Who said that you can't time travel? OT

[Niel Hoback]

  Ken, three of us stopped at a McDonalds on the way home from a civil war re-enactment, In uniform and equipped.  There were a lot of looks, but only one kid said anything to us.

 

[Niel Hoback]

Here's my fake old picture from last year.

[kented]

Awesome pictures. Im hoping to re-create something similar in the Vancouver area of Gastown, lots of cool alley's for photos. 

[Lumpy]

That's what I thought! You shook their very sense of reality down to the very core.

[47heaven]

Thanks so much for the photos, they are fantastic.  Here is one that I did last summer with my wife at an old farm nearby.  I know that my wheels aren't correct, but I had to share just the same.  I hope you don't mind, not trying to hijack your thread

Yes, you got the idea! No you're not hijacking it. What you posted is relevant.

[47heaven]

Really neat concept and you pulled it off very well. Biggest thing I see that looks out of place is the perfectly photoshopped white center line on the broken old pavement.

 

Have you thought about doing the same thing out a bit further in the desert? I believe that Box Canyon road between Mecca and Chiriaco Summit is an the old alignment of US60. . . http://www.aaroads.com/california/us-060_ca.html

Yes, Tod, the white line had to be photoshopped in because it would have been a pain in the a$$ to try to paint it. I could have gone with a little darker tint on the line on line, and worked with the cracks as well, but this was our first attempt.

The problem with going further in the desert is that the majority of the cars we can get for this belong to friends who live out more towards L.A., and that's quite a drive for them. They were fine with Whitewater, but that would have probably have been their limit. There is a strip of abandoned highway just south of where we were that was part of the old road to Palm Springs that came off of Highway 60. It was CA-111, just like it still is today. We were thinking of shooting down there sometime. Also, there is some old U.S. Highway 466 between Tehachapi and Bakersfield that is pre-1948. Not a lot of old abandoned highway out there that is still in decent shape or accessible anymore.

You were mentioning the piece of road between Mecca and Chiriaco Summit. It was U.S. 60 from 1931-1935, when it was bypassed, as seen in the map below. The majority of that 1935 bypass is covered up by I-10 today, except for Dillon Road, which you can still take from Indio to I-10.

[Lumpy]

Neil, now that reminds me....(this is off topic, right)....I was coming home from night-shift early one morning, (many moons ago) I live in a rural area, sun was barely up, and a little bit of ground fog. I passed this guy walking down the road, Union uniform, 1861 on his shoulder, (I love the 1861) all geared up, just walking down the road, way out in the boonies, no houses close by. I still wonder if it was a ghost, or a re-enactor. I'll never know!  Was truly kind of spooky.

 

ken.

[Niel Hoback]

   Probably a re-enactor.  Ghosts aren't crazy enough to walk around carrying a ten pound musket while wearing wool for no apparent reason!

[Plymouthy Adams]

I have a good idea of the spirits that were out and available that night........