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[ QUOTE ] hell, i got my 1st speeding ticket https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif by an rcmp in an identical green '73 chevy in surrey bc back in '74. [/ QUOTE ] I'm happy I was able to bring back good memories for you. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif This photo was taken in Richmond, BC. I worked at Dennison Chev Olds at the time. |
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These photos are fantastic. I've seen some on Flickr, but keep them coming! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif
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http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2.../Blythec63.jpg [/ QUOTE ] That's still there pretty much as-is today. Went thru there on our way to Los Angeles, day before Thanksgiving, last fall.....just got waved thru without having to stop for an inspection. |
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Man, this is a really cool thread! I got a lot of old Chicago shots. I am a collector of 1910 era real photo postcards. I will post some if you guys want.
Here is one near Madison St & Central Ave. in Chicago's Austin Neighborhood circa the teens. https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500..._Chicago_2.jpg https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500...n_Chicago1.jpg |
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Maple & 31st Street in Berwyn. I live right by this street and it looks absolutely identical to this shot circa 1925.
https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500...ple_Berwyn.jpg 63rd & Woodlawn, Chicago circa 1909. https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500...wn_Chicago.jpg |
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Milwaukee & Diversey Chicago circa 1907.
https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500...go_6-14-08.jpg Adams St. E. of Pulaski circa 1909. My father grew up on this block. It is now the worst neighborhood in the City of Chicago. https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500...st_Chicago.jpg |
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Flournoy & Kedzie - Chicago circa 1907.
https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500...noy_Kedzie.jpg Berwyn Fire Department then and now. https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500/Then_and_Now.jpg |
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18th & Blue Island. Czech Pilsen Neighborhood Chicago circa 1909. This neighborhood is a time capsule and looks almost the same today.
https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500..._SLET_1909.jpg Czech Pilsen Chicago circa 1897 https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500..._in_Pilsen.jpg |
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Maxwell St. Chicago circa 1969. If you are REALLY a true Chicagoan (and of course are old enough) then you went to Maxwell St. on Sundays for a deal and a Polish Sausage.
https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500...icago_1969.jpg This is part of Chicago's past. Grand Ave. circa August 1966. https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500...tion_photo.jpg |
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[ QUOTE ] http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2.../Blythec63.jpg [/ QUOTE ] That's still there pretty much as-is today. Went thru there on our way to Los Angeles, day before Thanksgiving, last fall.....just got waved thru without having to stop for an inspection. [/ QUOTE ] Been through there a LOT of times...even stayed over night once (transporting Gary's Camaro to AZ...what a FUN time that was!). They did a double take on the name on the credit card...LOL https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/confused.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif |
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Frank,
Neat photo postcards. Here's one from the town I live in now, circa 1920 http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e4...Villadepot.jpg |
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http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...15%2C_1979.jpg
There's a 4,472 × 3,008 pixel version ( https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...emlins/eek.gif )available at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:L...15%2C_1979.jpg |
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Chicago's North Side. Linclon & Halsted circa 1909.
https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500...ve_Halsted.jpg Now ground zero of Chicago's worst ghetto. Madison St. & Pulaski circa 1910. https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500...ki_Chicago.jpg This is the aftermath of one of Chicago's most infamous moments. The St. Valentines Day Massacre of 1929, courtesy of Al Capone. This photo sold for $800.00 on e-bay a few months ago. Free for your viewing pleasure. https://www.yenko.net/photos/data/500...s_Massacre.jpg |
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[b] Great shots Bill - Ma & Pa Kettle - did we really watch movies like that??
Frank your older shots really show the change in our world in the fifty or so years between the settings. It's amazing! Are you sure of the date on that Maxwell Street shot? - I don't remember all those hats in '69. Here's my gas line shot Pete - but yours has much cooler cars!! - http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...photos/a40.jpg - - Keep 'em coming - Great Stuff!! |
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A Southern Pacific "Auto-Pack" train passing California's Mt. Shasta enroute to Portland, carrying new Chevy trucks.
Late 50's early 60's era. http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h1...taMtnchevy.jpg |
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Dog, I am sure the Maxwell St. shot is 1969.
Cool picture donutblue! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/cool.gif |
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It would be really cool to see some comparison shots of the same locations now right below the old scenes, just to see how much things have changed. I bet half of the places wouldn't be recognizable as being the same place.
