|
|
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 52
Active Member
|
Active Member
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 52 |
While not an actual "old" photo, this old truck has an interesting take on politics.
Fred
If you are not driving your antique car frequently you might as well be collecting clocks!
Always remember you are unique, just like everyone else.
|
|
|
Please - NO offers to Buy or Sell in this forum category
Statements such as, "I'm thinking about selling this." are considered an offer to sell.
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 2,027 Likes: 65
Veteran Member
|
|
Veteran Member
Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 2,027 Likes: 65 |
Nice set of pictures. Gives one pause when we complain about life today and you see what the 30's meant to a whole generation of Americans. Picking up your family with 7 children and heading west with only a vision and hope, in a car that would break down at any moment, on "roads" that may lead to nowhere. Yes good to get one back to reality.
Fred
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 1,749
Veteran Member
|
|
Veteran Member
Joined: Sep 2008
Posts: 1,749 |
In addition to a load of kids , note that "Split Rim, yes that ring on the ground . Damn thing has the power of nearly five grenades when they aren't seated proper on a rim. Being in the towing business, I was scared to death of them. I had one go up one night nearly taking a fellow employees head off with it . Ed Shaver
see ya on the road folks !
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 52
Active Member
|
|
Active Member
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 52 |
Nice set of pictures. Gives one pause when we complain about life today and you see what the 30's meant to a whole generation of Americans. Picking up your family with 7 children and heading west with only a vision and hope, in a car that would break down at any moment, on "roads" that may lead to nowhere. Yes good to get one back to reality.
Fred
Thanks, it definitely does make you appreciate what we have today. I have owned the same 1930 Model A Ford for 41 years and drove it round trip from Dallas, Texas to Lake Geneva, Wisconsin to attend a national Model A Ford Convention in 1986 (approx 2,600 miles round trip), I felt some of the same apprehension the pioneers must have had wondering whether I would make it to my destination and back. Of course back when the migrants were escaping the dust bowl they didn't have cell phones, paved roads, service stations and restaurants or doctors and hospitals every few miles as we have today. Come to think of it, I didn't have a cell phone in 1986 but I took a national Model A Ford Club of America roster with me in case I broke down and needed help along the way from a nearby club member. I had my four and six year old sons with me and we had a real blast - they are now in their early 30's and still comment on the trip. I often think of the Okies heading out west in their dilapidated jalopies being held together by baling wire and a prayer with about $3 worth of gas in their tank and less cash in their pocket as pioneers much like those who rode the wagon trains on the Oregon Trail. They often buried their children on the trail and had to not only fight the elements and terrain but the hostile Indians. We all need to count our blessings!
Take care and have a Merry Christmas!
Fred
Last edited by texasoldcarguy; Thu Dec 19 2013 01:04 PM.
If you are not driving your antique car frequently you might as well be collecting clocks!
Always remember you are unique, just like everyone else.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 3,188 Likes: 1
Veteran Member
|
|
Veteran Member
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 3,188 Likes: 1 |
90% sure that tanker is in front of the Cleveland city hall. Looks like Standard oil off to the side. I never knew that. Figures Rockefeller would've been close to the politicians. lol
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 430
Petro Enthusiast
|
|
Petro Enthusiast
Joined: Aug 2012
Posts: 430 |
I was trying to find vintage historical 60's era photos of the Standard station that I would go to with my dad when I was a kid. Looking through some of the local archives I found all of these. All these places are within a mile or three of where I grew up.
Nice finds with the local photos Steve!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 52
Active Member
|
|
Active Member
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 52 |
90% sure that tanker is in front of the Cleveland city hall. Looks like Standard oil off to the side. I never knew that. Figures Rockefeller would've been close to the politicians. lol
It's actually the Fayette County Courthouse in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. Compare the original photo to a current Google streetview shot I just downloaded.
Fred
Last edited by texasoldcarguy; Thu Dec 19 2013 07:11 PM.
If you are not driving your antique car frequently you might as well be collecting clocks!
Always remember you are unique, just like everyone else.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 4,906 Likes: 57
Veteran Member
|
|
Veteran Member
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 4,906 Likes: 57 |
Those depression photos are incredible!! Guys can deal with all that ***** but I sure feel for what some woman and the kids had to go through!
Steve Coppens
Always interested in Sunoco items!
Really want a Sunoco National pump ad glass!!
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 3,188 Likes: 1
Veteran Member
|
|
Veteran Member
Joined: Dec 2002
Posts: 3,188 Likes: 1 |
I stand corrected. Its weird though how the windows are arched in the older picture on the third floor. They must have done some renovation at some point.
Not only that, but I'm pretty sure Standard Oil was in a much larger building.lol Definitely jumped the gun.
Last edited by JimT; Fri Dec 20 2013 03:29 AM.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 52
Active Member
|
|
Active Member
Joined: Oct 2012
Posts: 52 |
I stand corrected. Its wierd though how the windows are arched in the older picture on the third floor. They must have done some renovation at some point.
Fred
Last edited by texasoldcarguy; Thu Dec 19 2013 09:49 PM.
If you are not driving your antique car frequently you might as well be collecting clocks!
Always remember you are unique, just like everyone else.
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 762 Likes: 8
Petro Enthusiast
|
Petro Enthusiast
Joined: Aug 2008
Posts: 762 Likes: 8 |
My folks left Illinois in 1936 in a 1928 Dodge pulling a homemade trailer hesding for Spokane WA to pick fruit. Mom and Dad and six kids, I wasn't born yet. Somewhere in Nebraska they couldn't make it up one hill so Dad threw out her washing machine and some other stuff. She wouldn't let him throw out her sewing machine. They didn't make it to Washington, all the farther they got was to Cheyenne, Wy. They went broke here where Dad found a job and settled here. His story was always that he never did make enough money to get back out of Cheyenne. I was born the next year here in Cheyenne. I sent some of these type of pictures to my sister in Calif. and told her to email them to her grandkids. She said they did not want to believe her when she told them that she didn't have a inside toilet has a kid until she went off to college in 1954. As you can see all the Okies were not from Oklahoma. Mitch
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,246 Likes: 17
Veteran Member
|
|
Veteran Member
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,246 Likes: 17 |
collecting standard oil items
Tim Flannery
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,246 Likes: 17
Veteran Member
|
|
Veteran Member
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,246 Likes: 17 |
collecting standard oil items
Tim Flannery
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 8,994
Veteran Member
|
|
Veteran Member
Joined: Nov 2005
Posts: 8,994 |
Looking for gas,oil related clocks,especially neon and spinners .clock repair available. Mick
|
|
|
|
|
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,313 Likes: 70
Veteran Member
|
|
Veteran Member
Joined: Nov 2007
Posts: 1,313 Likes: 70 |
A THEN/NOW I made up of the corner of Mission and Valencia St's, San Francisco.... Have the first photo, 2nd is off the 'net and 3rd is Google. You can see the Sears building on the right in all three... 
Last edited by GILMORE; Sat Jan 11 2014 01:29 AM.
Sell me your Gilmore Oil Co. stuff...
|
|
|
|
|
