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Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | 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 ? It was worse when they were hung over head on carrier cables. Sometime in the 60's a movement was afoot to place all traffic signals to the far side of the intersection to remedy this and most people today are clue- less about the 1950's prism traffic light viewers or the reason they were made. I enjoyed the deer-in-the-headlights looks my traffic light viewer got, but trying to explain it got old fast. | ||
Chrycoman |
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Expert Posts: 1819 Location: Vancouver, BC | oldwood - 2011-12-21 10:51 PM That '56 Lincoln is a fairly rare car in the wreck scene. Actually it's a 1956 or 1957 Continental Mark II built by the Continental Division of the Ford Motor Company. Unlike Chrysler's Imperial Division, Ford's Continental Division existed in real life and not just in print on the back page of the brochure. The Mark II suffered along with the Imperial being tagged with another, cheaper, make's name. Both Lincoln and Chrysler were lower priced vehicles than the Continental and Imperial which did not help marketing or sales. Who would want to buy a 1956 Continental Mark II at $9695 when you could buy a REAL Lincoln hardtop for $4119? 2,413 1956 models were built and 587 for 1957. (The 444 figure usually mentioned for 1957 production is actually for the calendar year 1957.) Interesting that the one in the photo has black sidewall tires. | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | FLA (Ft. Meyers, FL.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Ft. Meyers, FL.jpg (102KB - 215 downloads) | ||
vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | 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 .... it looks like a '59 Chevy that's run into the rear of the '59 Buick and shoved it into that '58 Chevy (is it?). | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1961 (1961....jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1961....jpg (31KB - 199 downloads) | ||
vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | Istanbul 1965 (Istanbul1965_01_1000.jpg) (Istanbul1965_02_1000.jpg) (Istanbul1965_03_1000-700x466.jpg) (Istanbul1965_04_1000.jpg) (Istanbul1965_05_1000.jpg) (Istanbul1965_06_1000.jpg) (Istanbul1965_07_1000.jpg) (Istanbul1965_08_1000.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Istanbul1965_01_1000.jpg (155KB - 211 downloads) Istanbul1965_02_1000.jpg (168KB - 281 downloads) Istanbul1965_03_1000-700x466.jpg (81KB - 205 downloads) Istanbul1965_04_1000.jpg (170KB - 221 downloads) Istanbul1965_05_1000.jpg (168KB - 224 downloads) Istanbul1965_06_1000.jpg (153KB - 194 downloads) Istanbul1965_07_1000.jpg (171KB - 279 downloads) Istanbul1965_08_1000.jpg (172KB - 315 downloads) | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Wow! That is just incredible... But wasn't it Turkey where De Soto pickups were still being built into the seventies? | ||
vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | 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? although most of the cars are DeSotos,whatabout the black 403 (estate) with wide whitewalls. | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Desoto (Desoto with a FI Bonneville in foreground.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Desoto with a FI Bonneville in foreground.jpg (68KB - 188 downloads) | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | I hadn't noticed that... thanks... Where are the Simcas? | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Indy Garage area Edited by hemidave 2011-12-23 9:49 PM (Indy Garage Area.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Indy Garage Area.jpg (30KB - 193 downloads) | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1962 (1962..jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1962..jpg (104KB - 189 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Madison Avenue (MadisonAvenue.jpg) Attachments ---------------- MadisonAvenue.jpg (49KB - 202 downloads) | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1958 (1958...jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1958...jpg (103KB - 191 downloads) | ||
floyd066 |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 347 Location: Ocean Park, Washington | Such a wonderful clean shot. | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1960 (1960..jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1960..jpg (95KB - 215 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | I know this pic has been posted before, but I think MOST of us will enjoy it. (Merry Christmas.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Merry Christmas.jpg (59KB - 180 downloads) | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | Circle Diner in Flemington, NJ (NJ, Flemington - Circle Diner.jpg) Attachments ---------------- NJ, Flemington - Circle Diner.jpg (67KB - 184 downloads) | ||
58sportsuburban |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 449 Location: jersey | Looking at all the pictures, i wonder what the focal point of most of them were. They just seem to be random pictures of nothing in particular, not of a car, a person, a sign, a great view, etc. | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1962 (1962..jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1962..jpg (71KB - 198 downloads) | ||
slimwhitman |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 988 Location: Kansas City, Kansas | 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 ? 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. (Untitled.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Untitled.jpg (103KB - 186 downloads) | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1961 (1961...jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1961...jpg (197KB - 203 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Merry Chrismas! (Christmastime in Bennington.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Christmastime in Bennington.jpg (112KB - 192 downloads) | ||
Chrycoman |
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Expert Posts: 1819 Location: Vancouver, BC | 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? They still do. The Turkish Chrysler associate was purchased outright by Chrysler back in the 1960's I believe and then sold back to the Turkish group again in the early 1980's. They kept the right to build Chrysler products until the late 1990's when Chrysler set up their own company. At that point the Turkish firm, which had been building Dodge, Fargo and DeSoto trucks of their own design, obtained the rights to the DeSoto and I believe Fargo names for the Turkish market. So, although Chrysler pulled out of Turkey, again, during the last cash crunch, the local Turkish firm is still going strong. Amazing the number of Plymouth, Kingsway and Diplomat cabs on the road. There is a 1959 Plymouth in one of them and yet there are early 1950's Mopar taxis still going. Most of the cars are Mopar products along with a few GM makes (including a German Opel) and a French Peugeot. Edited by Chrycoman 2011-12-24 12:54 PM | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1958 (1958.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1958.jpg (51KB - 168 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 2308 Location: The Bat Cave, Fairborn, OH | 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 I know the place well. I lived in Milwaukee for 20 years or more in the 1980s. There was a shopping center called Capitol Court in that area but it has fallen on hard times and is I think mostly demolished. Speaking of the Milwaukee area, here is a picture of a North Shore Interurban Railway car. This was a line that ran between Chicago and Milwaukee until 1963. A preserved Electroliner car is in the Illinois Railway Museum in Union, IL. (North Shore Electroliner at Illinois Railway Museum.jpg) (Interurban railcar.jpg) Attachments ---------------- North Shore Electroliner at Illinois Railway Museum.jpg (20KB - 188 downloads) Interurban railcar.jpg (101KB - 174 downloads) | ||
