've recently come across a bevvy of really decent vintage blogs, too many to bookmark, and have been transposing more than normal lately. Very glad they're appreciated and will do my best to keep them up. It's either that or back to more Caddy pics.

 

The main reason that the control surfaces were made of fabric was for their weight - All the control surfaces were mechanical actuated using cables, pulleys and bell cranks. - The fabric covering made it easier to move.
The fabric was a canvas like material that covered the surface and was coated with a shellac that when dried would shrink the material to the structural shape
Patches to the cloth had to be sewn on the shellaced, depending on the designed it ranged from time consuming to to really difficult
I spent my first few years in the USAF working on C-47s in the States and in Viet Nam - It was easier to swap out the control surface and send the damaged one to the Fab shop for repair.
Metal surfaces could be scab patched using blind rivets unles the inner structure was too damaged.

 

Yes, nice work, SouthUrn. I was going to comment on the clarity of the pics, really good quality.

Mart.

 

I too saw Grand Prix there. My older brother took me to see it when I was 7 or 8 years old and what was almost cooler than seeing that movie in that theater was that we sat in front of Alan Hale who played the skipper on Gilligan's Island!

 

just when did they invent the budgie cord?

 

Nice shot of a slot drive Phillips 45 rpm record player for cars. I have added it to my collection of car record player images. Anybody know what the car is?

 

Bungie or Bungee cords (shock cords) most likely evolved from the banded elastic cords used to provide of shock absorption on in WWI aircraft, landing gear, and continued after the war into civilian light aircraft. They were also used in early parachutes to help pop open the pack to assure a quick deployment of the canopy material. Who the enterprising person who decided on other uses for the stretchy stuff we'll probably never know.

 

^^^^ RHD(right hand drive)AM/FM/short wave radio? and bungee cord.

 

It looks very Austin like to me. can't say the exact model, but maybe a Cambridge from the early 60's.

Mart.

 

Thanks for the info SouthUrn. I didn't look like So. CA and I didn't see PCH.

 

Pictures from the early 1960's in Port Alberni B.C.

 

The Crosley powered Ladder truck was one of two or three made for Catskill game Farm in Catskill, NY. they ferried kids around the park for a 20 minute ride so mom and dad could have a break from the I wants........At least one still exists and makes the rounds of Car Shows in the North East. There was another powered by a cut down Metropolitan also.

 

Could have been the case but Crosley definitely produced more than just a few of them. Came across one near Youngstown, OH 15 years ago that had originated from Euclid Beach Park. At that time there was another in an IO collection that did not stem from NY either.