Vintage shots from days gone by!

At one time I owned a 63 Canadian Pontiac 6 cyl more door with a powerslide. It was a good, reliable car, but I didn't have a use for it and sold it off. The first engine I swapped into my Cameo was a 283 out of a 61 Parisienne 2 dr hdtp wreck. It was a really pretty car.
Bob

 

Sears opening Pandora St. Victoria B.C. Canada 1947. Sears announced today it is closing all the stores in Canada. Note: this pic just qualifies for this thread as there is a 40 Ford to your right.

 

821 Yates St. Victoria this pic also just qualifies. Another 40 Ford!

 

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Hello,
Back in the 50’s, my dad used to love surf fishing here at this remote beach in Corona Del Mar. It was a long drive from Long Beach, but my mom actually liked sitting in the sand in front of those classic wooden beach cottages. She was prepping food while the two boys (and my dad) were actively fishing from the shore.

The drive in my dad’s big Buicks (49, 52, 57) were the coolest. The whole big back seat plus snacks. The Crystal Cove Beach parking and structures were hidden from the rushing traffic on Coast Highway 1 going south toward Laguna Beach. It offered solitude, super clean beaches and if you did not know where the turn off was, one would just keep driving by toward the juice stand on the bluff. (the entrance has since been changed...no direct entrance from PCH)
yellow juice stand on the bluff top Coast Highway 1: far right
Juice stand on the bluff:
“This beachfront landmark appeared not long after that segment of Coast Highway opened in the late 1920s, when roadside date shake and orange juice stands were synonymous with Southern California. Early on, it was the Laguna Beach Hot Dog Stand. By the 1940s and ’50s, the focus was on orange juice, although nuts, shakes, and dried fruit were also sold.

The yellow shack was remodeled in 1968. In the mid-1970's Virginia McKinney took the reins, renamed it Sunshine Cove, and added health-food options to the menu. The state bought the land as part of Crystal Cove State Park in 1979. The stand became a park concession. Ruby’s, which took over in 2006, after a brief dalliance with a blue and white paint job has returned the building to its traditional bright yellow.”

This beach had one other surf inspired theme… on the long southward drive from Long Beach to surf spots south: Dana Point, San Clemente, Trestles, San Diego, we used the surf break here as an indicator of what the surf was going to be like the farther south we drove. There were hoots and hollers if the surf break here at Crystal Cove was breaking well. (this place was not an actual great surf break, but an indicator) We knew the Trestles break at Camp Pendleton, would be firing.

Jnaki
The description to this modern day family beach is best described by the website: http://www.socalfamily.com/crystal-cove-beach-cottages/

It is a modern day vacation hot spot for anyone visiting So Cal and want the beach lifestyle experience. Centrally located: Crystal Cove Shopping Center a few minutes south, Laguna Beach 15 minutes south, Newport Fashion Island Shopping Center, 10 minutes north, Newport Harbor, 15 minutes north. The restaurant on the sand, scrumptious…
on the sand
2011

 

Forget about the old bike and lame lunch, kid. Let s go have a beer!

 

In Canada Pontiac's were built on Chev frames and the front fenders were shorter than US cars. The Pontiac's used any optional V8's that you could get in a chev, including a 348's and then the 409's and later the 396/ 427's, plus any small block. Strato Chief, Laurentian and Parisienne were the models available here.
Some pic's on here.
https://www.google.ca/search?q=1959...QsAQIJw&biw=1280&bih=873#imgrc=zR7Mi-Tl9n4SDM:
My dad at his Sunoco in the early 60's.

 

That looks like Ralph Hepburn in the cockpit. I'm not sure who the other guy is but he looks pretty big to have been a riding mechanic.

 

The Fairmount Hotel, built for the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial, and the big snow of 1937, Portland, OR




Amazing that the building has been fairly unmolested since it was built. It's going through a rehab right now.

 

82nd and SE Division, Portland, OR

 

Rootie...Great photo of the 6 midgets. Do you have the driver line-up?????

 

No I don't, it's from the Cincinnati Race Bowl in the mid 50s but I don't know the exact date so it's hard to say who's in what.

 

He kinda resembles fellow driver Mel McKee from that time period but can't say for sure.

 

Oscar Kovelesky! I remember poring over his 'Auto World' slot car catalog when I was a kid

 

It's DuckTober

 

Love the DUKW pics..

 

... Looks like the Chrysler Trenton Engine plant where hemi powered air raid sirens were originally built in the 50's ... I spent 34 years of my life working there building everything from 440 cu. in. engines to mini van motors ...