Andersen's split pea soup in Buellton Ca. My parents would always stop there when we would travel up north.


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fender knocking...

 

As a kid, I remember eating out at this Valle's steak house. It was a big deal to be able to go to a sit down restaurant. Where this Valle's was is now a retail legal marijuana store. I wonder if today's parents bring their kids there now for a treat on their birthday?

 

At least they haven't had to spend a lot of money on renovations...lol
It's nice to see an older place be kept up in the mostly original way.

There is a sit down small eating joint here that is still almost exactly as it was in the early 50's. The main thing changed is paint. I wish they would bring back the original natural rock exterior which was painted white around 40 years ago.

 

This guy kind of resembles Gene Winfield

 

not really a "days gone by" literally, because I just snapped it a couple of days ago. But the original episode aired in 1961, so that counts?



Even the "FE"tv network it's showing on seems to be on board with the Ford theme.

Paul

 

 

Great pics. I'm going to have to go backwards from here, because my "infinite scroll" won't let me get past the 12/18 pics of the lifeguards for some reason. Just stops dead like that's the end of the thread until now. Wondering if anyone answered the question about them being four-wheel drive? Looks like all three visible trucks are, just by looking at the front hubs rather than their ride height.

Paul

 

Of course it counts! Its a new truck on an old show... and a nice 55 F100 Custom Cab with the two tone option!

 

 

The '59 doesn't look hurt much, except where this guy caved the hood in standing on it.

 

That '60 and the rest don't look bad either, but I wonder if they all ended up delicately plucked from peril by a claw or bucket.

Same thing in '89 in Oakland. Undamaged cars on intact sections of a destroyed freeway. Do you risk trying to pull them out or just let get wadded up when you demo the mess?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_A...-FourthAve.jpg

 

Yea, I guess they were just writing everything off as a total. I believe that pic is of the aftermath of the Anchorage Alaska earthquake.