Vintage shots from days gone by!

Leslie Nielsen
1924-2010

Shirley, he will be missed.


Don't call me Shirley

 

One of these is in the GM Heritage Center in Sterling Heights Michigan.
The display inside is amazing to see, it starts as a rural area, and progresses to futuristic city a step at a time.

One of these liners was at The Dunkirk NY swap meet last year, selling memorabilia.
Private owner.

"Back in the Day" one of them came to the couty fair in Niagara County NY.

 

Right, WingNutz! Nielsen argued that he should have been doing comedy all along (though he'd done well in dramas). After seeing him and Priscilla Presley having "safe sex" in full-body condoms ... well, I could disagree with ol' Les there! LOL

 

Two big Yankee baseball stars pause for a photo-op with two
obscure fans. Left to right: Mickey Charles Mantle, Mary Ann
Kappelhoff, Archibald Alexander Leach and Roger Eugene
Maris. Great country back then! Commoners could get their
pix taken with baseball ROYALTY!!!

 

I think Mickey's middle name was Cochrane, after Mickey Cochrane.

 

Mickey Charles Mantle (October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995) was an American baseball player who was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974.
He played his storied 18-year major-league professional career all for the New York Yankees, winning 3 American League MVP titles and playing in 20 All-Star games. Mantle played on 12 pennant winners and 7 World Series Championship clubs

 

1973 Grand Torino Sport. 351 Clevland 4 speed.
Circa 1980.

 

I'll be darned, live and learn after all these years.

 

1st post should be in the intro section,,
welcome to the hamb

 

The first Morrison St. bridge in the foreground. I recognized the location before seeing the note above. Love the old Portland shots - which surprisingly enough, there haven't been all that many in this absolutely fantastic thread.

 

Mary Ann Kappelhoff = Doris Day
Archibald Alexander Leach = Cary Grant

 

There seem to be very few shots of Portland, forget about the 60's and 70's. I'm trying to remember, would the old Journal building be just South of the bridge?

 

I do think that "The Mick" helped Roger. Mickey made no pretense. When he came to the plate, he might not make the fence, BUT said he was gonna hit the hell out of it as hard as he could, every time. That's true.

I still have my Post baseball cards from that great time! (I didn't have money for the real thing, so I cut my BB cards out of Post cereal boxes! LOL)

 

SWI66..... A couple of Covair photos for you.... the first was captioned the last one off of the line and the second is from 1976.....Anybody know of these guys ??

 

http://spiritwaterblood.com/pix/monkeybike.jpg


Later that day.....




http://www.forum-auto.com/automobiles-mythiques-exception/section5/sujet377390-140.htm

Riding mechanic, "Hey, can't this thing go any faster. You know the chimp on the bike we saw earlier, he caught a tail wind and he's catching up."

 

http://www.germancarforum.com/older-mbs-vintage/23648-mercedes-benz-popemobiles.html

 

http://automobilesdeluxe.tv/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/pope-mercedes-automobilesdeluxe-635x459.jpg

 

http://www.examiner.com/auto-in-orlando/5-defunct-car-companies-that-should-have-survived-5-moretti

 

http://forums.autosport.com/index.php?showtopic=67355

 

http://www.vnnforum.com/video.php?do=viewcategory&categoryid=26&sortbest=1&subcateg=0

 

Que the music 'At the Car Wash...'

 

Now that's a Party....

 

Nice Daisy Dukes bra......



Originally Posted by Cdnpont
1973 Grand Torino Sport. 351 Clevland 4 speed.
Circa 1980.

 

23 & Burnside (Portland) sure looks different today......

 

Before this was a parking garage, it was the location of the grand Portland Hotel. The hotel was demolished in the early 1950's to make way for the parking garage. The parking garage was torn down in the 1970's to make way for the Pioneer Courthouse Square - the exact location of the attempted terrorist bombing last Friday night!

 

Yikes!

 

I'm not sure if it was one, or two of these were parked on US41 at a shop next to the Full-Moon Cafe in Lake Bluff, Il. 10-12 years ago. They were in what looked like original condition. Looked like Old GM chassis with a big inline motor. Wasn't sure what they were then. I don't remember any markings or signs on them.

 

Los Angeles Pacific Electric trolleys



Fletcher Ave/Glendale

 

Here's a shot of the Portland Hotel which once stood on the spot of the parking garage (I'll keep looking for a better picture of this once grand hotel):




Here's a shot from 1951 of the Hotel being demolished:




Here's how that location looks today:



And thankfully it does still look that way today. If Mohamed Osman Mohamud had his way last Friday, there would be nothing but a big hole here.