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d500neil
Posted 2011-07-06 4:45 PM (#279401 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: bishop, ca		That LIFE photo is so (...I hate the over-usage of this word) : AMAZING; a re-creation of the 1957 Family Portrait.

I've claimed that the '57 arrangement was all-wrong, fin-symetrically, and that the IMP should have been placed
at the head (Fin-end?) of the family, just as was, finally, arranged, in the 1958 LIFE photograph.




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Posted 2011-07-06 7:00 PM (#279425 - in reply to #278463)
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Here is some more pics


Pic AS8 (the last one) is colorado springs at the intersection of platte and nevada looking west. The statue, acacia hotel and the hotel in front of the acacia survive to this day. The acacia and the other hotel are now a retirement community. The mobilgas was torn down long ago, a carls jr lives on in its place.



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57MoParKid
Posted 2011-07-06 8:31 PM (#279431 - in reply to #279401)
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d500neil - 2011-07-06 4:45 PM

That LIFE photo is so (...I hate the over-usage of this word) : AMAZING; a re-creation of the 1957 Family Portrait.

I've claimed that the '57 arrangement was all-wrong, fin-symetrically, and that the IMP should have been placed
at the head (Fin-end?) of the family, just as was, finally, arranged, in the 1958 LIFE photograph.







All those LIFE photos are available to purchase from their website
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hemidenis
Posted 2011-07-07 12:38 AM (#279459 - in reply to #81647)
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2011-07-07 2:18 AM (#279469 - in reply to #279459)
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Posted 2011-07-07 4:01 AM (#279473 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2011-07-07 3:09 PM (#279505 - in reply to #81647)
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Ray Bell
Posted 2011-07-07 5:38 PM (#279522 - in reply to #81647)
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And could somebody please pick up the front and rear axles from that '46 Ford wagon and send them to me?
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d500neil
Posted 2011-07-07 6:07 PM (#279530 - in reply to #279522)
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Posted 2011-07-10 5:57 PM (#279895 - in reply to #279530)
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Posted 2011-07-10 6:28 PM (#279900 - in reply to #81647)
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2011-07-11 12:07 AM (#279956 - in reply to #279900)
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Those offensive peaks just don't work in our current PC culture.
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Posted 2011-07-11 6:21 PM (#280126 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2011-07-13 7:42 AM (#280370 - in reply to #81647)
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2011-07-13 8:38 AM (#280373 - in reply to #280370)
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Location: Parts Unknown		Dave,

Does that 58 Firedome sitting behind the 59 Buick have a canvas top ? It looks suspiciously
like a ragtop along where the drip rail would be on a hardtop.
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SavoyPlaza
Posted 2011-07-13 11:12 AM (#280385 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Georgia		It could be a hardtop with roof damage, perhaps someone wasn't careful crossing the street in Portland!

Just kidding, it looks like a convertible from here.

Here are two color photos, the second is labelled Stoddard County Courthouse, Bloomfield, Missouri,
and the first is just heartbreaking.
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hemidave
Posted 2011-07-13 1:16 PM (#280395 - in reply to #81647)
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Talk about heartbreaking, most of those cars look relatively rust-free.
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2011-07-13 2:40 PM (#280403 - in reply to #280395)
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Location: Parts Unknown		Ray's Auto Wrecking looked like that until the day they cleared the land and put in a housing
development some time after 1997 when I moved away. Cars stacked 4-6 high in giant "cubes",
hundreds of feet across. It was ALL brought in before 1965, so it was almost entirely late 50's
cars. That is where I spotted the 58 Plaza in buzzard puke green that inspired me to buy the one
I have now. Al's up in Arlington and Johnny's in Woodinville had the same kind of cars, but didn't
stack them. They were sprawled out of acres and acres of ground.

Those were good days.
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Posted 2011-07-13 2:46 PM (#280404 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: somerville mass		shardon st boston is now new chardon street near the new courthouse and the across/by the "brutalist" design erich lindemann mental health center.

not too far from the old"scoally square which was torn down 59-60 where "government center" and the government center t station on the green line

finished the same year 1964. the "new" city hall plaza and city hall were finished 1967-68. the washington street shopping district known as

"downtown crossing" is a hole. it opened around 74. jordan marsh now macy's, filene's torn down leaving a ugly gaping hole. a lot of shuttered storefronts.

emerson college restored the long ugly vacant paramount thearter. magnificent. but only open during events - no movies. the "combat zone" further down is

well - non existent mostly except for 1club. renovations include new condos and the rmv. you search craigslist or the boston phoenix for action now!

the old zone borders chinatown and the chinese are fed up. "like a cancer, it came back..."
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Posted 2011-07-13 4:01 PM (#280423 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: ZH, Switzerland		Chrysler Cooperation I guess invested a lot money to make the ChryCo cars more safe than the competitors. This picture I got out of a 1956 Car Catalog of the Swiss car news paper "Automobil Revue". There was an essay about the safety checks of ChryCo and this picture was used as an illustration.

