Great Old Pictures

[mrtexas]

I was looking for pictures of my grandfather Frank who was a doughboy in WW1 as I am watching WW1 on TV today. I ran across this. This is my grandfather Bernard and Dad now aged 97 in Montana in front of his country store.

Dad is the older one at 10 or 11. Store is still there in Gold Creek, MT. Grandpa sold it around 35 years ago. I think this is in 1931. After a Model T grandpa didn't own a Ford until 1940. Dad's cousin still owns the ranch behind the store. The ranch across the street owned by another cousin was sold to the Mennonites. Amazingly enough both my grandfathers/grandmothers were born in the 1890s before the automobile!

What make/year is this car? Hint not Ford

[duke36]

looks like a chevy, 29 ?

[Tom Wesenberg]

I was also thinking a 29 or 30 Chevy.

[jimalabam]

Re. Duke & Tom: '29 "Chevie"Two-Door...

[JDupuis]

Are the Children in the 2nd picture all wearing Texaco Fire Chief helmets?
( I have one). If so what brand of fuel was the station? I don't recognize the logo on the first picture. Canada had some different brands from USA.
Also 1929 Chev. . Jeff

[ericr]

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great photos. and naturally men had on suits, ties and hats. Even gangsters of the era.

I can't help to compare it to today with jeans with holes in them, sleeveless t-shirts in restaurants (boy is that appetizing), flip-flops instead of shoes, 3-day beard growth, etc.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Uncle "Pappy" & I did a WINTER trip from California to Oklahoma, in a '29 Chev Fordor! UNEVENTFUL trip, except lost an outside, front wheel bearing in Kingman, Arizona.
Bill Cold

[hardtimes]

Originally Posted by ericr

great photos. and naturally men had on suits, ties and hats. Even gangsters of the era.

I can't help to compare it to today with jeans with holes in them, sleeveless t-shirts in restaurants (boy is that appetizing), flip-flops instead of shoes, 3-day beard growth, etc.

Amen to these statements ! I'm sure that a shrink could make a whole career out of explaining....the 'why' of this situation !

Yup, '29 Chev tudor. Had one , not in such pristine condition, but with the solid wheels. Still have a couple to those wheels...and a box full of chev parts, including an nos carb. That six OHV engine ran like singer !!

[Jeff/Illinois]

Originally Posted by ericr

great photos. and naturally men had on suits, ties and hats. Even gangsters of the era.

I can't help to compare it to today with jeans with holes in them, sleeveless t-shirts in restaurants (boy is that appetizing), flip-flops instead of shoes, 3-day beard growth, etc.

eric times 10 on that statement. Add to that the plethora of tattoos and body piercings and girls walking around with shirts that have the 'F' word in capital letters on them, tomorrow's mothers. I see nothing but bad coming down the line at us. We have really turned into a trashy bunch of idiots in this country.

On another note, neat photos!! Top pic with the Conoco globe, pump is a Gilbert and Barker T-176 from 1927-1928, bottom photo left pump is another G&B T-176 pump on right hand side is a Wayne Cut 615 visible also dates from 1927-1929 era. Great pumps and globes. Highly collectible. They look great restored with a globe on top lit up at nite.

[31 Model A]

Originally Posted by Jeff/Illinois

. I see nothing but bad coming down the line at us. We have really turned into a trashy bunch of idiots in this country.
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BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Very embarrassing for our nationality, IMO. Every country has their idiots but it seems our cup runneth over!!

[juke joint johnny]

Great Photo's Thanks for posting. Is that Red and White Gasoline on the store front sign?

Don't think that you have the Monopoly on the bad dress sence in the USA
as we have plenty in the UK like that too. How about the ones who wear shorts in the coldest weather to show off the tatoo's on their legs!!

Or the ones blindly walking looking at a phone screen not knowing if they are walking into traffic or some other dangerous situation or even being followed by some Gorilla who may do them harm

It's a funny old world!! I'm just glad I have a few A's to escape reality in .

John Cochran

[woodiewagon46]

The second post card with the children would be post 1932. If you look closely at the picture it has a Texaco Fire Chief banner that came out in '32. I wonder what those fire helmets that the kids were wearing were made from? Probably a pressed paper product, I'm guessing.

[ericr]

part of the overall slobbiness in today's society is part peer pressure (it's trendy, to some, to appear unkempt) but also I think the overall decline in the economic environment causes part of it.

It seems that Mr. Ford had an obsession with cleanliness, both in his factory and on his railroad, and I suspect that travelling representatives harangued dealers about dirty shops and workers.

[reggiedog]

That's really nice I love the story also