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Great photos, Glenn, please keep posting them!
http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...theCat1969.jpg Interesting to note that Michael Sarrazin was the star of both of those 1969 movies - http://www.northernstars.ca/NSCollec...ael_250_02.jpg |
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- http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...otos/a26-1.jpg - [/ QUOTE ] Looking at the picture just makes you want to ask.....Where the hell is Neidermeyer? As well as Bluto, Otter, Carmen, Dean Wormer and of course Mrs. Dean Wormer..... Great shots.....keep em coming~ |
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Excellent pics!
Hey Dog, do you have any pics of this dealer? Pollard-Ravenscroft Co. 6232 Van Nuys Blvd. Van Nuys, California |
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Man this is freakjin great !! Luv this stuff. So much to look at in each picture. Love the old signs. C Seipp beer ? etc
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Folsom California (near Sacramento) in about 1960:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...utterStc58.jpg Campground in Isleton California in the Sacramento River delta c60: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...pgroundc60.jpg Eat at Joe's! 1710 Del Paso Blvd., Sacramento, 1950s: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...asoBlvdc55.jpg |
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K Street in downtown Sacramento, mid 50s:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...ear10thc55.jpg Main gate at Mather AFB outside of Sacramento mid 50s: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...herGatec55.jpg Sacramento airport entrance early 60s with United DC-6 tail showing beyond terminal roof at right: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...Airportc63.jpg |
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Walnut Grove, along the Sacramento River southwest of Sacramento, c60:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...utGrove60s.jpg Sunset along West Capitol Avenue, the old Highway 40, West Sacramento, late 50s. Neon signs glowing in the days before the invention of fluorescent "light boxes" we see today. Looks like a wildfire burning in the distance south of Lake Berryessa: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...otelrowc60.jpg Whitewall-clad Trailways bus parked along the Sacramento River c1960: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...oRiverc60s.jpg |
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AC Transit still operates throughout the East Bay area (across the bay from San Francisco) and I used to ride the bus on occasion back in the early 1970s when the fare was fifteen cents. I found this 1961 AC Transit promotional pamphlet on eBay a few years ago and laughed at how innocent things appeared to be in 1961. In reality, these people would not dare get on an AC Transit bus after about 1964, especially dressed in their Sunday best. They would have been red meat for all the thugs who lived in the rear of practically every AC Transit bus after about 1965.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...nsit1961-2.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...nsit1961-1.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...ransit1961.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...nsit1961-3.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...nsit1961-5.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...nsit1961-4.jpg |
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Business district, Richmond California (near San Francisco), 1953. Movie playing at the UA was "Island in the Sky" with John Wayne (recently released on DVD). The theater was converted to a Woolworth's in 1959 and had a great soda fountain and killer toy/model department!
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...dat8th1953.jpg Same scene in 1986 and it looks much the same today although some of these buildings have been torn down: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...dat8th1986.jpg |
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4th Street in San Rafael (north of San Francisco). This was a great cruise spot in the early 1980s as other Bay Area cruise spots were shut down. This one was shut down by 1985. I saw a Lola T-70 drive down this street one night in about 1982!
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...nRafaelc30.jpg I like this photo because you can see the shell at the far left! Coastal battery near San Francisco: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...dlandsc20s.jpg One of the funnest places when I was a kid in the 60s/early 70s was Playland at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. Built in the early 1920s and pretty run-down by 1970, it was still a great time. I can almost smell the second-hand smoke (everyone smoked in the old days, right?), the cotton candy, greasy hamburgers and the musty moldy smell of most of those old wooden buildings. It's a wonder it never caught fire. There was a slot car place on the north end of the Playland strip in the mid-60s. Playland was finally torn down in 1972 and replaced with condos. The beach is just out of shot to the right and that's the west end of Golden Gate Park beyond Playland. Note the sand dunes of the Sunset District beyond GG Park. That area was developed in the 1930s. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...dEsplanade.jpg |
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San Francisco to Oakland commuter ferry goes under the new Bay Bridge in 1936. Battleship could be the USS Arizona but I'm not certain. Ferry pier and another ferry can be seen in the background alongside the new bridge.