Happy Motoring!

Dieter

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Posted 2011-07-13 9:27 PM (#280466 - in reply to #81647)
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hemidave
Posted 2011-07-14 6:43 AM (#280493 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2011-07-14 7:49 AM (#280494 - in reply to #280493)
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Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden		Is there anything that has an explanation for this.
Pictures from 1959-60 on the cars on the roads you see many late 40 speakers and early 50 century cars.
But images from around 1965-66 there is almost no 50 century car in traffic. Why? Was it a better economy in the 60's or...?
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Ray Bell
Posted 2011-07-14 9:52 AM (#280501 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia		It was the same here...

The early sixties marked the watershed. No more twenties cars on the road, very few thirties, some forties, lots of fifties. By the end of the sixties there was very little other than late fifties through sixties left.
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2011-07-14 11:16 AM (#280510 - in reply to #280501)
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Location: Parts Unknown		I have tried to explain this here before, .... you just cannot understand how HATED the
finned and pastel 50's cars were by the early 60's unless you were there. It was not a
passive "out of fashion" disdain, it was an angry, passionate hatred or embarrassment,
and it was so amazingly universal amongst such a wide spectrum of the population.

I never could understand it. I loved those cars !

But just to give a little more perspective, while the finned cars were the source of much
ridicule for their owners, those people still hanging on to their earlier 50's bathtub cars were
largely ignored. Out of style, yes. But never bringing on the wrath of such vitriolic ridicule
like the finned cars.

I theorize that it is based in the general optimism and euphoria that was the Googie era ...
.. all the futuristic hope and space travel excitement. Where do you go when that becomes
old hat ? What do you do when "the future" becomes the past and it was nothing more than
a bunch of gimmicky hooey ? The reaction was stylistic retrenchment and a general feeling
of having been "played". That was not "the future", as everyone was led to believe. It turned
out to be nothing more than some passing trendy junk like every other fashion period. What
sets the high style Googie stuff apart and evoked such a backlash was the excitement and
emotional investment that America experienced at the time over all that "futuristic" stuff. When
everyone came down off that "high", they were pretty bummed out on it for being a sham and
saw the cars and houses as being blatant reminders of that being rubbed in their face. Only
"fools" kept that junk around and our cars went to the crusher in record numbers, many long
before their service life was over .... just because they looked the way they did.
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Windsor59
Posted 2011-07-14 12:04 PM (#280512 - in reply to #280510)
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Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden		Thanks for the interesting explanation. May well be that you tell us why so many 50 century car disappeared so quickly.
Many ended up behind the farm or in a barn, I suppose, and maybe it was not even anything wrong with them but the "time" to be popular was gone.
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Posted 2011-07-14 12:29 PM (#280513 - in reply to #280512)
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Location: Parts Unknown		If you drive around looking for old cars behind barns, etc., you will find an inordinate amount
of 50's bathtubs for the number of 50's finned cars. The ratio is 100 to 1 in favor of the surviving
bathtub, yet these sold in no greater numbers and were not near as well engineered for the post-
freeway boom, reversing the argument that more fins should survive today. Yet the opposite is
true.

The whole time I spent growing up, if there ever was a comment to be made about a finned car
it was always derisive or joked about as some sort of embarrassment. A friend's I had in grade
school was told by his parents that they did not want him playing over at another kid's house because
they questioned the "conditions" over at that house on account of the 59 Buick that family drove.

Sounds crazy now, but it was a very real attitude back then.
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d500neil
Posted 2011-07-14 5:22 PM (#280538 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: bishop, ca		Brent's referenced "hatred or embarrassment", above, was due to the cars' body and interior self destruction
from rusting and general premature wear-out, and the bodies' styling being out of fashion.

The cars' appearance (as we all so know-and-love) was completely (as opposed to partially??) unique and specific
to the 50's, and it was a new-decade, now, baby!

"Now", it was the Space-Age 60's and the cars all looked completely different from the Space-Age 50's; everybody was looking
Forward, then; not back-wards, and back-wards was 100% what anything 50's represented (at least until the 80's, when the 50's became
retro-fashionable).







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1960fury
Posted 2011-07-14 5:48 PM (#280544 - in reply to #280538)
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d500neil - 2011-07-14 5:22 PM

at least until the 80's, when the 50's became
retro-fashionable).



there was a weird 50s revival in the mid 70s in the US AND europe spurred by films like american graffiti, grease, crazy mama, california kid, return to macon county, happy days (remember "the fonz" ?) etc etc and weird groups like showaddywaddy etc. yes, believe it or not hank mizells "jungle rock", a raw piece of pure 50s rockabilly, made it to no 1 (!!!!!!) in the charts in europe in the mid 70s!!!! unbelieveable but true. i still remember "rockabilly rebel" by matchbox and as a kid in the late 70s i even thought it was cool lol (never heard REAL rockabilly until 1980)

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d500neil
Posted 2011-07-14 5:55 PM (#280547 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: bishop, ca		Ok.... 70's (late; POST-disco) in the early 70's 'greasers'/rockabilly's were largely very OUT of fashion; Saturday
Night Fever and velour ruled this country.




