Old Street Scenes

[Nova Jed]

It's amazing how much cleaner everything looked in those days! Everytime I see pics like this, I wish I had lived in those times. Seems like pride was a real word then? Who's gonna come up with the time machine? A Delorean perhaps? LOL

[m22mike]

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Love this one of the Goodyear Airdock in Akron, about 10 miles from home.
Have been in this Hangar a few times since I was a kid.
In the early to mid 50's I lived a few blocks from the Akron Muni Airport. At that time Goodyear Aircraft Corp. was still building Anti Sub Warfare Blimps for the Navy. They were awesome to watch,near 350' long compared to a 98' Goodyear Add blimp fo today.
Love the Maroon 40 Chevy.

Z class Blimp

[MagicRatt]

....dig the 73 impala police "undercover" car....


Rich

[StriperSS]

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....dig the 73 impala police "undercover" car....


Rich

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And the taxi he pulled over was a previous RCMP car!

[427TJ]

Boston Garden with neat beer billboard on roof, 1958:



Boston, 1958, old store fronts:



Another neat beer billboard, Boston 1958:



Newton Square Boston 1958 with a new Olds coming our way:



Belmont Township near Boston 1958 and new VW dealership. Note the '49 Ford woody:



Johnstown, PA, Walnut and Main, 1954:



Baltimore, 1952:



Market at Powell, San Francisco, 1957:



Market Street farther west, 1957. '51 Ford Victoria hardtop and '50 Merc on left. Kilpatrick's Bread billboard at upper left:

[427TJ]

[427TJ]

Highway 99 from Bakersfield to L.A., the "Ridge Route," c1945:



Jackson, California c1960 (southeast of Sacramento):



Manteca, California Dodge dealership c70:



Van Nuys California Schwinn dealer c70:

[427TJ]

Wall Drug, SD, c1960 with '55 Crown Vic at lower left:



Williams Arizona Route 66:



Highway 299 through Willow Creek in northern California, c60:

[427TJ]

Here's a special scene for me. This is McDonald Avenue in Richmond California in 1956. The big building across the street on the right is the old Wells Fargo bank where my mother did the family banking. Kress, on the left at the corner, was where I got my first car model in 1967, an AMT Junior Trophy '59 Edsel snap-together kit and it was about 69 cents. Kress had a killer candy counter in the front of the store that was staffed by old ladies who wore their sweaters over their shoulders with their arms free. My older sister treated me to my first candy corn there in about 1966 and it was probably five cents worth. (Man, the things we remember.) This area died in the early 1970s and today is a fairly dangerous place to be even in broad daylight. I would not have been caught dead here after about 1970. The bank building is still there but much of the rest of these buildings were torn down in the late 70s. The Kress building was removed in about 1974. This entire business district died completely in about four years between 1970-74.

[300deluxeL79]

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Rich

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And the taxi he pulled over was a previous RCMP car! [/quote

hell, i got my 1st speeding ticket by an rcmp in an identical green '73 chevy in surrey bc back in '74.