Vintage shots from days gone by!

Early 1970s photo of Texas Avenue in Baytown looking east. I like many things about it but especially that blue VW Beetle, given that I had a gold one just like it and drove the you-know-what out of it. Took it out on several journeys to west Texas, in the summer, with no AC. Ah ... the folly of youth!

 

Gas station in Karnes City, Texas... looks to be the 1950s.

 

Farmers sitting and talking on a bench outside the county courthouse in San Augustine, Texas 1943

 

1922 photo of a U.S. Army Blimp at Balloon Field two miles northeast of Fort Bliss in El Paso. It was piloted by Maj. H. A. Strauss. The C-2 was later destroyed while being taken out of a similar hangar at Brooks AAF when the envelope caught and was torn on the hangar.

 

Photo of Bob Wills and band in front of their bus

 

"blizzard of '57" that hit Corpus Christi that year. The city was paralyzed, millions starved, cattle froze in the fields, and the Governor had to call in the national guard. It was devastating.

 

970s photo of Mother Blues, perhaps the greatest music spot in Dallas history. It was in business from 1971-1981. I read this description of it: "It was the hangout for every major rock and roll act that rolled through north Texas. The list of stars that headed to Mother Blues after a concert in Dallas or Fort Worth could fill the Rock ‘

 

In the 1920s Hans Anderson of Wharton County went with his new bride on their honeymoon to San Diego, California in Hans' 1920 Dodge Roadster. Hans had to repair/patch 35 tires while on the trip, about one per day. Here he is repairing one of them. Can you imagine how frustrating this would be?

 

Gas stations in Austin, Texas. circa-1940

 

Texas Highway Patrol circa 1940

 

Sadler's Smokehouse/BBQ in Henderson, Texas back in the mid 1960s

 

Auto repair shop in Weatherford, Texas 1905. It was located at the Corner of S. Elm & Ft. Worth Street

 

The Townsend Ice Cream Company in Port Arthur, Texas 1950

 

The Strawn Merchandise Company in Strawn, Texas, 1923

Here's what the same building looks like today:
https://www.google.com/maps/@32.551...4!1sbDTvl1p9Uah2I-CVEqkvLw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

Gunter's Appliances and Witter Photography Studio in downtown San Angelo, Texas. It is undated but appears to be early 1960s,

 

Circa 1966 photo of a pretty young lady in Austin, Texas

 

Circa 1960 photo of the Fort Worth and Denver City Railroad in Teague, Texas.

Here is the same building today:
https://www.google.com/maps/@31.626...4!1siqWp1RQfLMY3TYpoAdPvSw!2e0!7i13312!8i6656

 

Spent many night and Sunday afternoons in the Blues .
Saw so many bands I can't even remember them all . Sunday was beer and burgers then good music all evening. Lived across the street from Lee park in my old chopper days . Wild times . Blue

 

I don't care if some people think the A&G Fuel Cuda looks like a "fish outa water", it makes me smile every time I see a photo of it.

 

Dick\'s 51 Ford by Fedman posted Dec 26, 2015 at 11:07 AM

Dad's 51 Ford in 1957 on his Honeymoon