[vannrox]

I love these pictures.

[simpson96]

bookmark

[ealgeone]

Clean looking folks there. No tats....no hippie hair.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

General Motors Concept Car — 1964

I was at that World's Fair. Dad worked for GM and he took the whole family to see the GM Pavilion. I remember seeing that concept car...and many others. I think I have an old B&W snapshot of it somewhere among the family archives.

[Dr. Sivana]

That poor boy in Middletown, NY needs some hub caps or wheel covers for his car!

It weird looking at these pictures, knowing that all of those cars are probably crushed.

[Clay Moore]

I still kick myself for not buying an Amphicar at a swap meet some years ago. It was quitting time and the guy was motivated to sell and I had the cash. The car was quite restorable.

[trad_anglican]

Is that a VW Beetle pulling that tiny trailer?

[poconopundit]

PING! Memory lane 1960s.

[rightwingintelligentsia]

BFL.

[hdbc]

later.

[Cowboy Bob]

America. Before Liberals ruined it.

[Red Badger]

See the USA!
In a Chevrolet!

Wouldn’t you really rather have a Buick?

[Regulator]

Was this guy following me around?!

Stopped at Andersens all the time going North, and the Union station was near my Grandfather’s old house in Escondido. I dunno, maybe it’s still there. Haven’t been there since ‘69.

Note the gas prices then. They had been between 18 and 26 cents a gallon since the ‘40s. Inflation was something you did to a balloon.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Gives us those nice, bright colors
Gives you those dreams of summers
Makes you think all the world
Is a sunny day

[sparklite2]

The fun part was identifying the locale of the outdoor pictures before reading where they were taken. Got a surprising number of them right.

[doorgunner69]

My father's first duty station at the beginning of WWII was on a subchaser in Florida. Too bad he is gone, that one in the picture might have been it. He got shipped to the Pacific right after for Guadalcanal and more.

Parents took us up to Andersens's a few times when I was a kid, good times though a long drive before 101 was a freeway.

The road with palms and beach looks like Cabrillo Blvd in Santa Barbara.

Poor red-headed kid, somone already stole his hubcaps......

[Joe 6-pack]

I made a thread from this video a few years ago. It just drips with nostalgia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYdaanmTcNc

[mythenjoseph]

First page I have ever bookmarked from Free Republic . Where is the Corvette now ?

[Nailbiter]

for later

[fieldmarshaldj]

Great pix from a better bygone era.

[mrsmith]

Love it!
Dad was transferred from Newport News to San Diego 1960ish.
drove all the way. The most educational experience of my life. What a country!