Vintage shots from days gone by!

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Nice fire escape. I guess building codes were a little different back then.


I hope whatever is supporting that car was engineered with more thought than the scaffold that guy's on.

 

Pecos, TX in the mid 1930s.

 

Houston St. in Fort Worth, 1907

 

Fort Worth street scene, looking east on 7th St. in 1940. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

 

Down in Breckenridge, Texas where horses ride in Fords. Dated 1927, this photograph is from the Basil Clemons Photograph Collection

 

Dallas skyline taken on the Commerce St. bridge in 1951. And check out that awesome Studebaker pick-up truck! From the Squire Haskins Photography Collection

 

Bob Stilwell in his supercharged McCathren Special race car, Oil Belt Fair Races, Breckenridge, Texas, 1926. From the Basil Clemons Photograph Collection.

 

Downtown Dallas looking west on Elm at Griffin streets. Undated. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collections

 

In 1912, three friends set out from Weatherford, Texas on a winding 6,500 mile road trip to San Francisco and back in a Stoddard-Dayton Saybrook 48 horsepower car. Despite encountering many mishaps along the way, including poor and non-existent roads, mechanical malfunctions, and having to be pulled by a team of horses through 30 miles of sand to Yuma, Arizona, the three completed the adventure with quite a story to tell. Shown here are the three travelers, Sam White and Barney Holland of Weatherford and Lem Scarbrough of Austin, standing next to the car owned by White that was taken on the trip. The women pictured and location are unknown. From the Bowie/Holland Collection

 

Site of a bomb blast that originated near a mailbox in rural Denton County in August, 1951. The bomb killed notorious Dallas gambler and gangster Herbert "The Cat" Noble who, according to legend, had survived 11 previous attempts on his life. Some playing cards can be seen at the feet of the investigating officers (l. to r.), Texas Ranger Lewis C. Rigler (Gainesville), Denton County Sheriff "Ones" Hodges and his chief deputy E.D. Davis, and Deputy Roy C. Baker (Denton).

 

Not a pretty sight. This was the scene next to the Packard Motor Company the morning after the Fort Worth flood of 1949. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

 

Fort Worth Fire Department's new fire truck, 1910. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection,

 

Sheriff C.D. Little standing next to Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow's car, May 1934. From the C.D. Little Family Paper

 

This photo shows a Franklin car driven by E.W. Talbut in a 1909 endurance race from Fort Worth to Waco and back sponsored by Amon Carter

 

Looking north on Houston St. from 10th St., Fort Worth.--1945

 

Just another day on 7th Street in Fort Worth in 1940. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

 

Grapevine, Texas, 1929. From the Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

 

Fire Chief J.E. Hollywood and the Breckenridge, Texas Fire Department, 1920/1921. From the Basil Clemons Photograph Collection,

 

Florence, Oregon

 

Assembly line with 1958 Chevrolets.

 

What's interesting here is the light colored car behind the tree on the left, still up on the bank. It appears they cut the back half of the body off a Packard (maybe a '41-'47?) and put a pickup bed on it. Or it's a Stude pickup and I'm seeing things, but it looks too long and low to be a 41-48 Stude pickup.

 

Good catch - looks like a '42 Clipper sedan with the bed from a Dodge army truck.