Vintage shots from days gone by!

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Hilarious

 

This looks like tons of fun....it would be hard to 'cheer' a single winner, ...I'd cheer them all on whether they won or not!

 

…. and the fellas pictured here had long since lost most if not all of their base line hearing by age 55 and just about this same time around the mid 80's when a general accepted and intelligent trend toward wearing ear protection was beginning to take hold ….

 

Printed on the back of this photo reads as follows … "pictured here is cousin Abeson along with his brother's cousin Abe and his sister's aunt Carolyn in front of the start of a big city like estate mansion Abeson is wanting to build. This is just the front entrance vestibule structure. A future planned proper main house will be attached and built where the trees are now located behind it" …. Scrub Patch, Tennessee - August 10th, 1922

 

As the Canter City, Iowa local newspaper had reported recently … " and pictured here is how they found one Mr. Todd Lenderson. One hand firmly glued to the steering wheel while wearing an eerie frozen expression as you see him here. Mr. Lendersen had been living in a rented apartment just down the street at number 12 Elm. No clues as to the cause of this strange incident have yet to be determined nor the proper ownership of this late model Buick " ….

 

WHAT?????

 

the young man on the right has been identified as Mickey Thompson............. THE Mickey Thompson

 

Los Angeles based Willie Utzman built a double overhead cammed STUDEBAKER for use at the Brickyard, but never succeeded...

 

Burwood Drive In - Australia's first drive-in - opened in 1954

 

Burwood Highway in the foreground.
I attended many movies there with my brother and mum when I was young and then with my mates and girlfriends after I got my licence. Closed in June 1983

 

Wow, how innovative was this? Using babies to encourage their mothers to smoke!
Those advertising gurus sure do have some good ideas on how to push a product.
Forget ethics, get those ciggies sold!!