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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | hemidenis - 2009-02-03 8:03 PM This thread should be a website, some many great pics. Will be nice to see a then and now picture. I have been gathering some for my Milwaukee mass transit web site. It would be fun if people here could take some pix of the places in those old postcards. K. (beforeafter001.jpg) (beforeafter002.jpg) (thennow01 - 1a.jpg) (rt19beforeafter.jpg) (tosa001b.jpg) (village.jpg) Attachments ---------------- beforeafter001.jpg (56KB - 450 downloads) beforeafter002.jpg (71KB - 470 downloads) thennow01 - 1a.jpg (104KB - 471 downloads) rt19beforeafter.jpg (76KB - 445 downloads) tosa001b.jpg (39KB - 452 downloads) village.jpg (147KB - 465 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1918 Location: Hell's Outhouse - a.k.a. Buckeye, Arizona | Kenny, those sets above are outstanding! Who would've known something that looks like nothing more than a little service road used to be the road bed for railroad cars? Just part of the intrigue with these before & after sets. Here's a couple of before & after websites I visit from time to time: http://www.atlantatimemachine.com/ - Pretty much everywhere you could think of to visit in Atlanta (suburbs and parks amongst many other locations), but there's lots of vintage downtown Atlanta images with public transoprt stuff you dig, Kenny. http://www.springfieldrewind.com/ - The "now" pics are taken at precisely the location of the before pics and a mouse rollover of the "then" pic is all that's needed for the comparison. Great stuff going back to at least the 1910's. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Here's The Dalles, OR where I went to see about "Walther-Williams Motors”, the dealer that originally sold my Dodge CRL D500 new in 1957, located at E 3rd St (I-30) & Federal St. They went out of business somewhere in the early sixties. But their painted name is still clearly visible on the adjacent building. Paints containing led were still allowed in these years. The photo has been taken from here: If you would like to see them bigger, they’re here: Edited by Jim Hoek 2009-02-04 8:30 AM (The-Dalles-OR-View1-650.gif) (The-Dalles-OR-View2-600.gif) Attachments ---------------- The-Dalles-OR-View1-650.gif (259KB - 462 downloads) The-Dalles-OR-View2-600.gif (284KB - 473 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3070 Location: Scotland | starting with a ForwardLooking gas station (postcardHiltCA.jpg) (PortAlberniBC56Dodge.jpg) (postcardArlingtonHeightsIL.jpg) (postcardBrookingsOR.jpg) (postcardBrunswickGA.jpg) (postcardCarletonSurMerQuebec.jpg) (postcardCarlislePAMiddlesex.jpg) (postcardDaytonaBeachCove.jpg) (postcardDenverSkyways.jpg) (postcardDubuqueIAFultonlinen.jpg) (postcardFtCollinsCo.jpg) (postcardGallupStreetScene.jpg) (postcardLakeTexhomaLodge.jpg) (postcardLincolnNEMagees.jpg) (postcardMadison1950s.jpg) (postcardNewOrleansPlymouth.jpg) (postcardPerryFLSkyland.jpg) (postcardPhoenixSquawPeak.jpg) (postcardPlattsburgNYMotel.jpg) (postcardPoncePRHotel.jpg) (postcardQuebecRueSteAnne.jpg) (postcardRadiumHotSpringsBC.jpg) (postcardSaultSteMarieCrownON.jpg) (postcardSayreOK.jpg) (postcardSheridanWY1950s.jpg) (postcardShelleyIDMotel.jpg) (postcardStPetersburgDayNight.jpg) (postcardWyomingCars.jpg) Attachments ---------------- postcardHiltCA.jpg (103KB - 482 downloads) PortAlberniBC56Dodge.jpg (68KB - 465 downloads) postcardArlingtonHeightsIL.jpg (75KB - 481 downloads) postcardBrookingsOR.jpg (62KB - 455 downloads) postcardBrunswickGA.jpg (132KB - 450 downloads) postcardCarletonSurMerQuebec.jpg (65KB - 465 downloads) postcardCarlislePAMiddlesex.jpg (80KB - 454 downloads) postcardDaytonaBeachCove.jpg (55KB - 470 downloads) postcardDenverSkyways.jpg (54KB - 447 downloads) postcardDubuqueIAFultonlinen.jpg (87KB - 451 downloads) postcardFtCollinsCo.jpg (73KB - 458 downloads) postcardGallupStreetScene.jpg (88KB - 454 downloads) postcardLakeTexhomaLodge.jpg (65KB - 461 downloads) postcardLincolnNEMagees.jpg (55KB - 436 downloads) postcardMadison1950s.jpg (187KB - 436 downloads) postcardNewOrleansPlymouth.jpg (176KB - 548 downloads) postcardPerryFLSkyland.jpg (60KB - 446 