The Supercar Registry - Old Street Scenes

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WOW!...Main St. Downers G. in 1961.
Your 1st pic is looking southbound and looks like it was taken standing on the R/R tracks.You can see Herberts Men store on the left,which just closed it's doors this summer.
Your 2nd pic looks like it was taken near Maple Ave.looking northbound,on the west side of Main..

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Take pictures from those same two spots on a Friday night in the summer time now, and you'll see a whole lotta nice cars! Friday night cruise nights on Main St. in Downers Grove have had a few pictures posted on this site in recent years https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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I was thinking the same Bill.
I honestly think DG is ONE of the Best if not THE Best/largest/well attended,most diverse weekly Il. car cruises going today.Two more local townships just cancelled there weekly summer cruises do to dwindling turnout and week economy w/funds needed elsewhere.While DG is growing with more & more new people & cars every week.You have to get there @ 3:30 to get a prime spot,last year 5:00 was more then ample enough.
Last week DG was packed as it was GTO night.. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/burnout.gif
We're all going again tomorrow night,so I'll stand in those same spots & try to duplicate those 3 shots,includng the Jewel/EG shot.

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We're all going again tomorrow night,so I'll stand in those same spots & try to duplicate those 3 shots,includng the Jewel/EG shot.

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I was thinking the same Bill.
I honestly think DG is ONE of the Best if not THE Best/largest/well attended,most diverse weekly Il. car cruises going today.Two more local townships just cancelled there weekly summer cruises do to dwindling turnout and week economy w/funds needed elsewhere.While DG is growing with more & more new people & cars every week.You have to get there @ 3:30 to get a prime spot,last year 5:00 was more then ample enough.
Last week DG was packed as it was GTO night.. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ns/burnout.gif
We're all going again tomorrow night,so I'll stand in those same spots & try to duplicate those 3 shots,includng the Jewel/EG shot.

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I don't think I've seen pictures of any cars from Downers Grove cruise nights since I went years ago. If your going as often as you say can post pictures for members of the site? https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/dunno.gif

If not maybe I'll have to go up there myself. And we all know how much you'll like that.

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c1952 photo of a Pan American World Airways Boeing 377 Stratocruiser being taxied/marshaled across Sepulveda Boulevard where Sepulveda passes underneath the southeast end of Los Angeles airport. The 377 was a direct descendant of the WWII B-29 Superfortress. Just a few more years and the 707 and DC-8 would put the "Strats" out of work. 377s with this tye of propeller (there were several types of propeller used on the 377) had a habit of becoming uncontrollable and "running away" and causing, in some cases, engine separation and several crashes. In about 1955 a Pan Am 377 suffered a propeller runaway at night between Hawaii and San Francisco. The flight engineer was able to secure the engine before the prop tore the engine off of the wing. The captain flew to the nearby Ocean Station ship (a ship that stood halfway between the islands and the mainland), waited for sunrise, and then performed a textbook ditching near the ship and all of the passengers were rescued. In military use the 377 was known as the C-97 Stratofreighter and the KC-97 refueling tanker. Four 28-cylinder Pratt and Whitney R-4360 radial engines. Yes, they sounded wonderful.

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I had to get these pics before the sun went down Friday night,so hope you can make them out.

Then..

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...amily/b291.jpg

Now..

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...Grove50004.jpg

Texas Tommys bldg. is still there but is now a bank.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...Grove50005.jpg

Then..

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...amily/b251.jpg

Now..About the only thing left is the same brown two windowed bldg. on the left and another farther down.That Drug store is now a Caribou coffee and the distant water tower is a different one today,but still in the same spot behind that tree.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...Grove50001.jpg

Herberts' is no more,and will become a restaraunt. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/frown.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...Grove50002.jpg

Then..

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...amily/b290.jpg

Now.. and farther back.Looks like a lamp post is still in the same spot and they brought the front of the bldgs. out farther too.You can just make out a vertical blue Buick dealership sign in Dogs original pic.I think that's Carlsons paint or Emmetts today.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...Grove50003.jpg

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Love the "Then and Now" aspect....thanks Rick https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Love the "Then and Now" aspect....thanks Rick https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Me too! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

[b]THIS has got to be the COOLEST thread ever! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...ouguysrock.gif

I could never tire of looking at these pics!

Speaking of "tire", here's my contribution... The GIANT TIRE from the 1964 New York World's Fair:

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/g.../royaltire.jpg

It was un-assembled and brought to Detroit in 1965, where it still sits today along I-94. Ironically, I shot this photo when we were on our way back from the '04 Supercar Reunion.

http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/g...qt/bigtire.jpg

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Would love to see more pics of the 64 NY World's Fair if anybody has them.SULLY

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I agree, this is a very cool thread! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif

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Great before & after shots!

And they say change is a good thing???

I have a crap load of shot's I took at the Worlds Fair - I'll break them out and start a thread for them.

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I have a crap load of shot's I took at the Worlds Fair - I'll break them out and start a thread for them.

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And why will that not surprise anyone here.......... https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...iggthumpup.gif As always, thanks for sharing them.

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Great shots on this thread as always!!!

Where's that Dog Rocks Graemlin???

Warning on any '64 World's Fair stuff as wasn't it a Ford sponsored event also where they first unveiled the Mustang?.

Lots o' 1964 World's Fair footage on YouTube...
https://www.youtube.com/results?searc...p;search_type=

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~ Pete

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This shot previously posted on this thread is from the World's Fair!

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Great stuff DOG, I look forward to every pic you post. What an unbelievable collection of Americana

SALUTE! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

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Glenn, these shots are awesome. I'm waiting for you to identify yourself in these photos!!(not the one below) https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/flag.gif

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...Scene/b349.jpg
Leave the gun, take the canolis https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...s/headbang.gif

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Glenn, these shots are awesome. I'm waiting for you to identify yourself in these photos

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Me or my cars are in quite a few - plus I'm in a couple of the World's Fair shots! https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/smile.gif

http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...7435/111-1.jpg

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A bit newer than most of the pics in this thread but still "old"

http://super-shops-inc.com/phpBB2/userpix/51_SSI_1.jpg

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Highway 101 looking south toward San Francisco, visible in the distance. The Waldo tunnel is visible and the Golden Gate Bridge is just on the other side of the tunnel.

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+++ Glenn ++ Sure brings back memories for me, and it was nice to see someone took pictures of Corvairs then, not so much these days.. https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...mlins/haha.gif.. thanks for sharing....Kasey

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Very cool pic. Is that a vintage pic of the car in your signiture?

Jason https://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/imag...lins/beers.gif

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lucy the elephant.. Still in Margate NJ.. and more beautiful now..

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http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t...Scene/b378.jpg

Glenn, is this Levittown on Long Island?

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Sam

That photo is an art poster by J. R. Eyerman - I am not sure where it was taken,
but it does not look to me like Levittown on Long Island. I don't remember the houses
as looking like that and they also seem too close together.
My Uncle lived there and I remember that the house came with a TV mounted in the
living room wall. Years later when the TV broke they replaced it with a fish tank.
That was high tech for the time!

[b]Levittown, NY
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Ok, I had to include this one of my wife, her sister and brothers on my sister-in-law's first communion in the spring of 1970. The Nova was my father-in-laws 396-375 he bought new and raced out at Milan dragway. He was pretty brave as they lived on this block in Dearborn among almost all Ford employed neighbors. http://i102.photobucket.com/albums/m...j/IMG_0001.jpg

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Way cool Paul! Thanks!

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