Vintage shots from days gone by!

Santa's best kept secret...

 

Walter and Cordelia Knott stand in front of their "original berry stand" at Knott's Berry Farm in Buena Park. In reality, several versions of the "original berry stand" were built over the decades. The license plates on the car in the foreground are from 1920, the year the Knott's came to Buena Park to grow berries.



---------------------------------------- Old Newport Blvd ;

 

More Orange County,, one with a woodie,
the sea breeze village pic,
can anybody tell me what model woodie it is? kinda small

 

Might be English, maybe an Austin.

 

More Vintage OC,,
Gas War

 

thanks Nads, I tried looking for one like it, cant find anything, oh well

 

My uncle. Zandia Ave in Long Beach Ca 1958

 

He is really close...It is an American Austin Bantam.....

 

One too many eggnog's?

 

What a sound company plan!
Wonder if they are still in business?
Or even alive..........

 

Legendary pilot Amelia Earhart christens the new Terraplane in Detroit in July 1932

 

more OC

 

Dang, you guys are good,,
right on the money
thanks T-Head

 

Citrus Tower in Florida?????????

Strange coincidince if it is. I was there yesterday. For some strange reason, I decided to stop in. First time I've stoped there in 20 years. My Grandfather actually worked construction on it, and when I was a kid, we were "required" to stop there every summer when we made our annual trip to Florida.
Got home early this morn, check the HAMB, and find this pic. Too cool

 

Nope.......


The Keasbey & Mattison Company
The last quarter of the 19th century saw Ambler's decline as the gristmills ground slowly to a halt. The advent of the railroad had made it more profitable for farmers to ship their grain directly to city food distributors to process than for them to patronize the local mills. Just as the town was in need of a new economic base, Keasbey & Mattison relocated to the area.
In 1873, Henry G. Keasbey, a wealthy financier, and Dr. Richard V. Mattison, a chemist, founded The Keasbey & Mattison Company, a producer of pharmaceuticals and asbestos products. Dr. Mattison made his first fortune in patent medicines such as Bromo Caffeine, made to soothe the anxieties of "the neurasthenic woman or the congestive or anaemic headaches of the fin de siecle man", Alkalithia for rheumatism and Cafetonique for dyspepsia.
Dr. Mattison, brilliant, egotistical and goal-oriented, brought the company from Philadelphia to Ambler in 1881. While working in his lab one day, he accidently discovered that milk of magnesia would adhere to a hot metal pipe and, in combination with asbestos and other products, could be turned into an insulation material for steam pipes, thus lowering fuel costs. Realizing the possibilities, in 1886, he changed the focus of the company. K&M would now manufacture asbestos building and industrial supplies.
Keasbey & Mattison built factories and warehouses, creating jobs that brought people to the area. That, in turn, spurred the building of homes and the paving of streets. Dr. Mattison introduced Ambler's first electric streetlights, built the first water system, and loaned money to town businesses for renovations and expansion. He hired architects to build fanciful Victorian homes for company executives, and simpler homes for lower management and workers, and he imported Italian stonemasons to carry out these plans. His own 400-acre estate, "Lindenwold", was modeled after Windsor Castle in England. It had a six-acre lake, beautiful gardens with statuary, and was surrounded by a stone wall with two gatehouses and elaborate wrought iron gates.
In 1890, Mattison built a huge building that housed Ambler's first library, opera house, and various offices and shops. The library was supported by stockholders who purchased shares in return for borrowing privileges. The opera house presented a variety of entertainments from operas to medicine shows and eventually, movies. Known as the "Old Opera House", it stood on Butler Avenue next to the railroad.
Ambler's transformation was profound. Dr. Mattison brought life to the declining town, shaping it like a sculptor with a lump of clay. Active in civic matters, he was instrumental in Ambler's incorporation as a Borough, in 1887.
The Keasbey & Mattison Company thrived in the early 20th century as a leading manufacturer of asbestos textiles and products. During World War I, it contributed to the war effort by supplying products for ships, war plants and defense.
The Great Depression sounded the death knell for K&M. In 1934, an English concern, Turner, Newhall, Ltd. purchased the company for $4 million dollars. They operated the business until it closed its doors in 1962.
Dr. Mattison died in 1936 at the age of 85, while living with his daughter at 1 Lindenwold Terrace, across the street from his former estate. He left his indelible imprint in a legacy of unique buildings that lend Ambler it's special character. His beautiful estate, Lindenwold was sold in 1936 to an order of the Catholic Church. It is now St. Mary's Villa, a Catholic shelter for children.

 

The Dory fishermen were there for a long time. I lived there late 40's
and early 50's. All asian customers now I heard. Nice to buy the daily
catch.

 

hey santa,, whatcha smokin?
you grow your own at the north pole??

 

yep, I spent many a day around the pier and checking out their rigs and what they caught, back in the 60's, one of my favorite places,,
I miss Charlies Chilli too

 

speaking of charlies

 

He went on to shoot his eye out.

 

PCH, Sunset Bch

 

So, HarmsWay, the 1932 model OFFICIALLY made it Terraplane,
not Essex-Terraplane any more, right? I've said before the trans-
itonal model (ushering OUT Essex) was 1931, and people argue
otherwise. I maintain Terraplane was a semi-freestanding make
under Hudson through most of the '30s.


Legendary pilot Amelia Earhart christens the new Terraplane in Detroit in July 1932

 

Lots good stuff on here today, everybody! BUT, I have to be honest,
the "View Master" was one of the best toys I ever had!!! It was as if
the kid HAD THE CONTROL to show his/her fave show when he/she
pleased (still pix, BUT the stereo view compensated for that)! WOW!
It could be Howdy Doody, Cartoons, Disney "Real Life Adventures,"
etc., etc.

When I sold ALL the old Kilgore, Wyandotte and Mattel cap guns,
Marx toys, Aurora monster models, etc., off, I KEPT the View Master
and all the reels! LOL

 

Jimi, I still have the brown version from the 50's, and another one (gray?) from the 60's, and just this past week found the long-missing reels, stashed inside a book I hadn't seen in decades. As a kid, the stereo images in color were so striking, I can remember some to this day. Can't wait to drop some of the reels in and go for a nostalgic ride.

 

Right on, Twin6! I don't run onto that stash often. BUT, when I do, I turn toward the nearest window and start dropping iN a reel or two. GOOD to know others remember what a good "toy" it was for kids, BUT also, it was a learning tool and a GREAT visual memory of growing up!

 

Fascinating old Royal Crown ad! That pictured bottle is THE oldest
one in my collection. Silk-screen date is 1938. BUT, what's even
MORE interesting is that the 1946 movie was by Charles R. Rogers
Productions, associated with UNITED ARTISTS, created by Mary
Pickford and her real-life husband, Charles "Buddy" Rogers!

 

Dec. 5, 1957.....Pretty cool looking....

 

beaches, I spent a lot of my youth in OC, and at the beaches
used to fish off the Reuben E Lee after they closed,
we would catch mackerel at the end of the jetty at newport
then use them for shark bait off the reuben,,
if people only knew how many sharks are in newport bay,,
maybe thats why they dont swim in there,,,

 

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