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hemidenis
Posted 2016-02-21 12:22 AM (#504745 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-21 6:44 AM (#504757 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-21 9:20 AM (#504763 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-21 1:00 PM (#504776 - in reply to #504745)
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Someone please find a FL car here or I would never go to Florida again...


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With convertible versions of 59 Chev, Pontiac, Olds (2), 58-9 T-bird, 55 Chev, 58 Buick,
I am at a loss for why anyone would need to see a Forward Look car. Would be nice, but
these are all top flite fin era cars.

Exner oversaw some real duds and the Brand X boys had some real good ones too.
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wizard
Posted 2016-02-21 1:36 PM (#504779 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-21 2:11 PM (#504782 - in reply to #504745)
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hemidenis - 2016-02-21 12:22 AM

Someone please find a FL car here or I would never go to Florida again...


you can go to florida again. sitting in the drivers seat of the square bird , look behind you to the right, at 4 o clock. looks like a fl, maybe 57 plymouth.
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Posted 2016-02-21 2:17 PM (#504783 - in reply to #504763)
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crazy pictures! different than the postcards (that are great too) thanks!

odd car that 58 firesweep ht, rarely seen when new and this one is a solid white 4 d hardtop.
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Posted 2016-02-21 7:53 PM (#504797 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: New Castle PA		Went to my elderly mom's house last week, and gathered up a bunch of old photos. No wisecracks, please! The very handsome young man and the attractive young lady are ME and my SISTER, many moons ago! Picture was taken in my hometown of Donora, PA. I don't think I'm that bow-legged any more!



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wizard
Posted 2016-02-22 1:34 AM (#504811 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island		Perhaps not that bow-legged Edward, but you still have the same pants

Joke aside - thanks' for sharing those nice photos
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Posted 2016-02-22 7:40 AM (#504815 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Georgia		Terrific photos Edward! Was the DeSoto a family car or just in the background by chance?

Here's a Chicago scene in the mid-1960s.
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Posted 2016-02-22 7:50 AM (#504820 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: New Castle PA		Pete, I don't "remember" that car being in my immediate family. Directly across the street from this picture, to MY left as I stood there, was a school, and often teachers parked in front of my parents' home while they were in the building, so it could have been a teacher's car (although in June, school would likely not be in session). My mom doesn't remember the car, and there's no one left who is old enough to know.

Wiz, you're RIGHT about me having the same shorts. I think I used them yesterday -- to scrub a floor! LOL!
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hemidave
Posted 2016-02-22 11:39 AM (#504838 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-22 11:58 AM (#504840 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-22 6:58 PM (#504896 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Scotland		Thankfully the Arabian/Middle Eastern car buyers of the time had much better taste than their American counterparts and chose The Forward Look in much greater numbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoN45z15My4



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hemidenis
Posted 2016-02-22 10:06 PM (#504909 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Northen Virginia		Edward, those pictures are great, that Desoto was pretty old back then.
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Posted 2016-02-23 5:43 AM (#504930 - in reply to #504896)
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vedette - 2016-02-23 3:58 AM
Thankfully the Arabian/Middle Eastern car buyers of the time had much better taste than their American counterparts and chose The Forward Look in much greater numbers.


I doubt their car culture was so thin, that there were not car guys to save these cars to this day and they just throw them away after few years of service
plus there were wars and other conflicts stirring the pack.. The lack of service and parts availability blessed the rest...



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Posted 2016-02-23 6:28 AM (#504932 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Fleetwood, Pa		"Thankfully the Arabian/Middle Eastern car buyers of the time had much better taste than their American counterparts and chose The Forward Look in much greater numbers"

That's probably because they were built better for export and they didn't leak as much......no, wait, maybe it's because it doesn't rain over there.....
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Posted 2016-02-23 6:35 AM (#504934 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-23 9:37 AM (#504946 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-24 10:58 AM (#505050 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-24 11:55 AM (#505053 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-24 1:36 PM (#505063 - in reply to #504896)
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vedette - 2016-02-22 6:58 PM

Thankfully the Arabian/Middle Eastern car buyers of the time had much better taste than their American counterparts and chose The Forward Look in much greater numbers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoN45z15My4


Could this be the same car? Silvery sold from Finland to Denmark and was then sold again, but no one seem to know where?
Can it ended up in the Middle East?



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Posted 2016-02-25 8:46 AM (#505135 - in reply to #81647)
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hemidave
Posted 2016-02-26 9:04 AM (#505245 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-26 12:35 PM (#505268 - in reply to #505245)
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Posted 2016-02-27 8:50 AM (#505322 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-28 8:56 AM (#505394 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-29 9:13 AM (#505473 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-02-29 5:51 PM (#505505 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-03-01 9:33 AM (#505560 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-03-02 11:35 AM (#505632 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-03-02 1:10 PM (#505638 - in reply to #505632)
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Dave --
I'm not certain, but that one photo sure looks like the top of Pikes Peak.
Any info on it?
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Posted 2016-03-02 3:57 PM (#505653 - in reply to #505638)
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Dave --
I'm not certain, but that one photo sure looks like the top of Pikes Peak.


It sure does, Joe... I didn't notice at first...