downloads) postcardPhoenixSquawPeak.jpg (106KB - 449 downloads) postcardPlattsburgNYMotel.jpg (52KB - 443 downloads) postcardPoncePRHotel.jpg (103KB - 427 downloads) postcardQuebecRueSteAnne.jpg (102KB - 446 downloads) postcardRadiumHotSpringsBC.jpg (116KB - 439 downloads) postcardSaultSteMarieCrownON.jpg (70KB - 411 downloads) postcardSayreOK.jpg (65KB - 442 downloads) postcardSheridanWY1950s.jpg (72KB - 409 downloads) postcardShelleyIDMotel.jpg (65KB - 418 downloads) postcardStPetersburgDayNight.jpg (138KB - 438 downloads) postcardWyomingCars.jpg (238KB - 417 downloads) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 990 | Love those then and now photos. | ||
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Expert Posts: 3070 Location: Scotland | don't like the up to date pics with all them horrible Jap cars,just shows the decline of the USA and it's once patriotic people who as you can see in the '50s were 100% behind their country.Starting with another ForwardLooking gas station. (postcardTsegiTradingPostAZ.jpg) (postcardCarsonCityNV.jpg) (postcardFortWorthFreeway.jpg) (postcardFullertonTraveLodge.jpg) (postcardGrundyResortCA.jpg) (postcardHurleyWI.jpg) (postcardNewarkPennStation.jpg) (postcardNewfoundGapDeSoto.jpg) (postcardNewJerseyCars.jpg) (postcardPortlandORAraVista.jpg) (postcardQuebecCityCars.jpg) (postcardRichlandWATug.jpg) (postcardRichmondUnionStation.jpg) (postcardSacramentoCountryClub.jpg) Attachments ---------------- postcardTsegiTradingPostAZ.jpg (85KB - 421 downloads) postcardCarsonCityNV.jpg (70KB - 411 downloads) postcardFortWorthFreeway.jpg (89KB - 423 downloads) postcardFullertonTraveLodge.jpg (77KB - 417 downloads) postcardGrundyResortCA.jpg (100KB - 414 downloads) postcardHurleyWI.jpg (81KB - 419 downloads) postcardNewarkPennStation.jpg (80KB - 419 downloads) postcardNewfoundGapDeSoto.jpg (76KB - 420 downloads) postcardNewJerseyCars.jpg (155KB - 425 downloads) postcardPortlandORAraVista.jpg (70KB - 421 downloads) postcardQuebecCityCars.jpg (111KB - 417 downloads) postcardRichlandWATug.jpg (104KB - 410 downloads) postcardRichmondUnionStation.jpg (89KB - 427 downloads) postcardSacramentoCountryClub.jpg (80KB - 449 downloads) | ||
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Inactive by Request Posts: 1292 Location: Lovely place | Great pics! Where do you guys find all these postcards? They can be studied for hours Wierd seeing parking lots full of old cars... I especially like the old shop and motel signs... | ||
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Location: Parts Unknown | Many antique stores here in the States have file card collections of old postcards for sale, oft-times catalogued by subject or age. You are right, .... you can just fall into them studying every detail. This was my childhood. I just love this thread ! | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | A lot of the images are liberated from the jamesvictor epay postcard auction site. Everybody notice that Model A(?) Fart(?) in the fast lane, coming out of Fort Worth, above? Edited by d500neil 2009-02-23 6:18 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 3070 Location: Scotland | as up to date as I like to get,FLs in the late '60s/early '70s (postcardCottageGroveORMotel.jpg) (postcardAbileneTX.jpg) (postcardQuanticoVAMotel.jpg) (postcardBrusselsIL.jpg) Attachments ---------------- postcardCottageGroveORMotel.jpg (107KB - 428 downloads) postcardAbileneTX.jpg (71KB - 424 downloads) postcardQuanticoVAMotel.jpg (69KB - 432 downloads) postcardBrusselsIL.jpg (110KB - 422 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 3070 Location: Scotland | starting with a nice one with at least 4 FLs in it (postcardPalmSpringsHotelStreet.jpg) (postcardAustinTXWoolworths.jpg) (postcardBalboaIslandGarage.jpg) (postcardBaldKnobARCafe.jpg) (postcardBoiseStreet1960s.jpg) (postcardClevelandCaptainFranks.jpg) (postcardJacksonWYDodge.jpg) (postcardJuneauTides.jpg) (postcardMadrasOR.jpg) (postcardMarlinTX.jpg) (postcardMaysvilleKY.jpg) (postcardNaplesFLYeamans.jpg) (postcardOnamiaMN.jpg) (postcardRenoElRancho.jpg) (postcardSantaCruzSeaway.jpg) (postcardSolvang.jpg) (postcardSpringfieldILFleetwood.jpg) (postcardStAugustineMonterey.jpg) (postcardStJohnNBLodge.jpg) (postcardSwiftcurrenMotorInn.jpg) (postcardTonopahNVDavids.jpg) (postcardWilliamsAZHarveys.jpg) (postcardWinnemucca1960s.jpg) (postcardWoosterDowntowOH.jpg) Attachments ---------------- postcardPalmSpringsHotelStreet.jpg (95KB - 434 downloads) postcardAustinTXWoolworths.jpg (58KB - 430 downloads) postcardBalboaIslandGarage.jpg (89KB - 419 downloads) postcardBaldKnobARCafe.jpg (67KB - 423 downloads) postcardBoiseStreet1960s.jpg (77KB - 439 downloads) postcardClevelandCaptainFranks.jpg (75KB - 413 downloads) postcardJacksonWYDodge.jpg (65KB - 419 downloads) postcardJuneauTides.jpg (80KB - 422 downloads) postcardMadrasOR.jpg (80KB - 421 downloads) postcardMarlinTX.jpg (77KB - 427 downloads) postcardMaysvilleKY.jpg (88KB - 418 downloads) postcardNaplesFLYeamans.jpg (85KB - 419 downloads) postcardOnamiaMN.jpg (129KB - 439 downloads) postcardRenoElRancho.jpg (102KB - 411 downloads) postcardSantaCruzSeaway.jpg (67KB - 407 downloads) postcardSolvang.jpg (55KB - 413 downloads) postcardSpringfieldILFleetwood.jpg (70KB - 403 downloads) postcardStAugustineMonterey.jpg (94KB - 435 downloads) postcardStJohnNBLodge.jpg (89KB - 409 downloads) postcardSwiftcurrenMotorInn.jpg (75KB - 418 downloads) postcardTonopahNVDavids.jpg (56KB - 430 downloads) postcardWilliamsAZHarveys.jpg (84KB - 417 downloads) postcardWinnemucca1960s.jpg (73KB - 423 downloads) postcardWoosterDowntowOH.jpg (84KB - 408 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2011 Location: Ballwin, Missouri | This will show you some picture post cards from the area where you grew up, taken back when there were penny post cards. What did your town look like according to Penny Postcards? Click on the State and then the county to view. Click on the postcard to enlarge. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/special/ppcs/ppcs.html | ||
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Veteran Posts: 210 Location: San Diego, CA | As so many have said, a great thread. Keep 'em coming! | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7455 Location: northern germany | a 55 plymouth kustom 1958 (wagon!): (plymouthcustom_01_resized.jpg) (plymouthcustom_02_resized.jpg) (plymouthcustom_lede.jpg) Attachments ---------------- plymouthcustom_01_resized.jpg (37KB - 418 downloads) plymouthcustom_02_resized.jpg (32KB - 422 downloads) plymouthcustom_lede.jpg (21KB - 421 downloads) | ||
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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Here's another Milwaukee photo. Atkinson Avenue, between Capitol Drive and Teutonia Avenue, circe 1964-'65. The trackless trolleys (electric buses) used to turn around here to head back inbound after the section to the north of here was replaced by diesel buses when the city did some street rebuilding. The rest of the system was "dieselized" on June 20th, 1965. The photographer, Paul Weyrich, was co-founder of the Heritage Foundation as well as the Free Congress Foundation. He passed away during December, 2008. Now look for the Forward Look car in this photo : (milw144a.jpg) Attachments ---------------- milw144a.jpg (47KB - 412 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | ..Speaking of 1959 Chryslers, there's a 300E convertible, parked with its top down, in the Balboa Island Garage PC, above here, and, there's a 59 IMP convertible parked at that Juneau AL motel, too, up above here. | ||
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Expert Posts: 2596 Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden | Yes you have right Neil 300E conv (first I think I see a NY 59 conv) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | Nobody's called me on it, yet, so before they do: that's actually a 1957 IMP convertible (see its front bumper profile?) in that Juneau postcard, above here. | ||
