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Showing posts with label Buick. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Buick. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 2, 2011
the 1920s photos from fuckyeah1920s.tumblr have such a wide variety, from celebrities as Laurel and Hardy, Harold Llyod, Buster Keaton, and Babe Ruth, to kids with pedal cars (it's like Shorpy!)
0 comments Posted by st at 7:50 PM
The wonderful Laurel and Hardy
League against indecent bathers.... really. Some people had nothing bettter to do than interrupt total strangers enjoying a swim.
I've never seen a tool like that. Obviously there were better wrenches at the time, but I'm glad to have found this photo of an unusual obsolete tool
Motocycle chariots!
1922 French Gran Prix
At Western and 11th in 1925 Los Angeles
Emergency landing in Teheran 1927
Harold Llyod in "Hot Water" 1924
Jack Donovan in 1928 with his DeLage and the house that was the result of a huge Hollywood scandal (a level equivalent to George Clooney sueing Jennifer Aniston)
Jack Donovan was an actor, producer, architect, yachtsman, lifesaver, civil plaintiff, criminal defendant, bon vivant, playboy, mama’s boy, father, illegal landlord, spousal abuser, aviator, mental patient, perpetual litigant, animal lover, cafe proprietor, writer, Chairman of the Santa Monica Red Cross
this auction page is part of a huge 4 part report about the Donovan - Murray scandal and lawsuits at http://paradiseleased.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/the-houses-that-jack-built-part-i/
Santa drives a Packard! Macy's in New York 1925
Marion Davies, 1924 "The Cardboard Lover" what in the heck is she sitting in? That is TINY
Marion Davies again
Lemonade and sandwich vendor
Look at the incredible reflection in that cars paint.. wow
Pretty cool to find a photo of the Spirit of St Louis getting lettered
Babe Ruth
Wow, luxury bus!
That is one monster huge car!
A ford dealership and gas station... the sign over the rear bumper says, "Gas strictly cash"
San Francisco parade, looks like Model T's under the facade of early tanks... pretty cool!
Mary Astor on the set of the movie "Sea Tiger" 1927
terrific dairy delivery trucks... lettered Cab A and Cab B... notice the small opera side windows to the right of the drivers side curtain window, and no side mirrors
road sign painters
Buick sales and service
that car's hood is as high as his shoulder!
I've seen huge front shocks like that before on Grahams
Been a while since youve seen dog carts I bet
Citreon
trying to compete with horses on the jump track?
Should need no caption to tell you what that streamliner is... looks longer than a bus from the same year
Some early kind of carnival ride I think
Miss Bradley has her very own pet deer. Beverly Hills, 1927
Saturday, July 23, 2011
Motoring Magazine and Motor Life, 1913, and available online to read at your leisure
0 comments Posted by st at 10:12 PM
I enjoy reflecting on the cars of 100 years ago, it's amazing that they were all simple enough for a gearhead like me to work on, repair, or improve on.
What do you make of the above tire covers? A primitive retread? And that company name, Leather Tire Goods... what leather tire goods did they make?
I think I've pointed out several times that roads were so bad that tires were lucky to last a couple thousand miles, just last week I found a photo of a the "3000 mile club" tires that were amazing enough to get that kind of recognition.
the above is a Winton
look through the 6 issues on http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22Automobiles%20--%20Periodicals%22
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