Wagons in vintage Street scenes

Don't let Ian see #1692!

 

Thank You All

I have only gotten through about an eighth of this thread and I just had to state...AMAZING.

Every post has brought a giant smile to my face! What an incredible journey this is.

If only Detroit would bring back a retro version of these (yes I know Dodge already has the Magnum...but come on Ford and GM!)

 

Frontier Town near Helena Montana 1964....

 

(2 pics) Devils Slide, Dune State Park, Chesterton Indiana 1958....

 

1983 Pic, No Location. This pic mite as well be where I live, back then a Old 50's/60's car in a scene like this was all to common. And a wagon in the back 40


This is a good read in the link....

Quote...
This page is for pictures of the cops. In the '50s they were called Air Police.
[SIZE=+1]In the late 60s the name changed to Security Police. In the 90s they are called[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]Security Forces. Whatever the politically correct title of the moment, for most of us,[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]they were the cops. We loved them when we needed them, but the rest of the time[/SIZE]
[SIZE=+1]they were someone to be wary of. This is for them, and all they did to keep us safe.[/SIZE]

http://zcap.freeyellow.com/aCops1.html

 

1964 New York World's Fair, Shea Stadium post card....



US model wagon in Gemany, 1980's.....


Alaska, Independence Mine Ski Resort, Independence Mine Ski Facility, Hatcher Pass........

http://www.alsap.org/Independence/Independence.htm

 

The family wagons life

This good, The link will be at the bottom but I am posting exactly how the Auther did.

History: The Family Car




[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]The old and the new: November 1964 - United Airlines maintenance parking lot, San Francisco International Airport[/FONT]
In 1964 I was three years old. My parents purchased a new car. As befitting a very typical middle-class family, the car was a very typical middle-class piece of hardware for the era: a 1964 Country Sedan station wagon in Wimbledon White, carrying a 300-horsepower 390 under the hood, and manual drum brakes under each fender.
For the next fourteen years, the new and eventually not-so-new Country Sedan bore up under thousands of shopping trips, reliably handled numerous vacations, survived my learning to drive it, and generally did about what it was bought to do. A review of garage receipts from these years show, though, that by modern standards cars of the '60s were very maintenance intensive: frequent oil changes, chassis lube jobs, and brake adjustments were the order of the day, and by 80,000 miles the MS Galaxie had needed a valve job and was on its third master cylinder!

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Santa Cruz, California, 1965[/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Wasatch Mountains along I-80, 1969[/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica]The fish pond: near Gibbon, Nebraska, 1969[/FONT]​

In 1978 the old beast of burden was handed off to my brother, where it served to shuttle his family around for a while. It left California for Illinois in the early 80s where it was, fortunately, kept garaged in winter; returning to California three years later to spend years locked up in a moving-company warehouse, and several more years in a relative's garage. In 1994 this very patient individual rightfully decided she had better things to do with the space; I then trailered the beast back to the Bay Area.

The car's condition now? Not perfect, not awful. The car has never been badly bent, though the left front fender carries the scars of some tremendously bad bodywork (the aftereffects of some teenage stupidity on the part of Your Humble Author).

[FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Not my favorite picture: 1977[/FONT][FONT=Arial,Helvetica]Between warehouse and friendly garage: 1988[/FONT]​

The paint has seen better days, there's minor surface rust as well as a few small dents (a legacy of having been used as something of a shelf while in storage) in the roof. The front edge of the hood was thumped slightly by the shipping firm that carted the car back West from Illinois. And then there's the interior, which suffered some water damage over the years. One minor triumph: it has never been registered outside California and still has its original yellow-on-black plates.
http://www.milleredp.com/~jem/galaxie/history.html

 

Law enforcement officers and investigators look over damage caused by natural gas explosion at Boeing Plant II. Blast was in electrical cable manhole in parking lot between Oliver Street and plant. One picket for striking members of International Association of Machinists received abrasions from flying debris. Photograph taken September 21, 1965.








No link attached for pics below, content was'nt the best.


Has Anyone Ever Seen This, or Know About It?

Death of the Ghost Parking Lot





After years of wanting to see The Ghost Parking Lot (Hamden CT) for myself, I wandered up Rt 10 north today in search of my quarry.

Beckoned by Marshalls and PetCo, I wandered into the Hamden Shopping Plaza. And what do I see to the right of the entrance of Marshalls?

Several photographs of The Ghost Parking Lot, 1978 – 2003.

Onother pic of the Gohst parking lot




Horsefall Dunes Oregon 1966...











Peeling Project
Best Products, Richmond, Va.
1970-72
Brick, Sarabond mortar, steel plate and ribbing

This retail appliance center was a dull rectangular brick building facing the Midlothian Turnpike and surrounded by an asphalt parking lot. The careful superimposition of a "peeling" façade-made to appear an intrinsic part of the structure-transformed a mundane site into a visual phenomenon based on ambiguity and fantasy.

 

1951 Ford hearse, unknown Australian body maker. Car show in supermarket parking lot in metro Melbourne 1974. Car next to it appears to be same model and the one after that a few years newer ambulance.





What wagon?, where?



Parking lot, Grissom High School, Huntsville, Alabama. ca 1977