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To get into the Christmas spirit, we are going to post a series of photos over the next three days that were taken in Southern California between the years of 1925 and 1932. The lead photo above shows the opening celebration of the incredibly ornate and detailed Santa Claus display at a Van Fleet & Durkee Shell…
Winter officially starts tomorrow on December the 21st, which for those of us in the Northern Hemisphere is also the shortest day of the year. The Free Dictionary defines it as follows: “The coldest season of the year, occurring between autumn and spring and including the months of December, January, February, and March. A period…
About once every six months or so, we do a special feature called: Vintage Women and the Automobile and this time a few airplanes have been included. In No. III we have no special theme other than the the twenty-eight photos taken here in America, the UK, and Europe date from the teens’ and up…
If you like kids, this British Pathe video is special and shows a young girl taking a miniature automobile out for a ride. We do not know anything about the car other than the film identifies it as being one-h.p. It is dated 1931, but we would be surprised if that were the case as…
Hazel Eaton was young, and she was fearless. She was raised in South Portland, Maine and in 1910 at the age of only fifteen years old she ran away from home and joined a high dive act in Bangor, Maine. After diving and traveling with the Johnny Jones Exhibition for two years, she met Ira…
Two different Marmon Model 74 Touring cars and a bevy of beautiful show girls hard at work were used to produce this set of promotional photos for India Tires. The top two photos were taken at the Sea Breeze Beach Club, which appears to be in Huntington Beach, California. The bottom pair of photos were…
* Updated * Thanks to reader Tom M., the driver of the Duesenberg appears to have been identified as being Larry Stone, who was an I.M.C.A. driver. He won a 10-lap Invitational Handicap race held at the Kansas State Fairgrounds on September 22, 1922 with a Duesenberg, and also placed in forth with the car another…
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