greg g Posted November 24, 2009 Report Posted November 24, 2009 Picked up from another site that LIFE magazine photo archives have been made public and are on the web courtesy of google. Most are unpublished. Gonna be some serious time wasted here. Just went to the site and typed in trucks in the key word search and this popped up under the sub tag of Detroit trucks. There is a mess of these, MOPARS, Hudsons, Ford, brand new Cowl and chassis for what could be a Dodge transit van, driving to the body works. This is bad folks, BAAAAAAD. http://images.google.com/hosted/life Quote
greg g Posted November 24, 2009 Author Report Posted November 24, 2009 Must be pretty early in the AM, the milkman is still out, check in the background. Dodge cabover, wonder whats in the trailer. This is gonna be baaad. Quote
Frank Ollian Posted November 24, 2009 Report Posted November 24, 2009 Pilot house doors on that trailer? Quote
Frank Elder Posted November 24, 2009 Report Posted November 24, 2009 Smushed p15....d25, maybe 2 on a ferry, this is awesome Greg thank you very much!!! Quote
BobT-47P15 Posted November 24, 2009 Report Posted November 24, 2009 Looks like a Dodge or DeSoto filling up here.......... Quote
PatS.... Posted November 24, 2009 Report Posted November 24, 2009 Oh ya...BAD! But thanks a million, Greg! Paris 1951...Suburban right in the middle of it. Quote
PatS.... Posted November 24, 2009 Report Posted November 24, 2009 (edited) 51 Street toward 6 Ave NYC 1945 What make is the car behind the SHEINS EXPRESS truck? Looks the same as the one closest partially out of frame. Checker Cabs? EDIT>>>A check of Google street veiw of this location today shows nothing left of the buildings in this picture, but explains all the cabs. This is directly in front of the Radio City Music Hall This picture looks to have been taken from the canopy above RCMH main doors. I wonder how many celebs are leaving the Hall in those cabs??? Edited November 24, 2009 by PatS.... Quote
greg g Posted November 24, 2009 Author Report Posted November 24, 2009 Yep checkers and Desoto skyviews. Notice the moon roofs. The fancy checkers are 37 or 38. They had a retractable roof over the passenger seat for open air transpor in nice weather. Check them out http://www.coachbuilt.com/bui/c/checker/checker.htm Quote
norrism1 Posted November 25, 2009 Report Posted November 25, 2009 At the Elbe river. Export. Not sure which way the cars are going.MoPar waiting it's turn It's coming toward the viewer. Cars are facing in direction driven onto ferry. Quote
greg g Posted November 26, 2009 Author Report Posted November 26, 2009 Looks like a very apt title.............. Quote
greg g Posted November 26, 2009 Author Report Posted November 26, 2009 How did they know what country she was from???? Quote
Don Coatney Posted November 26, 2009 Report Posted November 26, 2009 How did they know what country she was from???? Who cares:D Quote
Niel Hoback Posted November 26, 2009 Report Posted November 26, 2009 Miss Lube Job reminds me of that 55 Buick I had. She just isn't chromed in the right places. Quote
pflaming Posted November 26, 2009 Report Posted November 26, 2009 The one with the Dodge Truck, the '50 Ford car and the horse drawn milk wagon is really something. To use the horse made sense because, like picking corn, the milkman would not have to get in after ever so many stops. Neat Pics. Quote
greg g Posted November 26, 2009 Author Report Posted November 26, 2009 When I was a kid, a similar horsedrawn vehicle was used to deliver milk in my Grandmother's ciy neighbor hood. Back in the days of the door in the side of the house, or the metal box on the porch. The horse knew all the stops on the route, so the delivery man would send him to the next place while he finished up the previous locatioins. If he wanted the horse to stay put for a while, he had a leather covered weighted bag on a snap on lead he would conect to the bit and drop on the ground. Probably only used it for the stores on teh route or his "breakfast" at the neighborhood tavern. Quote
Don Coatney Posted November 26, 2009 Report Posted November 26, 2009 (edited) When I was a kid living on the east side of Indianapolis not far from VanBuskirks we not only had the horse drawn milk wagon but also the "rag" and "pots and pans" wagons. The drivers of both would call out in a bellowing voice to announce there wares. The rag man collected rags to re-cycle into something and the pot man had pots and pans for sale. We also had the traveling pony picture guy as did Neil Hoback Edited November 26, 2009 by Don Coatney Quote
greg g Posted November 27, 2009 Author Report Posted November 27, 2009 Our neighborhood was so poor I had my picture taken sitting astride the knife sharpeners wheel. Quote
PatS.... Posted November 27, 2009 Report Posted November 27, 2009 Miss Lube Job reminds me of that 55 Buick I had. She just isn't chromed in the right places. HeHeHe...I was reminded of my Uncles 56 Coupe de Ville Quote
B-Watson Posted November 27, 2009 Report Posted November 27, 2009 Nash had a sweet set-up for traveling. No motel for this guy.Another pic shows the family of 3 utilizing the 1948 Nash. It is actually a 1949 Airflyte model, although perhaps taken in late 1948. The pre-1949 models had the rear seat folding up using the trunk floor area as part of the bed. Bill Vancouver, BC Quote
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