Pony kegs!
The symbol on the nearer pump resembles the Texaco Star, but the farther one looks more like some Chinese pictogram.
And is the redhead in the front seat or the back? In between, mebbee (If the seats recline into a bed).
I think some (or maybe even most) of these are later than that… The punch out luggage tags and clip-on rings are that soft polyethylene that I don’t think was around yet, and some of the cartoon faces look like the 60s or 70s. Look at that booklet about inventions.
The metal stuff looks old enough… But I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those paper drink parasols in a box of Cracker Jack, and I’ve eaten a lot of them in my life.
For years I saved every prize, but I didn’t know where they are now. In the 80s they started all being paper junk, and now they’re just bits of paper with printed links to kid’s puzzles or games on websites. Boo!
Believe it or not, this is the face of the Statue of Liberty, which was shipped to the US from France, in 1885, in about 350 pieces.
The statue was created and temporarily assembled in France, but was obviously too big and heavy to ship that way, so she was disassembled and packed into over 200 wooden crates.
in this view, her 17 foot 3 inch copper face, modeled after the sculptor’s mother, has been uncrated, and is ready for assembly with the rest of her parts on Bedloe’s Island, since renamed Liberty Island, where it took months for workmen to put her all back together….
Like Humpty Dumpty, I guess, but more successfully.
I remember a bit later, when our family movie nights meant 2 adults in the front seat, and 3 little kids already in their pajamas in the back. Mom passing out individual Lifesavers and squares of a Hershey bar. Walking my sister on a gravel path to the rest room.
There are reportedly still some drive-ins today… But I don’t think any that trust you to hook up one of their speakers to your car.
Last I heard, they broadcast the sound to your car radio, which is why I never made it to one of the remaining ones, in Concord CA, when I was supposed to go there, around ten years ago. Luckily, I found that out in time… My car didn’t have a radio. (I still drive it, and it still doesn’t.)
I wonder whether there are ones now that you can hear with your smartphone… Maybe Bluetooth?
We have one just outside of Carthage. Always crowded.
And, yes, they broadcast to the car radio. Most smartphones have an FM radio app. I usually have a boombox to save on car battery.
The big problem is staying up that late.
I grew up in Hacienda Heights. Moved there in 1955. Threw papers there. Worked in a service station there. Met and married my wife there. We still live a few miles east of it. Haven’t been back in quite a few years, but drive past it on a freeway where we used to play and throw dirt clods before it was built.
Cool, but those places have nothing to do with Happy³s post. Many cities have car shows… and some start in public parks. My city does, usually in August, and the cars are displayed first in a small public park.
But unless he made a major move we didn’t hear about on Cleo, Happy³ lives in Oregon, not California.
His post is a picture of a “mobile park”, not a city park.
It’s a confusion in English. They don’t have much in the way of mobile parks in Europe… places where they rent permanent lots for people to live in mobile homes. Not trees and benches and picnic tables, and generally not public.
As far as I can tell, he took the pictures himself. When someone shows pics of a mobile park and says “the park” like that, it usually means “the mobile park where I live.”
But we saw pictures of the woodsy house he bought, not a mobile home.
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Handsome boy! Rather regal bearing, too.
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1931…. $3,745 was a LOT of money! More money than most people made in 2 years.
It was the Depression, and I know there were some new cars for $500.
No wonder they were known for little luxury touches.
Mr. AI was a little confused on this one
More AI cr*p… This one more obvious.
A giant stop sign on top… and try to read anything else.
Why is that fellow stroking those huge metal cans (which BTW are different sizes)? Never mind… AI doesn’t know.
not to mention the cars are parked perpendicular to the pumps
Pony kegs!
The symbol on the nearer pump resembles the Texaco Star, but the farther one looks more like some Chinese pictogram.
And is the redhead in the front seat or the back? In between, mebbee (If the seats recline into a bed).
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Geranium?
Looks like it to me.
