PLAY The “vintage” thread

Dennis Olson

Dennis Olson

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Hi! I was spinning through some of the groups I belong to on FaceBorg, and I had an idea. Let’s have a thread on “vintage” stuff. What do I mean? Pics of vintage cars, planes, houses, equipment, cityscapes, etc. Anything. Stories told to you about bygone days (please have the courtesy to add paragraph breaks). Stories of your own bygone days.

I don’t care how far back you go, but please keep your content from the 1970’s or EARLIER. Please try to vary your contributions. I don’t want a thread full of only old cars, or old buildings, or old whatever. Please try to change it up. I love this vintage stuff. And - NO ARGUING OR NEGATIVE VIBES ON THIS THREAD. Thanks!

I’ll start.


Milk delivery by dog cart, circa 1910. This was taken at the intersection of Ventura Blvd. and Lankershim Blvd. in San Fernando Valley, California. The milkman is pouring milk into a pitcher.
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Firebird III concept car
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GPS as envisioned in the 1940’s
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Rolls Royce Phantom II round door coupe
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Blacknarwhal

Blacknarwhal

Let's Go Brandon!
Dennis Olson said:
While we’re talking about entertainment, mention must go to the old Johnny Quest and Space Ghost cartoons.
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Space Ghost? Can do.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC5TOjSlMPo&list=PLLhOnau-tupRymfKroi67vGdPS8pyjwJA
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Looks like most of them are on this playlist.

Johnny Quest, not so much.

Course, come to think of it...

Got some Space Stars here

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hbz8OL3kYyk&list=PLLhOnau-tupSaTfVn57y8QU0PpAR2GTc_


Looks like most of the Drak Pack here

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3915Iat3Mc&list=PLLhOnau-tupQ-DdoJFEE1WP5E6UJFm_ea


1967 Spider-Man

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok76JIjSmIA&list=PLMl_DDLcda7K1adzV626053b3ohVchN6w


A lot of the Super Seven here

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SO5Ffe2f4xg&list=PL0eJiKD1z71QkCC8fbUI2SEIlcpUuraWH


And, well, at this point, you can go ahead and fill in your own blanks.

Hit YouTube, and put, in quotes, "(series name) Full Episodes"

YouTube is shockingly good with preserving old television. Especially stuff from the 70s and 80s that were really only preserved by VHS tape.
 
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Txkstew

Txkstew

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Old thread of mine with vintage farm equipment.

Tools - Farm Equipment of Old (pics)

When I was a youngin, back in 1961, we lived in Cartersville Ga. My Dad was the Chief Electrical Engineer at the nearby Alatoona Dam. This is about 35 miles North of Atlanta. One weekend, we went to a Farm Festival somewhere nearby. These are some pics of the very cool restored equipment. They...
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DFENZ

DFENZ

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I remember the sound of the big one as the city's noon whistle when I was growing up. I stumbled onto it on Craigslist a few years ago but now it mostly sits on my hearth. I take it outside to blow it using air every now and then to keep my zip code on their toes.

It's a 10" (diameter) Lunkenheimer, 3-chime, with a 2-1/2" steam supply pipe. Required a 1/4 ton of coal to generate enough steam to blow it for 10 minutes. When I blow it using my 250-gallon air tank it will exhaust to a whisper in about 3 seconds. It can be heard moaning for at least 10 miles.

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Hognutz

Hognutz

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DFENZ said:
I remember the sound of the big one as the city's noon whistle when I was growing up. I stumbled onto it on Craigslist a few years ago but now it mostly sits on my hearth. I take it outside to blow it using air every now and then to keep my zip code on their toes.

It's a 10" (diameter) Lunkenheimer, 3-chime, with a 2-1/2" steam supply pipe. Required a 1/4 ton of coal to generate enough steam to blow it for 10 minutes. When I blow it using my 250-gallon air tank it will exhaust to a whisper in about 3 seconds. It can be heard moaning for at least 10 miles.

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Nice! I got something similar!
 
coalcracker

coalcracker

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The town where I grew up, Ashland PA, had two Catholic Churches. Back in the 1800s, one was filled with Irish coal-working immigrants and the other with German immigrants.

Here is a picture of the steeple of St. Mauritius (the German congregation) which was built upon a hill and rose above the town. Sadly, the church has been demolished and is no longer there, but as a child in the 1960s, I remember how this church would toll the bells on every hour, day and night, to announce the time. Additionally, after some poor soul died and the funeral service had ended, well, “ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee!” The whole town knew it.

What a wonderful time and place to grow up, to be a kid.

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colonel holman

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A old church in CT was built directly over a colonial era cemetery such that it enclosed in its basement old gravestones from the 1600’s-1700’s. It protected these stone from the elements, preserving the artistic integrity of the stone carvings to appear exactly as they did back in the 1700’s. Planning a roadtrip to check this out.
 

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West

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Been known to restore old wood and coal stoves that look like many of the stoves at this really well but together website:

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Antique Wood & Coal Stoves & Ranges - Good Time Stove Company

Antique Wood & Coal Cook Stoves Single Oven Wood/Coal Cook Stoves - Current Inventory Each Stove Individually Assembled by Craftsmen in the Stove Industry Glenwood Sunny (Modern) Oakland R (Brown) Glenwood C (black) Barstow Victor Duchess (Gray) Glenwood N (Gray) We Strongly Suggest That You...
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But I don't restore the newer porcelain stoves manufactured after the 1920s. I like the older ones even better.

One of my favorite is the Round Oak Parlor Stoves like this one...
 

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colonel holman

colonel holman

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You want old? This is old. Paleo spear or atlatl point, aged about 12,000 years, from the Vail kill site in Maine near my home. They found hundreds of stone kill and butcher tools where caribou were ambushed, at the foot of a receding glacier as the last ice age melted back. Near my favorite salmon/trout fishing site
 

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