I'd say it's looking North and the building is the railroad station. This pic looks across more to the west, cutting right across that scene:




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Posted 2016-03-02 5:21 PM (#505660 - in reply to #505653)
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Ray Bell - 2016-03-02 3:57 PM

Originally posted by Sonoramic60
Dave --
I'm not certain, but that one photo sure looks like the top of Pikes Peak.


It sure does, Joe... I didn't notice at first...

I'd say it's looking North and the building is the railroad station. This pic looks across more to the west, cutting right across that scene:


Yes, and the strange thing in the original photo is the plane on the top right. I wonder if it was transported up there on a trailer.....
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Posted 2016-03-02 6:41 PM (#505665 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-03-02 8:59 PM (#505683 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-03-02 9:55 PM (#505690 - in reply to #505660)
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Dave and Ray --
I wondered about that thing up there on the top right of the photo as well because it "shore nuff" does look like an aircraft, especially like the old F-86 Sabre. I think the newest cars up there are '59s, so the pic may have taken about the summer of that year. That was about the time that most of the Air Force Academy was being constructed and the North American Air Defense Command (now North American Aerospace Defense Command), or NORAD, was becoming fully operational, so it may have been some publicity regarding one or both of the two. I've got to see if there are any local history buffs who may have some info.
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Posted 2016-03-03 3:14 AM (#505713 - in reply to #81647)
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Location: Dorset, England		There appear to be several of the same model of black Cadillac sedan in the Pikes Peak car park. Were they a taxi service for folks who couldn't face the challenge of driving to the summit?
And what is the square thing on the roof of one of them?
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Posted 2016-03-03 3:52 AM (#505715 - in reply to #81647)
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Eight Cadillac Fleetwood 75 LWB sedans or limousines. I know there used to be a cog railway up the mountain, but these cars were probably used to bring people up, and down, the mountain.

The square thing on the roof may be a glass/plastic panel.
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Posted 2016-03-03 10:08 AM (#505730 - in reply to #81647)
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Some history of that plane on Pikes Peak. In 1958 it was placed there on display by the Air Force Association. After being vandalized, it was removed in 1964, and was damaged in transit ( it fell off the trailer on the way down) and was buried somewhere on the mountain. Almost forty years later in 2003, it was discovered when workers unearthed it digging in a gravel pit, then hauled it away for scrap!
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Posted 2016-03-03 1:48 PM (#505739 - in reply to #505730)
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Dave --
Very interesting. My first trip up The Peak was in 1957 and so I wouldn't have seen it then. I didn't return to the top until the '70s, so I missed it again. We have been living here in the Springs since '81, but any info on rediscovering the aircraft remains slipped by. Thanks for the info.
Bill --
The cog railway is still alive and well but I think the scenery is much better on the highway which, incidently, is now paved all the way up. The cog and the limos are for the "flatland touristers" who shy away from mountain driving. Even at that, it seems I run across at least one car with lowland plates using the brakes going UPHILL!. The brake checking station at Glen Cove, even in this day of disks, reeks of burned brake material.
Doc --
There have been numerous aircraft landings all over the Rockies at various levels. And, as you said, almost all of them have been hard -- VERY HARD!
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Posted 2016-03-03 5:33 PM (#505752 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-03-03 7:37 PM (#505758 - in reply to #505743)
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Doctor DeSoto - 2016-03-03 3:48 PM

I am fuzzy on the specifics, but a historic hotel in the Springs ran a fleet of Pierce Arrow
limos for taking guests up Pike's Peak in the 1910's and 1920's. At least one of these
ended up as the base for one of the Rio Grande Southern's famous "Galloping Geese".


The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs.

The Pierce Arrow cars were used to take visitors to a number of locations in the area. By 1928 the hotel had sixty Pierce Arrow cars in service. Starting in 1932 they began replacing the Pierce Arrow cars with Cadillacs.

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skyhawk
Posted 2016-03-03 9:53 PM (#505765 - in reply to #505690)
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Sonoramic60 - 2016-03-02 9:55 PM

Dave and Ray --
I wondered about that thing up there on the top right of the photo as well because it "shore nuff" does look like an aircraft, especially like the old F-86 Sabre. I think the newest cars up there are '59s, so the pic may have taken about the summer of that year. That was about the time that most of the Air Force Academy was being constructed and the North American Air Defense Command (now North American Aerospace Defense Command), or NORAD, was becoming fully operational, so it may have been some publicity regarding one or both of the two. I've got to see if there are any local history buffs who may have some info.
Joe


Here's a link to the story on that airplane at the top of Pikes Peak. dc

http://www.westsidepioneer.com/Articles/030906/CobwebCorners.html
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Posted 2016-03-04 9:16 AM (#505808 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-03-04 9:41 AM (#505812 - in reply to #81647)
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Posted 2016-03-04 5:22 PM (#505844 - in reply to #81647)
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I wonder how they did that? A huge light would ruin the picture on the screen, but without light the distant cars and the steam engine wouldn't be showing at all...

Maybe a pre-set spotlight that didn't allow light onto the big screen?
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Doctor DeSoto
Posted 2016-03-04 10:09 PM (#505872 - in reply to #505844)
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Location: Parts Unknown		O. Winston Link is responsible for this photo and many others for the Norfolk & Western.

Read about it here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O._Winston_Link
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