Vintage shots from days gone by!

Love the F-104 Starfighter's! The maned missile, from back when they thought a fighter only needed speed to hit bombers before they could 'unload'. Now fighters have gone back to more maneuverable designs.

Doc.

 

Cool thanks wingnutz, I feel better now,,

 

Look at the this shot with Tommy Ivo and Prudhomme,
I'd say that future racing legend you're referring too could be Ivo,, hmmm

 

big daddy

 

obscure b movie

 

Sorry to be OT... ( I would imagine that at least ONE of these pilots may have been into cars, is that good enough??? Haha)

 

someone can caption this one,,

 

Sounds good enuf for me,,
badass pics for sure

 

Yep, and that "technology" only cost us 70 MILLION Alied lives to obtain and refine so it could be used to get people into space.... I would call that good technology, from BAD germans.

 

I need that Ford wagon!!!!!!!!!!!!!























Rita Hayworth









James Dean practicing punching someone in the frank and beans

 

That's Rock Hudson with James Dean. Oh the irony.

 

1938

 

Anyone got a pic of Norm's Texaco gas station (mine), in Mountain Home Ark. from 1973-74? It was Clark Rawlings' garage before that for 38 years. It was at Rte 62 and Buzzard Roost rd. (yes, really). I believe it is a Red Roof Inn now. All my pics were lost.

 

Mississippi-born Jimmie Rodgers' brilliant, prolific recording career lasted
from only 1927 to 1933, but he is remembered as "The Singing Brakeman,"
"The Blue Yodeler" and, by many, as "The Father of Country Music." Famous
records included "In the Jailhouse now" and "Frankie and Johnnie." In an
era when the word "tuberculosis" struck more fear than the word "cancer"
does today, Jimmie battled TB most of his later life, ending after a recording
session in May '33.





Pix thanks to encyclopedia.com.

 

Looking pretty spry, but thin as always, Jimmie with 1930 Model A
phaeton, THANKS to www.keeponliving.at/artist/jimmie_rodgers.html.

 

With his TB steadily taking a greater toll on his health, Jimmie
moved his family to Kerrville, Texas, where he hoped the drier
climate would improve his health. Perhaps not, as his musical
wanderlust kept him traveling and performing until his death.
Anyway, above is a warm family scene from the Packard company
files. An African-American maid looks on as Jimmie holds his dog
and is flanked by his wife, Carrie, and daughter Anita with her doll.
Sitting on a 140-inch wheelbase, the family car, a '30 Packard
740 Custom Eight, seems to say Jimmie's recording career, if not
his health, was going well indeed!

 

Folk singer Woody Guthrie was fairly a contemporary
of Jimmie Rodgers, though his musical style differed.
Guthrie was also a campaigner for America's poor and
downtrodden. He is best remembered for "This Land Is
Your land" and "Roll on Columbia." No fan of Washing-
ton big government, Guthrie nevertheless opposed the
alternatives, and, yet, was unafraid to associate with those
openly communist. Photo thanks to timegoesby.net!





The family home where Woodrow Wilson "Woody" Guthrie
was born in Okfuskee County, Oklahoma, in 1912.

 

Eastman "Stereoview" slides by the Keystone Co. were viewed with
a hand-held viewer, providing an almost 3-D scene. It was billed as
"The War to End All Wars." And, indeed, it made pacifists out of many
folks, soldier and civilian alike! Because of their static nature, I find
these images to provide a sort of objective -- almost antiseptic --
view of the awful goings-on, compared to what modern media tech-
nology might have done. You can spend HOURS looking at these
scenes (warning: occasionally showing the dead). My THANKS to
the source site:
George Eastman House Keystone View Company - WWI Views Series




"Human Wreckage in No Man's Land," Chemin des Dames, north of Paris.
The French phrase means the "ladies path -- ironic in view of the savage
trench fighting and bombardment between French and German forces
there! The above soldier appears to me to be one of the British contin-
gent sent to reinforce the battered French at Chemin des Dames in 1917.

The above photo may well have been taken in 1918 or 1919 after
the fighting was finally over. One of the horrors of the war was that
the battle dead very often remained in "No Man's land." In fact, it took
until 1920 to pick up all the human remains and permanent, honorable
burials stretched out through the '20s. This alone shows the over-
powering scale of the killing, which awed and revolted human society
the world over! Though WWII deaths were even higher, "The Great
War" cost an astonishing (for the time) estimated 10 million battle
deaths, plus 7 million civilian deaths, as well as some 20 million mili-
tary personnel wounded.

Without the photos, though, the statistics can't convey the scope
of the devastation.



Fearsome view, even 95 years after the fact. Sea of barbed wire
on the Bulgarian front.



French troops and transport on 'The Sacred Road.' During the Battle
of Verdun, 1916



'The Dogs of War Let Loose Are Howling.' French 320's in action, near Reims

 

Thank's for this thread. I live in the past and these takes me back even further.