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Posted 2011-07-14 6:03 PM (#280551 - in reply to #280547)
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Ok.... 70's (late; POST-disco) in the early 70's 'greasers'/rockabilly's were largely very OUT of fashion; Saturday
Night Fever and velour ruled this country.


greasers were ALWAYS out of fashion, especially after 1961
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d500neil
Posted 2011-07-14 8:29 PM (#280562 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2011-07-14 10:36 PM (#280580 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Ponder, TX		I grew up in the fifties, and don't recall any disdain for finned cars from any manufacturer.The times changed and styling changed until the government began sticking their nose in everything. As a youngster, I hated the pre-53 styling and couldn't wait to get my first "squared-off" car. I loved the designs of all mid-late-fifties cars, and some had no fins.

In my opinion, the main ingredient in the popularity of the sixties cars was accelerated automotive evolution that resulted in affordable performance.

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Ray Bell
Posted 2011-07-15 2:20 AM (#280588 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia		Many Australians, I can tell you, had disdain for the 'finned monsters' that we saw relatively few of...

But they were here and they were on TV (Leave it to Beaver, Highway Patrol etc) and they were taken to be excessive in their styling.

Today it's nice to reminisce about them, there's a nostalgic value and the models that followed became... ummm... very plain!
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Posted 2011-07-15 4:46 AM (#280589 - in reply to #280588)
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Location: Parts Unknown		No question, the fins were very popular in the 56-60 years and when I say they were
very much hated, I am referring to the mid-60's to well into the 80's. And perhaps I
should preface this by saying my subject area of experience was Seattle and the east
side suburbs .... perhaps unique in this sensation ? I do not think so, but perhaps a tad
"magnified" when compared to less "uppity" places ?

No question, American Graffiti set the ball rolling on a slow course toward nostalgic
recognition of "the 50's", but it took a long time and we still suffer from the ill-fitted
stereotypes of poodle skirts and space travel and such.

I got my first finned car in 1977 and it was MANY years before more people were
smiling and friendly about it, rather than spitting on it or making derogatory comments.
The cutesy television stuff was all good and fine, but actual on-the-street acceptance was
very slow in coming. My brother and I had a running war with the local constabulary.
Someone up high created a standing order to hassle anyone see around town driving old
cars. We racked up countless tickets and court dates and it was not until they were threatened
with legal action that the endless traffic stops suddenly and mysteriously ceased. I learned
later that certain people of influence saw "those dumpy old cars" as running counter to the
upscale image the city wanted to promote and sought to make having them around more
challenging for those so inclined.

I might better understand this, had my cars been ratbag messes with jacked up rear ends
and no exhaust. But appearance has always been the top priority for me when it comes to
to my cars and they always ran correct whitewalls, sound exhaust, and looked and performed
well and met all safety concerns. If I did not have a full set of hubcaps, the car sat in the garage
until it did. For all the roadside "safety checks" I had to do with Officer Badhassle, I never once
got nailed for anything, although it took immeasurable effort to get professional references and
go to court to have the charges dismissed, . only to have it happen all over again, and again, and
again. Those were nightmare years for finned car ownership.

A popular term of disdain for large cars back in the 70's was "Tuna Boat". This was applied liberally
to any large car, particularly the big, shapeless post-70 beasts like LTD's, Cadillacs, 98's, NY'ers,
Lincolns, etc. But the finned cars, enjoyed a more vitriolic response. They were met with angry
What a F$#@ING UGLY car!!!" kind of comments, and not just occasionally, and not from just a few
people. It was strangers I only overheard talking about someone else's car, it was friend's parents
talking about "those lowlife neighbors with that gawdfersaken butt ugly car", and on and on.

I have mentioned Mr. Scramlin, an old man on my paper route up the road from where I grew up.
He had a 56 Firedome sedan, blue and white. His family who also lived in the area finally leaned on him
to get rid of it "because it was so ugly" by buying him a 65 NY'er after repeated attempts to get him
to "wise up" to his embarrassing behavior and get rid of it himself. I remember him telling me "I don't
know why they don't like my car. It is a good car. I see nothing wrong with it".
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Posted 2011-07-15 5:26 AM (#280592 - in reply to #280589)
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Location: Upplands Väsby, Sweden		Here you can see the difference in the renewal of the car park from 1965, "68", 70´s and 80´s
One can see a few 50s car left.

