Old Street Scenes - Page 33

**Bill Pritchard** · #**321** 08-15-2008, 05:00 AM

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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

**Mr70** · #**322** 08-15-2008, 06:41 AM

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..

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.

**Bill Pritchard** · #**323** 08-15-2008, 08:32 AM

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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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DarrenX33 · #**324** 08-16-2008, 04:51 PM

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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..

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?

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

427TJ · #**325** 08-16-2008, 08:11 PM

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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.

**Xplantdad** · #**326** 08-17-2008, 04:02 AM

The Cliff Clavin explanation!

Bill...you are too cool

**Mr70** · #**327** 08-19-2008, 04:47 AM

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

Then..

Now..

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

Then..

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.

Herberts' is no more,and will become a restaraunt.

Then..

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.

**Bill Pritchard** · #**328** 08-19-2008, 05:12 AM

Love the "Then and Now" aspect....thanks Rick

MrsBillyBobcat · #**329** 08-19-2008, 05:55 AM

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Love the "Then and Now" aspect....thanks Rick

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Me too!

[b]THIS has got to be the COOLEST thread ever!

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:

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.

**JRSully** · #**330** 08-19-2008, 03:48 PM

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

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