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Isn't that the old Customs House in Charleston SC?

If you look at the base of the building you will see round openings. Back in the day when it was built back in the mid to late 1700's that lower area was used as a dungeon and prisoners where shackled to the wall. The openings had no windows just bars and when the Cooper and Ashley rivers crested too much the water would flood the dungeon and poor souls that were residing there for what ever reason would be getting very wet. Thank God there was no ACLU back then https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif

When it was built it was within a 100 yards of the marsh/beach area. If you go there today you will see that they have infilled the area quite a bit since then and water is now 4 or 5 blocks away with more than a few buildings placed between the old Customs House and the shore. There's a pretty cool pier too and a commons type area where a lot of people hang out. To the rigt of the picture and just down the street is the town houses known as Rainbow Row.....another one of Charleston's calling cards.

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Isn't that the old Customs House in Charleston SC?

this is actually the Charleston City Hall, on Broad St.
I don't know who was in the basement but they were probably getting wet also as this is just a few blocks inland. It was closed a few months ago, under renovation.

here is the customs house now, with the famous basement, right on Bay St.
http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/charles...dings/usc1.jpg

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Actually Chris it's the Old Exchange and Provost Dungeon. At the time it was built it served as an Exchange/Customs House as well as the Provost Dungeon.

Here's a link.

http://www.oldexchange.com/

Been spending a lot of summers in that neck of the woods since '81. Charleston, IMHO, is one of the most coolest towns I have ever been to.

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Interesting 68 GTX...

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[b]And the big Pontiac 2+2!

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OK Dog...........Who's the Gal standing next to your Dad's Torino convertible????

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Not Mrs. Dog ! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif
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Unfortunately she was one of many Long Island women to succumb to Breast Cancer at
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I think that's a Cunningham? Probably with "baby Hemi" power. As usual, great pics Glenn!!!

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[b] Does this picture look familiar? It's harder then the last one!
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Is it from the movie the french connection...or is it from the blues brothers??? LOL https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/hmmm.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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French Connection - your too good Bruce! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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I was going to say the Seven -Ups https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/headbang.gif

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Is that "deuce and a quarter" turning on to Wabash?

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I was going to say the Seven -Ups https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/headbang.gif

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The French Connection?

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December 17th, 1960. Sterling Place and 7th Ave in Brooklyn after a TWA Super Connie and a United DC-8 crashed midair, one landing on Staten Island.

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A little boy was the sole survivor from the DC-8. Those were the days when the new jets would descend for landing at high speeds below 10,000 feet (speed limit below 10 now is 250 knots) and I think the DC-8 ran over the top of the Constellation, also approaching Idlewild (now Kennedy) for landing.

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That must have been the conversion lot for the 1969 Charger Daytonas. Look at the third car in the center and you'll see the flush rear window has been added with its accompanying bad body work but the regular front sheetmetal is still intact and no wing is installed yet.

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That must have been the conversion lot for the 1969 Charger Daytonas. Look at the third car in the center and you'll see the flush rear window has been added with its accompanying bad body work but the regular front sheetmetal is still intact and no wing is installed yet.

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Steve, could that car be a Charger 500 too with that flush rear glass? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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Yeah! What do I win Glenn? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/wink.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/laugh.gif

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[b]Bruce - your trophy car is ready!

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YES!!!! I'll be by later to pick it up!

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That must have been the conversion lot for the 1969 Charger Daytonas. Look at the third car in the center and you'll see the flush rear window has been added with its accompanying bad body work but the regular front sheetmetal is still intact and no wing is installed yet.

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Steve, could that car be a Charger 500 too with that flush rear glass? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

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No. The 500s were built much earlier than the Daytonas so they wouldn't be at the conversion plant at that later date. Also, look at the grills, it has the standard Charger nose, not the swapped-in Coronet grill.

It's like cavemen and dinosaurs...they were not on the same planet at the same time. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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here is 2 shots om my parents 68 impala 396 on their wedding day in long island ny currently it is where sunrise highway ends (my grandparents place)
http://rolke.dyndns.org/ftp/car1.jpg
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I love this thread, and was quite surprised to see my old W31 in it. You must have got that photo from my Flickr site.
Here's another photo of it with slotted mags.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c1.../GreenW314.jpg

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I worked at a lot of dealers, doing striping and other add-ons for new cars. This dealer was Carter Pontiac Buick in Burnaby, BC, my biggest customer. I was there almost daily. I did GM warranty decal replacement for the Trans Am hood birds and other large decals that body shops were afraid of.
I did that for a lot of the GM dealers in the Vancouver area in those years. Did a lot of the anniversary Corvettes too, as none of them ever came from GM straight.

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Very cool...

I just asked because of the abundance of the Astre's in the background! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/grin.gif

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You never heard of the Motion Astre's??

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I bought a brand spankin' new 1975 Pontiac Astre and drove it all through college. I got 113,000 miles out of it before I traded it on another new car. The engine had a 60,000 mile warranty under which I had the valve seals replaced at 59,100 miles at no charge. Other than that, I had no mechanical issues whatsoever. I guess I was one of the lucky ones!

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I bought a brandy new Astre in the Fall of 1976.Goldenrod Yellow I believe the color was,That was a stone reliable car.I still have the window sticker for it.I traded for a new Sunbird in 1980(economy was the thing).Now I'm thinking that having it back and swapping in a small block would be the ticket!!......BILLJ

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Is that Riverside?