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Expert Posts: 3070 Location: Scotland | d500neil - 2009-03-18 6:37 PM ..Speaking of 1959 Chryslers, there's a 300E convertible, parked with its top down, in the Balboa Island Garage PC, above here, and, there's a 59 IMP convertible parked at that Juneau AL motel, too, up above here. Also in the Balboa Island car park in the same row as the 300E is a '60 Chrysler(parked next to a '59 Caddy) and overlooking the waterfront is a white '58 DeSoto 2 dr HT. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1590 Location: Scottsdale, AZ | Seeing these photos reminds me of the road trips we used to take when I was a young kid around California in our '56 Chevy station wagon. you would spend half of your vacation driving, but that was a also great part of the vacation. We're all in too much of a hurry nowadays. Someday, I'm taking the wife and my son on one of those vacations. Maybe the old Route 66, or what's left of it. I've always wanted to get a group of folks to do this with. Ahhh, someday...... | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7455 Location: northern germany | bump (AutoMTford50Lincoln57trailerKalnai.jpg) (pcboston.jpg) (1957PlymouthSnapshotsTwo0001.jpg) (1957PlymouthPlazaSnapshot0003.jpg) (58desotoPC.JPG) (pcClevelandTownHouse0001.jpg) Attachments ---------------- AutoMTford50Lincoln57trailerKalnai.jpg (208KB - 429 downloads) pcboston.jpg (249KB - 414 downloads) 1957PlymouthSnapshotsTwo0001.jpg (73KB - 425 downloads) 1957PlymouthPlazaSnapshot0003.jpg (42KB - 422 downloads) 58desotoPC.JPG (28KB - 432 downloads) pcClevelandTownHouse0001.jpg (85KB - 419 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2596 Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden | Hello Fury1960 Have you see the Fury conv at L/H side at: postcardClevelandCaptainFranks.jpg) | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 693 Location: Kangasala, Finland | What happened to those '57 Plymouth front bumper wings. Looks a bit 'droopy'... | ||
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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Well, this Vancouver CCF-Brill trolley bus isn't a Forward Look Mopar, but the ad on the back almost qualifies it to be in this thread : (vancouver2229a.jpg) Attachments ---------------- vancouver2229a.jpg (227KB - 435 downloads) | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 7455 Location: northern germany | Windsor59 - 2009-03-20 5:13 PM Hello Fury1960 Have you see the Fury conv at L/H side at: postcardClevelandCaptainFranks.jpg) yep, these old pics of real america killing me. i could cry. i was born 40 years too late. | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | That postcard, of the 58 Soto, at the Townhouse Motel, just sold for $61.00, with two bidders going 'at' it, over eight bids, and with the winning bidder having placed a maximum-bid amount of something higher than his winning bid amount, of $61.00 . If this had been a real auction, the 'losing' bidder could have possibly entered an even higher bid, and so-on, until one of them got monetarily exhausted. It would have been fun to watch. | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | And, Sid; a lot of us were around back then, to see and to experience, daily, what ya'll are seeing on these photos. We just took 'it' all for granted, just as we-all are doing, right now, today, when we look around us and see sights and things that a generation-or-three will be envious of US for being able to experience. I hope that I'm not the only one, here, who has tried to pretend, at times, that he was a time traveler who has returned to TODAY, from the far-distant future , to experience the past as we are living it, right now. Because, if we were able to go back in time, the locals would feel every bit as bored as we are feeling, today, with their own experiences. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 988 Location: Kansas City, Kansas | Kenny J. - 2009-03-22 11:37 AM Well, this Vancouver CCF-Brill trolley bus isn't a Forward Look Mopar, but the ad on the back almost qualifies it to be in this thread : I am sure the ad is for building air conditioners, but I do like it anyway. My house is still running on it's 1960 Chrysler Airtemp Furnace. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 988 Location: Kansas City, Kansas | I might be mistaken, but the main street photo of Madrid, OR sure looks to have a rare '61 DeSoto in it. That would have been a rare sight even in those days. (postcardMadrasOR.jpg) (1961DeSoto_2.jpg) Attachments ---------------- postcardMadrasOR.jpg (38KB - 431 downloads) 1961DeSoto_2.jpg (26KB - 425 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1819 Location: Vancouver, BC | slimwhitman - 2009-03-22 1:26 PM Kenny J. - 2009-03-22 11:37 AM Well, this Vancouver CCF-Brill trolley bus isn't a Forward Look Mopar, but the ad on the back almost qualifies it to be in this thread : I am sure the ad is for building air conditioners, but I do like it anyway. My house is still running on it's 1960 Chrysler Airtemp Furnace. Back then bus advertising was geared toward consumer spending. Note the gentleman cooling himself in a kiddy's pool. Definitely aimed to the overheated consumer, either home owner or renter. Also note the Chrysler pentastar symbol in the top left corner. Note sure when this photo was taken but it was sometime between 1963 (Pentastar adopted) and 1975 (twin bus route numbers dropped, one for each direction, and #18 ceased to exist). The bus is turning off West Hastings on to Richards - the building is still there but the bank moved to new digs on Burrard Street in the 1990's. There is a Blenz coffee shop on the main floor now. An earlier photo of a Pullman Standard trolley caught me off guard, wondering where Hardy's was in Winnipeg, which is where I grew up. Then I noticed it was for Milwaukee. Winnipeg Transit used the same cream over orange and purchased a couple of dozen Pullman Standards, same model, from Providence, Rhode Island. In the 1950's American cities were dumping the trolley bus but in Canada cities were expanding their coverage. As Canadian Car & Foundry stopped building trolley buses in 1953, Canadian transit systems had to get them somewhere. Vancouver got 50 Pullman Standards from Alabama in 1955 (I believe), complete with segregation signs. Winnipeg also purchased some 1950 American Car & Foundry trolley buses from Flint, Michigan around 1956, which Winnipeg sold to Vancouver in the late 1960's and Vancouver, in turn, sold them to Mexico City in the late 1970's or early 1980's. Some of them were still running about seven years ago. AC&F and CC&F made good buses. | ||
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Location: Parts Unknown | d500neil - 2009-03-23 1:18 PM A lot of us were around back then, to see and to experience, daily, what ya'll are seeing on these photos. We just took 'it' all for granted, just as we-all are doing, right now, today, when we look around us and see sights and things that a generation-or-three will be envious of US for being able to experience. I hope that I'm not the only one, here, who has tried to pretend, at times, that he was a time traveler who has returned to TODAY, from the far-distant future , to experience the past as we are living it, right now. Because, if we were able to go back in time, the locals would feel every bit as bored as we are feeling, today, with their own experiences. **************************************** Is it just me, or do others go to locations and see what used to be there ? As an example, the photo of Lookout Pass toward the bottom of page 19. This is only abut 80 miles from me and I have traveled it since it looked just like this. The first time was in a brand new 65 Ford Country Squire and we parked right where that DeSoto sits and walked around a bit. I found some toads in a ditch right there along the road .... interesting stuff to a kid ! The Northern Pacific tunnel went right under the highway there. It remains a long steep climb coming eastbound as the DeSoto is doing, however in 1983 the highway was finally built into freeway configuration and the climb started west of Mullan instead of on the east side of town. No wonder they pulled off to let that 350 cool down ! The east side of the pass is equally steep for a mile or so, but then eases out. Behind the DeSoto about 10 miles is Wallace, Idaho, the location of the last functioning stoplight on the U.S. interstate system. It was bypassed with the 1983 freeway. This thread is a showcase of my childhood ! | ||
