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I do. I got addicted to a site called Shorpy.com about 5 years ago and have found some of the most beautiful photography I've ever seen on it.
Be very careful, you will spend your entire life looking at cool stuff on this site.
For enlargement/zoom, click on link, right click image and select "view image"
Isn't it amazing how vivid and "like yesterday" these photos are?
I like these old photos, especially the ones staged by ad campaigns. Take a look at the 1956 "Pantorium" photo with the woman sorting her clothes going into the cleaners. The drivers door on that Dodge convertible will not open given where the car is parked, too close to the planter box. Or the next one with the Buick convertible...who parks like that to get gas? I like that "clamp-on" trailer hitch on the Buick...I haven't seen one of those in many years. Almost too hard to believe that there was a time that cars were constructed in such a manner as to allow a hitch to be mounted to a bumper. Good stuff, thanks for the link...
Fantastic!!
In that last picture...what in the world has happened to the Vette? the one just to the right of the light blue Ford fastback
Bobby
I don't know Bobby, looks pretty strange to me as well. Given that this photo was taken in the parking lot of the Palm Springs Aerial Tram and the number of Vettes grouped together there, I would venture a guess that this was a local Corvette club on a run to the tram. If things then were anything like now the member who owned that Vette was going to drive his car come hell or high water. Most of the Corvette owners that I know today wouldn't be seen in their Vette if it had a bug splatted on the windshield much less some major damage like that.
You are looking at the wrong photo Bill " Or the next one with the Buick convertible...who parks like that to get gas? I like that "clamp-on" trailer hitch on the Buick...I haven't seen one of those in many years."
That's a 1952 Buick...a fact that I am sure you know once you get on the correct photo.
No problem, ya'll. These were found by doing a search of "1956". But I have spent hours looking simply page by unsorted page. Really eats the time, but they're so cool.
Remember, if you click the link and look at the zoomed version of the photo, you can most of the time easily see all license plate information. That 51-52 Ford Truck is wearing correct '56 CA plates, too cool!!!!
You are looking at the wrong photo Bill " Or the next one with the Buick convertible...who parks like that to get gas? I like that "clamp-on" trailer hitch on the Buick...I haven't seen one of those in many years."
That's a 1952 Buick...a fact that I am sure you know once you get on the correct photo.
The steam loco in that picture caught my eye. That appears to be one of the big ones for crossing the Rockies. Not sure I'd want to be in a gas station that close to a coal-fired steamer, they spew embers like crazy.
Rod Stewart's song says "Every picture tells a story, don't it?". Wonder what the story is behind the GMC that fell through the sidewalk. As a kid I remember some of the downtown retail stores that had sidewalk grates or folding doors over their staircases to basement storage areas. But don't see anything in the picture to show that being the cause of the collapse. Stu
Rod Stewart's song says "Every picture tells a story, don't it?". Wonder what the story is behind the GMC that fell through the sidewalk. As a kid I remember some of the downtown retail stores that had sidewalk grates or folding doors over their staircases to basement storage areas. But don't see anything in the picture to show that being the cause of the collapse. Stu
I was thinking the exact same thing. Trucks are heavy, but they don't just fall through slabs of concrete.
07-15-2016, 12:27 AM