1940s-50’s Cracker Jack prizes
I think some (or maybe even most) of these are later than that… The punch out luggage tags and clip-on rings are that soft polyethylene that I don’t think was around yet, and some of the cartoon faces look like the 60s or 70s. Look at that booklet about inventions.
The metal stuff looks old enough… But I don’t think I’ve ever seen one of those paper drink parasols in a box of Cracker Jack, and I’ve eaten a lot of them in my life.
For years I saved every prize, but I didn’t know where they are now. In the 80s they started all being paper junk, and now they’re just bits of paper with printed links to kid’s puzzles or games on websites. Boo!
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Does she look familiar?
Believe it or not, this is the face of the Statue of Liberty, which was shipped to the US from France, in 1885, in about 350 pieces.
The statue was created and temporarily assembled in France, but was obviously too big and heavy to ship that way, so she was disassembled and packed into over 200 wooden crates.
in this view, her 17 foot 3 inch copper face, modeled after the sculptor’s mother, has been uncrated, and is ready for assembly with the rest of her parts on Bedloe’s Island, since renamed Liberty Island, where it took months for workmen to put her all back together….
Like Humpty Dumpty, I guess, but more successfully.
Looks like Elvis…
the extra-chubby Las Vegas version
Yeah, that was my thought whenI scrolled up just the eyes.
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Chicago, 1951.
I remember a bit later, when our family movie nights meant 2 adults in the front seat, and 3 little kids already in their pajamas in the back. Mom passing out individual Lifesavers and squares of a Hershey bar. Walking my sister on a gravel path to the rest room.
There are reportedly still some drive-ins today… But I don’t think any that trust you to hook up one of their speakers to your car.
Last I heard, they broadcast the sound to your car radio, which is why I never made it to one of the remaining ones, in Concord CA, when I was supposed to go there, around ten years ago. Luckily, I found that out in time… My car didn’t have a radio. (I still drive it, and it still doesn’t.)
I wonder whether there are ones now that you can hear with your smartphone… Maybe Bluetooth?
There’s one in Oregon, Ohio.
and there might be one in Ohio, Oregon
We have one just outside of Carthage. Always crowded.
And, yes, they broadcast to the car radio. Most smartphones have an FM radio app. I usually have a boombox to save on car battery.
The big problem is staying up that late.
twin girls
There’s no birthdate for Minnie….but to be born the same year, I’m thinking they were probably twin sisters.
One lived 2 days, the other, 101 years.
Recognizable in both pictures… not just her facial features, but her long neck, and graceful carriage.
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LOL… more New York City dogs, from Elliott Erwitt.
They do say dogs and their owners grow to look alike.
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Problem solved!
Make it “Today only!” and they’ll all be gone within an hour.
Yesterday the park had its own parade. And a hotdog fest. I made myself go out and enjoy it!
Jeepster!
Most of the classic cars were from a local rod club.
Local rod club….. a hot one?
Cool cars.
The park? As in mobile?
I thought you lived in a house in the woods… did I miss something?
yes.
more info, please.
I grew up in Hacienda Heights. Moved there in 1955. Threw papers there. Worked in a service station there. Met and married my wife there. We still live a few miles east of it. Haven’t been back in quite a few years, but drive past it on a freeway where we used to play and throw dirt clods before it was built.
Cool, but those places have nothing to do with Happy³s post. Many cities have car shows… and some start in public parks. My city does, usually in August, and the cars are displayed first in a small public park.
But unless he made a major move we didn’t hear about on Cleo, Happy³ lives in Oregon, not California.
His post is a picture of a “mobile park”, not a city park.
It’s a confusion in English. They don’t have much in the way of mobile parks in Europe… places where they rent permanent lots for people to live in mobile homes. Not trees and benches and picnic tables, and generally not public.
As far as I can tell, he took the pictures himself. When someone shows pics of a mobile park and says “the park” like that, it usually means “the mobile park where I live.”
But we saw pictures of the woodsy house he bought, not a mobile home.
That’s why some of us are confused.
Flying Fox with baby.
Bunny, for Bunday.
Buffy Fish Owl, Malay fish owl (Ketupa ketupu).