Vintage shots from days gone by!

Some early Pasadena CA pictures, from the Pasadena Digital Archive:

"Buick, 1917"


"Colorado Street, 1917" This is looking east from near Orange Grove Avenue.


"Our Dodge, 1915"


"General Pershing, 1920." General John Pershing was the famous World War I general who commanded the American Expeditionary Force.






Classic Pasadena homes in the background...some survive, though most were bulldozed to make apartments.

 

Veronica often had two zip codes: one for herself, another for her hair...

 

Hadn't thought of Dick DeBolt in years. Shot looks like it was probably taken at Eldora.

 

my younger brother and me with dad and his '58 pontiac. he wasn't too crazy about that car; traded it on a '59 olds. great story about the olds: he took delivery on the night of a big tornado in st. louis. we drove through a hailstorm and dad's new baby didn't get a scratch!

 

No foolin' - everybody in our household & 'hood thought that was the coolest ever commercial. We were amazed.

 

It certainly was clever.

 

Dean Lowes RPU

 

Newton Falls Ohio about 1955 Made by a man named Mr. Potter I know his son.

 

^^^ elba, what make is the body of this roadster?

 

The first one is not a Buick - pic is not big enough to identify the car though. I see it does have a 'bucket fill' radiator cap.

 

A 1938 Dodge bus at the Hickory Bay junction, Banks Peninsula, South Island, New Zealand in 1951.

 

Time for a tea break, New Zealand, 1955. Two Austin A70 Hereford cars.

 

Goose Bay, Kaikoura coast, South Island, New Zealand, early 1960s. The yellow plates were replaced with permanent black and alloy plates in mid 1964. The car is an Austin A99 Westminster. This area was severely damaged by an earthquake in November 2016.

 

Hutt Road, Wellington, New Zealand, 1955. Rental car, a Holden sedan, - rolled?

 

Until the introduction of the new roll on/roll off ferries in 1962, the only was to take your car from Wellington to Picton, across Cook Strait, separating the North and South Islands of New Zealand, was on the 2,000 ton ferry MV Tamahine, built in 1925. The car is an Austin A55 Cambridge of from around 1957. This crossing took only a few hours. An alternative was the overnight ferry from Wellington to Lyttelton, which still required cars to be slung aboard. A roll on/roll off service ran fro a few years from the mid 1960s to 1976. Photo credit Marlborough Museum via facebook

 

Waiouru, central North Island, New Zealand, 1950s.

 

I posted a couple of pics of the Manawatu Gorge a few days ago. Here are a couple more from the 1960s .

 

Taihape, North Island, New Zealand 1965.here in NZ this model Ford is known as the Jail bar.

 

General store, Rahotu, Taranaki New Zealand 1960s.

 

The Bridge of Remembrance, Christchurch, New Zealand, circa 1950.