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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | slimwhitman - 2009-03-22 1:26 PM Kenny J. - 2009-03-22 11:37 AM Well, this Vancouver CCF-Brill trolley bus isn't a Forward Look Mopar, but the ad on the back almost qualifies it to be in this thread : I am sure the ad is for building air conditioners, but I do like it anyway. My house is still running on it's 1960 Chrysler Airtemp Furnace. 'tis, but Airtemp was part of Chrysler, so I said, "What the heck!" K. | ||
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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Chrycoman - 2009-03-22 2:42 PM An earlier photo of a Pullman Standard trolley caught me off guard, wondering where Hardy's was in Winnipeg, which is where I grew up. Then I noticed it was for Milwaukee. Winnipeg Transit used the same cream over orange and purchased a couple of dozen Pullman Standards, same model, from Providence, Rhode Island. Providence tried to convert some of their trolley buses to internal combustion when they got rid of electric service. It didn't work very well. Milwaukee's last order of Pullman-Standards, in the photo I posted, were 1948 Model 45 CX. The Providence Pullman-Standards which went to Winnipeg were 1948 Model 44 CX, virtually identical. Milwaukee didn't have any Hardy's during the 1960s. Are you sure that wasn't the photo I posted showing "Hack's Furniture"? I periodically find Milwaukee transit stuff mis-labeled as Winnipeg and have found what I've thought was Milwaukee transit pictures to actually be Winnipeg. K. | ||
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Expert Posts: 1819 Location: Vancouver, BC | Kenny J. - 2009-03-22 6:45 PM Providence tried to convert some of their trolley buses to internal combustion when they got rid of electric service. It didn't work very well. Milwaukee's last order of Pullman-Standards, in the photo I posted, were 1948 Model 45 CX. The Providence Pullman-Standards which went to Winnipeg were 1948 Model 44 CX, virtually identical. Milwaukee didn't have any Hardy's during the 1960s. Are you sure that wasn't the photo I posted showing "Hack's Furniture"? I periodically find Milwaukee transit stuff mis-labeled as Winnipeg and have found what I've thought was Milwaukee transit pictures to actually be Winnipeg. K. You're right - Hack's Furniture. The photo shows Hack's Furniture with a Pullman trolley and next to it a recent photo of the same location, this time with a New Flyer low floor (New Flyer is based in Winnipeg). Vancouver actually converted their 50 Flyer E800 trolley buses to diesel - got nicknamed "triesels". They were supposed to have been retired when Vancouver purchased their 246 Flyer E902 models in 1983, but their bodies were still in good shape so they got another 20 years out of them. Of course, the Flyer D800 diesel buses had the same body and chassis so conversion was possible, something I suspect was a bit more difficult with the Pullmans as they came only with electric motors. The E800 models, and the E700 models before them, had electrics taken from retired 1950's Canadian Car trolleys but the E902 models had everything new, including a battery backup system when there were problems with overhead wire or broken poles. The E902 models were replaced last year by a new trolley bus based on the New Flyer low floor models. Vancouver purchased both 40' and articulated 60' versions. And they started the numbering at 2201, so there is a new 2229 on the road. | ||
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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Downtown Pittsburgh, 1963: (prco1658.jpg) Attachments ---------------- prco1658.jpg (83KB - 411 downloads) | ||
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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | Not Forward Look, but included because of the Desoto/Plymouth dealership. You can see inside the dealership window. This is Milwaukee, 1948. Bill can probably tell you that the P.A.Y.E. (Pay As You Enter) style streetcar seen in this photo was developed in Montreal and adapted by many U.S, transit systems. These cars were well built and lasted almost fifty years in service in several locations. K. Edited by Kenny J. 2009-03-26 1:44 AM (tm547a.jpg) Attachments ---------------- tm547a.jpg (107KB - 423 downloads) | ||