Doctor DeSoto |
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Location: Parts Unknown | slimwhitman - 2011-12-25 8:33 AM 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 ? 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. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Are these not on the FAR side of the intersection ? | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1960 (1960....jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1960....jpg (188KB - 185 downloads) | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | 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? That is an interesting point... Look at the one of the Plymouth and the guy with the fish in front of it. Was it taken to show him with the fish? Was it taken to show the Plymouth? Was it taken to show him and his fish and his Plymouth? After all, he might have bought the car and caught the fish the same day! But whatever, it simply doesn't show all of him, nor all of his car, but the fish is fully in shot... along with acres of background. I think we just have to accept that a lot of people don't 'frame' a photo properly. Another one to question is the one of the people crossing the road behind the bus. What on earth is that pic, in glorious living colour, all about? Good question... | ||
toddst |
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Elite Veteran Posts: 726 Location: Some Island called Prince Edward | 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". | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 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". I do the same thing even today! When you include your current car in the photo, it's a good way to date the photo for future reference. Plus, (although it seems like nothing special today) maybe 50 years from now a bunch of car nuts on the internet will be going crazy over the shots of our "mid-to-late 2000's" Mopars, and wondering why we included them in the photographs of our kids.... | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 1957 Dodge Coronet Lancer at The Char-Let Motel in Palmyra, Pennsylvania (1957 Dodge ForwardLook postcards) | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1962 (1962,.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1962,.jpg (48KB - 177 downloads) | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | The fish are bigger than the kid! 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! | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1962 (1962..jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1962..jpg (114KB - 188 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Detroit Auto Show (Detroit Auto Show.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Detroit Auto Show.jpg (61KB - 173 downloads) | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1965 (1965.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1965.jpg (62KB - 165 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Parade (parade 2.jpg) Attachments ---------------- parade 2.jpg (89KB - 178 downloads) | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1962 (1962,.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1962,.jpg (116KB - 173 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | Desoto (Desoto and Plymouth.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Desoto and Plymouth.jpg (32KB - 172 downloads) | ||
jpmopar |
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Extreme Veteran Posts: 466 Location: Southwest VA | 1966 (1966.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1966.jpg (105KB - 164 downloads) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | KING OF LOW PRICES (King of low prices.jpg) Attachments ---------------- King of low prices.jpg (58KB - 187 downloads) | ||
1960DesotoAdventurer |
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Expert Posts: 3588 Location: Plymouth Spaceport | hemidave - 2011-12-26 5:27 AM Detroit Auto Show Cool picture! Wish I could have seen this in person! I love the futuristic signs and backdrops. Does anyone know what's inside that round display in the Dodge exhibit? I tried blowing up the photo but the resolution is too poor. | ||
vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | 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! It was other members of the Daws family they would be waving at,it is Panchos in Memphis here's the story http://www.memphisflyer.com/AskVanceBlog/archives/2010/04/27/pancho... (PanchosSouthBellevueMemphis.jpg) Attachments ---------------- PanchosSouthBellevueMemphis.jpg (197KB - 180 downloads) | ||
vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | somewhere in Canada (1962_Canada.jpg) (RipleysNiagraFalls.jpg) Attachments ---------------- 1962_Canada.jpg (114KB - 170 downloads) RipleysNiagraFalls.jpg (71KB - 166 downloads) | ||
vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | Wantagh,Long Island NY 1961 (CarvelWantaghLINY1961.jpg) (Cherrywood1961WantaghLINY.jpg) (WantaghTheater1961LINY.jpg) Attachments ---------------- CarvelWantaghLINY1961.jpg (145KB - 183 downloads) Cherrywood1961WantaghLINY.jpg (143KB - 168 downloads) WantaghTheater1961LINY.jpg (137KB - 172 downloads) | ||
vedette |
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Expert Posts: 3068 Location: Scotland | Milk Farm,Dixon CA 1960 (MilkFarmDixonCA1960.jpg) Attachments ---------------- MilkFarmDixonCA1960.jpg (67KB - 177 downloads) | ||
D500Jim |
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Expert Posts: 1363 Location: Apeldoorn, Netherlands | 1960 Imperial Crown Southampton at Hi-Ho Motel in Fort Worth, Texas (Imperial ForwardLook postcards) | ||
hemidave |
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Expert Posts: 4654 | My last pic for a while....until we complete our 30hr trip to FL Sandra Dee (SandraDee.jpg) Attachments ---------------- SandraDee.jpg (39KB - 178 downloads) | ||
Ray Bell |
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Expert Posts: 2473 Location: Dalveen, Queensland, Australia | Vedette, that blue car in front of the Milk Farm is a Nice Thing! Are the extra strips aftermarket, or are they factory? What model is it? | ||
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