Nova Jed
Reged: 10/08/07
Posts: 902
Loc: Reading PA
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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
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Jed 69,70,70,71 Nova's
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m22mike
Reged: 01/10/06
Posts: 748
Loc: North Canton Ohio
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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
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MagicRatt
journeyman
Reged: 01/30/05
Posts: 64
Loc: Phila area
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....dig the 73 impala police "undercover" car....
Rich
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Weekend driver 1970 SS396 Camaro
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StriperSS
addict
Reged: 02/20/06
Posts: 522
Loc: Summerland, BC, Canada
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....dig the 73 impala police "undercover" car....
Rich
And the taxi he pulled over was a previous RCMP car! 
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427TJ
Reged: 01/05/04
Posts: 3410
Loc: Seattle-Tacoma
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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:
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427TJ
Reged: 01/05/04
Posts: 3410
Loc: Seattle-Tacoma
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427TJ
Reged: 01/05/04
Posts: 3410
Loc: Seattle-Tacoma
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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:
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427TJ
Reged: 01/05/04
Posts: 3410
Loc: Seattle-Tacoma
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Wall Drug, SD, c1960 with '55 Crown Vic at lower left:
Williams Arizona Route 66:
Highway 299 through Willow Creek in northern California, c60:
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427TJ
Reged: 01/05/04
Posts: 3410
Loc: Seattle-Tacoma
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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.
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69belair
journeyman
Reged: 12/25/07
Posts: 60
Loc: ont cda
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Quote:
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....dig the 73 impala police "undercover" car....
Rich
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.
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