oldwood - 2011-12-21 10:51 PM

That '56 Lincoln is a fairly rare car in the wreck scene.

Doctor DeSoto - 2011-12-22 11:27 PM

In the above accident shot, is that a 59 Chev or a Buick ? Either way, the tail light is
ca-ca and the fin bent enough to make it hard to tell. The side trim looks more Buick
(thinner), but both terminated similarly at the tail light like that. Chev had round
instruments in the dash, but I can't remember if the dash top profile was. Looks more
like the speed bar type cluster that Buick had. Hmmm ....

Ray Bell - 2011-12-23 7:40 PM

Wow! That is just incredible...

But wasn't it Turkey where De Soto pickups were still being built into the seventies?

Doctor DeSoto - 2011-12-23 11:06 AM

Note the location of the traffic signal on the close right corner of this view. This kind
of placement is all but extinct, as far as I know. How would anyone in the first row of
the center lane know when the light changed ?

Ray Bell - 2011-12-23 7:40 PM

Wow! That is just incredible...

But wasn't it Turkey where De Soto pickups were still being built into the seventies?

56RoyalLancer - 2011-12-23 9:19 AM Found some picutres of the neighborhood that I grew up in. They are on the web at the milwaukee public library website. I think that they were taken as before and after road construction pictures. The picture that I am attaching is from 60th and Capital Drive year 1958? About ten years later I was a young lad playing at the pure gas station in the picture. The owner was a square dancing friend of my parents. I can remember jumping on the bell cables to make the bell ring. Good thing Mr. Viceman was a tolerant person. I also remember the gas pumps and the red air pressure station at the front of the garage. It is pictures like these that are as close as we will get to a time machine. Greg

slimwhitman - 2011-12-25 8:33 AM



The famous Kessler designed parkways here in KC still have these type traffic signals in most locations. The neighbors fought to KEEP them. The lower signals on the side like this give the parkway a more residential feel and allow the tree canopy to remain. If they went to the overhead mast arm signal, they would need to remove many mature trees at every intersection to allow distant visability. This also keeps traffic speeds down.

Modern traffic engineers hate anything that slows traffic.

Originally posted by BarnFind57
.....Is it just me or has anyone else wondered while peering at these images from days gone by taken by family members....

Is dad taking the picture of the kids? Or his car, and they just got in the way?

toddst - 2011-12-25 11:56 AM

I seem to recall as a kid that every photo my dad took of my sister and I required us to "stand next to the car".

hemidave - 2011-12-26 5:27 AM

Detroit Auto Show

Ray Bell - 2011-12-25 4:30 PM



Another pic I wanted to mention in my previous post was the one from jp of Pancho's... I think that's a pic of someone waving goodbye to the occupants of the car that's just come out of that parking spot.

The women, of course, are suitably unimpressed!