Vintage shots from days gone by!

Just havin' some fun, my brother-in-law had a nice 55 Pontiac station wagon...........Very cool car.

Doc.

 

Alioto's Seafood Grill, San Francisco circa 1945.

 

You really have to wonder what the airline was thinking by putting what looks like a mural of Icarus (mans first flight disaster) right in the passengers face?

 

Relying on the fact that 90% of people probably don't know the story and hoping that the other 10% don't make the connection between feathers and hot wax!

Doc.

 

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Tullamarine airport in Melbourne Australia also had a large bronze sculpture depicting Icarus and explaining the story

 

The good 'ol days...

 

One has to be a mind reader around here

 

Bud Crayne's hot rod brought to life!

 

Cool. I still have a briefcase just like this one only mine is filled with air. That is one big i-Pad!

 

Thats a new approach!---Never seen '41 Buick skirts on a '41 Ford!
I had them on my old '41 Chev. tho.

 

he other thing is wide seats with plenty of leg room , must be photoshopped , not like the last planes I was on .

 

Buffalo NY 1977

 

Shien Chiao, China, circa 1937 (From SDASM Archives):



RHD '33 or '34 Ford woody based on a pickup chassis? Somebody should re-create this one.

 

And since XP-300 has been posting all those Buick photos, here's a HAMB premiere from Chicago, 1962:

My uncle (left) and my dad. Don't know who owned the '56 Buick Special.

 

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Pics my Dad took circa 1936/37/38 in his front yard of his friends and their cars:









My Uncle Dave:



The gas station next door, the house where the pictures were taken is in the background on the RH side:

 

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