Amazing that we can take some of them now . When the fairy cars already disappeared before the year "1965"

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Posted 2011-07-15 9:48 AM (#280602 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2011-07-15 2:33 PM (#280625 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: bishop, ca		The only "finned" car that was popular, in the 60's, in Toledo/mid-west area was the 57 Chubbies, and they were jacked up
rat rods (long before the term was ever coined) driven by high schoolers who were not trying to be kool, but "racey", like
the mid-to-late 60's muscle cars were.

The FWDLK'ers were strictly rust-bucket family cruisers, and faded icons to a "long-gone" era.

Sure, there were exceptions, like well maintained (say what?) convertibles, but nobody who was Kool looked favorably back
to the FWDLK'ers---they were strictly Daddy's car, from the 50's....and, it's the 60's now, baby, and this here is MY car!




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Posted 2011-07-15 3:37 PM (#280634 - in reply to #280625)
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Posted 2011-07-15 4:23 PM (#280641 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Northen Virginia		They were a few FL cars letf in the 70's but you shoud see it now.



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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2011-07-16 3:25 AM (#280697 - in reply to #280641)
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Location: Parts Unknown		I am likely the only one who thinks this way, but the removal of all the overhead wires,
poles, and hardware, along with the non-flat signage has reduced modern street scenes to
having all the flavor of boiled cardboard. As a kid I was fascinated by all that wire work
and those sparkly glass things up on the poles. Signs had shapes and "life" to draw the
eye. Now it is just boring.
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SavoyPlaza
Posted 2011-07-16 7:17 AM (#280707 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Georgia		I agree, Doc. How about this 'boring' scene from Chicago!
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hemidenis
Posted 2011-07-16 10:51 AM (#280723 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Northen Virginia		Is that your car there doc? The ragtop in the upper left side.
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hemidave
Posted 2011-07-16 11:19 AM (#280730 - in reply to #81647)
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Jeremiah
Posted 2011-07-16 12:35 PM (#280737 - in reply to #181237)
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D500Jim - 2009-07-13 3:35 AM

 

Silver Saddle Motel on Klamath Highway (66) at North K Street in Lakeview, Oregon.

 



Hello everyone, new member here. I was performing a google image search for "Lakeview, OR" and "Imperial" because I am looking for a car that is floating around for sale there. What shocked me is that the car is right down the street from the hotel in the picture, which is still standing as the "Interstate 8 Motel". I have stayed there when working in Lakeview and highly doubt it has been remodeled since that picture was taken. Also, to date the picture, is a reference to "Hwy 66 to Klamath Falls". Sometime in the late 50's or early 60's Hwy 140 was built to take over as the main route from Medford to Klamath Falls and subsequently the section of road fro Klamath Falls to Lakeview was renamed Hwy 140 as well.

'Just a little history for you all. Chances are that station wagon in the picture was new!

Jeremiah
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SavoyPlaza
Posted 2011-07-16 1:49 PM (#280747 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Georgia		That's a neat story, Jeremiah, thanks for sharing. I dunno why the photo did not come through, but it's back on page 11, and features a '57 Dodge wagon.

Here's an interesting one:

Sorry, it's a fake!
I took it this morning and used an "antique" mode on the computer to give it that color! I just wanted to see if it would blend with all these actual vintage photos!
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Windsor59
Posted 2011-07-16 2:56 PM (#280756 - in reply to #280747)
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SavoyPlaza - 2011-07-16 1:49 PM

That's a neat story, Jeremiah, thanks for sharing. I dunno why the photo did not come through, but it's back on page 11, and features a '57 Dodge wagon.

Here's an interesting one:

Sorry, it's a fake!
I took it this morning and used an "antique" mode on the computer to give it that color! I just wanted to see if it would blend with all these actual vintage photos!
Pete


Looks like foto was from 50s-60s.;)
How I found "antique" mode on my computer?
and you have a very nice Plymouth 60
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Windsor59
Posted 2011-07-16 2:59 PM (#280758 - in reply to #280641)
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hemidenis - 2011-07-15 4:23 PM

They were a few FL cars letf in the 70's but you shoud see it now.


Fun to see how the car, street, house is now. some is same but much is difference
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2011-07-16 3:15 PM (#280763 - in reply to #280723)
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hemidenis - 2011-07-17 7:51 AM

Is that your car there doc? The ragtop in the upper left side.


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Are you referring to the Shoppers World photo ? I see a white 59 Plymouth ragtop and what
*could be* a sort of goldish-looking DeSoto, but my eyes aren't good enough to give a positive
ID. Or are you looking at something else ?

Shoppers World. Wow ! I remember those cheesy mega-stores. Is the one called something
like "Jaybirds" still open between Chehalis and Centralia along the old highway ?

Note the 57 Chrysler in the foreground with the rarely seen hood ornament pair.
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