Vintage shots from days gone by!

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ALTERNATE CAPTION - "The racing
team of 'GIANT & GIANT' attempted
to race at Indy in '65, but despite their
best efforts and sponsorship from a
leading canned vegetable producer,
they failed to qualify"!

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We're even, dood!

 

The ship wreck of the prize-winning, full-rigged steel ship
Glenesslin, October 1, 1913. The fast Liverpool-built beauty
met her end on rocks at the foot of 1600-foot Mount Neah-
kahnie on the Oregon Coast. A protracted legal investiga-
tion was unable to prove the crew wrecked the ship for its
insurance value. But it was well known that steam shipping
had already spelled doom for the age of the full-rigged ship.
This photo is believed to have been taken by either Dr. Tho-
mas Monk or his wife. However, captain and crew carried
permanent marks thereafter upon their career records!!!

 

Wow ! That is a classic. What a real gas station should look like.

 

Although Harris Ranch is still a good place to get a $200 hamberger (used to be called "the $100 hamberger" but avgas is $5 a gallon now) this is "the Nut Tree" in Vacaville CA.

 

Now you got me interested Mart, I'd like to break into one.

 

Mount Washington Cog Railway in N.H. which is still in operation after well over a 100 years......

 

Rode The Cog last year. A bit expensive, but I think it's worth it. What a great piece of Americana. Neat little museum, too.

 

...and you never know where things will lead, like this Mercer which still does not have enough width for your foot to be "inside" the car (some things didn't change!). Both are way cool, then and now.

 

It looks like it all lead to grey hair and wonderful automoblies to work on .....At least I don't have to wear a tie to work every day here in the shop......

 

Ransom Eli Olds = REO. He started Oldsmobile way back in time.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ransom_E._Olds

 

and invented the assembly line

 

Errrr.....Vegetable Rights and Peace.....!! (In my best Neil voice)

Rat

 

The Glennessen was wrecked at the base of Neahkhanee Mountain, Oregon on a bright, sunny, perfect weather day. Onlookers watched as she sailed straight into the rocks for no appparent reason! This is also the site of alleged buried Spanish treasure. Artifacts dating back to the 1600's have been found there!

 

Reo Lawn Mower ad - Life Magazine
- May 22, 1950.
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The Mount Lowe Incline Railway.....this railroad was located above Pasadena-Altadena area of Southern California...last run was 1937. The rails were pulled up during World War II to be melted down. The incline railroad was patched into the Pacific Electric trolley system in the greater Los Angeles area.
It was an engineering marvel, opening in the 1890's.

 

Hey 4tl8ord... can you work some magic on the spaghetti eaters photo?

 

More vintage hair, at a race, 1969.

 

Nobody loved drag racing and it's people like C.J. "Pappy" Hart who managed drag strips, most notably the legendary Lions Drag Strip in Wilmington, California





























Pappy's wife, Peggy at Santa Ana

 

TWIN: Hey 4tl8ord... can you work some magic on the spaghetti eaters photo?

JIMI: OMG, Twin! BEWARE of what you ask for! This could get ugly!
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Abe Froman's younger brother Fred, the "Sausage King of Sacramento".

 

"Man and the Motor Car" 1949

A little backstory: When I was a young lad in the early 60's, I went to work with my Dad one summer day. He was cleaning out some discarded textbooks from the attic of the school where he worked, and among them I found this Driver Education textbook from 1949. He let me take it home, and it became one of my prized possessions.

The recent thread asking about the books on your bookshelf prompted me to dig it out and scan some of the illustrations that entertained me as a youngster.

I even found my new avatar among them.

 

who says he did?

 

That's just a little creepy when you don't expect her eyes to move.

 

Yes it is creepy.Actress Inger Stevens dead 1970.