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Regular Posts: 69 Location: Central New Jersey, USA | As many have said this was their childhood, this is the childhood I wish I could have. A much, better, easier, simpler, AMERICAN childhood. I know it wasn't all peaches and cream back then, but surely it was a better time than now. | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 693 Location: Kangasala, Finland | New York (ply60.jpg) Attachments ---------------- ply60.jpg (156KB - 405 downloads) | ||
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Location: Parts Unknown | Man in white shirt : Hoo cah dis ? | ||
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Expert 5K+ Posts: 5139 Location: cornpatch county, Southwest IOA | guy on steps---" Git the hell away from my car!" .........MO | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 988 Location: Kansas City, Kansas | Here is a link to another forum with similar photos. They are not specific to Forwardlook, but some Forwardlooks show up in many photos by default. Enjoy.... http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/338226/pa... | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | I wonder what kind of BUILDING that the driver of that green 58 PLY ran into (cutting a corner too sharply) ? | ||
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Location: Parts Unknown | That horizontal crease has all the earmarks of getting the car too close to one of those old style one-piece overhead garage door side bars. The ones with the big springs down low. I have first hand knowledge of this concept with my old 61 NY'er coupe. | ||
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Expert Posts: 3070 Location: Scotland | we kicked this thread of 20 pages ago with a '57 Plymouth Cab,here's one with 6 '56 and '57 Plymouth and one '56 Dodge cabs,Kenny J should appreciate this one too. (BostonPlymouthTaxis.jpg) Attachments ---------------- BostonPlymouthTaxis.jpg (132KB - 433 downloads) | ||
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil! Posts: 19146 Location: bishop, ca | ....Drinking their lunches ? Funny looking Cabillac, in the foreground? | ||
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Expert Posts: 1480 Location: Australia | i won this one the other day... '60 chevy, silver special and a '61 plymmie taxi... oh how id love an original '61 taxi to drive around (who wants a cop car when you can get a yellow taxi??) i think it would be fab anyway... cheers adriana (SanFranciscoLaurel0001.jpg) Attachments ---------------- SanFranciscoLaurel0001.jpg (84KB - 417 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1918 Location: Hell's Outhouse - a.k.a. Buckeye, Arizona | Do I get 3 guesses what caught your eye first, Adriana? | ||
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Elite Veteran Posts: 693 Location: Kangasala, Finland | Neil, here is one for you. 'The Elms Motel, 233 E. Elm Street in Bishop, California, in Inyo County one block off Highway 395'. Or are there more than one Bishop in CA? (BishopCAElms0001.jpg) Attachments ---------------- BishopCAElms0001.jpg (168KB - 506 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 1480 Location: Australia | i just bought 6 fabulous postcards from a lovely guy in Lithuania... oh i cant wait to get 'em... they all have 61's and two have '61 subs... i have some how misplaced several postcards that i had already... i dont have any idea where i have put 'em.... adriana | ||
Kenny J. |
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Inactive by user's request Location: Las Vegas, Nevada | vedette - 2009-05-07 2:34 PM we kicked this thread of 20 pages ago with a '57 Plymouth Cab,here's one with 6 '56 and '57 Plymouth and one '56 Dodge cabs,Kenny J should appreciate this one too. Some of those same streetcars (trams) are still running between the Boston suburbs of Mattapan and Ashmont as I type this. Below is a recent photo of one of these rebuilt cars. And below that is a mid 1960s shot of a Boston streetcar in the short lived gray, yellow and white paint. Can you find the Forward Look Plymouth in the second photo? K. (mbta3265a.jpg) (mbta3313b.jpg) Attachments ---------------- mbta3265a.jpg (63KB - 436 downloads) mbta3313b.jpg (112KB - 420 downloads) | ||
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