Vintage shots from days gone by!

Some from the family farm in Iowa

 

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The coach's Hudson...this team (guess it was LA something..) was a part of the Pacific Coast minor league --- Los Angeles did not get a major league team until the Dodgers arrived in '59 (I think it was '59), so minor league baseball was all we had (the Hollywood Stars, the Los Angeles Angels [then a minor league team], which this coach may well have been coaching)"

Thanks for these great L.A. photos. The Dodgers actually came here in '58. We were really happy about it in my family. I remember attending their games in the Coliseum prior to completion of the stadium in Chavez Ravine.

 

Thank you Gary and swi66 and other posters, you have brought this thread back from the dead. A few months ago I posted that I had been away for a week and there were only a couple of pages, now, every day there are several. THANK YOU again.

 

Anybody know the story behind this picture? That "bridge" doesn't look like it would hold a person let alone a car. Very interesting shot. Thanks Gary.

 

I still love watching "Perry Mason" reruns just for the scenery!

 

30's German streamliner, but not Mercedes, neither BMW, nor Autounion ...
This is an orphan make which died after the war.

 

Lockport, Illinois Telephone company buildings c1929 & '48

 

And the Griswold's are off to Wally World.

 

There were practically no roads on the Oregon Coast until WW2.People took schooners and small boats to get somewhere. According to the Lincoln County Historical Center,....
(from a book they sell)
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PATHFINDER "

Edited by James Stembridge, Jr.

Detailed description of the journey between Newport and Siletz Bay taken by four young men who went where no auto had gone before, mostly over beaches at low tide, in a 1912 Studebaker. The 47 mile round trip took 22 hours and 40 minutes and required numerous tools. Glimpses into Lincoln County folk life. Many photographs printed from glass negatives.

 

Derhammer Motors of Barberton, OH sold Hudson, Essex and Studebaker.

 

Parson's Kansas

 

More Coos Bay

 

Main Street, Milwaukie Oregon, where i grew up, 1955.
Had a GREAT soda fountain at the Rexall (Perry's) Pharmacy, I think it still exists.

 

DMV , Portland Oregon.Sucked even then!

 

"Traffic Squad Parade, November 5, 1908. Mayor George McClellan alighting from auto on the plaza at Union Square. 5x7 glass negative, George Grantham Bain Collection. "Max" McClellan, New York mayor from 1904 to 1909, was the son of Civil War general George B. McClellan."