Some old Photos for your enjoyment

[Bret4207]

I've always had a thing for the "Gibson Girl" photos and paintings. Idealized and very posed I know, but I always found them very feminine and attractive. Some of the other stuff from that era, or worse, the "Flappers" of the '20's just put me off my feed! There was a period between the Gibson Girl era and the WW2 ear that just took all the female out of the ladies IMO. Of course these days seems half the ladies are dudes, so...I guess it's no better.

 

[Rally]

But I bet there is no silicone present in those ladies!

 

[JWFilips]

Car wrecks...yes shorpy.com has them!

"Auto wreck, Washington, circa 1917." D.C. license plate number for this car: 26. National Photo Company Collection glass negative.

 

[JWFilips]

I just would like to know what speed he was driving at!

 

[JWFilips]

Now this is a mess ( from shorpy.com):
1923. Assistant Postmaster General John Bartlett's car in Washington after an accident. Bartlett, a former governor of New Hampshire, survived. Details of the wreck, unfortunately, did not. National Photo Co. Collection.

 

[Missionary]

As badly as those vehicles have been bashed there was no fire !
Did you also notice the bulk of those men appear as though they could walk a good ways and survive the ordeal.

 

[popper]

Rim is broken so he/she did a spin into something.

 

[david s]

First vehicle looks like it got T Boned. Both rear wheels damaged by the curb going sideways.

 

[JWFilips]

Popper... I guess they are legal now!

 

[popper]

Jw her relatives from the 20s in their fancy western garb.

 

[Bret4207]

However he came to be in the accident, the marks on the ground and the sidewalk show it went in the direction the wheels indicate. But the honkin' big rope make me think this is well after the accident and that it got pulled there out of the road. Pretty common to get the wreck out of the road to allow traffic to pass.

 

[Brad]

I just would like to know what speed he was driving at!

They just don’t build em like they used to

 

[Hawk]

 

[Hawk]

 

[waco]

I wish I still had all the cool cap guns from my childhood.

 

[Hawk]

They will probably be outlawed in a couple of years.
Training killers!

 

[Bret4207]

I had one of those pens. I was soooooooo cool! Of course, I had to take it apart. I didn't have that pen after that...

 

[Rick H]

My Grandfather used to work for a company "Wyandotte Toys" they made some of those guns, still have a few. These are from the early 1950's. The Buck Rogers looking thing is a squirt gun.

 

[obssd1958]

That ain't Buck Roger's, that's a High Point!!

 

[popper]

remember these?