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...yBridgec39.jpg Commuters happily stream off the ferry and walk to waiting streecars to take them into the East Bay bedroom communities of Oakland, Piedmont, Berkeley, and Albany and El Cerrito. One could read the afternoon newspaper and grab a cup of coffee in the ferry's soda fountain during the 20-minute ride across the bay. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...mmute1930s.jpg Then the streetcars left and headed east into Oakland and other communities. Total commute time from Ferry Building in San Francisco to doorstep in the Oakland hills was 45 minutes. Try that in your car today! More like 90 minutes--on a good day. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...rainc1930s.jpg |
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Lakeport, Clear Lake California c50s:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...akeportc55.jpg Larkspur California, north of San Francisco, c1940: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...arkspurc40.jpg Looking west from the roof of the San Francisco Bay Bridge toll plaza in 1939. Cars used the upper deck and trucks used the lower deck. http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...llPlazac38.jpg |
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Saballa's restaurant along highway 101 in Corte Madera (north of San Francisco) c57. Mount Tamalpais in the background:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...lley101c57.jpg Mill Valley with Mt. Tamalpais in the background (north of SF) c50s: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...lValleyc57.jpg Proud Model T owner, Oakland California, 1920s: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...odelTOwner.jpg |
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Oakland California 1911: "My new car--30 horse power 5 passengers I bought it for my Christmas present. Weighs half as much as my big car My National is a 60 horse power"
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...akland1911.jpg Road race in Oakland 1909, "The dangerous corner": http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...adrace1909.jpg Looking west along 12th Street in Oakland 1920s: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...tboundc20s.jpg |
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Wow. Look at that photo of downtown Folsom. In the span of one block you could pick up your dry cleaning, get a prescription filled, pick up those bolts and washers you need, top off your gas tank and make a deposit at the bank. What a concept! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif And not a Starbucks in sight!
You could also offer a ride in your classic Chebby to that little redhead crossing the street https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/naughty.gif |
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Definitely the OLD DAYS! Aft cabin lounge scene in a PSA (Pacific Southwest Airlines) Lockheed Electra 4-engine turbo-prop airliner as it cruises over San Francisco, c61:
http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...aloungec63.jpg Highway 1 through Stinson Beach north of San Francisco c57: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...achHwy1c57.jpg Sea Downs diner on Stinson Beach c57 (long gone): http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...eaDownsc57.jpg San Francisco school bus 1925: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...hoolbusc25.jpg |
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Great shot of the artillery shell. The guys in the photo are standing right next to the cannon as it blasts away and aren't even phased by it. I would have power packed my shorts! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/shocked.gif Anyway, would this be out near the Marin Headlands?
Man, am I enjoying these photos! Keep 'em coming! |
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Great shots Bill - https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif
What a shame those pictures of Richmond - amazing what can happen in thirty years! Where's the Beaver? |
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Abe, yeah that artillery position was along the coast either south of SF or north on the Marin County side. It might be the site that still exists on the north side of the Golden gate bridge.
Glenn, the Beaver got mugged and beaten and his family moved out of there a long, long time ago... |
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Here's a neat old place I was too young to experience. Sutro Baths was built on the coast of San Francisco next to the Cliff House in 1895. It was a salt-water swimming and recreation center and later had ice skating rinks installed in the late 1940s. It went downhill in the 1950s and by the early 1960s it was on very hard times and finally closed in about 1963. There was a dispute between the city and the land owner as to what would become of the baths and when it could not be resolved the baths mysteriously burned down on June 26, 1966.
Aerial view 1930s: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...aerialc30s.jpg Entrance, 1938: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...ntrancec38.jpg 1946: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...rance1940s.jpg Interior c1955: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...roBathsc55.jpg Entrance, 1955: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...ntrancec55.jpg Aerial view 1964: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...aerial1964.jpg Up in smoke, 6-26-66: http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...fire66-1-1.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...Fire66-2-1.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...fire66-3-1.jpg http://i12.photobucket.com/albums/a2...fire66-4-1.jpg |
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Here's a few courtesy of the internet...
Beautiful Downtown Burbank (Where's Johhny Carson when you need him? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/hmmm.gif ) http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...hamburbank.jpg http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/tn_wtb_1.jpg http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/tn_wtb_3.jpg http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b1...s/tn_wtb_4.jpg |
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